♪ 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) - Hey there second grade.

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

My name is Mrs. Vang, I'm so excited to have you guys join me so that we can become amazing readers and writers or actually it should be so that we can be ready for third grade because some of you guys are becoming amazing readers.

Now, I was just skimming this chapter book because remember all this week, I'm gonna be sharing chapter book series so that you guys can check them out and read them.

But I haven't read them yet, so, today I wanna feature the EllRay Jakes series.

Now remember, series just means that there are more than one book with the same character.

So this is the EllRay Jakes series written by Sally Warner.

Now, remember, there's a couple of ways to look at chapter books to see if you want to read it because it's such a long book.

So I was quickly skimming to see if I could read some of the words.

Now, another strategy is to look in the front cover to see if there's a summary of what the book is going to be about.

And this is also nice because it lets me quickly know if it's a book that I'll be interested in because it is a long book.

So, if it is interesting then I'll pick it up and read, or guess what?

You can also check the back of the book to see if there's a summary there, but in this case, guess what?

There are more EllRay Jakes books.

So again, I can look here and see what other books I want to read.

And don't forget boys and girls, because it's a series, you can look in the spine and know what book number it comes or it falls into the series.

So I can tell EllRay Jake is a Rock Star is book number two in the series and EllRay Jakes Rocks the Holiday is book number seven in the series.

So if you are already reading the EllRay Jakes books, how do you like it?

Write to me and let me know what you think of the series.

Or if you have a series that you are reading or a book that you are reading and you want me to recommend it or share it with the other second graders make sure you guys are writing to me to let me know.

Now remember you can write to me here in our PBS classroom, you can use the address that you see on the screen, you see that, or you can email me.

There's an email address on the bottom, your letter also.

And once I get you letter, boys and girls, don't forget to put your return address or your home address so that I can send you one of these fun activity books.

So if you don't have one make sure you guys are putting your home address so I can send this to you, all right?

Okay, boys and girls.

Now don't forget to check out those books.

You can check on Soar if you have the Soar app, you can go to your County library, that's where I went to get those books, or you check at your school library to see if they have the EllRay Jake series.

Okay, now, speaking of Soar let's see which school came in our top five countdown.

So if you go to Fresno Unified let's see if your school is on our top countdown.

Today we're going to reveal the number three school.

So are you guys ready?

Okay, coming in at number three is... Wilson.

Awesome job Wilson elementary.

I can tell you guys are doing an amazing job checking out those books and reading to make your brain super strong.

Good job, Wilson elementary.

Now, if you don't see your school on our countdown, make sure you guys are reading so that you'll see your school on our countdown.

Okay boys and girls, are you ready?

Let's get started to make... let's get started with our lesson so that we can make our brains super strong and smart.

So we'll start off with?

That's right with our listening ears.

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

Today, we're going to be practicing some phony addition and deletion, two skills because you guys are that great.

So be listening.

Sometimes I'm going to be adding a sound.

Sometimes I'm going to be deleting a sound.

Let's see if you guys can still make my word, all right?

Okay, let's see, right now I'm wondering... We're going to be practicing some addition.

So I'm going to say some sounds and we're going to add a sound and let's see if you guys can guess my new word.

Ready?

A-b-l, A-b-l is?

Able, good, I'm going to add in a T. What's my new word?

Table, good job.

Table, okay.

Now we're going to be practicing some deletion.

We're going to be taken away a phony.

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

Ready?

S-t-u-m-b-l, that was a long one.

Okay, ready?

S-t, that's our blend, s-t-u-m-b-l. What is it?

Stumble, good.

Now I'm going to delete the S, what's my word?

Tumble, good job, did you get that?

Awesome job.

Okay, let's practice some more deletion.

That was a tricky one, ready?

T-r-i-p-l, T-r-i-p-l. What's my word?

Triple, good job.

Triple, now, take out that T. Now you just have r-i-p-l. Ripple, good job boys and girls.

That was trickier, good job adding and deleting those phonies.

Okay now let's go and practice our phonics lessons.

Remember in second grade, we've already learned all the spelling patterns.

Right now we're just practicing how to divide words into syllables so that we can become fluent readers.

Now we've learned already a couple of the syllable types like open and closed syllable.

Last week we learned silent E syllable, remember, looking for those patterns.

This week, we are focused on the constant plus -le syllable.

And remember, that just means that the -le, -el, or the -el that says, "el" and today we're going to practice with the -al that says, "al", they all make the same sound.

Whenever we see these letters at the end of a word we put the consonant in front of it and we keep it together as the last syllable.

And then you can look at the first syllable and all the time.

It's, that's how we can decode words with more than one syllable, okay?

So you remember the -al says, "al" just like the -el and the -le.

So let's look at my consonant plus my -al.

This says, "tal", good job.

This says, "nal", good job.

This says, "mal", good job.

This says, "dal", good.

And, "cal", good job.

Now, if you know how to read those syllables, right, now let's just look at the first syllable.

R-E-N says, "ren", put it together, rental.

Good job, you see how I broke that into syllables because I knew that pattern of the constant and the -al?

Okay, look at this.

Let's look at this next one.

We know this is -nal, look at the first one.

Oh, that's an open syllable.

So I is going to say I, ready?

Fi- -nal, what's my word?

Final, good job.

Okay, look at this one, -mal.

You're right, and if you can read that let's look at the first syllable.

M-A-M-.

that's a closed syllable, -mal.

Okay, let's read it.

Let's do that again.

M-am, mam, mam-mal, what's my word?

Mammal, good reading boys and girls.

Okay, let's keep going.

D-A-L, we said it already, dal, good job.

Read the first syllable m-e-dal.

Oh, does that make sense, meedal?

Oh, and I know you're saying, "Mrs. Vang you said it's an open syllable."

It does, but guess what?

That doesn't make sense, we don't say meedal.

So change it to a short vowel, M-e, medal.

That makes sense.

That was a tricky one boys and girls.

So, even though it follows some of those rules there are what we call rule breakers, so be careful.

Because meedal doesn't make sense, change it to medal.

Okay, let's keep going, last one.

With my consonant -cal, put it together.

First syllable vo-, -cal, what's my word?

Vocal, good job boys and girls.

So remember as you're reading and you see this consonant, with the -al or the -el or the -le you keep it together to make the final syllable.

Then you find the first syllable and blend it together.

So let's practice with some more words, ready?

Okay, we're going to go all the way down to our purple words now with the -al at the end.

Don't forget to keep that consonant together.

Ready?

Okay.

Sig-nal, did you get it?

Good job, signal.

Ready?

Fi-nal.

Good, we practiced that already.

San-dal, did you see that?

What's my word?

Sandal, good reading, ready?

Lo-cal, local, good.

Men-tal, what's my word?

Mental, good.

Cen-tral, what's my word?

Central, good job, boys and girls.

Let's read a sentence now with these syllables, or these constant plus -le or -al syllable, ready?

Joe got an apple at the local store.

How did you do?

Awesome job reading.

Now tomorrow, we're going to practice reading words with all three different spellings, the -al the -el, and the -le.

So as you're reading I want you to be looking for those al sounds and putting that constant together with it, all right?

Okay, now I'm going to pull my chart back so that we can practice our high frequency words.

So to become fluent readers, right, I've been showing you different strategies, but one of the best way to become a fluent reader is to know your high-frequency words because they show up the most often.

So, let's practice our two high-frequency words that we're going to be learning today, ready?

I want you to help me read and write them, ready?

First word today is month, good job.

Help me read it again.

Month, help us spell it.

M-O-N-T-H, month, good job.

Next word, soft, good.

Read it one more time.

Soft, good job.

Let's read it.

S-O-F-T, soft, good job.

Now, we have two sentences here.

I want you to help me try to figure out which one of these words will go into my sentence using those contexts clues so that it all makes sense ready?

Help me read the first sentence.

What "hm" is your birthday?

Oh, I hear some of you guys shouting at me, good job.

Let's do the second sentence and see if we can figure if it's the correct word, ready?

The cat likes to sleep on a "hm" pillow.

Okay, you guys are using your context clues.

First sentence, what?

Good, month is your birthday?

Did you guys use that context clues of the birthday?

Good job.

The cat likes to sleep on a soft pillow.

Good reading boys and girls.

Okay, now let's quickly go through our structural analysis.

Remember we were practicing contractions and possessive nouns.

And remember, that gets tricky because they both have the apostrophe.

So contraction, they're just two small words put together with the apostrophe.

Possessive nouns shows ownership and it has the apostrophe S. So let's read my sentence.

"He could not take a nap."

What can I change it to?

Did you see that?

"Could not" changes to a contraction.

"He couldn't take a nap."

Good job.

The next one says, "He is the pilot of the rocket."

So pilot of the rocket, do you see how I underline it?

It's not a contraction, but it's a possessive noun.

You're right.

So, how can I change it to make it possessive?

The ro-- "He is the rocket's pilot."

Do you see that possessive apostrophe, guys?

Awesome job, boys and girls.

So as you read, I want you to also see if you can find the difference between those contractions and those possessive, because they both have that apostrophe in them.

Boys and girls, you guys are doing an amazing job.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow so that we can continue practicing dividing words into syllables to become fluent readers.

Have a great day learning.

I'll see you tomorrow, bye-bye.

(upbeat 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 ♪