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Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

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• Decodable homophones:<br />

1. flour—flower<br />

• Phrases and sentences:<br />

1. A crowd is gathering downtown.<br />

2. The cows graze here.<br />

3. Don’t plow the flowers!<br />

4. There are towels hanging next to the shower.<br />

5. A brown owl is in the tree.<br />

6. clown around<br />

7. until the cows come home<br />

8. here and now<br />

9. How now, brown cow?<br />

10. Take a bow.<br />

11. flower power<br />

12. chow down<br />

13. down in the dumps<br />

• Wiggle Cards:<br />

1. frown<br />

2. scowl<br />

3. bow down<br />

4. growl<br />

5. howl<br />

Code Knowledge<br />

• Before today’s lesson: If students read 1,000 words in a trade book, on<br />

average 568–740 of those words would be completely decodable.<br />

• After today’s lesson: If students read 1,000 words in a trade book, on<br />

average 577–756 of those words would be completely decodable.<br />

• Students have now reviewed at least one way to write 40 of the 44<br />

sounds in English.<br />

• The spelling ‘ow’ can be pronounced /oe/ as in snow or /ou/ as in now.<br />

• The spelling ‘ou’ is usually pronounced /ou/ as in out; however, it can<br />

also be pronounced /u/ as in cousin, /oo/ as in soup, or /oe/ as in<br />

shoulder.<br />

<strong>Unit</strong> 2 | Lesson 7 75<br />

© 2013 Core Knowledge Foundation

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