- Hi, scholars.

Welcome to second grade on Read, Write, Roar.

Today with Mrs. Fuller, you are going to continue making your own book about where you live.

You're gonna focus on your town and your state, Michigan.

We're also going to focus on reading and writing words that have the ear sound in them.

So scholars, go ahead and get yourself something to write with, something to write on, and let's get ready to read, write, roar.

- [Announcer] 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) - Hey, scholars.

I'm Mrs. Z-K. And today we are going to be working with two spelling patterns that represent the sound ear.

Can you say ear?

Yeah, ear is also a word.

Point to your ear.

Yeah.

Ear could be spelled E-A-R, just like the word ear.

Inside of words today, inside of bigger words, E-A-R also represents the sound ear.

And we'll see that when we start trying to decode some words with E-A-R.

There's another way to represent the sound ear, and that is going to be E-E-R. Mm hmm.

So, when we see E-E-R inside of bigger words today we know they are going to represent the sound, ear, nice job!

(upbeat chime) So, what we have here are some sentences that are pre-made.

We're going to read through the sentence and there's a word in here that has the ear sound.

Could be spelled E-A-R or E-E-R, but it's missing its first sound.

So, with your something to write with and something to write on you can follow along with our numbers and write down the ear word that is missing.

That sounds funny, the ear word.

The word that has the sound ear in it.

(giggles) All right, scholars.

And I have some letters to kind of help us out here.

Let's see if we can figure these out.

All right, let's read sentence number one together.

We saw a in the woods.

What could you see in the woods that would have the ear sound?

What about d eer?

A deer.

Hopefully you wrote d eer down on your paper.

We saw a deer in the woods.

All right, let's go to sentence number two.

Remember, read along with me.

The new starts on January 1st.

Hmm, what could start on January 1st?

Could it be the n ear?

The near?

The new near?

Nah.

What about y?

The new y ear.

Year!

The new year starts on January 1st.

Nice work, scholars.

Go ahead and write year for number two.

All right, I think you get the hang of it.

Let's see if you can come up with the next word on your own.

Are you ready?

All right, read along with me.

"Can you me?"

she asked while talking on the phone.

Hmm.

Can you me?

Has the ear sound in it?

What might you say if you're on the phone talking?

Can you hear, nice job.

Can you hear me?

Right?

Sometimes we don't have great connection.

What sound are we missing here to make the word hear?

The h sound, nice job.

Can you hear me?

All right, next sentence, sentence number four.

Read along with me.

Another student in your class is also known as your ear.

Oh, that one might be a little tricky if you don't use that word often.

Do you know what the other kids in your class are called?

They're students, and the other students in your room?

Mm hmm, when you work alongside another person it's known as your peer.

Yeah, so we already have eer here.

What sound are we missing at the beginning?

P, nice job.

Your p eer, your peer.

Are you ready for sentence number five?

Let's go ahead.

We were winning our game and everyone in the stands stood up to... Hmm.

This is making me visualize something.

I'm thinking about a basketball game.

When everyone's in the stands, they all stand up and go, "Woo!"

What is that called?

It has the ear sound.

They cheer.

Yay!

(laughs) Because they are so excited, right?

What sound already missing at the beginning?

Go ahead and write it down, ch eer.

And you see how that ear is spelled, E-E-R, yeah.

And so hopefully you had the ch there, ch eer.

They stood up to cheer.

Next sentence, sentence number six.

A neighbor is someone who lives you.

A neighbor is someone who lives...

Remember that word has the ear sound in it.

A neighbor is someone who lives you.

Near you, nice job!

Yeah, your neighbor lives next to you somewhere, right?

Could be on this side.

Could be on that side.

Could be across the street.

What sound are we missing at the beginning of that word?

We already have ear.

N, n ear.

They live near you.

All right, next sentence on this side.

Let's go.

Thank you notes usually have a greeting at the beginning that says and then the person's name.

Hmm, okay.

So think about a letter, a thank you note right at the beginning, at the top is called the greeting.

The greeting usually says what?

Has a ear sound to it and then the person's name that you're writing to.

At the beginning, it usually will say, dear!

Dear scholars, you have been doing an amazing job.

Thank you for all your hard work.

Yeah!

All right, so we have the ear sound.

What sound are we missing at the beginning?

D. Dear.

And since it's the beginning of the greeting it is going to be capitalized.

All right, scholars, I know.

I have two more sentences for you.

They were a little bit challenging so I put them over here so we could look at them separately.

Okay.

This first one actually has the ear sound at the beginning.

Hm.

And then the other one has the ear sound but it's gonna have more than one syllable.

Well, both words have more than one syllable.

It's a little bit more tricky than the one syllable words we were just working with.

Let's see if we can do it.

All right.

Sentence number eight.

Read with me.

Her friend told her that she found her... Hmm, well, it starts with the ear sound.

She found her ear.

It's a compound word.

Her earring, like your earring.

She found her earring.

So we are missing the second part of that.

We can just put that right in there.

Nice, so her friend told her that she found her earring.

I'm pretty sure she was happy about that.

(laughs) And our last one.

My family helped at the charity event.

So a charity event is something you do to raise donations, right?

So then you would go work or help out without having to be paid.

And what is that called?

It's a bigger word but it has the ear sound at the end of it.

My family helped... Do you know?

The word is volunteer.

Yes, when you volunteer at an event you help without having to be paid.

You're like, "Oh, I can help do that."

Right?

And then you would be a volunteer.

This family was helping to volunteer at the charity event.

So nice.

(laughs) (upbeat chime) Okay, scholars, so let's come back to the spellings.

Yeah, remember we had two different spellings to make the sound ear.

Well, we just found lots of ear sounds and words.

I have those words with me and I just wanna do a quick sort.

Let's go back through the words we just did.

Here was the deer, the deer in the woods.

What side?

E-E-R, nice job.

And then we had year.

When we had the new year.

E-A-R. Our next word was hear.

Yeah, remember when she was on the phone, "Can you hear me?"

Which side?

E-A-R. All right.

And a peer.

Someone else that you work alongside maybe someone in your classroom.

E-E-R. Nice.

And then we had cheer, woo!

Also going on the E-E-R. And then we had near.

Do you remember who lives near you?

Your neighbor.

E-A-R, great.

And then we have a capital dear, capital D for dear.

If that was for the letter, E-A-R.

I've noticed a homophone, dear and deer.

This is the animal, and this is a greeting for the letter.

Hmm, spelled differently, but has the same sounds.

And our last two challenge words.

Remember we had earring spelled with E-A-R. And then we had volunteer, spelled with E-E-R. Great work with those sentences, scholars.

So I have all the words that have the ear sounds in them right here on the board.

They're sorted by their spelling.

Because remember E-A-R can represent the sound ear, and E-E-R also represents the sound ear, yeah.

Let's go ahead and reread the words that we had in E-A-R. Year, hear, near, dear, earring.

Nice!

Okay, what about this side?

Deer, hmm.

Peer, cheer, volunteer, yes.

Did you notice that there was a word on this side and a word on this side that sounded the same?

You did?

Well, that's a homophone, yeah.

Dear, the greeting for a letter and dear, the animal you might see in the woods.

They sound the same, but they're spelled differently, but they have the same sounds.

Yeah, it means they're pronounced the same way.

Different meanings, different words.

So scholars, remember when you're using certain sounds that have different spelling patterns, it can get pretty tricky.

The best thing we can do is to continue to practice reading those words.

The more you read them the more you'll recognize how they're spelled.

And that will make you a better speller and writer because reading and writing are connected.

(upbeat music) - Hi, scholars.

I'm Mrs. Fuller.

Today we're gonna be reading two books about where we live.

First, we're gonna be reading a few pages from the book "Where Do I Live?"

written by Neil Chesanow, illustrated by Anne Iosa, and read with permission from BES Publishing.

We're also gonna be reading our own book about where do we live called "Where Do I Live?"

This one written by me, Mrs. Fuller, with the help from all of you.

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

First, what are the parts of a map?

How can a map help me describe where I live?

And what are the human and natural characteristics of a place?

The human characteristics of a place are the things in that location that were created by humans, like a road or a building.

The natural characteristics are the things that were created by nature, like a tree or a lake.

We're also gonna be learning about and using parts of a map.

A map scale helps us determine the distance on a map.

The map key helps us with the symbols and what those represent on a map, and a compass rose helps us determine the directions or which way is north on a map.

We're also gonna be adding pages to our own book today about where we live.

If you've already started making a book with me, go ahead and grab that.

If you're just getting started making your book, you can download our book template from the activity guide in today's lesson or you can just work on your book using paper.

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

Our focus today is gonna be on my town and my state.

Grab your supplies, scholars, and let's get started.

(upbeat chime) Let's start off looking at our book, "Where Do I live?"

Let's look at the maps and the writing that we have so far, My room.

You can see my map of my room includes a map key so that we know what the symbols represent.

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.

My Home.

My home is a house.

It is brown with green shutters.

My home was built in 1952.

It has an extra room called a breezeway.

A breezeway is a room in between the house and the garage.

My home is cool because we have a basketball hoop in the driveway.

At my home I like to have my family and friends come and visit.

My Street.

I live on 24th Street.

My street has houses on both sides of the road.

The people that live on my street are very nice and friendly.

The man that lives next door is 92 years old.

When the weather is nice, people walk down my street and take their dogs for a walk.

My Neighborhood.

My neighborhood has a special name.

It is called Oak Hill.

It is in the suburbs, or just outside the city.

My neighborhood has many houses and only a few businesses.

In my neighborhood we have one school and two restaurants.

Oak Hill is a nice place to live because it is quiet and also close to the city of Manistee.

"Where Do I live?"

You live in your town.

Your neighborhood isn't the only one there is.

There are lots of neighborhoods where you live.

All the neighborhoods that are near each other form a town.

That's what a town is: a group of neighborhoods in the same place.

Your town has the market where you buy food.

It has the bank where you get money.

It has the school where you go to learn.

It has the post office and the library and many other things besides.

All the people in all the neighborhoods share what the town has.

Just as you share toys with your friends.

You live in the city, the suburbs, or the country.

Where is your town?

There are three places it may be.

One place is in the city.

The city is a town: a great big town, or a group of towns that got so big they grew together and became one.

Another place your town may be is in a suburb.

A suburb is land that's outside the city.

The city has more people.

A suburb has more room.

Or your town may be in the country.

A suburb is land that's near the city.

The country is land that's farther away.

The country has the fewest people and the most room of all.

Enough room for farms and forests that take up lots of space.

In the picture you can see the city.

Just outside the city, we can see the suburbs.

And beyond that, we can see the country.

In our book today, scholars, we need to draw a map and add the writing for our town.

So we're gonna do that on the page that says, "My Town."

On one side, we're gonna be adding the map and on the other side, we're gonna be writing a paragraph.

Here's a picture of what a map might look like.

Notice that on a map of a town or city you might see the roads, some important places, and any lakes and rivers.

What is a natural characteristic of your town or city that you might add to your map?

I'd like you to turn and talk and share your answer with the person next to you or if you're by yourself, just say your answer out loud.

That's great.

I heard you say a forest, a lake, a river, and a park.

In a park the trees and the grass are natural characteristics created by nature.

Now, scholars, think about a human characteristic that you might add to the map of your town or city.

Again, share your answer with the person sitting next to you.

Or if you're by yourself, say it out loud.

Good answers.

I heard you say a bridge, roads, and buildings.

Drawing a map of your town can be tricky.

There are lots of things to think about and include.

So if you can, it might be a good idea to look up and study a map of your town before you get started.

Here's the map of my town, Manistee, Michigan.

What's something that you notice about my map?

That's right, it has a lake on both sides, two different lakes.

On this side, we have Lake Michigan and along the shore of Lake Michigan, we have beaches.

On the other side of town, we have Manistee Lake.

Connecting the two lakes is Manistee River, which runs right through downtown Manistee.

We have the main road going from one side of town to the other.

And according to my map key, the zigzag represents a bridge.

So there are two spots that we have to cross a drawbridge to get from one side of town to the other.

My home is on this side of town and I have to cross the Drawbridge every day to get to work, on this side of town.

Mrs. Z-K would draw and write about her town, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Scholars, what town or city do you live in?

Go ahead and share your answer.

That's exciting!

I heard towns and cities from all over the state of Michigan and some of you even live in a different state.

Now I need to write the paragraph about my town.

Remember, I wanna include all the parts of a good paragraph.

A topic sentence, three details, and a conclusion or ending sentence.

For my topic sentence, I wanna introduce my town.

So I wrote, "I live in the town of Manistee.

Manistee is in Michigan."

Now I'm gonna add three details about my town.

First, Manistee is on the shore of Lake Michigan in the northern half of the lower peninsula.

Notice on the map, scholars, that Michigan has two parts.

One called the upper peninsula and the second called the lower peninsula.

So when I describe my town of Manistee, it's in the northern, or top part, of the lower peninsula.

My next detail: My town has a river running through the middle.

The river connects Lake Michigan to Manistee Lake.

And my last detail, 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.

A drawbridge, scholars, is the type of bridge that raises or separates in the middle so that boats going down the river could fit beneath the bridge.

And then my closing sentence, "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."

Scholars, go ahead and have some fun working on your map and writing about your town.

The next thing we need to do, scholars, is to think about my state.

Some of you live in the state of Michigan and some of you live in a different state.

We wanna draw a map and write about the state that you live in.

So some things to think about before you get started, you need to think about the shape of your state.

You wanna draw that shape and draw what it looks like on your map.

Next, you might wanna think about the natural characteristics, or what are some things created by nature that are important to your map?

What are some human characteristics of your state?

What are some important things created by people?

You also wanna think about what cities do you wanna include on your map, including the city where you live.

I'm gonna mark the city where I live with a big star so that we know where Manistee is in Michigan.

I also wanna think about the symbols that I might use to draw my map.

And I wanna be sure to include a map key and a compass rose.

Scholars, you're gonna need some time to finish up the map and the writing about your town, and the map and the writing about your state.

Take the time you need, add the details, find the information that best represents your town and your state.

Join me next time, scholars, as we learn more about where we live and focus on my country, my continent, and my world.

Thank you so much for learning with us today.

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

- [Announcer] 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)