♪ 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) - Good morning second grade.

Happy Tuesday.

Welcome back to our PBS Classroom.

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

Now, speaking of become amazing readers, which you guys are becoming, all week I am going to be sharing some more chapter books series.

Now, this series I have not read, I know, I went to the county library and found some more series that boys and girls have told me that they enjoyed.

And so I wanted to share with you guys.

Now this is The Stink series.

Have you heard of these?

Do you remember Stink?

Some of you remember.

If you've read the Judy Moody book, you know who Stink is.

So if you want to read adventures that Stink does, just by himself, make sure you are checking out his series so you can read all about Stink and his adventures.

Now remember, when you get a chapter book and they're a series there is a couple of things you can do you can look at the spine to see what number on this book is in the series.

And I can tell this is book number nine.

Now, because chapter books are longer, right?

The first thing I like to do is look to see inside the book jacket, there's always a little like summary of what this book is going to be about.

So I like reading it just to make sure it's interesting.

And if it does, then I want to read it.

And in the front, usually on the front or sometimes in the back and this one just happened to be in the back.

There are all the different stink book in the series.

So this is how you'll know which book you're reading and which other book you might want to pick up.

So here are the Stink series, more Stink series, there's the Judy Moody and Stinks books.

So if you want to read about Judy Moody and Stink together, you can, in these three books.

And then of course, all the Judy Moody books which Stink is in.

So if you are reading these series and you love it make sure you guys are writing to me and letting me know what you like about these series or if you have a different series that you're reading make sure you're writing and telling me.

Yes, you guys see the address below?

Awesome, use the address or you can email me and tell me what you guys are reading.

I would love to hear from you guys and don't forget to put your return address so that I can send you... That's right, one of these fun activity books.

If you don't have one, as you're writing to me, make sure you guys are including your return address so I can send you one of these fun books because summer is just around the corner and these books will be awesome in the summer to keep our brain, that's right, to keep our brain going.

So I am looking-- So I look forward to getting your letters.

Okay.

Now, let's see which school came up in our Top Sora Countdown.

So remember, if you want to read those chapter books you can also check it out on our Sora app.

If you have the Sora app, you can check them out at your County library, which I did, or at your school library.

But in Fresno Unified boys and girls can check out books on Sora and we're counting down which schools made it into our top five.

Yesterday, we found out that Ewing came in at number four.

Let's see which school came in at number-- I mean, Ewing came in at number five.

Today, let's see which school came into number four.

You ready?

[Mrs. Vang] Let's see, fingers crossed, is it your school?

Thumbs up if it's your school!

Oh, I see some thumbs up, good job!

Good job, Turner Elementary.

Awesome job checking out books and reading.

You guys are doing an awesome job.

Continue checking out those books and reading.

So boys and girls, if you didn't see your school make sure you're doing your job and checking out those books on the Sora app to read.

Okay.

Are you guys ready to get started?

Let's start by making our brain stronger and smarter by, that's right, let's start with our listening ears.

Are you guys ready?

Turn your listening ears up so that we can listen for sounds because we need to be able to hear sound, to read and write sounds.

So you guys ready?

We're going to be practicing some blending and segmentation.

Remember, blending is where I'm going to give you some sounds.

You blend them together to guess my word.

Sometimes I'm going to say a word and your job is to segment it or break apart the sounds.

So are you guys ready?

I know you guys are so smart.

I'm gonna give you two different jobs now.

Okay.

First, we're going to blend.

So I'm going to give you these sounds.

Let's see if you can blend my word.

Ready?

"a" "buh" "ul" What is it?

"A-buh-ul".

[Mrs. Vang] Able.

Good job, boys and girls you got it.

Okay.

We're going to practice blending again with these sounds.

Ready?

"Duh" "eh" "n" "tuh" "ul" "Duh-eh-n" "tuh-ul."

What's my word?

Dental.

Good job.

Dental.

Okay.

Now we're going to practice segmenting.

Now I'm going to say a word and you tell me how many sounds.

Ready?

Circle.

Say it.

Circle.

'Kay, how many sounds did you hear in circle?

Let's double check.

"Sss" "er" "kuh" "ul" Circle.

Did you get four sounds?

Thumbs up, good job boys and girls.

Okay.

Now that our ears are all warmed up let's go and practice some reading strategies.

Now remember, we've already learned all the sounds spelling patterns that you will need to read and write.

Now we're going to be practicing how to read and by practicing how to read fluently we're going to be dividing words into syllables.

So we're going to be practicing how to divide or decode multi-syllabic word, which is just a big word for "word with more than one syllable".

Now, the last couple of weeks, we have been learning, looking for those different syllable types to divide words into syllabus because, boys and girls, remember what I've been saying.

Our brain does this automatically but I'm going to go really slow to see you, so that you can see what our brain is doing as we're reading.

So this week we are focusing on the consonant plus L E syllable.

Now that's a rule, what I like to call a rule, as I'm reading if I see the L E, which we practiced yesterday and we know that L E says "ul", right, we're going to keep the consonant with it and make it the last syllable.

Today we're going to practice with the L E because some words can say "ul", like the L E [Mrs. Vang] And when we see that with the constant we're going to keep it together.

Okay?

So, I have some ending syllable with the L E I want us to say the ending syllable and then we'll add the first syllable to blend the words.

Ready?

So, and this is where it gets tricky.

If you're writing, sometimes it's an L E, sometimes it's an E L. They say the same sound.

As you read, you'll get better at recognizing which words has the L E, and which words has the E L. So let's practice, ready?

"Nul".

Good.

"Sul".

Good.

"Sul" Oh, be careful that CE is that saucy, it makes the "sss" sound.

"Sul" Good.

Let's keep going.

With a V it's a "vul".

Good, "tul" and "cul".

Good job.

Now let's put in the first syllable and let's practice blending these multi-syllabic words.

Ready?

First syllable is, "fun".

Put it together, "fun" "nul".

Good job.

First syllable is, "tin".

You can read that, good.

Put it together, "tin" "sul".

Good job.

First syllable is, "can".

We can read it.

Put the syllables together, "can" "sul".

Good job.

'Kay, first syllable, "trah".

Put it together, "trah" "vul".

Good job.

First syllable, "pas".

"Pas" "tel".

Good.

And "nic" becomes "nic" "kul".

Good job, boys and girls.

Okay.

Let's quickly practice reading some words with that E L or that constant plus E L. Ready?

Remember, we're going to go faster now.

Ready?

We're going to start in the green.

Ready?

"Flan" "nul".

You see that nel?

Good.

Cancel we read.

"Bay" "gul".

Good.

"mus" "sul".

Did you see it?

"Par" "sul".

Good.

And "tun" "nul".

How did you do?

Awesome.

Let's quickly read our sentence.

Did you "lay" "bul" the "bay" "gul"?

Good job, boys and girls.

Good job reading.

As you're reading, make sure that you are looking for those syllable parts so that you can divide it.

Okay.

Now let's go into our high frequency words.

So let me turn my chart around.

Remember, high frequency words are words that we see most frequently and it's important to know how to read and write them automatically because remember all those rules that we had to learn for all those multi-syllabic words?

We need to keep our brain muscle and use those for those longer words.

But the high-frequency words we see so often we should just know them automatically.

So we have two words that we're going to focus on today.

Help me read and write it.

Ready?

First word, follow.

Good.

Let's spell it.

F-O-L-L-O-W.

Follow.

Good job.

Next word, listen.

Good job.

[Mrs. Vang] Help me spell it.

L-I-S-T-E-N.

Listen.

Good job.

Now I have two sentences for us today.

We're going to read it.

You're going to use your context clues and try to figure out which one of these words would go into the sentence so that it will make sense.

Are you ready?

Okay.

First sentence, Mh, the directions to play the game.

Good, are you thinking?

Oh, I see you guys thinking, good.

Let's read the next sentence and see if you guys can figure out which word would go in this sentence.

Ready?

Do you, mh, when others talk?

Oh you-- I hear you guys, good job.

Okay let's go back up.

Mh, the directions to play the game.

You're playing a game, you want to do what to the directions?

Follow the directions.

Good job.

Follow the directions to play the game.

Thumbs up, that makes sense.

And don't forget, follow starts a sentence so let's put a capital F so that it'll look correctly.

Good job.

So that must mean, Do you listen when others talk?

Awesome job boys and girls.

Yes, that does make sense.

Let's quickly practice reading all of our high-frequency words that we're going to be learning this week.

Let's start with the two today.

Follow, listen, month, soft, something, song, who's, wind, above, and brother.

Good job boys and girls.

Okay.

Now let's go into our structural analysis.

This week we are focusing on two skills: contractions and possessive nouns.

And they're very similar in the fact that they both have the apostrophe S, so I see a lot of my boys and girls mixing this up.

Remember a contraction is two words put together, or we call it smashing it together, right?

Like here, he doesn't watch it.

"Does not" are the two words.

Aren't, couldn't, isn't.

These are contractions, right?

Now, possessive nouns means or shows ownership.

Right?

It shows us something belongs to someone or something, like the teacher's book.

You see that apostrophe S?

It's not two words to put together.

Nope.

It just means it belongs, the book belongs to the teacher.

The cat's food.

It's a possessive now, what does it mean?

The cat, the food belongs to the cat.

and dad's shoes is a possessive noun.

What does it mean?

The shoes belongs to dad?

So, I know in second grade, that apostrophe can get confusing.

So we're going to continue practicing contractions and possessive nouns and read-- and so that we can read and write it correctly.

All right.

You guys did an amazing job today.

So keep working hard boys and girls to make that brain super strong and super smart.

So, continue reading.

Have a great day learning with your teachers and make sure that you are joining me back tomorrow so that we can continue dividing words into syllables to become fluent readers.

All right, have a great day.

Bye-bye.

♪ 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.

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