Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

Practice
Basic Code Spelling
10 minutes
• Ask students to turn to Worksheet 5.2. The purpose of this worksheet is to
have students practice reading the basic code spelling of ‘oo’. Ask students
to write ‘yes’ or ‘no’ at the end of each statement to tell whether or not the
statement could happen in real life.
Worksheet 5.2
Tricky Words
See Tricky Words in the
Pausing Point for students
needing additional help
with Tricky Words.
Additional practice may be
found in the Unit 2 section
of the Assessment and
Remediation Guide.
Tricky Word Cards
5 minutes
• Write the following Tricky Words on yellow index cards, one word per card:
no, go, and so.
Tricky Word: no
• Expected: the letter ‘n’ is pronounced /n/. Tricky: the letter ‘o’ is
pronounced /oe/ (like the letter name) rather than /o/ as students might
expect.
Tricky Word: go
• Expected: the letter ‘g’ is pronounced /g/. Tricky: the letter ‘o’ is
pronounced /oe/ (just like the ‘o’ in no).
Tricky Word: so
• Expected: the letter ‘s’ is pronounced /s/. Tricky: the letter ‘o’ is
pronounced /oe/ (just like the ‘o’ in no).
• Place these words on your Tricky Word wall.
Reading Time
Small Group: “The Frog Race”
Introducing the story
• Remind students that yesterday they learned about quotation marks.
15 minutes
• Briefly review characters, setting, and events in yesterday’s story. Remind
students this is part two of the trickster tale they are reading.
Chapter 4
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