(upbeat acoustic guitar music) ♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat music) (happy music) - Good morning, second grade.

Happy Friday, we made it.

I know your brain must be so full from all the learning.

But guess what?

I'm so glad that you're here with me.

Remember, my name is Mrs. Vang, and that's right, I'm so glad that you guys are here with me so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

Okay, I have one of my favorite book to share with you guys.

This is a book called "Amazing Grace" and it's by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch.

I love this book boys and girls, 'cause this is Grace.

She loves stories and she loves acting them out, but she gets a chance at school to play Peter Pan.

Now, everybody doubts her and tells her that she can't, but guess what?

Grace keeps in mind that she can be anything she wants and the results is amazing.

So pick up this book to read all about Grace because she is amazing.

Remember, this is called "Amazing Grace."

I hope that you'll pick it up and read this book.

Now don't forget, you can check this book out at your counter library or if you have the Sora reading app, you can see if it's on there so that you can read it.

Okay, boys and girls.

Now, speaking of Sora, let's go and see which school in Fresno Unified came in in our top school of checking our books.

Do you think it's your school?

Let's check, ready?

Okay, coming in at number one Fort Miller Middle School.

Awesome job, you guys are doing an amazing job reading because you guys came in at number one, good job.

Another middle school.

Look at all the middle schools that came in to our top five this week.

Amazing job, boys and girls.

I'm so proud of you guys.

Now, don't forget if you wanna see your school in our top countdown, make sure that you are checking out books on Sora and reading.

Okay, boys and girls, now I wanna hear what you're reading, that's right.

Write to me here at the studio.

Use the address that you see below, or you can email me, tell me all the books you're reading or tell me everything that you're learning 'cause I wanna know all that you are doing at home right now or in class right now.

And if you write to me, I will send you one of these amazing activity books.

These are so fun, boys and girls.

So, I can't wait to get your letter so that I can send you one of these amazing activity books.

Okay, boys and girls, are you ready to get started with our learning today?

I know you are.

We're gonna start off with, that's right, training our ears, you're right.

Turn those listening ears up because remember, you need to be able to hear sound so that you can read and write with sounds, okay?

Today we're gonna practice some phoning blending and you guys know how to do this.

I'm gonna give you some sounds, your job, blend them together and guess my word.

Today I'm gonna use my red dots to help us here.

Ready, okay, what is my word if I give you these sounds, ready?

/S/, /c/, are.

Oops, blend together, /s/ /c/ are.

What's my word?

Scare, good job.

Scare, we've had that word a lot this week.

You're right scare, good job.

Okay, how about this word?

/F/ air, /f/ air.

What's my word?

Fair, good job.

There, good job, okay.

And last set of sounds, ready?

/B/ /ear/ /s/.

Ooh, put it together or blend it together, /b/ /ear/ /s/.

What's my word?

Bears, good job.

Did you like that story we read yesterday?

"Bears in the Forest."

Awesome, okay, you guys are doing such a good job with those blending.

Now, let's go and oh, let's go into our phonics instruction.

So all week, boys and girls, we've been learning the /air/ sound.

Say that with me, air.

Good, it's also what we call the R control vowel sound.

Now, the /air/ sound, if you look at my sound spelling card, let me get my reading finger here.

Look at my sound spelling card.

There are four different ways we can spell the /air/ sound.

So, help me say it and spell all the ways we can spell air.

Ready, air, a-i-r, air, good.

Are, A-R-E, are, like in the word care oh let me go backward a little bit.

A-I-R as in air, as in chair.

Okay, let's continue.

Ear, E-A-R, ear, like in the word where and E-R-E says ere, like in the word there, good job.

How did you do?

I know it's a tricky sound.

'Cause we remember last week we learned that these two spelling also says a very similar sound ear.

Ear and air sounds very similar.

So if you're reading and then you're saying air and it doesn't make sense change it to ear and vice versa.

If you're saying ear, it doesn't make sense, change it to air.

I know very similar.

Okay, ready, let's practice building some more together.

Ready, now, what about when I spell the word air?

Like the air that we breathe air.

Do you see it?

You're right, it's right here.

It's A-I-R air.

It's a spelling pattern, but it is also a word air.

Now what if I want to spell the word hair?

H-air, like your hair.

Good and good I hear you.

We just need /h/ which is the H good job.

What if I wanted to spell pair?

/P/ /p/ pair like a pair of shoes.

Good we just need the /p/.

And how about the word fair?

I hear this all the time in second grade.

They always say, "Mrs. Vang, that's not fair."

Or we went to the fair to get on the rides.

Fair, good, and how about if I put the C and the H 'cause that's what we call a diagraph good.

What's my new word now?

Chair, good reading boys and girls.

Now remember these are spelling patterns.

If you know how to spell one word a lot of the times you can spell more than one words.

And I know the other tricky things about that air sound is all those homophones words are spelled the same and, or spelled differently.

Good job boys and girls.

Now with all that air song I have another story for us today.

So before we get started on our story let's quickly go over our fluency.

Remember before we read let's (indistinct) our accuracy reading all the words correctly, our rate not going too fast, not going too slow.

Our expression, reading with feelings and focusing on those punctuation.

Those periods exclamation mark and question mark.

Okay, so today I have a story for you called "The Caring King's Fair Wish" which is a fairy tale today.

And so as you're reading, I want you to think what did he wish for, okay?

And as you read and see how many of those air words you can find, are you ready?

Let's read it together.

"The Caring King's Fair Wish" Once upon a time a king lived in a palace.

Here the King had a garden filled with rare roses.

The King shared his life with his child Martha.

The King was a fine man.

He cared about his people.

He had all he could wish for, but still he wished he had more.

One day the King was in his garden.

He was startled there by a man wearing cloak.

"Why are you here?

"Where are you going?"

Asked the King?

"Here's my hand Talk to me."

"I was getting fresh air "as I walked among the roses," said the man.

"I felt ill and had to rest" The King took care of the man.

When the man felt well, he went home.

Soon the man came back, "I can grant three wishes" he said.

"To repay you, I will grant you a wish."

"I want all that I touched to turn to gold!"

said the king.

"That's a fair wish" said the man.

The king began to touch things, soon he had gold chairs, gold stairs, gold rugs and gold deer.

When he held a pair or a rose it turned to gold and lost its smell.

At lunch the King's food turned to gold scared, the King started to weep big tears.

Martha ran to him as he patted her she turned to gold.

"Oh dear I am sorry" wailed the King.

Now I know that happiness can't be bought with gold.

The man knew how to cheer up the King.

He undid the Kings wish and King was never greedy ag--.

Did you enjoy that fairy tale?

Now, What did the King wish for?

You're right he wanted everything that he touched to be turned into gold.

Did it work out for him?

Oh no, it didn't.

In true fairytale fashion, always be careful what you wish for.

But boys and girls did you read any words with that air sound?

I did look how many I found let's read them together, ready?

Air, stairs, fair, hair, chairs.

Shared, scared, care, rare and cared where, there, and wearing and pear.

Oh my goodness, look at all of those words that was in our story today.

Now look at all the high frequency words that showed up on our store.

And guess what, it's all the high frequency words that we're learning this week.

Let's quickly read it.

Ready, touch, sorry, never, among, upon, talk, but, soon, once and knew.

You see how important it is to learn those high frequency words?

Okay, let's go and learn our last two words for today or for this week.

Are you ready?

My first word is the word never ready?

Never.

Okay.

Help me spell it.

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

Next word, knew, help me spell it.

K-N-E-W, knew, good.

Like the knew, like I knew the answer.

Okay, let's read my sentences.

Help me put them in to see if it makes sense.

She mmh had a pet when she was a girl.

Albert, mmh every player on the team.

let's see you should context clues which word would go into the sentence so that it'll makes sense?

Let's see, she never had a pet when she was a girl.

Good, and Albert knew every player on the team.

He did, good job boys and girls.

Okay, now, those are all of our high-frequency words.

So we've learned this week.

Now let's go into our structural analysis.

And this week we've been working with our control syllables.

Now, remember when you're reading and you come across a longer word, you can divide into a syllable.

One of the rules is the R control.

And that just means you keep the R control spelling patterns together.

So here's my sentence.

The careless monkey was nowhere to be found.

Now, if you look, here's my word careless you see that?

We're gonna keep care together so if I was to divide it I would divide between care and less.

So I can say the careless.

How did you do?

Good job, I know that's a lot that we are learning this week and you guys are doing such a good job boys and girls learning along with me.

So I'm gonna leave you with what one of my favorite quotes from "Winnie-the-Pooh" "Winnie-the-Pooh" and he says, "Promise me you'll remember you are braver than you believe, "stronger than you seem, smarter than you think."

Because you are boys and girls, have a great weekend, bye-bye.

(acoustic guitar music) ♪ 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.

♪ (upbeat instrumental music)