Tomatoes
Learning Goals
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Hear, read, and write words with digraphs (sh, th, ch, and ck)
- Copy short sentences
- Read common sight words in a paragraph
- Answer questions about a story
- State an opinion about a reading
- Name some common symbols
Talk About It
- What foods can be made with tomatoes?
- What is your favourite food that can be made with tomatoes?
Picture Dictionary |
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Use the pictures to help you figure out the words. |
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| South America | Europe | doctor |
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| world | sauce | soup |
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| juice | salsa | ketchup |
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| leaf | stem | space |
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| fight | Spain | taste |
Practice reading these words without the pictures. |
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| doctor | sauce | leaf | taste | fight |
| juice | soup | world | stem | Europe |
| South America | Spain | space | ketchup | salsa |
Word Skills
Word Patterns
| A digraph is when two letters together make one sound. Here are some common digraphs. | |
| sh like in ship |  |
| ch like in chin |  |
| th like in thumb |  |
| ck like in sock |  |
Say what is in the picture. What digraph is in each word?
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2 |
3 |
| sh ch th ck | sh ch th ck | sh ch th ck |
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5 |
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| sh ch th ck | sh ch th ck | sh ch th ck |
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8 |
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| sh ch th ck | sh ch th ck | sh ch th ck |
How many sounds do you hear in these words? |
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10 |
mop |
3 |
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11 |
sun |
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12 |
web |
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13 |
fish |
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14 |
lock |
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15 |
crab |
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Read the sentences. Then copy them. Use upper case letters, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks correctly. |
| Get in the bath. |
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| The fish is wet. |
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| Do not lock me in! |
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| I cut my chin. |
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Use Your Reading Skills
Listen to Tomatoes. Then read Tomatoes in BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Reader 1.
Check Your Understanding
Answer these questions. Use the underlined words from the question to form your answer.
1. Who used to tell people that tomatoes would make them sick?
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2. What part of the tomato plant will make people sick?
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3. What place has a big tomato fight every year?
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4. Why do farms pick tomatoes before they are ripe?
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Writing
Grammar Rule
This is how to write an address:
639 Sun Street
Golden, British Columbia V0A 1H0
Write your address on the lines below.
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Match the word with the correct symbol.
| equals | dollars | and |
| at | plus |
& |
$ |
+ |
= |
@ |
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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Fill in the blank with the correct symbol.
6. The bill came to ___ 10.00.
7. My email is tim___gmail.com.
8. Kim ___ Sam got a cat.
9. One ___ one = two.
10. Two + two ___ 4.
Writing Task
Think of a food you like to make using tomatoes. Tell your instructor how you make this food. Your instructor will write down your words. Then copy your story into your notebook.
When you are done, read your story.
- Did you begin each sentence with an upper case letter?
- Did you use an upper case letter at the beginning of a person’s name?
- Did you end each sentence with a period or question mark?
- Are you missing any words?
Answer Key |
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| Word Skills | |
| QUESTION | ANSWER |
| 1 | fish, sh |
| 2 | rock, ck |
| 3 | duck, ck |
| 4 | chip, ch |
| 5 | bath, th |
| 6 | cheese, ch |
| 7 | sheep, sh |
| 8 | three, th |
| 9 | lock, ck |
| 10 | 3 |
| 11 | 3 |
| 12 | 3 |
| 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 3 |
| 15 | 4 |
| 16 | 4 |
| Check Your Understanding | |
| QUESTION | ANSWER |
| 1 | Doctors used to tell people that tomatoes would make them sick. |
| 2 | A tomato leaf or stem will make people sick. |
| 3 | Spain has a big tomato fight every year. |
| 4 | Farms pick tomatoes before they are ripe because they last longer this way. |
| Writing | |
| QUESTION | ANSWER |
| 1 | and |
| 2 | dollars |
| 3 | plus |
| 4 | equals |
| 5 | at |
| 6 | $ |
| 7 | @ |
| 8 | & |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | = |
Attributions
See the Attributions page near the end of this book.
