(guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ time to learn and the games to play ♪ ♪ learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ learning is good for everyone.

♪ (guitar music) (bright upbeat music) - Once upon a time in the three little, oh, hi, hey, welcome to our classroom.

I'm so glad to see you here in our PBS classroom.

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

You caught me I was just looking at my activity book with Super Why and I was trying to finish the story here.

They gave me some words and I need to try to plug them in to make the story make sense.

Isn't that fun?

I know.

I'll have to finish that later.

Would you like to have one of these?

I would love to send you an activity book.

All you need to do is write to me right here in our PBS classroom and give me your address and I will send you one of these for free, right in the mail.

I would love for you to write me or draw a picture and tell me what great books that you are reading.

I wanna know all about the things that you're reading and practicing.

Remember the best way to be an excellent reader is to read.

When you were learning how to walk, you had to practice every day.

And now look at you, you walk around with no problem.

But what if you had decided just to quit cause it was too hard?

That would be weird.

You wouldn't be able to walk now.

You have to practice things that are hard because that's what makes our brains get stronger, and that is how things get easier.

So I want you to practice reading so that you can be an excellent reader.

Great.

And then write to me and tell me what you're reading so I can tell other boys and girls, they might need some ideas.

I would love to hear from you.

Our friends in Fresno Unified are using the Sora app to check out books, and they are also using their school library and checking books out at the County public library.

And you can do all of those things too.

So if you don't have books at your house, that's okay because guess what?

It doesn't cost any money to check out books at the County library or at your school library or if your school uses Sora, that's free too.

See how easy it is to get books to practice.

You don't have any excuses.

I wanna hear those readers.

Let's take a look at the number two school on our Sora count down and find out who is number two today.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Number two, Hidalgo Eagles.

Great job.

Wow, Hidalgo that is fantastic.

I am very proud of you.

I am not sure if you've been on our list before either.

I am super excited to see your name here.

I want you to keep checking those books out on Sora and keep reading.

You are going to be superstar readers if you keep that up.

Very good job.

It's time for us to train our ears for sound.

Are you ready?

Yeah, cause we're going to play a game called the segmentation game.

I'm going to tell you a word, you are going to break it apart one phoneme at a time.

We did this earlier in the week and we're gonna do it again because we're practicing using our good ears.

Here we go.

My word for you is scream, scream.

You ready to break it apart?

Here we go.

Scream, scream, scream.

Good job.

Did you hear how many sounds there were?

Let's try it again.

Scr, those are three, eam, five.

That one had five sounds.

Let's try the next one.

You ready?

Stripe, stripe, stripe.

Good job.

How many does that have?

It had five also.

Good counting.

Last word, are you ready?

Thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown.

Good for you.

How many sounds did you hear in that?

Four, that's right.

Very nicely done.

You did that beautifully.

Your brain is getting bigger.

I can tell, getting stronger.

My friends let's check out some fluency.

These are the sounds that we've already learned and I hope you're writing down the ones that you might still need practice with.

Ready?

E, w says ew.

A, u says au.

O, i says oi.

O, w says ow.

O, y says oy.

U, e says ue.

And augh says augh.

Good work.

This week we've been practicing three-letter blends.

They're kind of tricky to hear, but not too bad to read.

So let's take a look, let's spell them and say the sound that they make.

Are you ready?

S, c, r says scr.

S, h, r says shr.

S, p, l says spl.

S, q, u says squ.

S, t, r says str.

S, p, r says spr.

And t, h, r says thr.

So we have scratch, spray, stray, shrink, squat and throne.

Good work.

Let's read the word we have today, it's strap, strap.

Good job.

Now, if I wanted to change that to strip, I'm gonna change my a, to a short i, strip, strip.

Now, what if I want it to say stripe?

What do I need to do now?

Do you remember that i consonant?

That's right, the silent e, now my word says stripe.

And I can change it to this word, I'm gonna put it up here and you get ready to read.

Are you ready?

Let's read this word, ready?

Strike, strike, do you see that i consonant e?

Good job, strike.

Just like I promised, we have a story that we're gonna read today.

Oops, one of my words fell so let me grab that really quick.

See if I can get that on our chart, there we go.

Today, we're gonna start our story, it's called Three Shrimp.

I know I'm not sure.

I see a King and I see a throne, I see a fish, but that's not the same as a shrimp, is it?

So I'm curious to see what is gonna happen in the story.

Are you ready?

Now as we're reading, I want you to use those good detective eyes looking for those words that have those three-letter blends.

You ready?

Let's get started.

The King sat down on his throne.

He clapped his hands.

"Striped fish for supper, please," He screeched.

He gave the same order each night.

The cook heard the King's order.

He scratched his head.

He did not know what to do.

Today there were no striped fish from the stream.

The cook only had three plump shrimp.

The cook had to think fast.

He split each shrimp in two and put them on a plate.

He spread the sauce on top.

That sounds like a problem to me, how about you?

I don't think shrimp and fish are gonna be the same, do you?

I can't wait to find out what happens but that look first for some of those three-letter blends.

Did you see some?

Shout them out so I know what to look for?

Yes, right in the title, right?

We have three and shrimp.

Good for you.

Oh, where was the King sitting?

Yes, on his throne.

And what did he wanna eat, do you remember?

Striped fish for supper.

And how did he say it?

Do you remember how he said it?

He screeched, look at that.

He screeched, that's like, kind of like a yell.

He yelled out his order.

What did the cook do?

Oh, look, he scratched his head.

He did not know what to do.

There were no striped fish from the stream.

The cook only had three plump shrimp.

The cook had to think fast, he split each shrimp in two and put them on a plate.

He spread sauce on top.

Wow, you know what else I noticed?

Did you see our high-frequency word heard in that story.

Isn't it great how all those pieces come together to help us read?

You did a fantastic job looking for those three-letter blends.

We are going to move, first, before we go to high frequency words to our inflectional endings.

That way I don't have to move my chart back and forth.

So let's take a look at what it might look like if we're practicing on our workbook page.

Add ed to tell what happened in the past.

Add ing to tell what is happening now.

Some words have to be changed before adding ed or ing.

Remember if the word ends in an e, we drop the e before adding ed or ing.

If the word ends in a y, we have to change that y to an i before we add ed and ing, and we have to double the final consonant if the word follows the one, one, one rule.

That means one syllable words, with one vowel sound followed by one consonant.

That's our one, one, one rule.

So if that word follows that rule, then we need to make sure that we do that.

So let's take a look.

We're gonna complete each sentence.

I, and our word is gonna be dry.

I dried or drying the dog after his bath.

What do you think?

Dried or drying?

I dried, because it's after his bath.

So we can say that it already happened, I dried.

So let's take a look at dried.

We've got dr, and now remember it ends in a y, so I'm gonna change the y to an i and add ed.

I dried the dog after his bath.

How'd you do?

You're getting it?

Good.

We'll spend some more time on that tomorrow.

Will you sing with me?

♪ Good bye now, good bye now ♪ ♪ the clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow good bye everyone.

♪ Bye-bye.

(guitar 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.

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