Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

• Read Tricky Words
• read decodable text including stories, fairy tales, fantasy, fables,
historical narrative, and informational; distinguishing genres
• increase accuracy, fluency, and expression
• use context and punctuation (including periods, question marks,
exclamation marks, and commas) to understand text structure and
meaning
• use apostrophes to create contractions and quotation marks to
designate direct speech
• answer questions about fiction and nonfiction text orally and in
written form including a reference to the specific text that provides the
answer
• use basic text features including title, table of contents, chapter
headings, pictures, and captions
• identify character(s), setting, and plot; compare and contrast these
features between several texts or within a single text
• utilize background knowledge and personal experiences to make
connections to text and interpretations of text
• make predictions and compare to actual outcomes
• write words, phrases, and sentences from dictation using phonics
knowledge including phonemically plausible spellings
• use 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
• express an opinion or point of view in writing, using supporting details
• 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
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