- Hello, scholars.

Welcome to second grade on Read, Write, ROAR.

Today with Mrs. Fuller, you are going to learn about one of Michigan's main cities, Detroit, also known as the Motor City.

You are going to be comparing it to where you live.

Scholars, we're also going to focus on reading words with the F sound, spelled with the letter combination, PH.

Go ahead and get yourself something to write with, and something to write on.

Scholars, let's 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, our focus is to read words with the letter combination PH.

PH is known as a digraph.

Look, digraph even has PH in it (giggles).

A digraph is when two or more letters come together, but they only represent one sound.

Let's take a closer look.

P is a consonant.

It represents the P sound, good.

H is also a consonant.

It represents the H sound, nice job.

But together, they create a digraph, and they together only represent one sound.

That sound is the F sound, mhm.

So what sound does PH make together?

F, yes, nice job.

I have a word here that I think you may have seen or heard before.

Yeah, this word is phone.

Do you notice that the PH is in the beginning?

And what sound do you hear at the beginning of the word phone?

Nice, you hear that F sound.

Great job.

Scholars, we're going to read some more words that have the letter PH in them.

Not only do they have the letter PH in them, they also have the word phone inside of them.

Let's take a look.

Here's our first word, scholars.

Do you know what that word is?

We have a sax, U, the O's making a U, PH, F, sax, U, phone, a saxophone.

Do you know what a saxophone is?

A saxophone is an instrument that you could play with your mouth, right?

(jazzy music) All right, here's our next word, scholars.

And in this word, you have the soft C at the beginning, 'cause there's CE.

So you're gonna hear the S sound.

Do you know what that word is?

Cellphone, a cellphone.

Maybe you have a cellphone at home.

I know lots of kids who like to play games on their cellphone (giggles).

Oh, here's a good ones, scholars.

Mm, okay.

Mega, phone, a megaphone.

A megaphone is something that someone might use when they're trying to talk to a lot of people at one time.

It's kind of round, and it comes out like that.

Attention, attention.

Yes, a megaphone, it's pretty neat.

All right, scholars, I have one more word for us to read.

Yeah, did you figure out that first part?

Head.

Headphones, headphones.

And you might wear some headphones when you're listening to some music, right?

So that you don't distract other friends (laughs).

All right, so out of the word phone, you can continue to make different words, like saxophone, cellphone, megaphone, headphones.

Can you think of another one?

Okay, scholars.

On your paper, I need you to go ahead, and have one, two, three, four, five spaces.

We have five pictures that we are going to match up with words from our word bank.

Mhm.

All of our words in our word bank are of course going to have the letters PH in them, representing what sound again?

F. Let's look at these words in the word bank.

I noticed that PH is at the beginning, or in the middle, or even at the end of some of the words.

That's pretty interesting.

So when you see that PH, you know that it represents what sound again?

F, good job.

All right, let's go ahead and read the words that we have in our word bank.

All right, we have photo, a photo, okay.

What about the next one?

L, I, F, ant, elephant, nice.

What about graph, graph.

Dolphin, dolphin, you're doing amazing.

These are big words (laughs).

What about alphabet, alphabet, alphabet.

Woo, nice work, scholars.

All right, well, let's take a look here.

So here's our first picture.

Do you remember all those words we read?

Okay, here's our first picture.

I see some months of the year.

I see some numbers, and I see some bars.

This is known as a, a graph.

And you hear the F sound at the end, graph.

Yes, that's a bar graph.

You might do one of those in math.

Graph.

I'm going to find the word graph, and you're going to write down the word graph.

Go ahead, listen to the sounds it has.

G, R, A, F. And remember that F is spelled with that PH.

All right, scholars.

Here's our next picture.

I noticed that they are blocks with letters on them.

Yeah, letters are what we use to make words.

What do you think that might be a picture of?

Let's look at our words in our word bank.

Photo.

Elephant.

Dolphin.

Alphabet, oh, yes.

All right, I'm gonna go ahead and pull the word alphabet.

You go ahead and write it down.

Listen to those sounds.

Al, F, spelled with a PH, good.

Alpha, that one's actually the letter A.

Bet, alphabet.

All right.

You're good?

Nice, okay.

Next word.

It's a picture of an animal, lives in the ocean.

It's a dolphin, nice job.

I'm going to go ahead and pull the word dolphin.

You go ahead and write it down.

Dolphin.

Listen to the sounds.

D, all, F, remember with the PH, I, N, dolphin, dolphin.

You're good?

All right.

Our next picture is a picture of a, it's another animal.

Elephant, nice work.

Another long word.

I know, scholars, but still listen for those sounds, L. Got it?

Okay, hood.

L, U, that one's a E, mhm.

L, U, F, PH.

I, that's the letter A in this word.

Elephant, elephant.

And that means that we only have one picture and one word left.

Let's make sure it makes sense.

I see the picture here.

It's a picture that you take with a camera, and our word here is photo, a photo, yes.

A photo is a picture you take with a camera, photo.

What sounds do you hear?

F with the PH, O, T, O, photo.

Nice work.

Photo is a shortened word for the word photograph.

Yeah, if you take pictures, you take a photograph.

And photograph can be made with our word photo, and our word graph, and we can put them together for a compound word to make the word photograph.

What do you notice about that word photograph?

I see PH at the beginning, and I see PH at the end.

Isn't that neat?

Photograph (laughs).

Great work, scholars.

Amazing work, scholars.

Today, we focused on reading words with what letters?

P and H, and P and H come together to represent what sound?

F, and it's only one sound, because it's also known as a what, do you remember?

I'm gonna spell it out for you.

D, I, G, R, A, F. With PH (laughs), that's pretty neat.

A digraph.

P and H are two letters that come together, and only represent one sound.

That's what a digraph is.

And you worked on that today, scholars, nice work.

Scholars, it's important for us to keep practicing these different letter combinations to become better readers and writers.

(soft music) Oh, hi, scholars.

Let's get moving.

Get up.

Yeah, you, get up.

Let me see you in place, and stop.

Let me see you get on your tippy toes.

Can you touch your toes?

Can you make arm circles?

Can you make bigger arm circles?

Backwards, and back tiny.

And let's stretch out those arms.

One, two, three, other side.

One, two, three, let's do three jumping jacks.

Are you ready?

One, two, three.

Nice job, scholars.

Thanks for moving with me.

(upbeat music) Hey, scholars, Mrs. Z-K. Let's do a brain break.

We're going to wiggle our fingers, and then we're gonna ball 'em up tight, and then we're gonna spread out our fingers as far apart as we can.

And let's repeat it.

Wiggle, and shut, and open as wide as you can, and wiggle, and shut, and open as wide as you can.

Hey, do you think you can do that with your face?

Can you ball up your face, squish it in real tight, and then let it go, open.

And ball it up tight, and open.

One more time, ball it up tight, and open.

Nice work.

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

Today, we're gonna be reading the book, "Lulu and Rocky in Detroit", written by Barbara Joosse, illustrated by Renee Graef, and read with permission from Sleeping Bear Press.

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

First, how are communities alike and different?

And what communities are part of the state of Michigan?

A community is a neighborhood, or a group of people and buildings in one place.

In our book today, Lulu and her cousin Rocky are visiting the city of Detroit, the Motor City.

Let's join them.

"A purple envelope arrives.

The envelope is addressed to Rocky Fox.

Dear Rocky, are you ready for three days of adventure?

Join Lulu and her friend Pufferson, and motor to Detroit in a classic Ford coupe."

Motor means to drive, and a Ford coupe is a type of a car.

"Then head to the Foundation Hotel.

Aunt Fancy.

Lulu's my cousin and best friend.

She gets her invitation by email.

Mr. Crazypants, yells Lulu, who's as fizzy as a shook up pop bottle.

We bear hug and fox box.

Then we smush together in this super cool car, and I really, really want to go fast.

But Pufferson is always careful.

So he drives slow."

Looking at the picture, it looks like Pufferson's a penguin.

"Welcome to the Foundation Hotel, says Mr. Reggie, the concierge."

A concierge is the person at a hotel that helps the guests.

"Then he winks and says, you three are as cute as a bug's ear.

The Foundation Hotel is full of little lights that make me feel like I'm in the middle of Christmas.

It used to be a fire station, and there are big red doors where the fire engines once passed, and also fire poles, and a table where you can do puzzles and games.

Mr. Reggie reads a letter from Aunt fancy.

Hello.

Each day, Mr. Reggie will reveal your adventure assignments.

When you've explored the very last one, you'll discover Detroit.

Aunt Fancy.

Mr. Reggie hands us our adventure assignments for the day, and we're off.

First, we walk to Campus Martius, an excellent place to make sand castles.

Pufferson makes a sand igloo.

Next up, coney dogs.

But which diner's best?

Lulu tries Lafayette.

I try American, American's top dog.

Lafayette.

American.

Lafayette.

Then we hop on the People Mover.

To the Fox Theater, and walk through the golden doors to see a show.

Holy fox-oly.

Lula whispers, I feel like I'm in a palace.

After the show, we cross the street to sports fan heaven, where the stadiums for four teams, the Red Wings, the Lions, the Pistons, and the Tigers are close by.

At Comerica Park, we hear the best sound ever.

Crack, that one is long gone.

Lulu and I ride along Dequindre Cut.

Pufferson's legs are too short to reach the bike pedals, so he rides with me.

Later, he sends a picture to Aunt Fancy.

That night, Mr. Reggie asks, what did you discover?

Detroit is fancy, like a palace, says Lulu.

And sporty, like a stadium, I say.

Detroit is that, and more, says Mr. Reggie.

Then he hands us our adventure assignments for tomorrow.

At Belle Isle, we visit the aquarium.

Later, we fish from a pier.

We catch, we release, so the aquarium fish aren't sad."

That means that they let the fish go.

"At the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, we learn about heroes from Africa to Detroit.

We are inspired.

Hitsville, USA is home of the Motown sound, where everybody sings together in harmony, making their voices sound like one.

When we sing to Aunt Fancy, we pretend we're The Three Tops.

The next day, we explore the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, where Henry Ford designed and built the first Model T. The Model T is the first affordable automobile.

In the beginning, his inventions weren't perfect, but they kept getting better.

We crank the engine with the flywheel magento, and check out Henry Ford's secret experimental room.

Now I want to be an inventor too.

Our next adventure assignment is the Detroit Institute of Arts.

We walk through the gate to, awesome!

Lulu says, this makes me feel small on the outside, and big on the inside.

The Riverfront is Detroit's hello place, where everybody greets everybody.

When we ride the carousel, we say hello to Canada on the other side of the river.

Hello, Canada.

Hello, Detroit.

On our last morning, we video chat with Aunt Fancy.

Aunt Fancy, you said when we complete our adventurous assignments, we'll discover Detroit, but I'm not sure what that means.

That's because you haven't seen The Fist, a sculpture honoring Joe Louis, the great boxer who never gave up, says Aunt Fancy.

The Fist tells the story of Detroit.

We thank Aunt Fancy for our Detroit adventure, then we start walking.

And there it is, The Fist, big and strong.

Then it hits me.

Pow, Detroit is everybody's voice sounding like one.

It's music, and murals, and motors, and never giving up.

Now it's time to go home.

We say goodbye to Mr. Reggie.

Lulu says, don't forget us, Mr. Reggie.

And he says, how could I forget you?

He winks, you're the cat's pajamas, which means he likes us.

Then we wave goodbye to Joe Louis.

We wave to Mr. Reggie, Hitsville, coney dogs, roly-poly cherries, and the Tigers.

We wave goodbye to Detroit, and Detroit waves back."

Let's look back at our two big questions.

First, how are communities alike and different?

And what communities are part of the state of Michigan?

Scholars, we're gonna use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two cities.

That means we're gonna look at two cities, and see how they're alike and how they're different.

In our book, we just read about the city of Detroit.

So we're gonna compare Detroit to my city, Manistee.

I drew a map and wrote some information about my town or my city, Manistee.

I live in the town of Manistee.

Manistee is in Michigan.

Manistee is on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Northern half of the lower peninsula.

My town has a river running through the middle.

The river connects Lake Michigan to Manistee Lake.

To get from one side of town to the other, you have to cross the river.

To get over the river, you have to go over a drawbridge.

One of the best parts of Manistee is going to the beach.

We have a beach on both sides of the river.

The beach is five minutes from my home.

So looking at this map, scholars, you can see that my town, Manistee, is on the west side of the state on the shore of Lake Michigan.

And Detroit is down here on the east side of the state on the shore of Lake Erie.

Let's think about the two cities, Detroit and Manistee, and I'm gonna need your help filling out my Venn diagram.

We're gonna use our Venn diagram to compare the city of Detroit to the city of Manistee.

On one side of our Venn diagram, we're gonna put the facts about Detroit.

On the other side, we're gonna put some facts about Manistee.

And in the middle, that's where we put facts that are true for both places.

So the first fact that I put was that both of our cities are in Michigan.

Detroit is in the southeast side of the state.

And Manistee is the northwest side of the state.

We just saw on a map that Detroit is on the southeast side of the state.

And Manistee is on the northwest side of the state.

On the middle of our Venn diagram is where we put the facts that are the same or similar for both.

So I put that both Detroit and Manistee have a river, and both of them border one of the Great Lakes, or are right next to one of the Great Lakes.

The next fact I added was the population of each city, or how many people lived there.

In Detroit, about 640,000 people lived in the city in 2020, and Manistee had about 6,300 people in 2020.

So Detroit is a much bigger city than Manistee.

The last fact I added tells us the reason why people might wanna visit each city.

For Detroit, people visit for sports and museums.

And for Manistee, people visit for fishing, and other outdoor activities.

Scholars, you can do your own Venn diagram.

You can download this template from the activity guide in today's lesson, or you can just make it with a piece of paper, but I'd like you to use a Venn diagram, and compare your city or town to Detroit.

And if you live in Detroit, then you can compare your city to another one of our amazing cities in the state of Michigan.

Thank you so much for learning with us today, scholars.

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.K.

Kellogg Foundation.

Additional support by, and by viewers like you, thank you.

(upbeat music)