- Hi, scholars.

Welcome to second grade on Read, Write, Roar!

Today with Mrs. Fuller, you are going to begin making a book about where you live while answering our big questions.

What are the parts of a map?

And how can a map help me describe where I live?

Today, we're also going to be working with the or sound and different ways to spell it.

So scholars, go ahead and get yourself something to write with and something to write on so that we can get ready to Read, Write, Roar!

- [Narrator] 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) Hello, scholars.

I'm Mrs. Z-K, and today we are going to be working with the or sound.

What sound?

Yeah.

The funny thing about the or sound is that it has a multiple spelling patterns, but also that these spelling patterns could be words all by themselves.

Let's take a look.

Here's the word or.

Like, would you like pizza or taco?

(chuckles) Inside of the words today is also going to represent the sound or.

Here is O-R-E, the word ore.

I had to look this one up.

This one is a solid that can be taken from metals or minerals.

Mmm, interesting.

Inside of words today is also going to represent the sound or.

This one's a little tricky.

This one is the word our.

Mm hmm, like this is our house, but inside of words today that we're going to work with, O-U-R also represents the sound or.

Hmm, good to know, right?

So today we are going to be going through some words.

We're going to read them, and we're going to think about their meaning and then place them with a spelling pattern that is represented inside the word.

Are you ready, scholars?

Great.

I wanna start with a set of words for.

Like I got this for you.

For has the spelling pattern or, but maybe you wanna talk about the number four.

Like I got this because it's your birthday and you are turning four, right?

The number four.

That one has the spelling pattern, O-U-R.

These two fours are what we call homophones.

Yeah, they sound the same, but are spelled differently and mean different things.

So it's good to look at how it's spelled and think about it's meaning.

Could I have the word before?

This one has for inside the word.

Yeah, this one has the spelling pattern O-R-E. Like before you go to bed, brush your teeth.

All right.

So we are going to continue reading words and sorting them.

Here we go, scholars.

We have F, or, K. What word?

Nice job, what spelling pattern?

O-R. Good deal.

All right, we have K, or, T. Court, okay, where am I going to place it?

O-U-R, nice.

We have the word ch, or, S. Chores, what chores do you have at home?

Sweeping, mopping, doing the dishes?

Hmm, what spelling pattern?

O-R-E.

Okay, let's look here.

We have K, or, S, silent E there.

What word?

Course, yeah.

Like I'm taking this class, or you could say, "I'm taking this course."

Uh-huh, what spelling pattern?

O-U-R. All right, scholars.

Give it a try, what word?

Mmm, little tricky here.

We have ce at the end.

That makes a soft C sound.

Yeah, so at the end you should hear ss.

Yeah, we already did the word fork, right?

With the K at the end, now we have ss.

Force, nice job.

Yeah, you have to push with force if something is very heavy, means using your strength, right?

O-R, perfect.

Okay, go ahead and give it a try.

What word?

Stores, nice.

Okay, what stores do you like to go to?

I like going there too.

(laughs) What spelling pattern?

O-R-E. Ohh, do you know what that word is?

Hmm, it's orca.

Yeah, a big whale.

What spelling pattern?

O-R, I actually have a little picture here of an orca, but we know orca is not little at all.

What word, scholars?

Yep, use that blend at the beginning st. Stork, yeah.

That's just a large white bird with a very, very large bill or beak.

Where is stork going to go?

O-R, O-R is pretty popular, huh.

All right, what about this word?

What word?

Good, bored.

Like, "Ugh, I'm bored.

There's nothing to do."

What spelling pattern?

O-R-E. And the last one, scholar, what word?

Pour, yeah, could you please pour me some orange juice?

Not to be mixed up with the word, P-O-O-R. Yeah, that's when something is made of bad quality like that toy was made poorly.

Yeah, not so good.

But could you pour me something to a drink?

Great work, scholars.

Should we reread our or words?

I think so too.

Let's give it a shot.

We got for, fork, force, nice job remembering that softy C sound, orca, stork.

And our O-R-E words, we have before, chores, stores, bored.

O-U-R words.

Remember saying or in these ones.

Four, number four, court, course, and pour, great work, scholars.

(soft music) All right, scholars.

So I removed some of the words, and I've left some of the words that we just went over.

Yep, we're going to riddle me this.

Yes, so I'm going to give you a riddle, and I want you to think about the meanings of these words and decide which word am I talking about.

Once you know, I want you to write it on your paper.

There are going to be four riddles, so go ahead and number your paper one through four.

All right.

Before we start riddling, let's go over our words.

All right.

We have for, fork, before, bored, four, and court.

All right.

Remember to think about the meaning and how the word is spelled and write it down and then we'll check your answer.

Okay, our first riddle.

This word starts with a B and rhymes with cord.

Hmm?

Starts with a B, rhymes with cord.

Once you know, go ahead and write it down.

Did you pick the word bored?

Nice.

All right.

I was bored cuz I had nothing to do.

Bored.

All right, riddle number two.

This word is the opposite of after.

Another word for opposite could be antonym.

So it's an antonym to the word after.

Once you know, write it down.

We're gonna check our work together.

Nice, did you pick before?

Good, there are some things you do before school, and there are different things you do after school, right?

Those are opposites or antonyms.

Before.

All right, riddle number three.

This word belongs in this category.

We have spoon, knife, and... Hmm... (chuckles) And go ahead and look for the word you're thinking of.

Make sure you're spelling it the right way and write it down.

What belongs in that category?

Spoon, knife... What did you write?

Fork?

Absolutely, why would they all be in the same category?

All things you eat with?

Oh, silverware?

Nice.

Okay.

Fork.

All right, scholars, riddle number four.

This is somewhere where I can play basketball.

This is a... Hmm, which one of these words might be a place where somebody could play basketball?

Did you write it?

All right.

Let's check, what'd you pick?

Court, nice, a basketball court.

Great work, scholars.

(soft music) Amazing work today, scholars.

We worked with the or sound.

Just as a quick recap, what were those spelling patterns that make the sound or?

O-R, of course.

Uh-huh, what else do we have?

O-R-E with a silent E. Do you remember that tricky one?

O-U-R, yeah.

Remember by itself, it made the word our, but inside of words, it represented the sound or.

Scholars, you did an amazing job.

When you have spelling patterns that represent the same sound, it can be pretty tricky.

That's why it's important for us as readers and writers to practice reading words and writing words all the time.

(gentle music) - Hi, scholars, I'm Mrs. Fuller.

Today, we're gonna be reading the book "Map My Room" written by Jennifer Boothroyd and read by permission from Lerner Publications.

We're also gonna be looking at part of the book "Where Do I Live?"

written by Neil Chesanow, illustrated by Anna Iosa, and read by permission from B.E.S.

Publishing.

As we read today, I would like you to listen for information that'll help us to answer our two big questions.

What are the parts of a map?

And how can a map help me describe where I live?

We're also gonna be writing our own book about where we live.

You can print yourself a copy of our book template from the activity guide from today's lesson.

Or you can make your own book out of paper.

In our book, we're gonna be drawing maps and writing about the many places that we live.

Today, we will focus on our room and our home.

We have a very busy day planned.

Let's get started.

"Where Do I Live?"

You live in your room.

There may be lots of rooms where you live, but one room is special.

It has your bed in it and your clothes and your toys.

It's where you wake up each morning, and go to sleep each night, and have sweet dreams.

When Mom says, "Play in your room," you know which room she means.

That's what makes it special.

That's what makes it yours.

You might have your own room.

You might share a room with someone or your room might be a room used for something else like the living room.

Take a second and think about what your room looks like and all the things that you have in your room.

"Map My Room."

A Map.

I have a hamster.

It lives in my room.

My family is taking a trip.

Josh from next door will take care of my pet.

I will make him a map.

My map will show where to find things in my room.

Maps use symbols to show where things are.

Planning a Map.

I made a list of things Josh will need: hamster food, hamster bedding, hamster ball.

The hamster food is on my bookcase.

This will be its symbol.

The hamster bedding is under my bed.

This will be its symbol.

The hamster ball is on my dresser.

This will be its symbol.

Drawing a Map.

It is time to put the symbols on my map.

First, I draw the shape of my room.

Next, I draw the bookcase symbol.

Then, I add the bed symbol.

After that, I make the dresser symbol.

Last, I put a key in the corner.

It tells what the symbols mean.

So in the book, a boy needs to make a map of his room so that his friend can take care of his hamster while he is away.

He has a specific purpose for making a map.

In our book, we're gonna draw a map of our own room.

Let's take a moment to get our book set up.

In our book, we're gonna draw a map of our own room.

Let's take a moment and get our book set up.

If you are using the book template, go ahead and fold all those pages in half and stack them together to make the book.

If you're using the printed book, it's gonna come out of the printer in five flat sheets.

So let's put them in order.

The sheet that goes on the bottom is the side up that says My World.

On top of that, you're gonna put the sheet with the side up that says My Home.

On top of that, the sheet with the side up that says My Country.

Then My Neighborhood, and the top sheet says My Town.

Now with those pages all stacked up, you're gonna just take those and fold those in half lining up the corners.

And there you have the book with the title, Where Do I Live?

Written and illustrated by you.

You're gonna be the author.

So when you open up the first page of your book, you should have what we're working on today, My Room.

If you're using your own plain paper, you're just gonna fold those five pieces in half.

And as we get to the pages that we need you're just gonna go ahead and label them yourself.

So for today, you need to label My Room.

If you only have one piece of paper today, that's also fine.

You're just gonna leave it flat and not fold it.

If you have the printed template for the book or pieces of paper that you folded in half, this will be the size.

And you can see on the cover, there's the title, Where Do I Live?

Which if you remember, that's the same title as the book I read earlier.

And then down here at the bottom, it says, written and illustrated by, that will be you because you are going to write and draw the pictures.

If you're just using a single piece of paper today, this is all you need to do is divide your paper in half.

And on one side, you're gonna label it My Room.

I made myself a big version of the book so that as we're working, it's easier for you to see what we're doing.

So there's my cover, the title, Where Do I Live?

And I would be the author and illustrator.

So when you open up your book, the first page book like this.

The first page's blank, and then this side should say My Room.

So if you need to label that, go ahead.

Okay, scholars, go ahead and grab your book or your piece of paper and get started on making your map of your room.

Let's get started making the map of our room.

The direction said we needed to think of symbols for the different items in our room and that we needed to put those symbols in a map key.

I've made a box down here at the bottom where I'm gonna put my map key, and I'm all ready with my supplies.

So the first thing I'm going to make is the door to the bedroom.

And I'm gonna make mine colored as I go.

And then I'll just add those colored symbols to the map key.

So right here, I'm gonna put the door.

Next to the door, I have a bookshelf, and I'm gonna try to make that bookshelf shaped like a big book.

So I'm gonna put some pretend writing on there to make it look like a book.

And I'm gonna color that pink.

All right, in the corner next to the bookshelf, I have a chair.

Then around the corner is a window.

Next to the window is a dresser, and I'm gonna put some drawers and some knobs on the dresser and then color it brown.

Then on this wall is a closet, and then the bed and the pillows to the bed are on this end.

I'm gonna color those.

In the corner next to the bed is a small table or a nightstand.

And then on the end of the bed is a rug.

Okay, there's the layout of my room.

Now I'm gonna go ahead and add those symbols and label them in the map key.

Welcome back, scholars.

I finished my map key and the map of my room.

If you didn't have enough time to get finished, you can add more details and finish up your map a little bit later.

Now, we need to write a paragraph about our room.

So remember when we write a paragraph, it's important that your paragraph has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

So that means we start our paragraph with the beginning or the topic sentence.

Then we need to add details, three details.

That's the middle.

And a detail is an example or you're explaining something.

And then for the ending, we wanna have a conclusion or a way to end our paragraph.

When you write about your room, you can write facts and describe your room.

You can explain your feelings about your room or you can write a story about something that happened or something you like to do in your room.

Here are a few sentence starters.

When you write about your room, you can write facts and describe your room.

You can explain your feelings about your room, what you like about it.

Or you can write a story about something that happened or something you like to do in your room.

Here are a few sentence starters that you can use as you write your story.

So when you're writing about your room, you could start a sentence with I have... And then those three dots, that's called an ellipses.

And that means there's more to come or you need to finish the sentence.

You can also write, I always... My room is a good place to... My room is cool because...

I share my room with... My room is very... My room has... And I keep... You can tell us something that you keep in your room.

(playful music) Scholars, let's take a look at my paragraph.

I've already added it to my book.

So on one side, I have my map.

On the other side, I have my paragraph.

When I wrote my paragraph, I made sure to include the parts of a paragraph, the topic sentence the three detailed sentences and a conclusion.

And I also use some of the sentence starters that we talked about to write my sentences.

My Room.

My Room is a comfortable place to read and relax.

When you come into my room you will see my bed with a lot of comfy pillows.

My room also has a dresser, a bookshelf, and a chair in the corner for reading.

My room is a good place to go to rest and have some quiet time.

My room is cool because when I look out the window in the summer, I can see grapes growing and a really big tree.

(playful music) Scholars, take a close look around your room and see what details you might wanna add to your map and what ideas you wanna include as you write your paragraph.

Keep your book in a safe place and join me next time as we learn more about making maps and where we live.

Thank you so much for learning with us today.

I'll see you next time on Read, Write, Roar.

- [Narrator] This program is made possible in part by the Michigan Department of Education, the state of Michigan, and the W. Kellogg foundation.

Additional support by, and by viewers like you.

Thank you.

(upbeat music) (gentle music)