Main Body
Grow Your Own Tomatoes
Learning Goals
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Hear, read, and write words with short vowels
- Copy short sentences
- Read common sight words in a paragraph
- Answer questions about a story
- State an opinion about a reading
- Complete sentences by adding a word
Talk About It
- Do you have any plants? What kind?
- What is good about growing your own food?
Picture Dictionary
Use the pictures to help you figure out the words.
| potting soil | warm | window |
| hour | tie | stick |
| colour | bottom |
Practice reading these words without the pictures.
| hour | stick | bottom | colour |
| window | warm | potting soil | tie |
Word Skills
Word Patterns
You have learned to read these vowel sounds:
a says /a/ like apple
e says /e/ like Expo
i says /i/ like itch
o says /o/ like octopus
u says /u/ like up
You will see these short vowel words in the story. Read each word. Listen to the short vowel sound. Sort it in the list below.
| pot | big | sun | wet | bit |
| yet | top | add | pack | pick |
| /a/ like apple | /e/ like Expo | /i/ like itch | /o/ like octopus | /u/ like up |
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Can you think of more short vowel words? Add your words to the chart.
Read the sentences. Then copy them. Use upper case letters, periods, and question marks correctly. |
| Is the pot hot? |
| Did you pack yet? |
| The bug bit me. |
| Do not pop the zit. |
| We sat in the sun. |
Use Your Reading Skills
Listen to Grow Your Own Tomatoes. Then read Grow Your Own Tomatoes in BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Reader 1.
Check Your Understanding
| sun | ripe | pot | seed | wet |
- Fill the _____________ with soil.
- Put a _____________ in the soil.
- Add water. Keep the soil _____________.
- Put the pot by a window with lots of _____________.
- Pick the tomatoes when they are _____________.
Writing Task
Have you ever picked fruit, such as berries, in a field, forest, or orchard? Tell the story to your instructor. 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?
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| QUESTION | ANSWER | ||||||||||
| 1 | pot | ||||||||||
| 2 | seed | ||||||||||
| 3 | wet | ||||||||||
| 4 | sun | ||||||||||
| 5 | ripe |