♪ 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 whistling music) - Good morning second grade.

My name is Mrs.

Vain.

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

Now remember some of you guys are becoming amazing readers and remember to become an amazing readers.

You have to be using all that skills that we've learned and be reading them in a book.

So all this week, I want to continue sharing some of my favorite chapter book series with you.

So today I wanted to share the Katie Kazoo Switcheroo series.

Now remember series just means there are more than one book with the same characters.

Again, if you're looking for books and you know it's a series, you can look on the spine to see what, or what number that book falls in the series.

And this says number six.

So this is Katie Kazoo Switcheroo Get Lost.

And another tip when you are checking out chapter books is to look at the back.

'Cause usually they'll have a little summary of what the book is going to be about.

And guess what?

In this one, it has a little summary of what the series is about.

So if you're not sure about the series this one has a little bit of information of what the series about so it says Katie is an ordinary third grader and for one very extraordinary, well she has one very extraordinary problem.

She accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself, but what Katie soon learns is what wishes really do come true, and in the strangest ways.

So this series is all about how Katie switches into different people or different things.

So if you want to read the Katie Kazoo Switcheroo books make sure you are checking on Sora.

If you have the Sora app.

At your county library or at your school library.

Okay.

So these look like a good series that I might just continue reading.

So if you're reading and you want to share the books that you're reading with me make sure you're writing to me here at the studio or you can email me the books that you're reading.

And then I will share those with all the other boys and girls.

Use the address you see below and the email address.

And don't forget to include your home address.

And so that I can send you one of these fun activity books, which is perfect for summer.

'Cause remember in the summer, we still got to keep that our brains super strong and smart, and these are perfect for that.

All right?

So I will be patiently waiting for your letters so that I can go find more books to recommend for all of the second graders out there to read.

Now, let's continue with the schools that came in our top five countdown.

So if you were in Fresno unified and you're reading on the Sora app let's see if your school came in at our top countdown.

So yesterday, we revealed the top five school, which has Turner today.

Let's see which school came in at number four, let's see if it's your school, ready?

So coming in a number four is, Ewing.

Ewing elementary.

Awesome job Ewing elementary.

You guys are doing an awesome job reading.

And I know that cause you guys have been on our countdowns for several weeks, so awesome job Ewing elementary.

Now don't forget if you want to see your school on our Sora countdown, make sure you are doing your job and you're checking out those books and you are reading it.

All right.

Okay.

Now let's get started with our lesson for today.

Remember, we're going to start off with our listening ears.

You're right, because we need to hear sounds in order to read and write sounds.

So we're going to be playing a game called phoning substitution.

And you guys are really good at this game.

This is where I'm going to say some sounds.

We'll blend it and then we're going to substitute a letter out and we'll make a new word.

Let's see if you guys can make my new word, ready?

I'm going to use my dots here to help us.

Ready?

Okay.

Here's my word.

M. E. N. M. E. N. What is it?

Mean.

Good job.

Now I'm going to change the M to a B.

What's my new word?

Bah.

Een.

Bean.

Good job boys and girls, you got it.

Okay.

Next set of sounds, ready?

Th.

Own.

En.

Th.

Own.

What's my word?

Town.

Good job.

Substitute that Th to a Dh, what's my new word?

Dh.

Own.

Down.

Good job boys and girls.

Okay.

Last set of sounds.

You guys are really good at this.

I can tell you got your listening ears on.

Ready?

Mm.

Oh.

Sst.

Mm.

Oh.

Sst.

What is it?

Most.

Good job.

Substitute that Mm for a Rah.

Now what's my new word?

Rah, oh, sst.

What is it?

Roast.

Good job boys and girls using your listening ears.

Okay.

Awesome job.

Okay.

Now that we have practice with our listening skills, let's go and practice our reading skills.

Now remember we've already learned all those spelling patterns.

So now we're just going to practice reading those multi-syllabic words, which is just a longer word.

And there's different strategies that I've taught you or, in this case, we're learning different syllable rules, right?

This week we are focused on the vowel team syllables.

So just quickly, we know words can be divided into syllables.

Each syllable has one vowel sound.

And sometimes.

in this case, vowel teams are two vowels that make one sound, and by looking for vowel teams and dividing words into syllables it will help us read and write longer words.

But remember, we still have to remember all the other rules that we've learned about syllables to help us.

So I have all of our sound spelling cards with the vowel teams here to help us remember all the different patterns for our spelling patterns.

Okay.

So let's practice.

If I come across this word, let's look at this first word and I'm not sure how to read it.

Right.

I can look for those vowel teams.

I see that the A I is a vowel team.

And I know it says A, so, again, I'm going to look at my consonant, oh, not consonant, but I'm going to look at my word and I know that this is one word.

What's this word?

I can read it.

What is that?

That says plain.

'Cause here's my vowel.

Consonant.

Consonant, consonant, vowel.

And because P L is a blend, we're going to keep it together.

So, I would, I know that says plain.

I know E X says ex, put it together and my word is explain.

Did you see that?

Awesome.

Let's look at the next word, ready?

Again, I see my vowel team.

E A says ea, but look at, I also knew that re was a suffix, right?

So I know that is a syllable by itself.

So if I keep divided now I know this is release.

What's my word.

Release.

How did you do?

Awesome job.

Quickly, how do I read this?

Here's my O W, here's my double consonants.

Letter between the double consonants.

Oh, I know this word, that says low.

This one just says pill.

Put it together.

Pillow.

How did you do?

Awesome job.

Now let's practice writing some words with a vowel team.

Okay.

Now what if I want to write the word peanut?

So if I'm writing my sentence and I want to write the word peanut, again peanut, two syllables.

First syllable P and I'm going to think, hmm, that's the E sound.

How do I spell it?

It's actually E A, did you know that?

Pea nut.

Here's my next syllable, nut.

Oh, we know how to spell that.

N U T, put it together.

Peanut.

How did you do?

Awesome.

Okay.

Let's practice another word.

What if I want to read word crayon?

Crayon.

Let's see.

First syllable cray on.

Okay.

First syllable, Cray.

Cuh.

Ruh.

Ay.

Hmm, let's look at that, train card.

Look at all the different ways we can spell that.

A and Cray is actually the Y and the A, Cray, and then my next syllable is on.

We know how to spell on, how do I spell it?

O N, on, spell crayon, C R A Y O N. Crayon.

You see how we can spell it with using our vowel teams and with syllables.

Awesome.

Okay.

Now I want you guys to write a sentence for me.

Here's my sentence.

I am missing my yellow crayon.

Can you write that for me?

Write it and then share your sentence with your family tonight, or write a sentence with peanut or crayon to share with them.

All right.

Okay.

Boys and girls.

Now we need to practice our high-frequency words because high-frequency words are words that show up most frequently when we are writing and reading.

So it's important to know them automatically, automatically so that we can save all that brain power.

You see all that brain power that we just used dividing words into syllables and keeping those vowel teams together.

That's a lot to know.

We need to keep all of our brain powers to do that.

So that are, so it's important to know how to read and write high-frequency words automatically.

Automatically.

So here are our two words for today.

We have the word river, help me read it again.

The river, help me spell it.

R I V E R. River.

And we have the word anymore.

Help me spell it.

A N Y M O R E. Anymore.

Good job.

Good job.

Compound.

A word.

Awesome.

Okay.

Let's read my two sentences.

Let's see if you guys can use context clues to put my words into my sentence so they all make sense, ready?

There are many boats on the, hmm?

Oh did you guys see that?

Good sentence.

Good context clues.

Okay.

Let's read the second one and then we'll put them both in.

It is not raining hmm?

Okay.

First sentence.

There are many, here's my context clues.

So there's boats and they are on the, river, good job.

There are many boats on the river.

So that must mean it is not raining anymore.

Does that make sense?

Yes, it does.

Good job, boys and girls.

practicing our high frequency words.

Okay, let's quickly go into our structural analysis this week.

This week, we are focused on comparative endings and this is a skill that we've already learned.

So we're going to just practice the skill.

So remember comparative endings has the E, R, and that's when I'm comparing two, two nouns, we're going to add it to adjectives.

We're going to add E S C to an adjective and we're comparing more than two nouns, but remember the tricks or I call the rules.

When the adjective ends with the Y, we need to change it to an I, like the word silly, right?

Has an Y.

We need to change it to an I before we can add the E R, or E S T. So silly becomes sillier and silliest.

Same thing with words ending with the vowel and consonant.

We need to double the consonant before adding E R and E S T. Hot becomes hotter.

There's my double consonant.

And hottest, double consonant.

And then last but not least, don't forget that word ends with the E, what do we do?

We drop it.

That's right.

Later, you see how we add, E R. No E because we took that E and latest, I added the E S T for S, and I dropped that E. So as you're writing and you're comparing two nouns using adjectives make sure that you guys are following those rules.

If your adjectives ends with a Y and E or has a vowel and then a consonant, or actually a short vowel before the last consonant.

Lots of rules to remember, right?

And I know you guys are doing such a good job at learning how to read and write so that you'll be ready for third grade.

So boys and girls I hope you guys have a great day learning with your teacher.

I hope you guys have a great day learning today and I hope you're reading a good book so don't forget to come back tomorrow so that we can continue growing our brains.

All right, 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.

♪ (upbeat guitar music)