- Well, hi, learners.

Welcome back to Read, Write, ROAR!

I'm Mrs Spear and I'm really excited to be doing some more word work with you today, being what we would call word builders to get really good at knowing all of our letters and sounds so that we can have a lot easier time with our reading and our writing.

- [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.

(playful music) - The last time we met, we were thinking about a special letter that can do a lot.

This is the letter L. What sound does L make?

Yes, it's l. And we found that we can put L with other letters and make blends.

Do you remember that?

We found out we can put B, L together like in the word black where B and L say bl.

Say bl.

Nice.

We learned that we can put C and L together in words and they can say cl, like in clap.

Can you say, cl.

Nice.

And then we learned that we can put F and L together like in the word flash, and F, L together can say, fl.

Can you say, fl.

Excellent.

But do you remember what we learned that was really important about a blend?

With a blend, two letters go together to make a sound, but we can still separate them out.

And so today, what we're going to think about is letter L, and there are other letters that L can go with to become an L blend.

So, for example, what letter is this?

It's letter P. P says p. So if I put P and L together, this now says pl, like in play.

Can you say pl.

Excellent.

Now, what would happen if I asked you to put the g sound in front of an L?

G, l, what would that make for a sound?

gl, that's right.

Letter G says g. And when I add letter G to L, now it says gl, like in glue.

Okay, one more letter that we're gonna think about today.

What letter is this?

Very good, letter S. And S says what?

s, well done.

If I put S and L together, those say sl.

Can you say sl.

Great.

Like in slide.

Excellent.

(playful music) Okay, learners, so we going to sort.

That means we're gonna put things into groups.

And we're gonna do that on this pocket chart right here.

So, this is a little picture I did.

And it's to go with the word glad.

Can you say glad.

Nice.

Glad is going to be our anchor word to hold us in place.

It's going to be the word that we compare other words to to see if we're sorting and putting things in the right place.

So, here's what I hear when I say glad.

These are the sounds I hear.

g, l, a, d, glad.

Do that with me.

g, l, a, d, glad.

Well done.

Glad is going to be our anchor word for GL.

When G and L are together, they say gl.

The next word that is going to be an anchor word for us is the word plus.

Can you say plus.

Nice.

Here's a picture, a plus sign.

So, plus is gonna be our keyword for PL because P and L say pl.

Plus.

p, l, u, s, plus.

You do that.

p, l, u, s, plus.

Well done.

Here's what the word plus looks like.

P and L are together at the beginning.

And our final word that's an anchor word to hold us in place so that we can compare other words to is the word sling.

Can you say sling.

Nice.

My daughter once broke her arm and she had to wear a sling.

Here's my little quick illustration of someone wearing a sling.

Let's do the sounds in sling.

s, l, i, n, g, sling.

Do those with me.

s, l, i, n, g, sling.

Here's what the word sling looks like.

s, l, i, n, g, sling.

(playful music) All right, learners.

The first word is the word slip.

In the winter, you have to be careful not to slip.

Say slip.

Say the word slip.

Say it with me, right?

I'll say the sounds.

s, l, i, p. Now you say the sounds.

s, l, i, p, slip.

Nice job.

Where should I put slip?

Slip, glad, slip, plus, slip, sling.

Where will slip go?

Yes, slip, sling.

They both have the sl at the beginning.

Well done.

Now, let's see where I'm gonna put the next word.

The next word is, let's see, glam.

Can you show me a glam face?

It's a very sad face.

Glam.

Say glam with me.

Great.

I'll do the sounds.

g, l, a, m, glam.

You say them, g, l, a, m, glam.

Well done.

Glam, glad, glam, plus, glam, sling.

Where should glam go?

Hm.

Tell me.

Glam, glad.

Let's see.

Do they look right?

GL, GL, glad, glam.

They both have gl at the beginning.

Well done.

Okay, the next word is, hmm, plan.

Say plan.

Great.

I'll do the sounds slowly.

p, l, a, n, plan.

You do them.

p, l, a, n, plan.

Hmm.

Now we're at this part.

Where should it go?

You tell me.

Plan, glad, plan, plus, plan, sling.

Plan, plus.

Let's look.

They look the same.

Let's see.

Do they sound the same?

Plus, plan.

They both have pl.

Excellent.

All right, let's try another word.

Ooh.

How about the word glass?

Say glass.

Great.

I'll do the sounds.

g, l, a, s, glass.

You do the sounds.

g, l, a, s, glass.

Glass, glad, glass, plus, glass, sling.

Where should it go?

Great.

Right here under glad.

GL and GL, I'm Checking We're checking.

Does it sound right?

Okay.

Does it sound right?

Glad, glass.

Do they both have the gl at the beginning?

They do.

Okay.

Excellent.

So that one's in the right place.

The next word is slush.

Say slush.

Yeah, winter time when the snow starts to melt around here, it's like a whole bunch of slush on the ground.

Slush.

This is what I hear for sounds when I say them slowly.

s, l, u, sh, slush.

You do it.

s, l, u, sh, slush.

Well done.

Let's compare.

Slush, glad, slush, plus, slush, sling.

Where should slush go?

Okay.

What'd you say?

Slush.

Oh, sling.

Sling, slush.

Okay.

Let's see.

Sling, slush.

That sounds the same.

Do they look the same?

SL, SL.

Huh!

They do so we checked it.

They look same and they sound the same.

(playful music) The next word is play.

Say play.

Great.

I love to play outside.

Bet you do too.

Play.

p, l, ay, play.

Your turn.

p, l, ay, play.

Play, glad, play, plus, play, sling.

Where should play go?

Yes, play, plus.

Play, plus, sounds right.

Let's see if it looks right.

This is play, this is plus.

PL, PL.

Huh!

Well done.

Plant.

I love to get a plant that I can take care of.

Plant.

Can you say a plant.

Great.

I'll do the sounds.

p, l, a, nt, plant.

Your turn.

p, l, a, nt, plant.

Hmm.

Plant, glad, plant, plus, plant, sling.

Where should it go?

Yes, plant, plus.

They both have, plus, plant, what's the blend at the beginning?

The sound?

pl, very good.

Lemme see if they match.

Plus, plant.

They sound the same and they both have PL at the beginning.

Well done.

All right, here's what I'm gonna do.

I have a few words left to sort.

I'm gonna put them up here and then you're going to do this last step.

We're gonna check each column and see if they look right and sound right.

(playful music) Okay, learners, we're at the very last part.

We're going to check each column and find out does it look right and does it sound right?

So I will read down each column and you're gonna tell me if it looks right because it has the same blend, like GL, and it sounds right if it has the same sound like gl.

Here we go.

Glad, Glam, glass.

Do they look right and have GL at the front?

Lemme read them one more time and make sure they sound right.

'Cause they look okay.

Glad, glam, glass.

Do they all have gl at the beginning?

I agree.

Thumbs up.

They're okay.

Now let's check our plus column.

Here we go.

Plus, plan, play, plant, plum, plop.

First question.

Does it look right?

Yes or no.

When we look at this column, does it look right?

All PLs at the beginning.

What'd you say?

Yeah.

All right, now let's see if it sounds right with a pl.

Plus, plan, play, plant, plum, plop.

Does it sound okay?

It does sound okay.

Great job.

Okay, so we decided that plus was a thumbs up.

That column sounded right and looked right.

Now let's look at the sling column.

Do they look right and sound right?

Sling, slip, slush, slop, glop.

Do they all look right and have SL at the beginning?

Are you?

Am I seeing some thumbs down?

Hold on.

All right, let me look again and let me them again and see if they sound right.

Sling, slip, slush, slop, glop.

Hold on, lemme read the last three.

Slush, slop, glop.

Those don't sound the same at the beginning.

Wait a minute.

Is it this one?

What's this one?

Oh, sling, glop.

Those do not look the same, do they?

That's the wrong blend.

And they don't sound the same.

sl, gl.

Where should glop go?

Thank you for helping me find that.

Where should glop go?

Oh my goodness.

With plus?

No.

Right.

Glop, glad.

Would that be okay, gl, glad, glop?

Yeah.

Do they look the same at the beginning, GL?

All right, let's check this column one more time.

Glad, glum, glass, glob.

Look the same?

Yep.

Sound the same?

Glad, glum, glass, glop.

Huh!

They do.

Learners, thank you for helping me to think about L blends.

We learned new L blends today; gl, pl and sl.

We know that we can take the sounds apart but it's easier when we're reading and writing to just put blends together.

So, keep on the lookout for gl, pl, sl blends when you're reading and you'll know, put those two sounds together, blend them and say them quickly.

(playful music) Hi learners.

We're gonna think about some high frequency words.

High frequency words are really important.

And all that means when something is high frequency, it means you're going to see it a lot and it means you're going to need to write it a lot.

I'm going to say a word and you're going to repeat it.

And then I'm going to show you how that word works, thinking about the sounds and the letters.

And then I'm going to show you what that word looks like and explain it with the letters and the sounds.

So, here we go.

The first word is she.

What's the word?

Great.

She.

Here's what I think of when I think of the word she.

sh, e, there are two sounds in the word she.

But there are actually three letters.

Let me show you what the word she looks like.

I'm going to write it on my whiteboard.

Here we go.

S-H-E, she.

Here's how the sounds work with these letters.

The S and H represent the sh sound and the E represents the e sound.

S-H-E spells she.

So, I would love for you to skywrite this with me where you are.

S-H-E, she.

Well done.

(playful music) The next word we're going to do together is the word each.

What word?

Great job.

Here's the sounds that I hear in each.

e, ch, each.

There are two sounds in each but there are actually four letters.

I'm going to show you how the word each works.

E-A-C-H spells each.

The E and A represent the e sound in each and the C and H represent the ch sound in each.

E-A-C-H spells each.

Can you skywrite this with me?

E-A-C-H, each.

You each did some skywriting with me to be able to work on connecting what we know about the letters and sounds in this word.

Be on the lookout for each when you are reading.

(playful music) The next word is which.

What word?

Great.

Which.

Here's the sounds I hear in which.

wh, i, ch, which.

Three sounds.

But you know what, which actually has five letters.

Let me show you how this word works.

W-H-I-C-H spells which.

The W and H work together to represent the wh sound, the i represents the i sound, and the C and H together represent the ch sound.

wh, i, ch.

Those are the three sounds.

The letters we need to spell which are W-H-I-C-H, which.

Let's skywrite that together.

W-H-I-C-H spells which.

(playful music) The word which that we're talking about today is not the witch when you think about the person, the witch, that you might see people dressed up as for Halloween.

It's one you'd use for a choice.

Like, which wrist has a watch on it?

My right wrist or my left wrist.

The left one does.

Right.

Which ice cream flavor do you like best?

Chocolate or strawberry?

Nice.

(playful music) So, the first word we learned today was she.

Say it with me.

She.

She is my friend.

The next word was each.

What's this word?

Each, that's right.

You each are working very hard where you are.

This last word is which.

What's this word?

Which.

Great job.

Which color is your favorite out of these three?

Pink, green or blue?

Which.

Great job thinking about these words.

(playful music) - Hello writers.

I'm Ms. Rogers.

Today we're going to write a special type of writing, a poem.

We will write a poem about names.

We're going to organize our thoughts into a special type of poem called an acrostic poem.

You might be wondering what is an acrostic poem?

Well, it's a poem of words or phrases that describes a topic or a word.

Now, the topic word is written down on the side of the page and each of those lines start with a letter of the topic or the words.

Let's look at an example in the book, Write!

Write!

Write!

by Amy LudwiG Vanderwater.

The name of the poem is My Story.

And along the side, you can see red letters.

And if we read going down, the red letters spell out, "I am writing my story."

The first line starts with I.

Now, it says I close my eyes so I can find.

I will continue reading the poem all the way down and I want you to notice those highlighted letters in red.

A memory I wish to keep.

Maybe I will write about When my new kitten fell asleep Right on my chest.

I smelled her breath, I felt her twitch in dreams of play.

That's it!

I'm ready to begin.

I know what I will write today.

Now I note what I remember Going slowly, part-by-part Making pictures, writing words.

You can read what's in my heart.

Sophia-sunny, fluffy kitty, Tail to nose, all orange fur, On my chest and fast asleep.

Read: You'll fall in love with her.

You might even start to purr.

Now let's see if we can write an acrostic poem.

We're going to write a poem about our names.

Names are very special so we're going to use my name as an example and then I will invite you to write your name.

Okay, so let's get started.

You may know me as Ms Rogers, but my first name is actually Shernita.

It means sweetness.

(Ms Rodgers chuckles) Seriously, it means sweetness.

(Ms Rodgers chuckles) And if you noticed, I wrote my name going down just like the poem that we just read.

So I spell my name, S-H-E-R-N-I-T-A.

And if you noticed, there's a digraph SH which makes the sh sound.

So now I'm going to think of some words that may describe me or people have said about me, some positive things.

So let's see.

The letter S, I would say smart.

sm, ar, AR makes the ar sound, t, smart.

The letter H. Hmm.

Honest.

Honest is spelled H-O-N-E-S-T. And the H is actually silent.

Honest.

Let's see.

I need a E word.

Word or adjective that describes me.

Sometimes I can be energetic.

Okay, so here we go.

en, er, ge, ooh, seems like it would've been a J but it's actually a G. Ener, ge, t, ic, energetic.

Okay, that R, like my last name Rogers.

Hmm.

Sometimes I like to think that I am a queen.

So let's say royal.

Royal.

Roy, al, royal.

Sometimes do you think you're a king or queen or princess or prince?

(Ms Rodgers chuckles) Okay, so let's go to the next letter N. My students think I'm nice.

So I'll write nice.

Ah, CE, it makes the s sound.

Now I need the I, T and A.

So, I. I. Hmm.

I'll give you one that's really interesting.

Introverted.

Ooh.

In, tro, ver, ted.

Now that is a long word.

Hmm, introverted.

And it has four syllables.

What does that mean, introverted?

Well, even though I can be energetic, sometimes I like to think a lot or problem solve a lot and it's all in my mind.

I like to be by myself to figure out things so I can be kind of introverted.

And it's a good thing.

T. I think I'm talented.

(Ms Rodgers singing) (Ms Rodgers chuckles) Not with singing though.

I can draw just a little bit so I think I can be talented to some degree.

Talented.

And then finally the letter A.

It kinda goes with energetic, talented.

Animated.

Oh, there's another one, a, ni, ma, ted.

Which means I can be, I can have a lot of movement, I can try to make things fun or silly acting, I can just be more expressive.

So, let's say I am interesting.

Are you interesting?

(Ms Rodgers chuckles) Yes.

So let's go ahead and read my acrostic poem for Shernita.

Smart, honest, energetic, royal, nice, introverted, talented, and my favorite one, animated.

So, when you do your acrostic poem, you can use words or adjectives, or you can even write little phrases out for your name.

Now, I want you to think about what you might feel about yourself or what other people may think about you that is positive and you can create your own acrostic poem.

Just remember that you are special.

(playful music) Wow, learners.

We did so much today.

Be on the lookout for the words she, each, and which when you're out and about or just reading.

Think about what you know when you need to write them.

We look forward to seeing 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.K.

Kellogg Foundation.

Additional support by and by viewers like you.

Thank you.

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