- Hello, scholars.

Welcome to Read, Write, Roar.

Today, we focus on the big question, how do plants and animals grow?

We will read a base word with prefixes or suffixes, read a nonfiction text about a butterfly, and write sentences with linking words.

For our activities today, you'll need a piece of paper, any paper we'll do, and something to write with.

Go get your materials and join us for Read, Write, Roar.

(playful music) (lion roaring) Welcome readers.

We're becoming such great readers, aren't we?

We have learned so many different ways to read words with more than one syllable.

Today, we're going to continue to decode words with more than one syllable.

One way we can attack these long words is by thinking about the base word we see and any prefixes or suffixes that are added to the word.

Remember, a prefix as a word part we add to the beginning of a word to change that word and its meaning.

And a suffix is a word part we add to the end of a word to change that word and its meaning.

We're going to start today with this base word.

Let's begin by looping and swooping the word to read it.

Read with me.

Estimate.

Estimate.

This word is estimate.

Estimate is a verb.

It describes the action of making a good guess about the amount or size or worth of something.

You're usually saying a number that you think matches a real number.

For example, I estimate that there are 42 dandelions in this jar of dandelions that I collected with my daughter.

Now, let's take our base word, estimate, and change it by adding a suffix.

I'm going to start with the base word.

And when I get to the end, I'm going to chop off the E before I add this part.

We're going to loop the root of this word that comes from the base word.

And then we're going to loop the suffix.

Read with me.

Estimation.

Estimation.

This word is estimation.

Do you see how the beginning of this word matches our base word?

And then the end is the tion suffix.

Estimation.

Estimation is a noun.

It is the process or the act of making a good guess about a number, the amount of something.

So instead of counting the number of dandelions in this jar, I made an estimation.

Let's take our base word, estimate, and change it again, this time adding a prefix.

I'll start with the prefix.

And then I will add the whole base word.

A couple more letters.

There we go.

We're going to loop the prefix and then loop the base word.

Read with me.

Underestimate.

Underestimate.

Underestimate, just like the base word is also a verb.

It's the action of making an estimate that is too low.

You think that there are fewer things than there actually are.

So if someone said to me, no, I counted that jar and there are way more than 40 dandelions.

You should make a new estimate probably because I underestimated and made a bad estimate.

Let's take the word estimate again and change it, this time with a different prefix.

Here's the prefix.

And now let's add the base word.

Estimate.

Now, we can read this word by thinking about the prefix and the base word that we know.

Read with me.

Reestimate.

Reestimate.

So if I underestimate, then I need to reestimate, which means to estimate again.

It's also a verb, an action.

So let me estimate again, or reestimate.

I think that maybe there are closer to 58 dandelions in this jar.

I wanted to reestimate.

Now we have one more word that is very special because this word does not have a prefix or a suffix.

Look to see if you notice anything about this word.

What do you see?

This word matches our base word exactly, doesn't it?

Estimate.

But when we read this word, we are going to read it as a noun.

When we read the ending of this word, the suffix A-T-E in this word is a noun.

We don't pronounce it as ate like we do in estimate.

Instead, we're going to pronounce it as it.

Read this word with me as a noun.

Estimate.

Estimate.

Estimate is a noun and it is also a word that is spelled exactly the same as estimate, except estimate is a verb.

It's the action of making a good guess.

And the estimate is actually your good guess.

What's your estimate?

How many dandelions do you think are in this jar?

Great work reading words today with a base word and with different prefixes and suffixes.

Now that we practiced the strategy of thinking about base words and word parts to read challenging words, let's see if we can read similar words in a story.

As we read, see if there are any words in this story that we could read more easily by finding the base word and thinking about the prefix or suffix that has been added to the word.

Read with me.

I estimated there are 20 butterflies in my garden.

My grandma thinks I underestimated, so I decided to reestimate.

I counted four butterflies on one flower and used that amount for my estimation.

My new estimate is 40 butterflies.

Did you notice any words here where we saw a base word with a prefix or a suffix?

I saw quite a few.

One that stuck out to me was the word reestimate.

Let's look at that word together.

Remember, we can read these longer words by thinking about the prefix or the suffix and the base word that we see while we're reading.

We're going to loop the prefix and then the base word to read this word.

Read with me.

Reestimate.

Reestimate.

This word is reestimate.

Great work today, readers, reading words that have a base word along with a prefix or a suffix.

Remember that while you are reading, you can be on the lookout for base words and any prefixes and suffixes that are added to these words.

The more that you pay attention to these word parts, the more easily you'll be able to read challenging words.

Be on the lookout for word parts the next time you're reading a book.

(gentle music) (speaking in foreign language) - Hello, readers.

Oh my goodness, I'm so excited to finish this amazing story with you today.

A Butterfly is Patient.

Now, remember, we've been working really hard at this nonfiction text.

And of course, we know that nonfiction text means that it's real.

We are learning real facts about butterflies.

And of course you also know that when we're reading, we're using our thinking and we're thinking about what is the main idea.

The last time we were together, we thought maybe it was about the lifecycle of a butterfly.

Huh, we're gonna have to make sure that we continue to think about that and decide if we're gonna keep that idea or if we're gonna change it.

Also, my friends, we are still pulling out some of the details about the main idea.

So are you ready?

Let's go.

(speaking in foreign language) A butterfly is thirsty.

To find flowers, butterflies smell the air with their antennas.

They taste with their feet, but sip nectar, the sweet liquid produced by many flowers, with a proboscis, a tongue that coils and uncoils.

Some butterflies get their nourishment from rotting fruit or minerals.

Often a kaleidoscope of butterflies gathers as a puddle club in mud near a pond or a lake to drink water rich with salts and minerals.

A butterfly is big.

The rare Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the largest butterfly in the world with wings that can span up to one foot.

It lives in the rain forest in Northern Papua New Guinea.

The smallest is the rarely-seen Arian Small Blue found in Afghanistan with a wingspan of less than one-third of an inch, about the length of a grain of rice.

A butterfly is scaly.

A rainbow of shiny, powdery scales covers the wings of a butterfly, scales stacked like shingles on a roof.

Without scales, its wings would be as transparent as the wings of a bee or a dragon fly.

The colors, patterns and shapes of a butterfly's wings have a purpose.

Some use their patterns of colors to attract mates.

In places where the climate is cool, dark scales absorb heat from the sun, warming the butterfly's flight muscles.

Butterflies are cold-blooded and must have a body temperature of 86 degrees to fly.

A butterfly is not a moth.

Butterflies and moths belong to the same family of insects, the Lepidoptera, which means scaly wing.

They are the only insects with scaly wings but there are differences between them.

Moths appeared on Earth between 100 and 190 million years ago, butterflies 40 million years ago during the Cretaceous period when flowering plants and the nectar most butterflies need to survive evolved.

Nearly every kind of butterfly flies during the day, while most moths fly at night.

A moth spins a cocoon made of silk, while a butterfly wraps itself in a chrysalis or exoskeleton made from its skin.

A butterfly is a traveler.

Most butterflies, such as the Red Admiral or the Common Buckeye migrate a short distance to find a warmer place.

But some, like the Monarch, travel far.

Also Monarchs weigh only as much as a few rose pedals.

They can fly almost 3,000 miles from Canada to their winter home in Mexico at the rate of 20 miles per hour.

Glider pilots have reported seeing Monarchs fly at an altitude of 11,000 feet, higher than some clouds.

A butterfly is magical.

Monarchs gather in huge numbers in the forests of Central Mexico waiting for spring.

Then they fly north to the milkweed plants in North America where they lay their eggs.

Now it is time again for their metamorphosis.

A butterfly is patient.

The egg hatches.

The caterpillar emerges, feasting on leaves before it wraps itself into a warm protective chrysalis, patiently waiting.

So do we still think it's about the life cycle of a butterfly?

I do too!

Oh my goodness, yes.

And of course we have the main idea.

So that means there must be lots of details and facts to support this.

What is the text evidence?

So, are you ready?

Let's go through it.

We've learned that in order to become strong butterflies, they have to drink water with their proboscis and taste food with their feet.

I think that is so cool and so weird at the same time.

So they have to drink the rain water with their proboscis because they form a puddle club and they need some of those minerals.

Remember, they said salt and minerals.

What else did we learn?

Well, we also learned that butterflies have scales.

Wow!

So I was kinda thinking like, they're kinda like snakes.

They're kinda like snakes.

The snakes have scales and they're kind of like snakes because snakes are cold-blooded.

So, wow, they're kind of similar, but they're very different too from snakes, aren't they.

Yeah, a butterfly is not a reptile.

So what did we learn?

Butterflies have scales.

Yes.

Awesome.

All right, and then we learned something very cool that we get to see all the time in the summer and the springtime, don't we?

We learned that they migrate.

They migrate to warmer places.

But when they come to Michigan, we know that, that's right.

The monarchs are coming back to lay their eggs so that the caterpillars can start the process all over again with the life cycle.

We are so lucky in Michigan to have these beautiful butterflies, aren't we?

Okay, so they have to migrate down south in Central Mexico in order to find a warm place to live.

Okay.

So there we are friends.

Look at all of these amazing details.

Thanks for all your help.

We have gone through our nonfiction text, A Butterfly is Patient, thought about what could the main idea be or what is our text mostly about?

We know that it's definitely about the lifecycle of a butterfly.

And then we had to pull out all of the, that's right, details or text evidence.

As we did that, we put it down in our Venn diagram.

Mm-hmm, are you starting to notice some similarities?

I am too.

That's fantastic.

(playful music) Are you starting to notice some of those similarities?

That's fantastic.

I am too.

So I've noticed that, uh-huh, the seed has to leave the parent plant.

That's right.

And we also learned that the butterfly has to migrate, right?

In order to.

So exciting, uh-huh.

And then we also learned that they both have to find a place to grow in order to become strong.

Oh my goodness, my friends.

Look at these amazing things.

Oh my goodness, I know.

And then we also learned that they both need rain and minerals.

Wow!

Look at that, my friends.

We've just gone through two nonfiction texts.

One about a plant and one about an animal.

And look at what we found that was different.

And look at what we found was the same.

Isn't this so exciting?

Now when you read texts, you can also use a Venn diagram to help you pull out your details and then decide how are they the same and how are they different.

(playful music) The author did such an amazing job, my friends, with the book, A Butterfly is Patient.

Those sentences were so beautiful.

Today, we're gonna go through putting our details, the ones that are different and the same together to make our own paragraph.

You can take a look, my friends, and see that we have been working on our Venn diagram from the book, A seed is Sleepy and A Butterfly is Patient.

We took all of the things, all of the details, all of the information that we knew from that book, and we put it not only into how they were different, but then we found the similarities and we merged it to the middle to tell others how a seed and a butterfly are the same.

So now friends, it's time to put that into a paragraph.

So I went ahead and wrote out some sentences for us.

Let's see if we can find our parts.

Are you ready?

I'm ready, let's go.

We start with our topic sentence.

A seed is sleepy and a butterfly is patient are similar and different.

Do you agree or do you disagree?

Is that a topic sentence?

Yeah, because I'm going to tell you one way that they're the same and one way that they're different in my paragraph.

So that is going to be our topic sentence.

That is how we compare and contrast using two texts.

Okay, let's keep going.

Now we need important facts.

Let's think.

For instance, they both talk about migration.

Okay, in order to find that in our Venn diagram, where would you find that?

You would find it in the center, wouldn't you my friends?

That's right.

Migration.

We learned that a seed has to leave a parent plant.

But then we also learned that butterflies have to move somewhere warm after they go through their metamorphosis.

So, my friends, important fact, absolutely.

They both books talk about migration and that is the they in this sentence.

Now we've got to bring the text evidence.

Mm-hmm, what are the details from the books to support migration?

Are you ready?

Okay, in the first book, A Seed is Sleepy, the seed must leave the parent plant.

In the second book, butterflies migrate to warm places.

Right?

Yeah.

I took that information right out of the book and I popped it onto the page.

So are those details?

Absolutely, my friends.

Okay.

Now I need an important fact that kind of starts to talk about their differences.

Are you ready?

Okay.

However, the books also show how they are different.

That's right.

So now our reader can expect that I'm going to come up with text evidence on how they're different.

Right?

Okay, good.

For example, we learned that a plant starts from a seed in a fruit, on cones, or in pods.

Right?

We also learned that a butterfly starts from a butterfly egg.

Are those two very different things?

Absolutely.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, so have we done it?

Did we bring out the details, the evidence from the text?

We sure have, friends.

Excellent, okay.

So now it's time.

Put that there.

So now, just like a narrative text or story that you're writing, it's time to wrap it up and bring it back to kind of the beginning.

So let's think, what did we write about today?

Hmm, how could we end this paragraph?

There are so many facts that are the same and different.

True?

I talked about some things that are the same, something that is the same and something that is different.

I sure did.

All right.

So here we go.

And that is our ending.

Oh my goodness, friends.

What amazing work.

Look at all of this.

We have used our Venn diagram that shows how a plant and a butterfly, how they're the same and how they're also different.

We were able then to take all of that information using our main idea and details and create a paragraph with a topic sentence, of course important fact, details from the text, our text evidence, important fact tells about a difference, details from the text.

Mm-hmm, text evidence.

Uh-huh.

And then we were able to go ahead and add that ending.

Wow, my friends.

Isn't this amazing work?

You've done such an amazing job today.

(speaking in foreign language) Thank you for joining us on Read, Write, Roar.

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