- Hello readers and writers.

Welcome to "Read, Write, Roar".

Today, we're going to do some word building, learn two new high frequency words and look for rhyming patterns as we read a nursery rhyme.

For today's lesson, you'll need something to write on like a piece of paper or a notebook and something to write with like a pencil.

So go get those things so we can start learning.

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(upbeat electronic music) (lion roars) - Hi.

I'm Mrs. Skelley.

Today, we're going to build a word later.

Just like we're climbing a real ladder, we're gonna start at the bottom and make our way all the way to the top by changing just one letter at a time.

Let's get started.

(light music) You can write along with us.

The first word is the word cot.

A cot is a small bed.

Cot.

Let's listen for the sounds.

Cuh-ah-tt.

Cot.

Let's write that down.

Cuh.

Ah.

Tt.

Cot.

Take your finger and let's check it.

Cuh-ah-tt.

Cot.

Great job.

Now we're gonna change one letter in the word cot to make the word dot.

This is a dot.

What letter do you think we're gonna change to turn cot into dot?

Yes, the beginning sound.

We're gonna take out the C and put in a D. Let's listen for the sounds.

Duh-ah-tt.

Dot.

Let's write them down.

Duh.

Ah.

Tt.

Take your finger and let's check it.

Duh-ah-tt.

Dot.

Great work.

Now we're gonna change one letter in the word dot to make the word hot.

The temperature is very hot when it's summer.

Hot.

Let's listen for the sounds.

Huh-ah-tt.

Hot.

What do you think will change to turn dot into hot?

That's right, the beginning sound.

Let's write it down.

We're gonna take out the D and put in an H. Huh.

Ah.

Tt.

Take your finger and let's check it.

Huh-ah-tt.

Hot.

Great work.

We're going to change one letter in the word hot to make the word hit.

I can hit the baseball with a bat.

Hit.

Let's listen for the sounds.

Huh-ih-tt.

What letter do you think we're gonna change to turn hot into hit?

Yes, the middle sound.

We're going to take out the O and add in an I.

Let's write it down.

Huh.

Ih.

Tt.

Take your finger and let's check it.

Huh-ih-tt.

Hit.

Good job.

Now we're going to change just one letter in the word hit to make the word pit.

My fruit has a big pit in the middle.

Pit.

Let's listen for the sounds.

Puh-ih-tt.

Pit.

What letter do you think we'll change to turn hit into pit?

Yes, the beginning sound.

We'll take out the H and put in a P. Let's write it down.

Puh.

Ih.

Tt.

Take your finger and let's check the letters.

Puh-ih-tt.

Pit.

Great work.

Now we're gonna change one letter in the word pit to make the word pet.

Isn't my pet dog so cute?

He loves to get pets.

Pet.

What letter do you think we're gonna change to turn pit into pet?

Let's listen for the sounds.

Puh-eh-tt.

What letter do we change?

Yes, the middle sound.

We're gonna take out the I and put in an E for pet.

Let's write it down.

Puh.

Eh.

Tt.

Take your finger and let's check it.

Puh-eh-tt.

Pet.

Great work.

Now we've got just one more word to get to the very top of our ladder.

We're going to change one letter in the word pet to make the word jet.

This is a jet.

It flies so fast.

Jet.

Let's listen for the sounds.

Juh-eh-tt.

Jet.

What letter do you think we're going to change to turn pet into jet?

Yes, the beginning sound.

We're going to take out the P and add in a J.

Let's write it down.

Juh.

Eh.

Tt.

Take your finger and let's check it.

Juh-eh-tt.

Jet.

Great work.

You made it all the way to the top of our word ladder.

Now let's practice our words.

I'm gonna read the words first and then it will be your turn to read them.

Let's start at the top.

Jet.

Pet.

Pit.

Hit.

Hot.

Dot.

Cot.

Now it's your turn.

Let's start at the bottom and as I point, you read the word.

Cot.

Dot.

Hot.

Hit.

Pit.

Pet.

Jet.

Wow!

You did it.

Wonderful job.

You can read these words to someone at home.

We built a word ladder today by changing just one letter at a time.

(light music) We're going to learn two new high frequency words today.

They're called high frequency words because they come up often in our reading.

The first word is the word all.

Can you say that?

We could use the word all when we're talking about a lot of things, like I cleaned up all the toys.

All.

Let's listen to the sounds in the word all.

Ah-ull.

There are two sounds in the word all.

Watch me write the word all.

A-L-L. A-L-L.

There are three letters in the word all.

The first letter is A, but it sounds like ah.

It sounds like an O, but it's actually an A.

That's the part of the word that we have to remember.

The next two letters are L's.

It takes two L's to say ull in all.

The word all is spelled A-L-L. Let's stand up, put our arm out and blend the letters together to spell the word all.

Put your arm out, put your other arm to your shoulder and say the letters.

A-L-L, all.

Try it with me.

A-L-L, all.

Do it again.

A-L-L, all.

Great work.

Now let's put our finger in the air and let's practice tracing the letters in the word all to help us remember how to spell and write it.

Trace it with me.

A-L-L, all.

Do it again.

A-L-L, all.

One more time.

A-L-L, all.

Great work.

What word is this?

Yes, it's the word all.

Great job.

Our next high frequency word is the word the.

Can you say that word?

Good.

We use the word the when we're talking about one thing, like the tree or the toys.

We may also see the word the in titles of books, like "Goldie Locks and The Three Bears".

Let's listen for the sounds in the word the.

Thuh-uh.

There are two sounds in the word the.

Watch me write the word the.

T. H. E. T-H-E.

There are three letters in the word the.

The first two letters and TH and they make a special sound when they're right next to each other.

They say thuh.

Can you try that?

I like to stick my tongue out a little bit between my teeth to make that sound.

Thuh.

Thuh.

Good.

That's the TH sound, thuh.

The next letter is an E, but it says uh.

That's the part of the word that we have to remember.

The word the is spelled T-H-E. Let's put our arm out and tap it out to help us remember the spelling.

T-H-E, the.

Do it with me.

T-H-E, the.

One more time.

T-H-E, the.

Great work.

Now let's put our finger in the air and practice tracing the word the to help us remember the spelling.

T-H-E, the.

Do it again.

T-H-E, the.

One more time.

T-H-E, the.

What word is this again?

That's right, it's the word the.

Great work.

We learned two new high frequency words today.

They are the word... What word is it?

All.

And the word all is spelled A-L-L, all.

And the word... What word is it?

The.

And the word the is spelled T-H-E, the.

Great work.

(light music) It's time for your brain break.

Stand up, move and learn with me.

Today we're gonna play a very silly game of "Simon Says".

Silly "Simon Says" can only say words that start with an mmm or an M. So if I said touch your mose, you would either touch your nose or your toes.

Try that.

Touch your nose.

Mose, nose.

Those words rhyme.

Silly "Simon Says" likes to come up with words that rhyme.

Here's your next one.

Touch your marm.

Did you touch your arm?

That's so silly.

Marm, arm.

Those words rhyme.

Silly "Simon Says" to touch your mees.

Did you touch your knees?

Mees, knees.

Those words rhyme.

They both say ee at the end of them.

(light music) First, I'm going to read the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty", which is actually a nursery rhyme about an egg.

Can you believe it?

As I'm reading, I want you to be looking for our new high frequency words, the words all and the.

I'm gonna put them right down here so you can pay special attention to find those words as I'm reading our nursery rhyme.

"Humpty Dumpty".

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again.

Let's look for the word the.

T-H-E, the.

Can you point to it?

Look for it.

It's in there a couple times.

Did you find it?

I'm gonna circle the word the in red.

Here it is.

T-H-E, the.

Great.

Did you find it again?

There it is again.

T-H-E, the.

Great work.

Now we're going to look for our second high frequency word, the word all.

Can you find the word all?

Let's look for it.

Can you point to it?

Here it is.

Look!

This word all has a capital A, but it's still the same word as this.

A-L-L, all.

It's in there one more time.

Can you find it?

There it is!

Did you find it?

A-L-L, all.

Great work finding our two high frequency words the and all.

Now, I'm gonna read the nursery rhyme again and this time, we're going to listen for rhyming words.

Remember, rhyming words have the same sound at the end.

Let's look at this word.

This is the word wall.

Listen to the word wall.

Let's listen for the parts.

Wuh-all, wall.

The word wall has the all sound at the end.

Words that say all at the say will rhyme with wall, so listen carefully to find the word that rhymes with wall.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

What word rhymes with wall?

Fall.

Fall rhymes with wall.

Wall, fall.

Those words rhyme.

They sound the same at the end.

Can you think of other words that rhyme with wall and fall?

How 'bout call and mall and tall?

Let's write those down and see what parts are the same in all of those words.

In the nursery rhyme, we have the word wall and fall.

We also notice that the words call and tall all rhymed as well.

What do you notice that's the same in all of those words?

They all have A-L-L at the end of them.

Wall says wuh-all, fall says ff-all, call says cuh-all and tall says ttt-all.

They all say all at the end of them.

We call this the all family.

These are all family words.

Words that say all at the end of them all rhyme.

(bright music) Now we're gonna keep reading our nursery rhyme and listen for more rhyming words.

All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again.

Which two words rhymed?

Men rhymed with the word again.

Let's look at those words.

Men and again.

Now they aren't spelled the same at the end, but they still rhyme.

Sometimes words that aren't spelled the same at the end still rhyme.

Can you think of some other words that rhyme with men?

How about den, pen or ten?

Those words all rhyme with the word men.

They all say en at the end of them.

Let's write those down so we can see what's the same.

We have the word men from the nursery rhyme and the word den like a bear's den and ten.

What do you notice that's the same in all of those words?

That's right, they all have EN in them.

They all say en and the end of them.

Mmm-en, men, duh-en, den and tt-en, ten.

They're all part of the en family.

They all say en at the end of them and that's what makes them rhyme.

(light music) Now that we've read the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty", let's talk a little bit about story elements or the parts that make up the story.

The characters in the story were Humpty Dumpty and the king's men.

The problem in the story is the part that goes wrong.

What's the problem in the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty"?

What part goes wrong?

Well the problem in the story is that Humpty Dumpty is actually an egg.

He falls off the wall and cracks and the king's men can't put him back together again.

That's a problem, isn't it?

Yeah.

Well let's write about that problem today.

Make sure you have something to write on so you can write with us.

We're going to write about the problem.

We're gonna write the sentence "He fell off the wall".

Before we start writing, let's get our brains ready and let's clap out that sentence.

Clap it with me.

He fell off the wall.

Let's count it out.

He fell off the wall.

There are five words in that sentence.

Now before we start writing, let's draw some lines on our paper to remind us that there's spaces in between our words.

He.

Fell.

Off.

The.

Wall.

Let's practice reading our sentence before we start writing.

He fell off the wall.

Great work.

Now we're ready to write.

The first word in our sentence is the word he and we have to make sure we give it a capital letter because it's the beginning of our sentence.

Let's stretch out the sounds in the word he.

Huh-ee, he.

What sound do you hear at the beginning of that word?

Yes, that's an H. Let's write a capital H. Start at the top, go down, back up, go down, back up and slide to the right.

Huh-ee, we hear an E. It says its own name.

Let's start in the middle, slide over, up and around.

Let's read what we have so far.

He fell.

Let's listen for the sounds in the word fell.

Fff-eh-ull, fell.

What sound do you hear at the beginning of that word?

Yes, an F. Let's start at the top, curve around, go down and slide over.

Fff-eh, that's an E. Let's start in the middle, slide over, up and around like a C. Fff-eh-ull, we hear an L at the end of that word.

This word needs two L's to make the ull sound.

Start at the top, go down, back up, go down.

Great work.

Let's read what we have so far to figure out what comes next.

He fell off.

Let's stretch out the sounds in the word off.

Ah-fff.

What sound do you hear at the beginning of that word?

That's right, that's an O, ah.

Let's start in the middle and around like an O. Ah-fff.

At the end of that word, we hear an F. In this word, we need two F's to make that sound.

Start at the top, curve around, go down and slide to the right, start at the top, curve around, go down and slide to the right.

Let's read what we have so far.

He fell off the.

The is our new high frequency word today.

Do you remember how to spell it?

Remember, we can listen for the sounds in the word the.

Thuh-uh.

The first two letters are TH to make the thuh sound.

Remember, they work together to make that sound.

Start at the top, go down, back up and slide to the right.

Now for the H. Start at the top, go down, back up and make a hump.

Thuh-uh.

Now remember, it sounds like a U, but it's actually an E. That's the part of the word we have to remember.

Start in the middle, slide over, up and around like a C. We're almost there.

We're almost to the end of our sentence.

Let's read what we have so far.

He fell off the wall.

Let's stretch out the sounds in the word wall.

Stretch it out with me.

Wuh-ah-ull, wall.

What sound do you hear at the beginning of that word?

That's right, a W. Let's start in the middle, slant down, back up, slant down, back up.

Wuh-all.

We know that part.

That's the all sound or the all family.

Remember our high frequency word all?

It's spelled A-L-L. Let's write that.

Make a C, go up and down.

Let's start at the top for the letter L, go down, start at the top, go down.

We can't forget our punctuation mark.

Let's put a period at the end of our sentence to tell our readers it's the end.

Let's read our sentence.

Here we go.

He fell off the wall.

Great work.

Now, we just need a picture to match.

So let's do some thinking.

What would that look like if Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall?

What was the problem?

Well the problem was that he was an egg and he cracked when he fell off the wall.

That's pretty sad.

So let's go ahead and I'm gonna draw a wall that he fell off of.

There's my wall.

And here's Humpty Dumpty.

He's a cracked egg and there are pieces of cracked egg on the ground and he's not very happy about it, right?

So he has a frowny face.

Go ahead and draw a picture to match your sentence.

Let's practice reading our sentence one more time.

He fell off the wall.

Great work.

Now make sure to read your sentence to someone at home.

Tell them about the characters in our nursery rhyme and the problem.

(bright music) Today, we learned how to build new words, recognize high frequency words, look for rhyming patterns in a nursery rhyme and we wrote a sentence.

Thank you for learning with me today.

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

- [Narrator] This program is made possible in part by Michigan Department of Education, the state of Michigan and The Kresge Foundation.

Additional support for educational programming provided by... And by viewers like you.

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