(guitar strumming) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (guitar strumming) (upbeat music) - Good morning, second grade.

Happy Thursday.

My name is Mrs. Vang, and I'm so excited to have you join me so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

Okay, it's that part again when, it's one of my favorite times.

It's a time where I get to share another book with you guys.

This is a book called, "This Is the Rope."

And it's a story from the great migration.

And it's written by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by James Ransome.

Now remember, earlier in the week, I showed another book by Jacqueline Woodson.

She wrote that book called, "The Other Side."

Now, this was a book that was recommended to me by a friend, by a teacher friend.

And I've never read this book before and I loved it, so I wanted to share it with you guys.

Now, in this book, this book tells of a story of how a rope is found by a little girl under a tree.

And it gets used from everything, from a jump rope, to tying suitcases on a car.

Now it becomes part of three generations and becomes part of the family.

So, boys and girls, if you wanna read, "This Is the Rope" to find out how this rope was passed down from generation to generation, then check this book out.

You can try to find it at your county library, which is what I did.

I went to our county library to check out this book so I can share it with you guys, and to read it.

Or you can see if you can find it on the Sora reading app.

So, boys and girls, make sure you go and check this book out, because it's a great read.

Okay, boys and girls.

Now, speaking of Sora, in Fresno Unified, we do a countdown of the top schools that have been checking out books to read.

Today, we're gonna reveal the top school that came in second place.

Are you guys ready to see who it is?

Let's see if it's your school coming in.

And number two is Computech.

Awesome job Computech.

You guys are doing an amazing job becoming amazing readers.

And did you notice that Computech is a middle school?

Oh, I know how hard it is to get those middle schools reading.

I know, cause my son is a middle schooler, and it's super hard to get him reading.

So Computech, amazing job.

You guys are doing awesome.

Now, boys and girls, I have a couple of these fun activities books left.

Do you know how to get one?

All you have to do is write to me right here at the studio.

Use the address that you see below, or you can email me.

Tell me what you're reading, tell me what you're learning, and I'll send you one of these fun activity books to do so that we can make our brain, that's right, stronger.

Because the stronger our brain becomes, the smarter we become.

So I can't wait to receive your letter so that I can send you one of those fun activity books.

Okay, boys and girls.

Are you guys ready to get started with our learning today?

Awesome job.

Let's start with, you're right, training our ears.

So, get those listening ears, turn them up nice and high, 'cause remember, boys and girls, when we can hear sounds, we can read sound, and we can write with sounds.

Today, we're gonna be practicing a game that we practiced early in the week called, "Which Word Doesn't Belong."

And in this game, we're gonna practice our phoneme categorization.

And that's where I'm gonna say three words.

One of the words doesn't have the same vowel sound.

So, that's the word that doesn't belong.

And that's the word you need to find for me.

Are you ready?

Okay.

Here's my first set of words.

Listen carefully.

Where, there, for.

Say it again, where, there, for.

Which word does not belong?

Good, for.

For has the -or, where and there has the -er.

Good listening.

Okay, next set of words, ready?

Far, car, dare.

Say it again, far, car, dare.

Which word does not belong?

Dare, good job.

Dare has the -er.

Far and car are rhyming words, good.

They both have the r sound.

Okay, last set of words, ready?

Soar, wear, fair.

Okay, let's say that again, ready?

Soar, wear, fair.

Which one does not belong?

Soar, you're right.

That has the or sound when fair has the er sound.

Good listening boys and girls.

Okay.

Now that we have our listening ears warm up and ready to go, let's go and practice our phonics instruction for the week.

Now remember, all week we have been learning the er sounds.

Say that again with me.

Er, good job.

So all week we have been continued learning our r control vowel sounds.

Remember, we've been learning those sounds a lot.

And this week, we're focused on the er sound.

And if you look at my chair card.

You see my chair card up here?

There are four different ways that we can spell the er sound.

So help me spell them and say the different ways to spell our sound this week, ready?

Air, A-I-R says er, good.

Are, A-R-E says er, good.

Ear, E-A-R says er, good.

And last one, ere, E-R-E says, er.

Good job, boys and girls.

Now remember, four different ways to spell the er sound.

Okay, let's practice blending some letters together.

Ready?

Practice with me.

W says, w-er-ing.

Did you guys see that inflectional ending I added?

Good.

Let's sound it out or sound it or blend it together ready?

Wearing.

What's my word?

Wearing.

Good job.

Like, what are you wearing to school tomorrow?

Wearing.

Good job.

Now, let's practice the next set of letters.

Ready?

S-H says sh good.

A-R-E says are.

Put it together.

Share good job.

And this is like, please share your cookies with your brothers and sisters.

Share, good job.

Okay, now let's practice building some words together.

Ready?

What if I want to spell the word scared?

Ooh, did you guys hear that?

Scared.

I did add an inflection ending.

Let's see if you guys got it.

Ready?

Help me blit it, sc is our word, S-C good job.

Sc, are is which spelling pattern?

It's the A-R-E, scared.

And the d , it means it happened in the past.

So it's a ed.

But remember that rule when there's a silent e?

Already there, we need to chop it and just add the ed, scared.

Let's spell S-C-A-R-E-D, scared.

How did you do?

Awesome job boys and girls.

Okay.

Now, today is Thursday.

So guess what?

I have a fun story for us to read.

And before we get started with our reading, let's go over our fluency checklist quickly.

Because as you're reading, I want you to be thinking of what to do as you're reading and checking them off in your head.

So, first I want you to check are you reading all the words correctly?

And that's working with the accuracy.

You're gonna be working on rate.

Are you reading at an appropriate rate?

Meaning not too fast, not too slow.

Are you reading with expression?

And this can mean reading with feelings or it could mean we're gonna emphasize a word so that it will makes sense in our story.

And then always pay attention to your punctuation.

Your periods, your question mark, and your exclamation mark.

So I have a nonfiction texts for you guys today.

And remember non-fiction means it's, what?

It is not fake.

You're right.

It's a real story about bears.

And this is a story called "Bears in the Forest."

And as you're reading, I want you to tell me what bears eat, okay?

Can you read and tell me what bears eat?

Awesome.

Okay, ready?

Let's read the story together.

"A bear in the Forest."

There is a black bear that stands in the forest among the trees.

A bear can smell the air with it's nose to find food or a mate.

This is a mama bear.

And she takes care of her cubs.

Her cubs will stay with her for two years.

Never go near a bear and her Cubs, because she will get mad.

Do not try to touch her cubs.

A bear that is mad is dangerous.

Bears eat grasses, berries and bugs.

Black bears can catch and eat fish too.

Black bears need a lot of space to get things, to eat.

Black bears roam from 15 to 80 square miles each day.

Never feed a bear.

You will be sorry you did.

A bear that wants your lunch is dangerous too.

In winter, a bear sleeps inside its lair, or den, where it can be warm and safe.

It does not eat or drink.

A sleeping bear rarely wakes up.

But if it hears you, it might get up.

So take care near bear's den.

(soft music) Did you find out what bears eat?

They eat grasses, berries, bugs, and fish, you're right.

But look at all the air words I read in the story.

Let's read them together, ready?

Lair, square care, rarely, where, there and bear.

Good job, boys and girls.

Okay.

Now, look at all the high-frequency words that I read in the story also.

Touch, sorry, never and among.

That's a perfect so I weg because boys and girls, let's get ready to learn our high-frequency words.

Did you see how they show up in our stories that we read?

So it's important to know how to read and write these high-frequency words.

And I remember all week, we had 10 words everyday.

We're focusing on two.

So let's practice the two that we're learning today.

Ready?

The first word is never.

Help me read it.

Never.

Good job.

And remember that was one the book that... One of the words that was in a book that we just read.

Never, helped me spell it.

N-E-V-E-R, never.

Good.

Next word.

Knew.

Read it again, knew.

Spell it with me.

K-N-E-W, knew.

And again, this is the knew.

Again look at it's homophones, this is the knew like you knew the answer.

So let's quickly read our sentences so you can help me figure out which one belongs into the sentence so they'll make sense, ready?

Are we leaving?

And he was, but he broke the game.

Oh, you use your sentence, context clues to help you figure out which word will go into the sentence.

Are we leaving?

What's the word?

Are we leaving, oh, let's see.

Nope, you're right.

They both do not fit in here.

Are we leaving, it should be soon.

You're right.

So say soon with me, soon.

S-O-O-N, soon.

That makes sense here.

And he was not knew or never, but he was the word was sorry.

Helped me read it.

Sorry.

Spell it, S-O-R-R-Y.

Sorry.

Oh, those two words go.

I'm glad you guys were thinking these two does not go in that sentence to make sense.

You guys are so smart.

He was sorry that he broke the game.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Good job catching that.

I can tell you guys are getting so smart.

You guys didn't get tricked at all.

I'm gonna leave you with my message of the day.

And it says, and this is something that I always, always I've told my second graders.

Stay humble, work hard, be kind.

Boys and girls, have a great day of learning.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Bye-bye.

(guitar strumming) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (guitar strumming)