- Hi learners, welcome back to "Read Write Roar" today.

Ms. Rogers and I are really excited that we are going to be able to talk more with you about schools and communities and think about how they were in the past and how they are now.

We'll also continue to learn some more about blends but today we'll be learning about R blends.

So if you don't have something to write with or something to write on, go grab that right now and meet me right back here.

That way we can get started to "Read Write and 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) (lion roars) (upbeat music) (lion roars) (upbeat music) (gentle music) - Okay, so we've been learning about blends.

Do you remember what we found out is that blends are two letters that can go together to make a sound quickly, like for example F and L can say full, but we can still separate out the and the F and the L sound from the full blend.

Today we're gonna think about a different letter.

We are going to think about letter R. Let's just do a quick review of the blends we've done so far.

BL says bowl, CL Coal, FL full, GL goal, PL pull, SL soul.

Let's do 'em fast, bowl, coal, full, goal, pull, soul.

Nice work.

(gentle music) Okay, what letter is this?

Yeah, letter R, what sound is R say?

Very good.

Rrr, okay, like in rain, rant, rainbow.

So we can take the letter R and we can blend it with other letters.

For example, I'm going to put letter R next to letter B.

What sound does B make?

B.

So when I put B and R together, we can go b, r but that's not very fast.

So instead we go, br like, bright.

Can you say "br."

Nice.

Another letter that we can put with R. There's this letter, what letter is that?

Letter C. And it says what sound, c. It can also make the s sound but for what we're doing today, it's gonna make the c sound.

Okay, so if I put C next to R and they're blended, what sound do I have?

Cr.

Right, like in crib.

Very good.

Okay, the last letter I want you to think about right now is this letter.

What letter is that?

Letter P and P says, "p".

Good.

What happens when I put R next to P?

Now it says "pr" right?

Like price, print.

Very good.

What's this sound again?

Pr, right.

So we're gonna think about letter R and think about the sounds cr and br and pr and do some word building and some sorting.

Let's get started.

(gentle music) We've been talking about having anchor words words that hold us in place like an anchor holds a ship or a boat in place.

So, for today, when we're thinking about the CR sound we're gonna think of a crib.

Can you say "Crib?"

Great.

I'm gonna do the sounds that I hear in crib and I'll do them slowly, c-r-i-b, crib, your turn.

c-r-i-b, crib.

Well done.

So when we hear the cr, we're gonna think about crib.

(gentle music) The next one I'm going to do is the word brim.

Can you say brim?

Very good.

Let's do the sounds in brim.

B-r-i-m, brim Excellent.

You do it again.

B-r-i-m, brim.

So what I've done is drawn a picture of a hat.

The brim is that outside part and I brought a hat with me to show you this is the brim.

So if I'm out in the sun, I can kind of pull the brim down and keep the sun out of my eyes.

So we're gonna use the r in word, brim.

(parers rustling) Brim is gonna help us remember the r sound.

(gentle music) The last anchor word that we have for today is the word prop.

Can you say, "Prop."

Great.

A prop is something you might hear that as a short word for propeller that's on a plane or a helicopter.

But also if you like to watch shows or go to the theater where people are acting, people use props.

Well, in fact, this hat is kind of a prop right now 'cause I put it on to help you learn what a brim is.

(gentle music) So br-im brim.

Cr-ib, crib.

Pr-op, prop.

So we're gonna use these and we're going to do some sorting together so that we can practice hearing the difference between those beginning blends and then looking at those patterns so that when you're reading and writing you'll have those and they'll come fast for you.

(gentle music) Okay, so here's how we're going to do this.

I'll say the word, okay.

I'll say a word like for instance, the word prim when something is prim it's just right and it's proper, prim.

And then you will say the word with me.

Let's say prim.

Great.

Then I will say each sound slowly p-r-i-m, prim.

Your turn, 'cause it says you will say each sounds slowly p-r-i-m, prim.

Well done.

Then I will ask, "Should it go under prim, crib or prop?"

Let's try this one.

Prim.

Prim, brim.

Prim, crib.

Prim, prop.

Now remember pay attention to the blend at the beginning.

I wanna find the word where prim, goes.

Where it will look right at the beginning and sound right like a pr.

Ah.

So you think prim should go in with prop.

Let's check.

Does it look right?

PR, PR.

(tongue clicks) Now let's see if it sounds right.

Prop, prim.

Do they both say pr?

Yes they do.

Okay, so that one is right.

Great job everybody.

We're gonna follow the same procedure and then the end we'll do this part.

We'll check down the columns together.

Let's do another word, shall we?

The next word is brick.

Say "Brick."

Nice.

Sometimes a house can be made out of brick.

I'll do the sounds in brick, slowly and then you'll do them.

B-r-i-c-k brick.

B-r-i-c-k brick.

Nice job.

Brick brim, brick crib, brick prop.

Which word?

Yes.

Brick, brim.

Let's check it.

Do they look right?

Same word.

How about do they sound right?

Brim, brick.

Do they both have the br at the beginning?

They do.

Excellent.

Okay.

Let's do the next word.

The next word is crop.

Can you say crop?

Excellent.

A crop that you might plant would be corn or you might crop something.

Like make it smaller like a photo.

Crop, c-r-o-p, crop.

Your turn, c-r-o-p crop.

Well done.

Hmm.

Crop brim, crop crib, crop prop.

Where should crop go?

Where it will look and sound the same at the beginning.

Like the blends we're working on.

Okay.

Crop crib, crop crib.

They look the same.

Crib crop.

They sound the same.

So we're doing great checking to see if it looks right.

And if it sounds right.

Thank you for this help.

Okay, the next word is prom.

Now you're a little young to be going to a prom but sometime when you're in high school you might go to a fancy dance called a prom.

Say "Prom."

Great.

Here's the sounds in prom.

P-r-o-m, prom.

Your turn, p-r-o-m, prom.

(tongue clicks) Great job.

Prom brim, prom crib, prom prop.

Which word?

Mm, very good.

Prop prom.

They look the same at the beginning and they sound the same.

(gentle music) Let's check pram.

Pram with prop.

They look the same at the beginning and prop, prom.

They sound the same.

Okay, that's okay there.

You're doing wonderful.

Helping me to check here, if things look right and sound right.

Okay, the next word I have is the word crab, say "Crab."

Nice.

Let's do the sounds in crab.

Are you picturing a sea creature a crab?

Right, red?

And it's got like these big claws that can snap, crab.

C-r-a-b, crab.

Your turn c-r-a-b, crab.

Well done.

Okay, so crab.

Crab brim, crab crib, crab prop.

Where's crab go?

Yes, crab, crib.

They both have the cr sound and the letters cr.

Very good.

Alright, let's do one more together.

And then, you know what I'm actually going to have you check my work.

The next word that we're going to do together is the word brag.

Sometimes you might hear someone talking about something they did that they're happy about.

And sometimes it's okay to just be proud of yourself but we don't really like if someone's going to brag about how great they are.

Say the word "Brag."

Nice.

Here's the sounds b-r-a-g, brag.

Your turn b-r-a-g, brag.

Okay, brag brim, brag crib, brag prop.

Where should it go?

Yeah, brag and brim.

Brim brag.

Well done.

They has the same sound and the same letters.

Well, what I'm gonna do now that you've helped me so well with what we've done so far is I am going to do a few more words and then you're going to help me check it.

(gentle music) All right, everybody.

So I've put the rest of the words up here and you're gonna help me.

We're going to check each column.

So this is column one, column two, column three and make sure that they look right and sound right.

You'll give a thumbs up or a thumbs down depending on how I do.

So here's the first column.

Everything should sound like br at the beginning and have a BR.

Here we go.

Brim.

Brim, brick, brag, prep, brat.

Do they look right?

Oh, wait.

Is someone giving me a thumbs down?

Okay, hold on.

Hold on.

Oh, I think I found the word that's in the wrong spot.

Did you find the one that's in the wrong spot?

It doesn't look right, but it doesn't sound right.

So let's read them and see if you can hear the one that sounds wrong.

Brim, brick, brag, prep, brat.

Yeah.

Did you find prep?

Prep, brim.

Those do not look the same.

I mean Bs and Ps sometimes we get confused but those are not the same letters.

And br, pr, those are different sounds.

Where should prep go?

We'll figure that out in a second.

Let's just check it now.

Brim, brick, brag, brat.

They look okay now?

Okay, do they sound okay?

Brim, brick, brat, I mean brag, brat.

Okay those look okay.

Let's do this column.

Column two with the cr.

And then we'll figure out where to put prep.

Crib, crop, crab, cram.

Do they look the same and have CR at the beginning?

Okay, they do.

Now let's take a look, do they sound the same?

Crib crop.

Crab cram.

They sound the same?

Crib, crop, crab, cram.

I think they do.

Okay, great.

All right.

Let's do this last column.

Prop, prop, prim, pram.

Do they look the same?

Mm, I see PR.

All right.

Let's here and make sure they sound right.

Prop, prim, pram.

Yeah, I hear a pr at the beginning.

Excellent.

Okay, so they look the same and they sound the same.

Let's do this one.

Prep.

Let's compare it.

Prep brim, prep brim, prep crib, prep prop.

Prep brim, prep crib, prep prop.

Yeah.

Yeah, prep prop.

Prop, prep.

That's where that should have gone.

Let's just double check it.

Prop prim, prom prep.

Looks okay?

Thank you.

Sounds okay?

Prop, prim, prom, pram.

Okay.

Oh, thank you.

So we did some more blends today and we found out that there's our blends too.

We've done L blends and now we've done R blends.

And we know that two letters can blend together but we can still separate out their sounds.

And we can use that.

We know that because when we're reading and we see a BR, we don't have to go b r. We can just say "br."

But when we're spelling and we're trying to write.

If we hear a sound in a word that has an R blend, right?

We wanna stop ourselves and separate out that blend sounds so that we make sure we get as many letters as we can when we're spelling words.

So if I were trying to spell the word brag.

I would want to say "Brag."

If I started br-a-g.

I'd remind myself, wait a minute.

Br is really two letters and two sounds.

B-r-a-g, brag.

I think you've got this learners.

(gentle music) - Hello learners.

It's Ms. Rodgers here And we're going to read an informational text or you may have heard them called nonfiction books.

The title is, "My School Community."

Do you know what a community is?

Or have you ever heard of the word community?

Let's learn about the word.

First, let me hear you say "Community."

Excellent.

A community is a place where people live, work and play.

A community can also be made of a large or small group of people.

Today, we will talk more about our school community the group of people who we work and play with at school.

Let's take a look at our book.

We will just read the first half today.

The title is "My School Community," by Bobby cowman.

We have permission to read this book from Crabtree Publishing Company.

As I said earlier, this is an informational text and informational book is one that tells you facts and information about the world around you.

So let's get started.

"My School Community.

"My school, is a community.

"A community is a group of people.

"A community is also a place where people work together "and share things.

"People in a community help one another.

"My school is a community.

"People at my school work together.

"We help one another learn."

I want you to think about your school community.

Do you help your classmates learn?

Do they help you to learn something?

"Our classroom.

"Our school community is in a building.

"The school building has many classrooms.

"Children of the same age are in a grade.

"We learn together in the same classroom.

"Our teacher teaches us."

Now I know that when I was in school, most of the people in my class were the same age, but not all of them.

Is that true of your school?

"Sharing with others.

"People in the community share things.

"At school we share classrooms, books, paper, paint "and computers.

"We share sports equipment.

"We share our teachers too.

"We could not learn without them.

"Our teachers teach us how to read and write.

"They make learning fun."

I want you to think about your class.

What kinds of things do you share?

Materials, toys?

Or even the attention of another friend?

It's almost like having siblings or brothers and sisters in the classroom for the whole entire day.

right?

(Ms Rodgers laughs) So it's important to share.

"Traveling to school.

"People in communities travel.

"To travel is to go from place to place.

"I travel to school in a school bus.

"Some of my friends walk or ride their bikes to school.

"Most of my friends take the bus to school."

How do you get to school?

Well, normally I drive but I do have a bike and I can take my bike if I need to.

"A good education.

"School is a community for education.

"I learn information and skills at school.

"Getting a good education is the best thing I can do "for myself.

"Getting an education is also a lot of fun.

"I love learning math.

"It is my favorite subject."

What is your favorite subject?

Is it math English, science, social studies, gym?

(Ms Rodgers laughs) Some people don't think gym is a subject but children do like gym.

So which one is your favorite?

What's your favorite thing to do at school?

Let's keep reading.

"In science I learned information about animals.

"I also learned skills like how to use a microscope."

Now, if we look at this image here of a little girl with a microscope, you might be wondering, what is that?

Well, normally you'll be able to use a microscope in your science class.

It's almost like looking through a magnifying glass but it allows us to see things that are so tiny that you can't see with your natural eye.

"When I grow up, I want to be a writer.

"At school I am learning how to write "and how to use the computer."

Next time we will do some more learning about the things that we do at our school community.

(gentle music) - Hi learners it's Mrs.

Spear.

You've been working really hard thinking about that, ch, sound that we know in C H and using it when you're reading.

and when you're writing.

Today you're going to take what you know about C H and use that to help you write an informational list poem.

We give information sometimes when we write that means we're telling someone or some people a group of people, something that we know.

We will learn how to take a list of things that we've come up with, put that into a poem today, have some fun and use the CH sound as we go along.

If you don't have something to write with or something to write on this would be a great time to grab that.

You're going to be my audience today.

I'm writing this for you to teach you how to do this.

As I'm writing and we're working together today you could think about who you might want to write a poem for, to teach them something.

All right, let's get going and let's write and do this together.

(gentle music) Okay, you might notice there's a green dot right here because I'm going to be writing.

And when we write or read in English, we start at the left and we write all the way across to the right.

So I put our green dot here to remind me to start there.

I'm gonna follow that line across, and I'm gonna put a red dot way at the end so that I don't just get to the middle and then go to the next line.

I go all the way across.

So I'm gonna do that all along my poem that I'm going to write right now.

(gentle music) Well, I have my green dots to tell me where I'm starting and my red dots to tell me where I'm ending.

And the name of my poem is going to be "Crunch Crunch."

So I'm going to write that at the top, 'cause that is the title of my list poem telling people, things that crunch.

And check out my C H is there.

And I'm gonna put my name because I'm the author.

(marker pen scribbling) And my name is Annie Spear.

And now I'll write my "Crunch Crunch" poem.

Remember the first thing when we brainstormed were cucumbers.

So I'll start here and it's at the beginning of the line.

So I'm putting an up where it can be seen.

And I'm writing cucumbers (marker pen scribbling) can crunch.

(marker pen scribbling) I'm gonna put a comma because this is a list poem.

So I put a comma to pause and now I'm gonna keep writing with the things that I know can crunch that you help me brainstorm.

(gentle music) Okay, I'm gonna read the poem that I wrote to you.

Ready?

If you wanna read with me, you can as well.

"Crunch Crunch" by Annie spear.

"Cucumbers can crunch.

"Chips can crunch.

"Apples can crunch "Crackers can crunch."

Did you notice after I did those, I put a comma until I got to the last thing I put a period.

Thanks for helping me brainstorm.

You helped me with this whole beginning part.

Then I wrote this last part here.

I asked a question, "What else can crunch?

"I like to munch and crunch my lunch."

Kind of a tongue twister.

Let's read it together.

One time.

Here we go.

"Crunch Crunch," by Annie Spear.

"Cucumbers can crunch.

"Chips can crunch "Apples can crunch.

"Crackers can crunch.

"What else can crunch?

"I like too munch and crunch my lunch."

Great reading.

You'll notice that in this line here the red dot's over here, but I stopped here.

That's because I knew this was a list poem and my list ended and I wanted to go to the next line.

And that's okay to do.

On this one, my whole sentence bit right on that line.

And there wasn't anymore room, plus it was a new idea.

So I went to the next line.

So when you're reading you'll notice you read from left to right.

And when you're writing, make sure you start way at the left and go all across to the right.

(gentle music) - Wow.

We did so much today.

We learned about how words with R blends work with Mrs.

Spear.

And we learned about what makes a school a community.

Thanks for reading, writing, and learning with us today.

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.

(gentle music) (upbeat music)