(upbeat folk 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 music) - Good morning, second grade!

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

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

I know you guys have done such an amazing job at becoming amazing readers and writers.

Now I have another book to share with you guys.

I know, another one that I have not read that was recommended to me.

Have you read this book?

This is called "Lucia the Luchadora" by Cynthia Leonor Garza, illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez.

And boys and girls, I love this illustration in this book.

They are beautiful.

But, in this book, Lucia loves to zip around the playground with the boys.

And the boys tell her that she can't be a superheroes.

Can you believe that?

I know she gets super mad until her grandma or her grandmother, her abuela, tells her that when she was little, she was a Luchadora.

Do you know what that is?

A masked wrestler.

And that a Luchadora has moxie.

They're brave, and they're full of heart, and they aren't afraid to fight for what is right.

Did you know that?

So that's what she becomes.

And I'm not gonna keep telling you, you're gonna have to check out this book and read it.

It's an awesome book!

It's becoming one of my favorite books.

And at the end of this book, you can read more about the Luchadoras, 'cause I learned a lot about them, 'cause I didn't know about them.

But boys and girls, what a fun book to pick up and read.

If you want to check this book out, there are different ways that you can do that.

You can check it out in Sora, if you have the Sora app.

You can check it out at your county library, or at your school library.

And that's where I got this one, is at a school library.

So pick it up and read to see what Lucia does.

All right?

It's a great book, trust me.

Now, are you guys ready?

Not yet?

You're right.

Boys and girls, don't forget, write to me here at the studio, I mean, our PBS classroom, tell me what you're learning.

Tell me what you are reading, or just write me story.

I wanna see all that writing.

Use the address to see below, or you can email me what you guys are learning.

I'd love to hear from you guys.

And, don't forget to put your return address or your home address so I can send you a fun activity book.

All right, do you have one yet?

No?

Don't forget to get one.

You just have to write to me and give me your home address so that I can send you one of these awesome books, all right?

All right.

Okay, are you ready to get started?

That's right.

Oh, I see some of you guys.

You're turning up your listening ears.

Good job!

Remember we need to start with our listening skills 'cause we need to listen for sound so that we can read and write them, you're right.

Okay, today we're gonna just practice practicing our phoneme segmentation.

That's when I'm going to say a word.

Your job is to segment my word into sounds.

How many sounds do you hear in my word?

Are you ready?

Okay.

First word, gym.

Say it with me, gym.

Like, I went to the gym to exercise.

Gym.

Good.

How many sounds?

Good job, I see you.

Let's check.

Let's check it, ready?

(sounding out "gym") How many sounds?

Three sounds.

Good job.

Okay.

Next word.

Enough.

Ooh, It's a little harder one.

Enough.

Say it.

Enough.

Segment it.

Enough.

How many sounds?

Let's check it.

Ready?

(sounding out "enough") How many sounds?

Four, did you get four?

Thumbs up, good job!

Last word.

Dread.

Dread.

Oh, dread, dread.

Let me see, how many sounds did you hear?

(sounding out "dread") Dread.

Four sounds.

Did you get it?

Thumbs up!

Good job, boys and girls, listening for those sounds.

Okay, now, let's go into our phonics instruction.

Remember all week we have been practicing the short vowel diagraph sounds.

Now, what are those?

Remember, I like to call them my rule breaker because these are spelling patterns that are not following the rules.

I've taught you how to spell these different ways, or how these spelling patterns can be said in different sounds.

This week, they're going to say a short vowel sound.

Okay, so say it with me, ready?

The secret learning that the EA can say, "eh" like the egg card, the short E. OU can say "uh" like the umbrella card, or what we call the short U sound, "uh".

And that Y can say "ih" like the insect card, which is our short I sound, okay?

So, I have some words here.

Help me blend them together.

Ready?

Remember the EA, it's going to say, "eh," ready?

(sounding out word) What's my word?

Weather, good job!

Now, if I have the word weather and I wanted to change to Heather, I have a good friend named Heather.

What would I change it to?

Good, we just changed the "wa" to a "ha ha", which is a H. And now I have my friend Heather's name.

Heather, but guess what?

Her name is a proper noun.

You're right, so we need to write a capital H Heather.

Good job!

Okay.

Let's go onto the next set of letters.

Help me blend them, ready?

OU is going to say, "uh," remember that?

Ready?

(sounding out word) What's my word?

Double, good job!

Now, how do I change double into trouble.

What's the first two sound?

Ti, ruh, good job!

And that's my "tr" blend my T R. What's my new word now?

Trouble, good job!

Remember, if you can read and write one word most of the time, you can read and write more than one word, good.

Now, today I have a fun story for us to read, but before we read, let's go over our fluency check list.

Remember, as you're reading I want you to focus on your accuracy, reading the words correctly.

Work on your rate.

Not going too fast, not going too slow, and working on your expression, reading with feelings, so that you don't sound like a robot.

And of course paying attention to those punctuation marks.

Those periods, the question mark, the exclamation mark, and sometimes there are commas.

Okay, so this week I have a fiction text.

Remember what fiction means?

Fake, that's right.

It's a made up story called "Stay Out of Trouble."

And as you're reading, I want you to see if you can answer this question.

What happened when he ran down the hall?

As you're reading, look for my short vowel digraph words, and try to figure if you can read to find out what happens when he ran down the hall.

Are you ready?

Let's read together.

Stay out of trouble!

Rules are good, my mom and dad said in a stern voice.

Follow them and stay out of trouble.

What do they know?

Children and young people get into trouble.

It's what we do!

That day I ran down the hall on the way to gym.

I bumped into a friend, and she didn't like it.

So my number one rule is, walk down the hall.

Okay, I get that.

Before lunch, I broke in the line.

My teacher saw me and made me go to the end.

I was last into the lunchroom.

Okay, so I found rule number two.

It is, stay in my place in line.

It's just better to follow this rule.

At the pool, I walked too fast.

I slipped and fell into the water.

I was lucky I didn't hit my head!

So rule number three is, always walk slowly near the pool.

Now, I know that my mom and dad were right.

Instead of breaking rules, I will follow them.

Who knows?

I might stay out of trouble!

So what happened when he ran down the hallway?

You're right, he bumped into someone.

Did she like it?

No, she didn't.

Now did you read words with our focus spelling patterns this week?

What was it?

Short vowel digraphs, I found some.

Let's read it together, ready?

Instead, head, trouble, young, gym.

Now I also found some of our high frequency words.

Read it with me, ready?

Children, instead, and voice.

Good job boys and girls!

Okay, now that takes us right into our high frequency words, 'cause remember, all week we have 10 words that we're working on.

So let me pull our chart over so that we can practice our high frequency words.

Every day we have two that we are focusing on.

Today, our two are the word voice and whole.

So I want you to help me read and spell them, okay?

Help me read it again.

Voice, good job.

One more time.

Voice, good.

Spell it with me.

V O I C E, voice.

Good job, next word, whole.

Good, one more time, whole.

Good, and this is the whole, like the whole, all of it.

It's a whole piece of cake, or a whole piece of pie, whole.

Spell it, W H O L E, whole.

Good job.

Now, I have two sentences for us.

Help me read the two sentences, and help me try to figure out which one of these words, will makes sense into the sentence.

Ready?

Nia has a lovely singing (hum).

Good job, and I hear some of you guys telling me the word.

I know you guys are using your context clues.

Good job.

Let's read the second sentence.

She brought a (hum) watermelon to the picnic.

Good job, were you right?

Let's see, Nia has a lovely, lovely singing say as I can hear you.

Good job, voice!

That must mean whole goes in the second sentence.

Lets read it.

She brought a whole watermelon to the picnic.

Awesome job.

Let's practice reading all of our high frequency words that we've learned this week, so far, starting with the two today, ready?

Voice, whole, woman, words, children, anything, everybody, instead, paper, and person.

Now, we're going to go into our structural analysis and remember boys and girls, this week we were working on alphabetical order.

Now, again it's important to know how to put things in alphabetical order.

This week we're working you to the second letter because if you look, here are all my words.

Person, form, paper, fish, purple.

Lots of words.

I need to put them into alphabetical order.

If you need to, write the alphabet on top of your paper.

Now, if you look at the first letter, what comes first?

The P's.

I mean the P's?

No, I tricked you, the F's.

Now, because they both start with F we need to go to the second letter, right?

FO or FI?

Let's look at our alphabet chart.

I comes first.

So fish comes first, then form.

You see that?

Now, what do you think is going to come next?

I don't know.

We have person, paper, and purple all starting with what?

The P, so let's look at the second letter.

PE, PA or PU?

Look at your alphabet chart if you need to.

Good job, PA is next, and then either E or U. PE person.

And then last, purple.

Just let me scoot these over.

How did you do?

That was a tricky one when I put them all together.

Awesome job, boys and girls!

You're doing such a great job!

Don't forget to come back again tomorrow 'cause I have another awesome story to read with you so that we can practice our short vowel digraph sound.

And we'll continue practicing our alphabetical order and why it's important to know it.

So, I hope you guys are having a great day learning and I'll see you back in here in our PBS classroom tomorrow, bye bye.

(upbeat folk 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 folk music)