Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY
Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY
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 />
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