(cheerful upbeat music begins) ♪ 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 ♪ (cheerful upbeat music continues) (playful upbeat music) - Oh, good morning, boys and girls.

Oh, you guys caught me.

I was going over my book that I was gonna share with you guys.

This is a book called 'Unicorn Yoga'.

Did you know that yoga is good for everyone and everybody?

Even Unicorn.

Yoga makes our bodies strong and graceful.

That's why I was practicing some of my yoga moves, or unicorn yoga moves.

So if you have not seen this book, boys and girls, you can see if you can check it out on the Sora app if you have Sora, or at your county library or at your school library.

Remember, all of these books came from Thomas's school library.

I was at Thomas last week, and so I went into their library and tried to pick books that I haven't read that I wanted to share with you guys and I thought this was a fun one to share on Friday, doing some yoga.

Boys and girls, my name is Mrs. Vang and I'm so excited to have you guys here so that we can practice, not just yoga, but pick on practice, reading, and writing so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

Oh, and don't forget, if your school is having a book fair, you can check to see if you can purchase this book at the book fair.

Wouldn't that be amazing to read some of these unicorn yoga moves every day.

So, boys and girls, see if you can find this book and tell me how you like yoga, all right?

Okay, boys and girls.

Now, let's go into our top schools with our Sora checkout.

And remember this week, we were counting down the schools that read the most minutes.

They were involved in what we call our digital reading challenge where we tracked down minutes read by students.

So all week we have been counting down the top five schools in the elementary division of most read minutes.

So, let's see which school came in in number one.

Is it your school?

Let's see.

Okay.

Fingers crossed.

Is it your school?

Coming in number one is... Heaton!

Good job, Heaton Elementary!

Awesome job checking out those books and reading 'cause you guys read the most minutes, and Fresno Unified for the elementary school division.

Awesome job, boys and girls, 'cause we know reading makes us... Makes us?

That's right, super smart.

So, awesome job.

Now, if you want to see your school in our top countdown, what do you have to do?

You have to check out those books on store and read.

Let's see if your school can get on our top countdown next week, all right?

Okay, boys and girls.

Now, let's go into our learning to make our brains smart.

So let's start off with... That's right, training our ears.

Ready?

So, turn your listening ears up because we need to hear sound in order to read and write sounds.

Today we're going to practice some phoneme addition, meaning I'm going to say some sounds, we're going to add some phoneme, then we're gonna make a new word.

Let's see if you guys can guess my new words or my new word.

Ready?

Okay, I'm gonna use my red dot to help me.

Ready?

Okay.

A-B-L-E. What is it?

Able.

But I guess that I'm going to move that 'cause I'm gonna add a T to it.

What's my new word?

T-A-B-L-E. Table.

Good job.

Okay, let's listen to my next set of sounds, ready?

P-E-N. What is it?

P-E-N.

Pen.

Good.

I'm gonna add an O.

What's my new word?

O-P-E-N. Open.

Good job, boys and girls.

Okay.

Last set of sounds.

Let's see if you guys can do this.

It's a long one.

I want to challenge your brain today, ready?

L-I-T-T-E-R. L-I-T-T-E-R. What is it?

Litter.

Good job.

I'm gonna to add a G to it.

That makes it a G-L... What is it?

G-L-I-T-T-E-R. Good job working with those phoneme addition, boys and girls.

Okay.

Now that our ears are listening, let's go and practice our focus of the week.

Now remember, all week we have been practicing open and closed syllable, which is one of the six syllable types.

Now remember, in second grade right now, we have learned all of the spelling patterns that we need to learn to read.

So for the rest of the weeks until the end of the school year, we're really just gonna be focusing on how to read accurately and fluently, and learning these six syllable types is going to help us read.

And a lot of the times boys and girls, your brain does this already, and you don't even know, 'cause that's what good readers do.

So this week, we are focused on open and closed syllable, so that we can decode multi-syllabic words.

Oh, that was...

I had to get all that out, multi-syllabic words, which just means a word with more than one syllable.

So, let's quickly review.

If a word is a closed syllable, that just means the vowel is closing, so the vowel is?

Short.

Good job.

If it has an open syllable, that means my pattern is a vowel, consonant, vowel, and that means I divide after the vowel, so that makes my vowel open, making it a?

Long vowel.

Good job, boys and girls.

So, as we're reading, remember this is what our brain does automatically if you're a good reader and I'm going to slow it down so that you can practice so that your brain can do this automatically.

So let's look at my set of words or letters here.

Ready?

So again, my brain does this automatically.

It says, A is a vowel.

E is a vowel.

And then it goes in between, and the C and the K, we know it's a double consonant, but they're both consonants, so my brain already knows it's a vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel, and I know already, my teacher already taught me that when there's two consonants, we divide between the two consonants.

And now, it's just two smaller chunk upwards.

That's more manageable for us to decode.

I know the A and the E is going to be a short vowel, so, J-A-C. J-A-C-K-E-T, put it together.

What's my word?

Jacket.

You see how easy that was?

Awesome.

Now let's look at my next set of letters.

Okay, remember, what does our brain do automatically?

It goes, what?

Vowel.

I'm gonna stick it here 'cause you can put the vowel consonant behind or in front, right?

Whichever works for you.

I see my Y open.

There's that tricky one.

If it's at the end, I know it's going to say a, vowel sound.

So let me quickly change that Y to my vowel sound, and then what's in between it?

Just a consonant.

When it's just a vowel, consonant, vowel, where do I divide?

After the consonant.

No constant afterward, that makes it an open syllable.

Open syllable means it's long vowel, ready?

L-A-D-Y.

Put it together, what's my word?

Lady.

Did you see that?

Now, what if I want to keep my first syllable and just change my second syllable?

What if I want to spell the word 'Lazy'?

L-A is the same, Z-Y, change the D to a Z.

Good job, boys and girls.

Now, I have my word.

So you see how sometimes, if we know syllable parts, we know how to spell or read more than one words with the same pattern.

Always look for those patterns, boys and girls.

Now, today, we're going to practice reading a story.

And before we read, let's quickly go over our fluency check list, right?

As we're reading, we're going to focus on our accuracy.

Our accuracy; reading the words correctly.

See how I did that?

I had to go back and correct myself; accuracy.

Rate; not going too fast, too slow, working on our expression and punctuation.

So, today, I have a realistic fiction for you to read, and it's called 'Clever Doggy'.

And as you're reading, I want you to find out what makes Sophie such a clever dog.

You ready?

Let's read it together.

- [Narrator] Clever Doggy.

(playful music begins) Cody and mom were done eating breakfast.

Mom noticed that the basement door was open.

She said, "Cody, didn't I remind you to close the basement door last night when we got home?"

"I did remember to close it yesterday, Mom.

But she opened it," Cody said.

"Where is she?"

Mom asked.

There she was.

Sophie, the Irish sheepdog was sound asleep on the new sofa.

Mom said, "In order to keep the new sofa looking new, Sophie needs to sleep in the basement.

She probably won't like it as well as the new sofa, but I put a cozy bed down there for her to sleep on.

How does she get up here?"

"Sophie opened the door herself," Cody said.

"I don't believe it!

Someone show me!"

Mom said.

Sophie led the way downstairs to the basement.

Mom made sure she closed the door.

"The basement has no windows," said Cody.

"Maybe that is why Sophie dislikes it down here."

Sophie stood up on the third step and jumped up.

Her big front paws touched the doorknob and slid off.

Sophie repeated the jumping and pawing until the doorknob turned.

Mom's mouth opened wide as she stood and watched.

She could not believe how clever Sophie was.

Mom began planning what she could do to outsmart Sophie.

After Cody returned from walking Sophie, the basement door was open.

Tools were spread out on the floor.

"What's going on, Mom?"

Cody asked.

"I'm putting in a new lock!"

She said.

"I don't want to worry about Sophie getting out of the basement tomorrow."

"Mom, Sophie is smart.

She'll find a way to unlock it!"

Cody said.

And just then, Sophie let out a loud bark.

- So boys and girls, what makes Sophie such a clever dog?

She knew how to open that basement door, didn't she?

So clever.

Now, did you find words with that open and closed syllables?

There were a lots of them in there.

Look at all my open and closed syllables.

And I just put a few up on my chart, but guess what else was in there?

All of my high frequency words.

Did you see that?

So, let's go and practice our high frequency words, 'cause remember, high frequency words are words that show up most often when we are reading, like how all my words showed up in that story.

So remember, all week we had 10 words that we were focusing on.

Everyday we were focusing on two, but all week we had 10 words that we were learning.

So if you were having troubles with one or two of them, make sure you're jotting them down, and that you are practicing them daily.

Let's quickly go over the two words for today.

Ready?

First word is worry.

Good job.

Spell it with me.

W-O-R-R-Y.

Worry.

Good job.

Next word.

Yesterday.

Let's spell it.

Y-E-S-T-E-R-D-A-Y.

Yesterday.

Good job.

Now, let's read my sentences.

Let's see if you guys can put them in, so that they make sense.

Read it with me.

You have nothing to mm about.

Oh, I hear some of you guys shouting it out, good job.

Let's do the next sentence.

Mm, I helped mom make lunch.

Good.

Are you saying?

I hear you.

Good.

Let's go back.

You have nothing to worry about.

That makes sense.

Good job.

So that must mean yesterday, I helped mom make lunch.

How do I know?

Here's my -E-D that tells me it happened in the past.

And don't forget, if it's in the beginning of a sentence, let's change it so that our word has a capital letter.

Good job, boys and girls.

Okay.

And, we also worked with compound words, and we know compound words are what?

Two small words put together.

And you guys are really good at that.

So I want you guys to read my sentences, and I want you guys to write down the compound words that you see in my sentences and see if you guys can come up with the meaning of my compound word.

Show your teacher and have your teacher check to see if you can identify compound words, 'cause I know it's an easy skill and you guys do a good job identifying compound words.

Boys and girls, you guys have been working so hard this week, so I'm going to give you the weekend off.

Don't forget to come back on Monday, so that we can continue learning how to read and write.

Have a great weekend.

Bye-bye.

(cheerful upbeat music begins) ♪ 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 ♪ (cheerful upbeat music continues)