- Hello readers and welcome to Read, Write and Roar.

Today we will focus on the big question.

What is special about my community?

We will read a book about a powwow, learn what happens to a base word when we add a prefix or a suffix, and we will work on some narrative writing.

For today's episode, you'll need something to write on.

Even a scratch piece of paper or an envelope and something to write with like a pencil or a crayon.

Come and join us for 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!

(whimsical music) - Welcome readers.

Today we are going to work with prefixes.

Do you remember what a prefix is?

A prefix is a word part we add to the beginning of another word, and it changes the meaning of the word.

Our goal today is to learn to read words with the prefixes, over- and mis-.

When we read a word with the prefix over-, over-, means too much.

And when we read a word with the prefix mis-, mis- means bad or badly.

Are you ready to help me read some of these words?

Here we go.

Here is our first word.

Let's loop and swoop this word together so that we're able to read this word together.

When we break up this word we can look first for our prefix over-, and then we can read the rest of the word, flow.

Overflow.

The sink has started to overflow because I left the water running too long.

I see the prefix over-, which means too much.

So it was flowing too much, so much so, that it ran right out of the sink.

Let's stick overflow into our column with our over- prefix.

Here's our next word?

Are you ready?

Can you spot the prefix in this word?

You can?

Do you see over- or mis-?

I see over- too.

Let's loop and swoop so we can read this entire word.

Over, stay, overstay.

I do see that prefix over-, and I remember that means too much.

So overstay must mean stay too much.

We did not want to overstay our visit to our friend's house, so we left right after dinner.

Let's put overstay in our over- column.

Readers, you're doing such a great job.

Here's our next word.

Can you spot the prefix in this word?

You see mis-?

Great job.

Let's loop and swoop.

Mis, judge, misjudge.

The prefix mis- means bad or badly.

So the word misjudge, must mean to judge something bad or badly.

The baseball player misjudged the ball hit to him, and it went right over his head.

Misjudge.

Let's put misjudge in our mis- column since that is the prefix we saw.

All right readers we've got a couple more words.

Here we go.

Here's our next one.

Do you see the prefix in this one?

I knew you'd spot it.

You do you see over?

Let's read this word, over, do, overdo.

To do something too much.

The doctor warned the baseball player not to overdo his sprained ankle.

And he told him he couldn't play for a week.

Overdo.

Let's put that in our over- column.

All right readers, here's our last word.

Can you spot the prefix in this word?

Great job, mis, treat, mistreat.

Remember the prefix mis- means bad or badly.

So to mistreat something means to treat something bad or badly.

It is important not to mistreat our plants by giving them lots of water.

Mistreat.

Let's go ahead and put this in our mis- column.

Readers, look at all of these words that started with our over- and mis- prefixes that you helped me read today.

Thank you so much for all of your hard work.

(upbeat music) Readers, you've done such a great job helping me read these words, that either start with a prefix or end in a suffix.

Let's try reading some of these words in a story now.

Are you ready?

"My friend Sean invited me over for black eyed peas and rice.

It looked unusual.

Slowly I tried a tiny bite and my mouth was overjoyed!"

Overjoyed.

Had too much joy.

"I ate more and more and finally I took one last bite so I wouldn't overeat."

Overeat.

So I wouldn't eat too much.

"I will never misjudge," misjudge or judge badly, "a food by its looks again."

Readers great job helping me figure out what these words meant in this story.

Let me read it one time for fluency without stopping.

"My friend Sean invited me over for black eyed peas and rice.

It looked unusual.

Slowly, I tried a tiny bite and my mouth was overjoyed.

I ate more and more and finally I took one last bite so I wouldn't overeat.

I will never misjudge a food by its looks again."

Great reading today readers.

(upbeat music) Readers, we have lots of practice reading these words that start with our mis- and over- prefixes.

Now let's practice writing some of them.

For this activity you'll need whatever you have to write on, and something to write with.

When we spell words, first we visualize or see the number of word parts in those words, and then we try and listen for the number of sounds in each word part.

Are you ready to give it a try?

Here we go.

Our first word is miscount.

Can you say that word with me?

Miscount.

When I say the word miscount, I hear two word parts.

I hear mis, count.

When I say the word part mis, I hear, m-i-s. and when I say the word part count, I hear, c-o-u-n-t. Miscount.

Now I'm gonna think about the letters that represent each of the sounds in these word parts.

M-i-s-c-o-u-n-t. Miscount.

Let's put both of these word parts together to build our word.

M-i-s-c-o-u-n-t. Miscount.

I was very careful not to miscount the money that we raised at our lemonade stand.

I know mis- means not, so to not count it incorrectly, miscount.

Great job readers.

Let's try another one.

Our next word is mismatch.

Can you say that word with me?

Mismatch.

When I say the word mismatch, I also hear two word parts.

Mis, match.

Now let's think about the sounds in each of these word parts.

M-i-s-m-a-tch, mismatch.

Let's think about the letters that represent these sounds.

M-i-s-m-a-tch, mismatch.

Let's put both of the word parts together to build our word.

Mismatch.

Mismatch.

One of my very favorite spirit days on spirit week, is mismatch day.

A day when we don't have to match our clothes.

Mismatch.

All right readers, let's get ready for our next word.

Our next word is overdo.

Can you say that word with me?

Overdo.

When I say that word, I hear two word parts, over, do.

When I say the first word part over, I hear the sounds o-v-er.

When I say the second word part do, I hear d-o.

Overdo.

Let's try and think about the sounds that represent each of the letters that represent each of these sounds in these word parts.

O-v-er-d-o.

Now let's put our word parts together.

Overdo.

Overdo.

Over- means too much.

So overdo must mean you're doing too much of something.

My coach pulled me out of the game early, so that I did not overdo it on my sore ankle.

Overdo.

Readers we've got one word left.

Are you ready?

Our last word is overgrown.

Can you say that word with me?

Overgrown.

When I say that word, I hear two word parts, over, grown.

Now let's think about the sounds in these word parts.

O-v-er-g-r-ow-n. Overgrown.

Now let's think about the letters that represent these sounds.

O-v-er-g-r-ow-n. Overgrown.

Let's put our word parts together.

Overgrown.

My front flower bed was overgrown with weeds that needed to be pulled.

Readers you did a fantastic job helping me spell these words today.

Make sure you're on the lookout in your own reading and writing for words that start with mis- and over- prefixes.

(soft music) - On eReaders today we are reading a story about a powwow.

The Bowwow Powwow written by Brenda Child.

We have special permission to read this book to you today from the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

While we've been doing this, we've been thinking about our narrative story elements and we've been trying to identify them or tell about them right?

Using our academic vocabulary.

We used our www, two whats and two hows, and we also then added our special academic vocabulary words about narrative text.

We may have seen some of these words before from a five finger retail.

All right my friends to summarize what has happened so far in the story.

We have Windy Girl, Uncle and Itchy Boy as our characters.

They are at the powwow grounds late at night.

And what just happened?

Windy girl fell asleep under the Northern lights.

We need to read to find out what happens next.

"Windy dreamed about the elders who taught her to offer tobacco to express gratitude and to dance for those unable to dance."

So when we enter a powwow to dance, we are offered tobacco as a thank you for coming.

And then we use that tobacco to make our prayers with, and to give our gratitude and our thanks as we follow along the powwow circle when we dance.

"She dreamed about the veterans in the grand entry, bearing flags and wounds from war.

She dreamed about a drum group visiting from out west.

She dreamed about the traditional dancers, dancing their style.

She dreamed about the grass dancers treading the Northern earth."

We need to back up a second and think to ourselves what happened?

What was that next event after Windy Girl fell asleep?

That's right she had a dream about a powwow.

We forgot to add that.

Let's do that now.

"She dreamed about the jingle dress dancers stepping softly to the ground.

She dreamed about the fancy dancers, twirling bodies of color.

She dreamed about the tiny tots learning to move in tempo.

She even dreamed about the powwow stands selling Indian fast food.

Bowwow!

Bowwow!

Itchy Boy's bark and the powwow announcer's voice stirred Windy awake.

'Last dance tonight folks.

Everyone come out into the arena.'

Now you can see all of the dancers that are left late at night dancing.

That night Windy Girl understood the powwow is always in motion, part old and part new, glittering and playing.

But still wonderful almost like a dream."

And that is the end of Bowwow Powwow.

Let's finish up our graphic organizer.

So let's think to ourself, how did it end?

What was the conclusion?

Yeah Windy Girl woke up.

The announcer said it was the last dance that everybody needed to get into the arena.

So the powwow ended and Windy Girl woke up.

Now, how do you think Windy Girl felt at the end?

What was maybe the big life lesson or message of our story?

I know there's so many choices and options, right?

Yeah.

I really like how she's grateful for the old ways that she learns about from her Uncle, and the new glittery ways and thinks that she gets to do now as well.

So, I have written down that I think she's grateful for the old and the new.

Did you write that down too?

I hope so.

Oh, you have done a fantastic job today readers.

We have gone through the Bowwow Powwow.

We have taken it apart thinking about our different words and parts of text to identify and to tell more about what's going on in our story.

We've used the words from who to characters, where and when change it to setting, what happened, event, what happened next, the next event in the story, how it ends to a conclusion and how the character feels.

We've turned that into the that's right author's craft or the life lesson of the story.

Great job today, readers.

Now remember, when you read, you can use this graphic organizer to help identify or tell about the different parts of a narrative text.

Writers today, we are going to POW.

Pick an idea, organize our notes and write and say more.

The last time we were together, we picked the idea and organized our notes.

We decided to use, the who, what, where, two whats and two hows in order to organize those thoughts on what kind of story, your narrative we would write.

So my friends now it is time to write more and I have a cheat code for you.

Our cheat code today is MDOD.

Movement Dialogue Onomatopoeia and Description.

Now the cheat code not only is gonna help us try on our best introduction which is the author's craft we're working on today, but it's also gonna be a cheat code for later in our writing, we might to be able to use some of the work that we've already created, in order to help us continue writing and saying more later in our story.

So this cheat code is an awesome one, all right friends?

So, today like I said, we are going to be thinking about how we can thoughtfully craft together an introduction or the beginning part of our story.

Now we are gonna do this four ways.

We're gonna start our story with how would it sound if it started with movement, how would it sound if it started with dialogue, how would it sound if it started with an onomatopoeia sound words, how would it sound if it started with description.

And these are the four ways we're going to get working today.

So let's start with movement.

Now I'm thinking to myself, I've got to add the what.

This what is movement it's action.

So Bineshinh gave Auntie tobacco to teach her how to dance.

So I've gotta think about how could I use that movement of oh, so maybe I slowly reached into my tobacco pouch?

Yeah.

Is that a small movement?

Ooh, I love it.

Okay.

Bineshinh or I slowly reached into my tobacco pouch, and what did I do?

Oh, I pulled out a pinch of tobacco.

What was I gonna do with the tobacco?

Oh yeah, I could have another movement or what could another movement be?

I slowly walked up to, or I walked step by step up to Auntie and asked her nervously?

If she would help me get my regalia ready for next year's powwow?

Huh?

It could go something like that right?

Now let's think about your story.

What is a small movement?

What could your hands do?

Like minor reaching into the tobacco pouch, what could your feet do?

Slowly move or even think about your eyes?

I looked to the side and stretched my neck to see over.

Yes.

Close your eyes and think about what did your body do in order to maybe start that story?

When we start stories this way, it helps our characters become more alive for our readers.

So writers the first thing that we've written now is movement.

Let me read mine.

"I slowly reached into the soft leather pouch, took out a pinch of tobacco and walked up to my Auntie."

All right.

So small movements with my hands and my feet.

What does your sound like?

Okay.

Let's go on to dialogue.

Now dialogue is when our characters talk.

This helps our characters become alive with a voice.

Now I think in my story, I'm gonna have the words from Bineshinh.

I think she's gonna ask Auntie, Auntie I really want to dance in next year's powwow, can you help?

Something like that.

What's yours gonna say?

So this is what I decided on for my dialogue.

"So Auntie," Oh I think I need a comma.

"I think I wanna dance at the next July 4th powwow.

Do you think you can help me?"

Said Bineshinh.

Oh, I just noticed a mistake.

I need to end with quotation marks here, don't I?

The speaking or the talking that comes out their mouth, has to be in quotation marks.

Okay.

Then here's our tag, said Bineshinh Awesome.

Okay.

Whew.

What does your dialogue sound like?

Next in our cheat code movement, dialogue, onomatopoeia.

What kind of sound words are you gonna use?

Now I'm thinking about the setting of my story, and I'm starting it at the powwow.

So what kinda sounds do I hear at the powwow?

I hear the drum beating, sometimes you can hear the birds chirping, and the aunties in the distance laughing oh my goodness so loudly, and you can hear people eating their fry bread going and drinking their lemonade or having their snow cones.

Oh, what else can we hear?

Sometimes the dogs are barking in the distance.

Yes.

The res dogs.

What else?

Okay so I've got so many choices, where to begin?

I think I'm gonna start my onomatopoeia, our sound word, with the boom boom, boom of like the drum.

Yeah.

'Cause that's like the heartbeat of our community.

And that's yeah.

The last song is where I want this story to kinda start as a song.

So that's what I'm gonna use.

What is gonna start your onomatopoeia?

"Boom, boom, boom of the drum.

The heartbeat of our community sounded on the last song of the last day of the July 4th powwow.

What does yours sound like?

What sound word did you choose?

The last code or cheat code of writing a thoughtful introduction, working on our author's craft would be description.

How would you describe your surroundings?

What kind of sensory words would you use?

What do you see?

What you hear?

Or what do you smell?

What does it feel like?

I'm gonna close my eyes and I'm gonna pretend that I'm at the powwow and it's evening.

I see pink and purple skies at sunset.

I hear the drum ooh and sometimes it's been really hot, so you get sunburn and in the evening, the breeze really is cold on your sunburn.

Hmm what else?

How else could I describe it?

Hmm, oh I might be able to hear the peeps of the frogs in the distance.

I wrote, "The evening sky had pretty stripes and pink and purples.

With the sun gone the breeze brought goosebumps out on my arms.

It was the last song of the powwow, the flag song.

Our veterans would be dancing the flags out of the arena and brought out next year.

Today our focus was to work on author's craft to be able to think of a thoughtful introduction to our story.

And we used a cheat code, MDOD.

Movement, Dialogue Onomatopoeia and Description.

Wow ho wow, scholars you've done an amazing job today.

You worked really hard on your base words, your suffixes and your prefixes.

And then in reading, we used our academic vocabulary on parts of a narrative and don't forget, we were writing to say more.

We used our cheat codes to figure out how we could write a thoughtful introduction to hook our readers.

So my friends, I can't wait to see you next time on Read, Write, Roar.

(speaks in foreign language) - [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)