♪ 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) - Oh, hi.

Hey, my name is Mr. Dawson, and I'm here at discovery ranch to take you on some discovery so you can learn how to read and write.

Join me here each day, so we can go on brand new discoveries together.

Sorry, I was fixing things up I kinda got lost, but I'm here now.

Don't forget that if you write to me right here at the station, and you tell me something that you've learned this week, I will send you an activity book.

Write to me today and tell me something you've learned.

Oh, I'm excited about today because now we get to put all the things that we've been learning this week together in our reading activity and in our writing activity.

Are you guys ready to go?

I'm ready to go.

Let's take a look.

Let's take a look at our essential question.

It says, what do you know about our country?

What do you know about our country?

The American way.

Do you know what this is right here?

This is the statue of Liberty.

Yes.

Yes.

The statue of Liberty.

There are a lot of things to see that will tell you about our country.

I'm so excited about today because I love our country.

It is a great place to live.

Well, let's take a look at our book.

Do you wanna see our book?

Our book this week is "Ana goes to Washington, DC."

You know what I wanna do?

I wanna count how many words are in the title, let's go.

One, two, three, four, four words.

And I'll count this one too five.

So that's good.

All right.

So this is the front cover remember?

This is the spine that holds the book together and here's the back cover.

Nice, nice.

This is awesome.

Now, remember when we read books, we'll read books we're finding out some information.

The first thing I want you to tell me when we come back after the video is, is this book nonfiction or fiction?

Remember non-fiction means it is true.

It is true.

And fiction means it isn't true.

Now the key is here if there's one thing that's not true, then we have to call it fiction.

Even though there's things in the book that might be true.

If there's one thing that's not true then we call it fiction.

And sometimes a lot of authors will mix up nonfiction stuff with fiction stuff.

So even though there's some nonfiction stuff because, something in there that's not true is in there then we call it fiction.

And this case, I think they're gonna talk about a lot of places that are in Washington, DC even though the family that it's talking about may not be true, I'm not sure.

Okay, so as always you know when we come back I'm gonna ask you questions to see if you've been listening.

And I'm gonna tell you the questions right now.

Are you ready?

One of my question is what is Washington, DC the Capital of?

Listen to that in the story.

What is Washington, DC the capital of?

That's the first question.

The second question is what are some historical places that they visit in the story?

And the third question is how did Ana feel at the end of the story?

How did she feel?

All right.

So our story is, "Ana goes to Washington, DC".

I hope you enjoy the story.

- [Narrator] "Ana goes to Washington, DC" by René Colato Laínez and illustrated by Angela Dominguez.

"Ana goes to Washington, DC."

"We are in Washington, DC.

It is the Capital of the United States," said Ana to mamá and her little sister, Sara.

Ana ran and hugged her tía Luisa and said, "I cannot wait to visit the historic places".

The next morning, Ana and Sara were holding a large map.

"Look, Sara, we will visit all of these places".

Tía Luisa and mamá waved American flags.

They gave flags to Ana and Sara.

Ana opened the front door and said, "ready, set, go!"

"This is the National Mall", tía Luisa said.

"I don't see any stores," Sara said.

"There are no stores here," tía Luisa replied.

Sara turned around and around and said, "I get it!

Instead of stores, this Mall has historic buildings."

"What is this tall building?"

asked Ana.

"It looks like a giant number one," Sara said.

"This is the Washington Monument," tia Luisa said.

"It was built to honor the first president, or leader, of the United States, George Washington."

Mamá opened her purse.

"Look.

His face on the dollar bill and the quarter!"

Ana cried.

"Who is this tall man sitting on that big chair?"

Ana asked.

"He is Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president.

He ended slavery and helped keep the United States together," tía Luisa said.

"He is also on the pennies that Sara and I put inside our biggie banks."

Ana said.

"Who lives in this beautiful house?"

Ana asked.

"The president of the United States lives in the White House," tía Luisa said.

"Can we knock and say hello?"

Ana and Sara asked.

"The president is a very busy person," Tía Luisa said.

"But I have tickets to get inside."

"Yes!"

said everyone.

"This building is bigger than my whole school."

Ana said.

"It is the Capital building.

They make laws here," tía Luisa said.

"Are laws like school rules?"

Ana asked.

Tía Luisa and mamá nodded.

"We need to follow rules, or we will get in trouble," Ana said to Sara.

"look!

There are also statue sitting on chairs here."

Ana pointed at them.

"This is the Supreme Court," tía Luisa said.

"When people do not agree, the Supreme Court decides what is fair."

"The Supreme court is like a teacher.

Teachers talk to children when they argue."

Ana said.

"Welcome to the library of Congress," tia Luisa said.

"There are so many beautiful books here," said Ana.

"I love to read books to Sara."

"Almost all the books published in the United States are here," tía Luisa said.

"I would love to read them all one day!"

Ana I said.

Tía Luisa and Mamá smiled.

They went back to the National Mall and walked across independence Avenue.

"Look!

I know the man in the statue," Anna said.

"He is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And he had a dream for everyone to be treated fairly."

"This is his memorial," tía Luisa said.

"I will work for my dreams, too," Ana said.

Ana and her family walked among the flowering cherry trees.

"Look at the beautiful cherry blossoms!"

Ana said.

"These trees are a gift from Japan to celebrate the friendship between our two countries," tía Luisa said.

They sat down and watched the paddle boats go by.

Ana hugged tía Luisa and said, "thank you for this wonderful day.

I will never forget it."

- Did you like that story?

It's a great story.

It talks about all kinds of different places in Washington, DC to visit.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, here we go.

So let's make a decision.

Is this story non-fiction or fiction?

What do you guys think?

It is fiction.

I didn't see anything that told me that these are real people.

So I say that it's fiction even though it had some real places in it.

That's the story.

But that's good, you guys did awesome.

Okay now, are you guys ready for some questions?

Remember the three questions I asked you, here we go.

The first question was, what is Washington, DC the Capital of?

Did you hear that in the story?

It was in the very first part of the story let's take a look.

If I can open it up right here.

Here it is.

Here it is let's read it.

It says we are in Washington, DC.

It is the Capital of the United States.

So we know that Washington, DC is the capital of the United States, right?

It's the capital of the United States.

Awesome, okay Here's the second question.

What are some of the historic places, historical places that they visit?

Well, they visited a lot of different places.

They did a lot.

They visited the White House and the Washington Monument, and the Supreme Court.

Oh, they were some great places that they visited.

That is so awesome.

And then the last one is at the end of the story how did Ana feel?

Well, it tells us in the story kinda gives us a clue.

They sat down and watched the paddle boats go by.

So when you sit what's the deal?

We're probably tired.

We're probably tired so I better sit down and rest.

Oh yes, I wanna take a look back at this picture and I wanna take a look at what we're supposed to do for our writing.

It says, "Ana goes to Washington, DC."

Why does the illustrator include photos in the map?

Circle Yes or no for each question.

The first one was, do the photos show that the places are real?

Yes.

Do the photos show that the places, what the places look like?

Yes.

Do the photos show where Ana lives?

Yes.

And do the photos show oh, what, do the photos show where Ana lives right?

Do the photos show us where Anna is?

And yes it is.

She's in Washington, DC.

I almost got mixed up on that one.

So our sentence starter is the photos in the map show.

What does it show?

It shows that the places, places that are real, it shows that places that are real.

So if I look, if I take a close look at these pictures, all of these pictures are places that are real.

So I'm gonna say that the photos in the map show places that are real.

So I better write that right now.

Cause I don't have very much time.

The photos in the map show places that and that is a, that's a sight word, T-H-A-T. That places that are, I'm gonna have to do a return suite.

Are is a sight word.

Real I'm gonna put that one down here.

And I wouldn't have a sentence if I didn't have a period.

So here's my upper case, and I have a period, and I have a noun and a verb show.

Awesome, I have a sentence.

I'm so excited.

The photos in the map show places that are real.

We had a great time with this book today.

I'm so excited that you came here today to read my book "Ana goes to Washington, DC."

And you were able to answer all those questions.

(excited) Yes.

Well, guess what?

I'm gonna have another story tomorrow.

Come back and we'll do this all again.

Have a great day.

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.

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