- Hello, readers.

Welcome to "Read, Write, ROAR!."

Today, we will focus on the big question.

What is special about my community?

We'll read a text about a special name, learn about the prefixes miss and over.

And we will work on some narrative writing.

First, today's episode you'll need something to write on.

Even a scratch piece of paper or an envelope and something to write with like a pencil or a pen, come and join us for "Read, Write, ROAR!."

- [Announcer] This program is made possible in part by the Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan and the W.K.

Kellogg Foundation, additional support by and by viewers like you.

Thank you.

(upbeat music) - Welcome readers.

Today, we are going to work with prefixes.

Do you remember what a prefix is?

A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a word and it changes the meaning of the word.

Our goal today is to read words with a prefixes over and miss.

When we read a word with a prefix over, over means too much.

And when you read a word with a prefix miss, miss means bad or badly.

Let's take a look at some of these words and I'm hoping you guys can help me sort them.

Here is our first word.

When I look at this word, I can read the prefix over as one word part and then the second word cook as a second word part.

When I put them together, overcook I can read the word overcook.

When I think of the word overcook I think of overcooking rice and it gets all stuck in burnt to the bottom of the pan.

Some communities actually take overcooked rice and they turn it into tea.

When I look at the word overcook, do I see the prefix over or do I see the prefix miss?

You're right.

I see the prefix over, which means too much.

We cooked it too much.

I'm gonna go ahead and place this word in my over column.

Are you ready for our next word?

Here is our next word.

Remember, we can read the prefix as one word part and then the second word as the second word part, overplant, overplant.

When I look at this word, do I see the prefix over or do I see the prefix miss?

You're right, I see the prefix over and remember that means too much.

So if you overplant something, you plant too much of it.

I'm going to go ahead and put this into our over column.

I measured my garden very carefully before I planted so that I did not overplant or plant too many plants in it.

Here's our next word readers.

Let's look for our prefix.

We can read that as one word part, misread, misread.

Do I see the prefix over or do I see the prefix miss in this word?

You're right.

I see the prefix miss.

Remember that means bad or badly.

So to misread something, means you're reading it bad or badly.

I read my book so slowly and carefully so that I did not misread any words in it.

Let's go ahead and stick misread in our miss column.

We've got a couple more words, readers, are you ready?

Here's our next word?

Overrun, overrun.

Readers, do we see the prefix over or do we see the prefix miss in this word?

You are right, we see over.

That means too much.

So if you overrun, you run too much at the end of the track meet, I felt like I had been overrun.

I had run too much.

Here is our next word, readers.

Look for your prefix.

Do you see over or do you see miss in this word?

I see over, overgrown, overgrown or grown too much.

I'm gonna go ahead and stick this in our over column.

The vacant lot was overgrown with weeds and bushes.

All right, readers.

We're onto our last word.

Here it is.

What prefix do you see in this word?

Do you see over or do you see miss?

I see miss as well.

Misspell, misspell.

The teacher wrote her name on the board so that we did not misspell it on our papers.

Let's go ahead and put this in our miss column.

Readers, I hope that when you're reading you are able to be on the lookout for words that might start with the prefixes over or miss.

Thanks for all of your help helping me read these words today.

Readers, we are getting so good at reading these words that start with our miss and over prefixes.

Let's try reading some of them in a story.

My name is spelled A-L-I-Y-A-H, Aliyah.

So many people mispronounce, mispronounce.

I know miss means not.

So they don't pronounce my name.

Even more people misspell, misspell or don't spell correctly my name.

My mom tells me my name means to ascend which means to go higher.

She hopes I overcome, overcome any problems in my life.

I am overjoyed, overjoyed, or full of joy.

Whenever I can teach people my beautiful name.

Readers, we did such a good job figuring out what these different words starting with over and miss prefixes mean in this story.

Let's read it one more time so you can hear what it would sound like with fluency.

My name is spelled A-L-I-Y-A-H. Aliyah, so many people mispronounce my name even more people misspell my name.

My mom tells me my name means to ascend which means to go higher.

She hopes I overcome any problems in my life.

I am overjoyed, whenever I can teach people my beautiful name.

Readers, did a fantastic job helping me read these words and these stories.

Don't forget to be on the lookout in your own reading for words that might start with our miss or over prefixes.

We've had lots of practice reading words with the prefixes over and miss.

Now let's practice writing some of them.

For this activity you'll need whatever you have to write on and something to write with.

When we spell a word, first, we visualize or see the word parts in our head.

And then we try and think about the sounds that go with each of those work parts.

Are you ready to give it a try?

Here we go.

Our first word is overthink.

Can you say that word with me?

Overthink, when I say the word overthink I hear two word parts I hear over and think, now when I say the prefix over, I hear the sounds over and when I say the second word part think, I hear the sounds think, overthink.

Let's put both of those word parts together to build our word.

Overthink, my mom warned me to try and not to overthink my math test.

Great job readers.

Are you ready to try our next one?

Our next word is overplant.

Can you say that word with me, overplant?

When I say the word overplant, I hear two word parts again.

I hear overplant.

When I say my first word part, which is my prefix over.

I hear over, and when I say my second word part plant, I hear plant.

Now I'm gonna think about the letters that represent those sounds.

Over, plant.

Overplant.

Let's put both of those word parts together to build our word.

Overplant.

I tried not to overplant my garden but I wasn't successful.

I had to give away a lot of extra zucchini, overplant.

Great job, let's try our next one.

Our last word is misuse.

Can you say that word with me?

Misuse, when I say the word misuse, I hear misuse.

Misuse.

Misuse.

Let's think about the letters that would represent these sounds.

Misuse.

Misuse, Let's put them together to build our word misuse.

Our teacher warned us not to misuse our math tools as toys.

Misuse.

Readers, you did such a great job helping me figure out all of these words, reading them and writing them today with our prefixes, miss and over.

Make sure that you're on the lookout for words that start with the prefixes, miss and over in your own reading.

(soft music) - Aanii, readers, we have so many special communities in Michigan and so many special people.

Today, we are going to focus on referring to or identify that could be telling about the different parts of a text.

Now I have made our WWW to whats and to hows, graphic organizer to help us do that today.

We're reading this narrative or a story.

That's about a powwow.

"Bowwow Powwow" was written by Brenda Child and we have special permission from the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

on bay, let's go.

What were those different parts of text?

Are you noticing around me?

Readers?

Fantastic.

Let's use some of our word from our five finger retail to help us identify them in our WWW to what's into hows chart.

Now let's think.

The who, what could the who be?

Oh, how about the characters?

All right, sure.

The who are the characters of our story.

Now what about the where and the when?

Oh, you know what that sounds like, setting.

So let's go ahead and add that, setting.

Now, what's next?

The what happened.

Oh, that could be one of the events.

Yes, did I hear you right?

The what happened next?

Yeah, that's another event.

Good job.

Let's think how it ended.

What could we call that?

Maybe the solution.

Yeah, we could also call it a conclusion.

What about our last piece, the how?

Telling the readers, how you feel or how the main character feels.

Oh, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

That could be like the author's craft or the life lesson of the book.

All right.

Readers, we have lots of work today to identify all of these pieces within our text.

on bay, let's go.

"Bowwow Powwow" "Bowwow Powwow," "When Windy girl saw a lively puppy barking at a painted turtle down by the lake she knew she had found a dog that could make her laugh.

Itchy Boy was a good dog, curious and brave, but never quiet.

He barked at rabbits.

He barked at raccoons and he barked at porcupines.

He even barked at mosquitoes.

Itchy Boy, always barked loudest when Uncle's green pickup rolled into the yard when they went ice fishing, he barked at the fat head minnows Windy put on her line."

So I think we have some characters.

The who of our story?

Do you know three?

Yeah, Windy Girl, Itchy Boy.

And that's right, Uncle.

Okay, let's put them up on our chart, "Windy Girl and Itchy Boy knew that Uncle's pickup was the best placed for stories.

Windy, especially liked to hear about the powwow.

Sometimes Uncle remembered things from when he was a boy.

Uncle told Wendy a long time ago, right before the powwow.

Dancers went from house to house singing.

They always sang the same song.

♪ We are like dogs ♪ ♪ We are like dogs ♪ People smiled and handed out gifts of food, maple sugar, candy, and beads.

The stories reminded Windy of Itchy Boy.

For Windy Girl and Itchy Boy.

The best days of summer ended at the powwow, Windy ate popcorn and the blueberry snow cones, listened to the singers and watched the dancers, Itchy Boy and the other dogs roamed around the grounds.

When a powwow is a very good and people are happy to be together singing and dancing.

It sometimes lasts until late at night.

Fortunately, all the children and dogs love to fall asleep under the Northern lights while listening to the steady heartbeat of a drum."

I think we have our setting, our wear in our when now, friends.

Can I hear you?

What is it?

Yes, the powwow grounds late at night.

Let's add that "One night, Windy had a weird and a wonderful dream about a special powwow."

What's the first event.

What happened?

That's right.

She fell asleep.

Oh, my goodness.

What are we gonna do with that Windy Girl?

Oh, friends.

You have done such a great job with me.

We have started this book called the "Bowwow Powwow," and while reading it we have thought about our academic vocabulary our academic words about our narrative stories the who are our characters.

The where and the when is the setting, the what happened is our first event and the what happened next is another event.

Of course we can think about how it ends the conclusion and don't forget, we need to be thinking about author's craft and how do we get back into the theme or the life lesson with the character's feelings.

Next time you read, see if you can identify or tell the parts of a narrative.

Writers, today, we are going to be using the same organizer, WWW to whats and to hows, in order to organize our thoughts and get ready for some writing.

Our focus today is to go ahead and pick our idea and then to organize our notes on our graphic organizer.

And the book that we're reading.

The two very special characters to Windy Girl are Uncle an Itchy Boy.

We have many special people in our communities, who is a special person that you might want to write about and then maybe even tell your friends all about, what is a story that you would like to tell them?

I was thinking to myself that I kind of thought maybe I would use the book as a model in the idea that I decided that in my story, it would be about a third grade girl and maybe her auntie.

And then I thought to myself, ooh what was something special that might have happened in my life that I would wanna tell my friends about?

And then I thought about, oh, this one time when I gave my tobacco so that she could help me with my July 4th, powwow regalia.

Yeah, and she was gonna help me learn how to dance.

So I thought, oh, well, this would be a perfect story.

Let's go ahead and add it to our pieces.

So the who of our story, my story is a third grade student a girl, and her auntie, who are you gonna write about?

Now where is the story gonna take place?

And I thought I might use the powwow as my setting as well.

So it will be a nice way to go ahead and add some of those lens.

And then those events, the whats of what's gonna happen in the story.

So powwow grounds.

And oh, and I was thinking maybe in the middle of the story, we could go to auntie's house.

Where is your story going to take place?

Now don't forget we have when, when is the story gonna take place?

So that's kind of like the time of day.

I'm gonna have my story take place in the evening at the end of the last, that's right song.

And we heard from the powwow that, that was the flag song or the veterans dance.

So I thought that would be a good time to start my story too.

When is your story gonna take place?

Now we're at the first what, what is gonna happen?

What is going to be the event that starts this story off?

And this is where I thought maybe I'd come up with a name and I named this Niece, this third grade girl Bineshiinh.

That means a bird in Anishinaabemowin.

So Bineshiinh is going to give Auntie tobacco to teach her how to dance for next year's powwow.

What is going to be your first event in your story?

We so far have WWW first what and now we're onto our second what.

So the second one is what is gonna happen next?

What's gonna be the next big event.

Now, I thought it would be kind of special to tie in some kind of a gift.

In Anishinaabe culture when we do or when we gather our regalia pieces when they're made, it's really nice sometimes when we receive something that's been passed down from aunties and grandmas.

And so I thought this would be a good time to have Auntie give Bineshiinh a gift a gift of maybe a pair of moccasins.

What is gonna be the next event in your story, your narrative.

Now, when I wrote this, I wanted to remember to use the word Nookomis, which is grandmother in Anishinaabemowin.

So I wrote down, Auntie gave me her moccasins, made by Nookomis and remember that's grandma.

So we have WWW two whats.

Now we're ready for our first, how, how is the story gonna end?

Well, I'm thinking to myself, the end she wants to learn how to dance.

She's got to get all of that regalia and that usually takes a long time.

So I'm gonna say like throughout the year so at the end of the year, or that it's gonna end maybe, oh just where it began at the powwow grounds.

What do you think?

So I wrote, Niece dances and full regalia in the next year's powwow.

Now regalia is the word that we use for the outfit that we wear during our powwow times.

So how are the characters gonna feel and how can I wrap this story up for its heart message or its theme?

Well, I think that if I was given Nookomis's or moccasins made by Nookomis and if Auntie helped me bead and sew all of my regalia, and if she taught me how to dance, I think I would feel so loved.

And so proud, not just of me but of my auntie and our family and our culture and our community, I would yeah, feel so proud and loved by our community.

How is your character gonna feel at the end of your story?

Whoah, we've done a lot of work here today, friends.

We have used pow.

Pick an idea, organize our thoughts and then write and say more.

Well, we've definitely picked our idea and we've organized our thoughts, we decided or I decided that I was going to write about a third grader and her auntie, and the third grader is going to ask for help, learning how to dance and getting all over regale.

You ready?

Well, story's gonna take place at the powwow and later in the middle of the story, maybe at Auntie's house and it's going to take place in the evening at that last dance, that last song of a powwow.

Now, one of the events that are gonna happen is that Auntie is gonna give Bineshiinh the moccasins that Nookomis is made for her Auntie.

And how is my story gonna end?

It's gonna end with Bineshiinh dancing in full regalia, one year later at the July 4th powwow and this is where at the end, the second how, how does the character feel, proud and loved that I'm gonna have to try to write and say more to make it the big theme or the message of the story.

Oh, was scholars you've done an amazing job today.

You have worked on prefixes, solving them in and out of your text.

You have also write, worked on your academic vocabulary for parts of a narrative.

I can't wait to see you next time on "Read, Write, ROAR!."

Baamaapii giga-waabamin.

- [Announcer] This program is made possible in part by the Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan and the W.K.

Kellogg Foundation, additional support by, and by viewers like you.

Thank you.

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