Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

• utilize background knowledge and personal experiences to make
connections to text and interpret text
• make predictions and compare to actual outcomes
• write words, phrases, and sentences from dictation using phonics
knowledge including phonemically plausible spellingsuse the “Plan-
Draft-Edit” writing process to create: a friendly letter, instructional
writing, personal narrative, descriptive paragraphs, fictional narrative,
persuasive writing, compare and contrast essay, report, and poetry
• capitalize the first word in a sentence, the word I, and proper nouns
using common and proper nouns in oral and written tasks
• identify and use regular and irregular plural nouns in oral and written
tasks
• identify and use regular and irregular past-, present-, and future-tense
verbs in oral and written tasks
• identify and use adjectives in oral and written tasks
• identify and use adverbs in oral and written tasks
• identify and use subjects and predicates in oral and written tasks
• identify and use synonyms and antonyms
• ask text-dependent questions that require students to draw on
evidence from the text
• identify and discuss general academic (Tier 2) vocabulary;
• discuss sections of the text that might pose difficulty due to complex
syntax, dense information, challenging transitions, or that require
inferences
• engage students in a culminating writing activity that is completed
independently, if possible
Unit 4
• blend, sort, and/or classify individual phonemes including short
vowels, all consonants, digraphs, and alternative spellings to read and
pronounce printed one- and two-syllable words
• chaining exercises
• read tricky spellings sounded in multiple ways
• read and write words with inflectional endings
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