(upbeat 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 ♪ (playful music) - Happy Wednesday, Second Grade and welcome back to our PBS classroom.

My name is Mrs. Vang.

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

And actually I should be saying, so that we can be ready for third grade, 'cause you guys are becoming amazing readers and writers and I know that you'll be ready for third grade.

Boys and girls, I have another book to share with you guys.

Now remember, I went to the library, a school library and I went to the Thomas School Library.

And I went around and chose books that I haven't read before, that I thought you guys might like.

So today I'm gonna share a book called Red Shoes by Karen English, illustrated by Ebony Glenn.

Have you read this book already?

Some you guys have or some of you haven't.

I haven't read this book yet.

But this is a book about a little girl named Malika, and she gets these new red shoes and she wears them everywhere she goes.

And then one day she noticed that her feet is pinching when she's walking.

Do you know what that means?

That's right, the shoes was getting too small for her.

So she gives them away and guess what?

Those shoes ends up in Africa to a new girl.

Isn't that amazing.

Can you imagine all the story that goes with items like your shoes?

So boys and girls, if you wanna read about this journey of the red shoes, make sure you are checking out this book on Sora if you have the Sora app or at your county library, or at your school library.

And guess what, some school libraries are doing book fairs.

See if you can find it at the book fair and buy if you wanna read about the journey of this red shoes.

All right, okay, now boys and girls, speaking of Sora.

If you were using the Sora app, this week we were counting down the top five school with the most read minutes.

For the last couple of weeks, schools were doing what we call a digital reading challenge.

And we were looking at the minutes that kids were reading.

Now, this week we were focused on the elementary division of which schools came in our top five.

Are you guys ready to see which school came into number three?

Is it your school?

We'll see.

Coming number five was Aynesworth, four we found out yesterday was Turner, coming in at number three let's see, Manchester Gate.

Awesome job Manchester Gate.

I can tell you guys were really reading on Sora.

So continue reading and doing a great job.

Good job, Manchester Gate.

Now, don't forget boys and girls, with reading comes writing.

And boys and girls, I haven't seen any letters or emails from you guys.

And remember when you write to me I send you some of these fine activity books.

And these two are two different Curious George books.

So if you love Curious George as much as I do, and want these activity books in your home to make your brain stronger, make sure you're writing to me or emailing me using the address that you see below and I'll send you one of these fun activity books.

Now don't forget to include your home address or your return address so that we can send this out to you.

All right, okay, boys and girls.

Now, are you ready to make that brain strong?

Yes you are, I know.

So let's make that brain strong by practicing our listening skill, you're right.

Let's turn those listening ears up because when you hear sounds, we can read and write with sounds.

Today we're just gonna practice our phoneme blending.

That's where I'm gonna give you some sounds and if you need to use your arm, blend them out, if you'd like to tap them out, you can tap them out.

Or if you like to use dots, well I like to use dots to blend them up, you can.

Lots of different ways to help you blend.

Okay, ready?

I'm gonna use my arm today, ready?

Okay, I'm gonna go really fast 'cause you guys are really good at this, ready?

N-A-P-K-I-N. What is it?

Napkin.

I went fast, didn't I?

A napkin has two syllables.

Did you notice that?

Good listening.

Okay, next set of sounds, ready?

T-I-N-E. what is it?

Tiny.

Good job blending.

Okay, last set of sounds, ready?

D-O-N-U-T. D-O-N-U-T. What is it?

Doughnut.

What is it?

Doughnut, good job.

And that had two syllables.

How did you do?

Thumbs up, good job training those listening ears.

Okay, now let's go into our focus instruction this week.

Now, remember we are done with our sound spelling card.

So really just focusing on syllable types.

In second grade, we work with six syllable types.

And the two that are what we call or I call, the one that we can use the most often is the open and closed syllable.

And learning syllables will also help you learn to decode and write what we call multiple syllabic words which are just words with more than one syllables.

And by doing this boys and girls, it's gonna help you read accurately and fluently.

So let's quickly go over our syllable rules for open and closed again.

So remember, when it's a closed syllable, that just means the vowel is closed in between two consonants.

So that makes that vowel short vowel sound, okay?

When it's an open syllable, there's a vowel and then a consonant.

So we divide between the vowel and the consonant.

And there's nothing behind that vowel, so we call that an open syllable.

So when it's an open syllable, that tells our brain that it's a long vowel.

And that's how you know if vowels are short or long by looking at those patterns.

So let's practice.

Here I have some letters.

And I'm gonna go really slow because when you guys become fluent readers, your brain does this automatically and it does it really fast.

And you guys don't even know that it's happening but I'm gonna go really slow so that I can show you what your brain is doing.

So if I come across this word, the first thing I'm gonna see is, my eyes are gonna go, oh, I know a is a vowel.

I'm gonna put my vowel there.

I is a vow, I'm gonna put my vowel there.

That's what my brain is doing.

And then it's gonna go, oh, and I see that there are two B's and those I know are two consonants.

So in my brain I know, oh, I know that there's two vowels, there are two syllables because when we have more than, every syllable has to have its own vowel sound, I know I can divide between the two consonants to help my brain read.

And when I read this, I know, oh, it's closing, short vowel, closing, short vowel.

My brain automatically chunks them into smaller parts, rab-bit, put it together, rabbit.

Did you know that that's what your brain was doing?

It was.

Your brain just does it a lot faster.

I'm just going a lit it slower to show you.

Now let's practice with the next word.

Okay, again, how many vowels do you see?

One and actually this is a tricky one because the Y is that the end.

And I'm going to change this a bit.

The Y is actually a, it makes a long vowel sound.

So I'm gonna change that to a red vow so that you guys can see.

So two vowels.

I know two vowel, means two syllables.

Okay, now, if you look there's a vowel, a consonant, so let's put my consonant up here.

Do you guys see how I'm doing that?

'Cause that's what your brain does.

It's just go so fast, you don't realize it.

And because there's a vowel and a consonant and a vowel, my brain goes oh and then I change it this way.

The B and the A together.

So we call it, open syllable.

The A's gonna say A.

And the Y, we know says E, 'cause when the Y's at the end it usually says E, put it together, B-A, B-E.

Put it together, baby.

Right, just like that.

How did you do?

Awesome job, okay.

Now, if you wanted to spell a word let's say I'm writing right now.

I wanna write the word, moment.

My brain goes mo-ment.

Oh, two syllables.

Let's break it up, first syllable Mo.

Oh, I know that, that's M-O.

You see that?

So I know that that's a open syllable, good.

Next syllable, ment.

Oh, I know that.

And ment is actually also a suffix.

Did you know that?

And you'll learn that in third grade.

Ment is ment.

Good job.

Now, put it together.

What's my word, mo-ment.

And that's how I can write using my open and closed syllables.

Did you see that?

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Now let's practice reading and identifying or listening to those short or long vowels.

Remember if it's a short vowel, it's gonna be a closed syllable.

If it's an open vowel, it's going to be a long syllable.

Okay, so let's read these words and let's see if we can sort them in the correct spot, right?

This his cot-ten, A-A closed syllable.

Good job.

Oops, let's put this on.

Next word i-tem.

I open, good job.

Long, long vowel, keep going.

Kit-ten, ki, closed syllable.

La-zy, what do you hear?

A, good, open syllable.

That's the long vowel.

Last one for today.

Pho-to that says pho-o, long vowel, photo has an open syllable.

How did you do?

Awesome job.

Now, if you have time, I want you to finish sorting the rest of the words by yourself.

And let's see if you guys can listen to those open or closed syllables, long vowels or short vowel, all right.

Okay, let's keep going though, 'cause we still have to learn our, or practice our high frequency words.

So let me just turn my chart around.

Remember high frequency words are words that we see most frequently all week.

We have 10 words every day.

We have two that we are focused on.

Oops, let's move this so that it's nice and straight.

Our two words for today helped me read and write, ready?

Remember, help me spell it.

R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R, remember.

Next word, someone.

Help me spell it.

S-O-M-E-O-N-E, someone.

And guess what?

Someone is a compound word, you're right.

We quickly talked about compound words yesterday, two small words put together.

Now let's read our sentences.

Let's see if you guys can help me put them in these two words, so they all make sense.

Let's see if you guys can do it the first time ready?

Will you mmm to call me soon?

What do you think?

Will you someone to call me soon?

No, will you remember to call me soon?

Yes, good job.

Wait until you can ask mmmm your question.

Wait until you can ask someone your question.

How did you do?

Good job, boys and girls.

Okay, so we're not gonna have much time for our compound words, which is okay 'cause you guys are really good with compound words.

Remember compound words are just two small words put together, like our word, someone in our high-frequency words.

Let's see if you guys can do this.

I have words on this side and I have some words on this side and we were just going to put them together to make compound words.

So school note, high, book and foot.

Ready, school, ball, house, chair, book, or shelf.

School what?

I hear you.

Good job, schoolhouse.

Schoolhouse is a compound word, good job.

How about note?

Notebook, good job.

See, I know you guys know how to do that.

Good job boys and girls.

Now, if you can get those paper and whiteboard and finish matching up my two words to make a compound word.

All right, you guys did a lot of work today, boys and girls.

And I know you guys are gonna do an awesome job with your teacher.

So continue learning, continue reading, continue writing.

'Cause you guys are amazing.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow so that we can continue practicing how to divide words into syllables, to read.

Have a great day.

Bye-bye.

(upbeat 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 every ♪ (upbeat guitar music)