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Today, we will learn more about the T-H sound, and we will also sort words that have the T-H. We are also going to have some fun solving a word mystery with Mrs.

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(upbeat happy music) (lion roars) (lion roars) (calm happy music) - Hello, learners, it's Ms. Rodgers!

Last time we learned about the diagraph T-H.

Remember T-H are two letters that work together to represent one sound.

Two different sounds are formed with T-H. We have th, which is voiced, and th, which is unvoiced.

Let's review what we learned about T-H.

The T-H sound is a special type of sound because it's made of two letters that each have their own sound, but when we put them together, they make an entirely new sound.

The soft sound of T-H is also called voiced.

It will produce a buzz sound in the throat.

Now, here are some of the words that have those sounds.

This.

There.

Let me hear you say it, and also put your hand underneath your chin.

This.

There.

Excellent.

The hard sound of T-H is also called unvoiced.

It's made by putting the tongue between or just behind the teeth.

And you say it in the words like thumb, Thursday.

Let me hear you say that.

Thumb.

Thursday.

Notice the difference?

Okay.

So now let's practice those two sounds.

Th.

Th.

Th.

Th.

Excellent job.

Knowing the T-H sounds and how to write it is important because you will see these in many of the words you want to read and you'll hear these sounds for many of the words you would want to write.

You can hear T-H and see T-H at the beginning and the end of words.

Last time we sorted words by the two different sounds that they make.

This time, we will sort words by where the T-H is.

We're going to have two words that are our key anchor words.

Anchors hold ships in their place.

So, when you're not sure where the word should go, we can put it under the word that is our anchor to help us define our right place for the new word.

So, let's take a look at our anchor words.

Our anchor words today are bath and thumb.

If you notice, bath has a T-H at the end, thumb has T-H at the beginning.

So this will help us to know where to put our words on our chart.

Our first word is math.

Let me hear you say math.

Math.

M-a-th Math.

Your turn.

Mm-a-th Math.

Excellent.

Do we have the T-H at the beginning or end?

Yes, it should go over here under bath, because it has the T-H or the th sound at the end.

Okay.

Our next word is thud.

Thud.

Th-uh-d. Thud.

Your turn.

Th-uh-d. Thud.

Where should we place it?

Excellent.

It should go under the thumb, because the T-H is at the beginning of this word.

Thud.

Here we go.

With.

With.

Wuh-i-th With.

Your turn.

Wuh-i-th With.

All right?

Yes, it should go under bath.

T-H is at the end.

Thick.

Th-i-ck.

Thick.

Your turn.

Th-i-ck.

Thick.

Yes, it should go under thumb, right under thud.

You're getting pretty good at this.

Think.

Think.

Th-in-ck.

Think.

Your turn.

Th-in-k.

Think.

Excellent.

Where should we put it?

Yes, it should go under thumb and thud because it has the th sound.

So we have thud, think and thick.

So, next door neighbor to the word thud.

Cloth.

Cloth.

C-l-ah-th.

Cloth.

Your turn.

C-l-ah-th.

Cloth.

Where should we place this one?

Excellent.

Right under bath, next to or beside math.

Now, this word is thin.

It almost looks like thick, except for it doesn't have the K at the end.

Thin.

Th-in.

Thin.

Your turn Th-in.

Thin.

Excellent.

Where should we place it?

Yes, right under thumb.

So it'll go right there.

We have a few more.

Path.

Path.

P-ah-th Path.

Your turn.

P-ah-th.

Path.

Okay?

Yes, it should go under bath.

Bath and path, they rhyme.

Thin.

Thin.

Th-i-n.

Thin.

Your turn.

Th-i-n.

Thin.

Excellent.

Right under the thumb.

Okay.

Our next word is thick.

Thick.

Th-i-ck thick.

Th-i-ck.

Thick.

Yes.

It should go under thumb, along with thud, think, thin and thick.

My next word is thorn.

Thorn.

Th-ah-r-n. Thorn.

Your turn.

Th-ah-r-n. Thorn.

Yes, it goes right under thumb.

You're getting the hang of this, good job!

Our final two words.

Sloth.

Sloth.

S-l-ah-th.

Sloth.

S-l-ah-th.

Sloth.

Excellent.

Yes, it goes under bath because it has T-H at the end.

Our final word is Thursday.

Thursday.

Th-uhr-s-d-ey.

Thursday.

Wow.

That was pretty long.

Your turn.

Th-uhr-s-d-ey.

Thursday.

And that goes under thumb.

Okay.

So now let's check to see if we put them in the correct place by the ending or beginning.

Do all these words have T-H at the end?

Yes.

So now let's check the other side.

We're looking for words that have T-H at the beginning, repeat after me.

Thumb.

Thud.

Think.

Thin.

Thick.

Thorn.

Thursday.

I think we are correct.

We have T-H, T-H, T-H, T-H, T-H, and T-H. Now, what I'm going to do is take these down, and we're going to quickly put them back up again but let's see if we can do it really fast, okay?

So let's try this quick little game that will help us identify the words.

I'm going to mix them up a little bit.

And I want you to shout out where it should go.

If it should go under bath, I want you to say bath.

If it should go under thumb, I want you to say thumb, and then we'll check it again.

Ready?

Here we go.

Thin.

Oh, I think I heard thumb.

Thorn.

Math.

Good.

Cloth.

Excellent.

Thursday.

Yes.

Eh, you're going too fast.

Hold on, hold on.

With.

Good.

Thick.

Excellent.

Path.

Sloth.

Good.

Think.

Someone said over here, are you sure?

Think about it.

Very good, it goes other thumb.

Last one, thud.

Very good.

So now it's really good for us to make sure we're paying attention and listening to those sounds.

Great job sorting and reading words with the T-H sounds.

Remember, I want you to look for those sounds when you are reading and writing too.

(calm happy music) - We are going to have a very special adventure today doing something called Mystery Word.

Mystery Word.

A mystery is something that we try and solve and a detective uses clues to try and solve a mystery.

So what we're gonna need today are some letters because we're gonna look at all these letters.

We're going to be building lots of little words and then bigger words together and writing them down.

Here are the letters that you're going to need.

Letter O, you're gonna need two of those.

One, two letter O's.

We know O can say, oh, or ah, right?

Like in octopus.

You'll need a letter U, and we know you can say yoo like in unicorn, or uh, like in up.

You'll need a letter B that says Buh, You're gonna need two letter H, but both of those H will say huh, like in house.

You're gonna need a letter R that says ruh, like in rat.

You're going to need a letter S that will say ss, like in sun.

And two letter T's that will tuh, like in tall.

The first we're going to make has two letters and two sounds.

The word we're going to make is the word to.

I like two play with my friends.

To.

Sounds: tuh, oo.

To.

Now this is tricky, this is a high frequency word.

The tuh, we know is going to be letter T, but you know what?

In the word to, the oo sound is actually made with letter O. T-O spells to.

Let's sky write that together.

T-O, to.

This to is, let's walk to the store.

I like to play with my friends.

Do you want to come over today?

Write the word to right here under your two column that you have.

You would write T-O, right here.

And as you see, I wrote it and put it under my two letter column.

Nice work, everybody.

The next word is two letters with two sounds.

Here's the word: Us.

Say us.

Good, here's the sound.

Uh-ss.

Us.

One letter says uh.

You get it, uh.

Umbrella or up,.

Letter U. SS.

What letter says ss?

You got it, letter S. U-S spells us.

Uh-ss.

Us.

The next word we're going to make is the word rush.

Can you say rush?

Great.

Let's listen for those sounds in rush.

R, uh, sh.

Rush.

There's three sounds in rush, right?

But there's actually four letters.

Let's think about the first letter that would go with the r. What letter from up here says r. Yes, letter R. R-uh-s. We want it to be ruh-uh-sh.

I need to add another letter and I need the sound to be sh.

What two letters say sh?

Nice, S-H say, sh.

So I actually need to just add a letter H here and now this says rush.

R-uh-sh.

Rush.

R-U-S-H spell rush.

Okay.

Well, here's something really neat.

If we know how to spell rush, we can spell another word.

The word is brush.

I have to brush my hair.

Brush.

Or I have to brush my teeth.

Brush.

Hmm.

What letter do we need to add to go from rush to buh-r-uh-sh?

Brush.

Yeah, there's only four sounds but we actually need to add another letter, buh.

Look at that!

We've been thinking about some of our blends, br.

br-uh-sh.

Brush But we can hear each sound buh-r-uh-sh.

In a blend we can hear the B and R separately, in this diagraph S and H, they don't make their own sounds.

The S and the H, they blend together to make a whole new sound.

So now we have the word us, we wanna make the word thus.

It was snowing outside, thus, we could not go to the movies.

Thus.

It's kind of a word that you might use when you're trying to show something that happens as a result of something else.

Thus.

Say thus.

Nice, let's do those sounds.

Th-uh-ss.

Thus.

There's three sounds, but there are four letters.

What letters would I add to the beginning to make this say th-uh-ss.

Do you know what letters go together to say th?

Yes, T and H. So I'm gonna put letter T and letter H here.

Now this says th-uh-ss.

Thus.

T-H-U-S spells thus.

You're gonna write that right here under the four column word, thus.

All right.

Now we have a clear spot for building.

The next word that we are going to build is the word rub.

Say rub.

Nice.

Let's do the sounds in rub.

R-uh-b.

Excellent.

Sometimes my shoulder hurts and I ask someone to rub it for me, that'll help it to feel better.

Rub.

Now, first sound I hear in rub is a r. You know that's letter R, very good.

R-uh.

Uh-Uh.

You get it, letter U. R-uh-b.

Buh.

Buh.

Letter B.

Look at that, we just made the word rub.

R-uh-b.

Rub.

We're gonna take away some letters, but we're going to leave the word us because I want you to tell me if I can spell us, how would I spell bus?

Say bus.

Nice.

And the sounds are B-uh-ss.

Bus.

What should I add up there?

Buh-uh-ss.

Yes, I just need to add a letter B here.

Buh-uh-ss.

Bus.

If I can spell us, I can spell bus.

Great job.

And bus has three letters.

So we're gonna put it right here.

Are you ready for something a little bit tricky?

We're gonna change the word bus into the word sub.

Can you say sub?

Nice.

You might hear sub like for a substitute teacher, or you might hear sub for a submarine, or you might hear sub when you go to a sandwich shop and get a sub.

Let's do the sounds in sub.

Ss-uh-b.

Sub.

Hmm.

What's that first sound?

Ss.

It's letter S. So I don't wanna B at the beginning, I want an S. Ss-uh-b.

Yeah, I'm gonna put that B at the end.

Ss-uh-b.

Sub.

S-U-B spells sub.

The next word we're going to spell is the word shrub.

Can you say shrub?

Nice.

A shrub is like a smaller tree, but it's like round, it never grows very tall.

Shrub.

Okay, let's do the sounds we hear in shrub.

Sh-r-uh-b.

Shrub.

What are the letters that say sh?

Yes, S and H. This would say Sh-uh-b.

There's another sound in here.

Sh-r-uh-b.

Yeah!

You got it.

We need a letter R here, sh-r-uh-b.

Shrub.

Now we're gonna make a new word.

The next that we're gonna make is the word shut.

Say shut.

Okay.

Let's do the sounds.

Sh-uh-t.

Shut.

I shut the door.

Hmm.

We've got that sh.

What do I need here for uh.

Uh-uh.

Oh, you got it, letter U. Sh-uh-t. Great one.

We need the letter T next.

Sh-uh-t.

Shut.

S-H-U-T.

Shut.

And that has four letters.

So you're gonna write it on your page under four letter words.

What we're gonna do now is the word hush.

Can you say hush?

Good.

Let's do other sounds in hush.

Huh-uh-sh.

Hush.

Now I still hear a sh in that, but I don't hear it at the beginning like in shut.

Where do you hear the sh in hush?

Yeah, I hear it at the end too.

So I'm gonna clear these off for now.

I'm gonna move my S-H. What are the first two sounds you hear in hush?

Let's think.

Huh-uh-sh.

Huh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's letter H at the beginning.

What goes in the middle here?

Uh-uh.

Oh my goodness, you're getting so good with that short U sound of uh.

Huh-uh-sh.

Hush.

Like in the song, "Hush little baby".

It means to quiet down.

All right.

So now I wanna make the word both.

Can you say both?

Great.

Let's listen to the sounds in both.

Buh-oh-th.

Both.

There's three sounds, right?

There's actually four letters.

So what would the first letter be?

Buh.

Great.

That's gonna be a letter B.

The next sound I hear, buh-oh.

Oh.

Yeah.

That's letter O.

And then the last sound I hear, buh-oh-th.

Th.

It has four letters in it, so that means that two letters missed make the th sound.

Even though there's only three sounds.

You know T and H make that th sound, so B-O-T-H spells both.

All right.

The next word we're gonna make is the word throb.

Can you say throb?

Nice.

Let's listen for the sounds of throb.

Th-r-ah-b.

Throb.

Th, what letters make the th?

You knew it, T-H, well done.

Th.

Th-r.

Very good R. Th-r-ah- That's an O. Buh.

That's a B.

Well done.

This says throb.

T-H-R-O-B spells throb.

Let's sky write that.

T-H-R-O-B.

Throb.

Well done.

And that has five letters.

So it's going to go over here under our five letter column.

We're going to have that T-H sound be in this next word but listen carefully for where it's going to be.

The word I'm gonna say is the word broth.

Can you say broth?

Well done.

When I'm sick or when my kids are sick sometimes I make them soup with chicken broth.

It's watery and it has like the nutrients and the taste of vegetables or of chicken or of beef.

Okay.

Let's think about broth and the sounds.

Buh-r-ah-th.

Broth.

Four sounds but there's five letters.

Buh-r. Buh.

The first sound is, yeah, with letter B.

So I'm gonna take my B and put it over here.

What do you hear next?

Buh-r. Yeah, I hear R, wow.

Br-ah.

Letter O again.

And this one's gonna be so easy for you.

Th.

T and H. I'm gonna ask you to make a word that we've made already and that word there's this one right here.

Can you read what that word is?

Let's try and read it together.

Buh-r-uh-sh.

Now we have the word.

What's that word?

Brush, great job.

Okay.

That means that the letters that we have left are gonna go together to make a word that can go with the word brush.

And when we can take two separate words and put them together, they're called a compound word.

Can you think of something in your house that you have and you use it a couple times a day and it would have the word brush at the end of it.

So there's another word here.

It's something, brush.

What could that be?

Something, brush.

What word could go with brush?

And it's something I use couple times a day.

It's really good to do after you eat.

What could be?

Did you say toothbrush?

Oh, let's see if we have the letters to spell tooth.

We need a letter t, t. Letter T, t. Oo, oo.

You know what?

I know that O-O together can say oo.

Okay, I've got too, and then th.

T and H. Look at that, friends!

We figured out we can put tooth in front of brush, make the compound word toothbrush.

Holy cow!

That is our mystery word today.

You were amazing detectives with me.

Thank you for being huge helpers building all these words with me and help me resolve our mystery word.

You don't forget to brush your teeth tonight before you go to bed.

I'll look forward to seeing you next time on Read, Write, Roar!

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Additional support by, and by viewers like you.

Thank you!

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