Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

• Ask students to turn to Worksheet 1.3. Tell them you will play a different
version of magic ‘e’ game. Students do not need the cards for this version.
They are to read each word as a class, then write the letter ‘e’ at the end of
each word. When you give the magic command “Alakazam!” students should
read the new word aloud with the rest of the class.
Tricky Words
Additional Tricky Word
practice may be found
in the Pausing Point and
the Assessment and
Remediation Guide.
Tricky Word Cards
5 minutes
• Using the Tricky Word cards you prepared in advance: I, you, your, and street;
begin by discussing which part of the word is read just as one would expect
and which part is tricky.
Tricky Word: I
• Tricky: the letter ‘I’ is pronounced /ie/ and it is always capitalized.
• Tricky Word: you
• Expected: the letter ‘y’ is pronounced /y/. Tricky: the letters ‘ou’ are
pronounced /oo/.
• Tricky Word: your
• Expected: the letter ‘y’ is pronounced /y/. Tricky: the letters ‘our’ are
pronounced /or/.
• Tricky Word: street
• Expected: the letters ‘str’ and the final ‘t’ are pronounced as expected.
Tricky: the letters ‘ee’ are pronounced /ee/. This may not be tricky for
some students who recall the ‘ee’ spelling from Grade 1.
• After introducing the new Tricky Words, place the word cards on the
classroom Tricky Word wall.
20 Unit 2 | Lesson 1
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