♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games you play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Good morning, fabulous first grade, welcome back to PBS.

Here we are in our classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, and I'm here to help you practice and learn all the things that you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

And so, I'm so glad you're here today.

I hope that you're having an excellent day and I hope that you've been reading some amazing books.

I don't have a story to share with you today because I'm waiting to hear from you.

What would you like other people to know about?

What books have you been looking at and reading?

Have you been checking out books on Sora?

I certainly hope so.

You can get books on Sora if you have that app, or at your county public library wherever you live, or you might even be able to check out books for the next few weeks at your school library.

So I hope you're doing that and write to me here at the at our classrooms so that I can send you, that's right, a fun activity book.

Write to me and tell me which books your reading so that I can recommend them to other boys and girls that might like to read those stories too.

And then I'll put one of these in the mail for you.

Just make sure I have your address, okay?

Okay, I can't wait to hear from you.

Now, we have a lot of boys and girls that are checking out books in Fresno Unified using the Sora app.

And we're gonna find out right now who is in the number five spot on our countdown.

Are you ready to see who it is?

Let's do it, okay, here we go.

Look at that, Turner Tigers.

Way to go Turner, I'm so proud of you, great job.

Wow, you have been on our top five list for a couple of weeks now, good job.

All right, boys and girls, get checking out those books and reading on that Sora app so we can see your school's name here on our list, okay?

Excellent.

All right, my friends, it's time for us to train our ears for sound, are you ready?

I know that you are.

You've gotten so good at doing all of our fun sound games.

Today, we are going to play the syllable addition game.

Now remember, a syllable is like a chunk of a word and we're gonna add to an already existing word.

All right, you ready to see how it goes?

Okay, so, we're gonna add ten to the end of kit.

So if we have kit and we add ten, what is our word?

Kitten, good job.

I knew you could figure that out.

All right, we have one more, are you ready?

All right, our word is throw, throw, good, and I want you to add to the ending, I want you to add ing.

Oh yeah, that's our inflectional ending.

I want you to add ing, throw ing.

What's our word?

Throwing, great job, you did that fantastic.

I knew that would be an easy one for you.

All right, are you ready to do some of our fluency practice?

We're gonna look at some of the sounds and spelling patterns that we've been practicing throughout the last few weeks and it gives you an opportunity to practice them again.

Remember, if there's one or two that you're struggling with, I want you to write them down so that you can practice them over and over and get it locked in tight to your great big reading brain, okay, terrific.

All right, here we go, E W, says, ew, A U, says, uwhat is it?

Right, au, good for you.

How about this one?

O I, says, oi, good.

O Y, says oy, O W, says ow, O E, says ue, good job.

And you remember this one?

A U G H, says augh, great job practicing.

Make sure you write those down, if you're having any trouble.

This week, we're gonna be talking about three letter blends.

And it is exactly what the name says.

It's three letters blended together.

Now we've done consonant blends before and that's two letters.

We're gonna add a third letter this week and it's going to look like this.

Look at all these three letter blends.

Let's take a look at them, and I'm gonna tell you how to spell and sound out each one.

S C R, says scr, scr, S H R, says scr, do you see the S H there?

It still says the same sound but we're gonna add the R sound at the end, shr.

Then we have S P L, says spl, spl, S Q U, says squ, squ, S T R, says str, str, S P R, says spr, spr, and T H R, says thr, thr.

All right, I have a few words that we're gonna look at together and practice sounding them out.

Let me get my reading finger and let's take a look.

So, you are familiar with the S C blend.

So all we're gonna do is add an extra sound onto it before we finish reading.

So let's try it.

Scr ap, scr ap, scrap.

How about this one?

Oh, there's that aw sound, okay?

So let's take a look at it.

And we have a three letter blend, str aw, straw, good.

And let's try this one, sp, spl, spl it, split, split, great job.

Now I put some pictures up here to help us.

I'm we're gonna take a look at some of these words.

Here is a screen, screen.

You're very familiar with a screen especially after all our distance learning.

How about this one?

Spint, sprint, do you see she's running really fast.

That's a sprint.

And I love, love, love this one, strawberry.

Look at that humongous word that you're able to read.

Straw, there is straw, just like here's straw, and then we have berry.

Oh, you're right, that's a compound word, good thinking.

How about this?

Shr imp, shrimp, good.

And, squ int, squint, and thr ob, throb, you see his toe, he must have stubbed his toe and it's has some pain in it, we say that it is throbbing, good job.

Well, those are kind of tricky but you already know the consonant blends, so I think this week you're gonna be able to read those with no problem at all.

Let's take a look at our chart just really quick so that you can see all of the three-letter blends that I put together here for you.

Do you see how I highlighted the pattern in red?

So we have str ong, strong, and thr one, throne, scre een, screen, thr ew, threw, spr ay, spray, oh, that's threw again, and split, this word says thr ead, thread.

And spr ead, spread, and scrap, how did you do?

Good job.

Boys and girls do you see how we used all of our vowel teams that we've been looking at?

And we've been using our silent E patterns and all of the short vowels that we learned all this year, do you see how it all works together so that we can be great readers?

We have to remember all those skills that we've been learning, because now we're gonna put those skills together, to read new bigger word because we're almost ready for second grade.

Let's take a look at our high-frequency words for this week.

Okay, we have six, we always have six, and let's take a look at them.

This word is your, spell it with me, Y O U R, your.

This word is long, it's tomorrow, look how long that word is, T O M O R R O W, tomorrow.

This word is push, spell it with me, P U S H, push.

This word is heard, spell it with me, H E A R D, heard.

This word is front, F R O N T, front.

And this word is before, B E F O R E, good job.

All right, we have some sentences.

I want you to use your good looking detective eyes and see if you can find our high-frequency words because before we can sound them out we have to be able to identify them.

So let's use our eyes and be detective.

Had you heard that the plane will fly tomorrow?

Had you heard that the plane will fly tomorrow?

Do you see any of our words?

Did you see tomorrow?

Good, I don't think my window is big enough for that one.

What else did you see?

Oh, heard, good, I missed that one, good for you.

How about this?

My name comes before yours in ABC order.

My name comes before yours.

Oh, yep, here's before, and did you see what we did with that word?

Right, yours, we added an S to it.

I thought that might trick you, but it didn't, did it, good for you.

Push the cart in front of you.

Push the cart in front of you.

Do you see the word push?

Good, don't let the capital letter full you remember it's still the same word and there's our word front.

How did you do?

Great, write these words down and practice them all week long.

Remember, high-frequency words are the words that show up the most frequently in all of the things that we read.

So we want to get those automatic in our brain so that we don't have to stop and sound them out, right?

Just as fast as you know your name.

All right, my friends, I've had a great time with you today, I hope you'll come back tomorrow so we can continue practicing three letter blends.

And I'm gonna introduce you to some endings next on tomorrow, okay?

So sing with me, ♪ Good bye now, good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ Ill see you tomorrow good one everyone ♪ Read a good book and then write to me and tell me all about it, bye-bye.

(upbeat music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone.

♪ (upbeat music)