♪ 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) (playful music) - A joy dog, a boy's dog, a choose a brand new toy dog.

Hey, how are you?

Welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

I'm Mr. Dawson, and I'm here to take you on discovery so you can learn how to read and write.

And remember, today is our reading and writing day.

I'm excited!

I wonder what we're gonna do today.

Well, before we get started, I should tell you about writing me a letter.

If you write me a letter or send me an email to Valley PBS, guess what?

I'm gonna send you an activity book.

Would you like to have one?

All you have to do is write to me.

Yes, and then I will send you an activity book and a little note saying thank you for writing me.

Well, today is an exciting day, because it's reading and writing day.

Oh my goodness.

We're gonna do some reading.

We're gonna do some writing.

We're gonna do some comprehension.

Oh, I'm so excited about today.

Let's get started.

Okay.

Let's talk about the essential question.

Here it is.

How can things in nature be used to make new things?

Whoa.

The Wonders of Nature!

Oh, nature is so cool.

Oh my goodness.

Why?

Because we can take all different kinds of things and make new things out of them.

We can explore our world and learn new things all the time.

So having said that, I thought it would be cool to do this book right here.

The title of this book is "Bread Comes to Life."

Yes.

"A Garden, Wheat, and a Lot to Eat."

The author is George Levenson.

That's right.

Remember, this is the front cover, this is the spine, and then this is the back cover, that's right.

Now, as in every book, I have a job for you.

I want you to determine and tell me if it's nonfiction, which means that it's true, right.

Or it's fiction, what does that mean?

Yes, that means it's not true.

That's right.

So every book can be nonfiction or fiction.

And also we have a narrative book and we have informative books.

I wonder what kind of book this is.

I think it's informative, which means it's gonna give us some information and perhaps, maybe, what do you think?

What do you predict this book is going to be about?

What do you think?

Do you think it's gonna be about bread and comes to life?

I think it might.

Now, listen, you know that when we come back, I'm going to be asking you some questions about the story.

So make sure that you're listening, make sure you're listening so that you can answer the questions in the story.

Are you ready?

Okay.

Remember, this book is called "Bread Comes to Life."

I hope you enjoy this story.

(upbeat music) "Bread Comes to Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat" by George Levenson.

"Bread Comes to Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat".

"Bread is the food we eat every day, so many kinds, so many ways.

White bread, black bread.

Small bread, tall bread.

Thin bread, twin bread.

Dinner rolls, bread with holes.

Hard, day-old tough bread, soft, squishy, fluff bread.

Bread is toast.

Bread is crumbs.

Bread is pizza.

Bread is buns.

How is bread made?

Where is it from?

This baker makes his bread from scratch, by sowing wheat in his backyard patch.

Soon those seeds send down roots and sprout into shoots of bright green grass.

The days pass, and that grass grows into sturdy blades, tall and straight, finely made, with budding heads and bristly hair, gently waving in the air.

When the crop is ripe and old, the tops are bowed and streaked with gold, and every head of wheat contains many tiny finished grains.

Time to cut the golden field, gather up the backyard yield, stack up piles of sun-dried stalks, rub them in a threshing box.

It's the simple, old time miller's craft of separating wheat from chaff.

What's left are seeds, a hefty load, many times the number sowed.

And each new grain of harvest wheat looks just like a loaf to eat.

Now is the hour to grind those grains into a whole wheat flour.

With simple tools and easy rules, it's on with the show to make up some dough and bring fresh bread to life.

Yeast, honey, water, flour, salt, oil, and muscle power.

Dump it.

Thump it.

Dust it.

Knead it.

Squash it.

Stretch it.

Toss it.

Set it aside to rest and rise.

It grows and grows to twice the size.

Punch it down, give it some shape, let it rise again and put it in to bake.

Slice it fresh.

It's better than cake.

Whatever the shape it finally takes, wherever the place it finally bakes, every day we are blessed with a mountain of bread.

It's the staff of life, may all be fed."

Did you like that story?

Yes.

That was a great story.

Oh, learned how to make bread, that's awesome.

Okay, so tell me, did you feel like this book was nonfiction or fiction?

Yes.

It's nonfiction.

Why?

Because it told us the story of how to make bread.

Yes.

And there's all kinds of bread.

Do you like bread?

I like bread, that's for sure.

Okay.

So here's the questions.

Are you ready?

The first questions are what are some different kinds of breads that are talked about in this story?

Do you remember?

Okay.

Let's take a look.

Let's take a look, it's right here, I think.

Okay, here we go.

It says white bread, black bread, small bread, tall bread, thin bread, dinner rolls.

Look at all of those.

That's amazing.

Day-old bread, roll bread, yes.

All those kinds of bread.

Oh my goodness.

Bread is so good, it's so delicious.

I love bread.

Okay.

All right.

Here's the next question.

What are the steps in making bread?

What were the steps in making bread?

Oh, let me see.

First, they put all the stuff in the bowl, right?

And then they mixed it together.

And then what did they do?

Oh yes, yes, yes.

They let it rest, and then they baked it.

Now, when they let it rest, what did the bread do?

Do you remember?

Yes.

It got bigger, it rises.

It starts off small and then keeps growing, and sometimes they punch it and sock it, and then they let it rise again.

Oh, it just makes the bread much more delicious for sure.

Oh my goodness.

That is so awesome.

Okay, so now, I wanna talk about our writing, our writing, because we've done our reading, right?

We listened to this story, we looked at some of the things in the story, and now it's time for us to write.

It says, which words help you to know what the wheat is like?

Draw the wheat and use a word to label it.

Oh, you know what?

If I was to draw it, I think I would just draw this.

Oh, there's...

Okay.

Oh, look, and then if I had a green pen, if I had a green pen, oh my goodness, what would I do?

I would probably color this green.

I would color this green.

Why would I color it green?

Because to me, let me see.

Let me show you right here in this book.

Do I have green over here?

I do, I do.

I can use... Imma color some green over here.

Why do I do that?

Well, I'm gonna show you in a minute.

Look.

Oh, I feel like I'm a great artist right here.

Oh, I'm a great artist.

There you go.

Why?

I'm gonna take a look right here.

I think it's right back here.

I'm gonna come back here, because what do I know about wheat?

Well, when wheat's growing, the wheat, yes, is green.

It's green, it's tall and it's green.

That's what it is.

And that's what I wrote, right?

So I'm gonna write that right on there too.

I'm gonna say tall and green.

Oop, made a mistake, but that's okay, that's okay.

So to me, it looks like tall, green grass.

It looks like tall green grass.

And did you notice something?

Oh, I could just say that wheat looks like grass.

That would be boring.

I wanna make it more interesting.

So what do you think I'm gonna do?

I'm going to add adjectives.

Right!

Tall is an adjective.

Green is an adjective, and it makes my sentence a little bit more interesting.

The wheat looks like tall, green, and then I'm gonna say grass.

Okay.

So here we go.

Well, let's spell tall.

How do you spell tall?

Hmm.

Oh, it's already up here.

T-A-L-L, tall!

Let me see.

T, A, L, and L. Okay.

The wheat looks like tall.

Green.

I want to, I'm using two adjectives.

Can I do that?

Sure, sure.

It makes it more interesting.

Oh, did you see what I was gonna do?

I was about to put the G right next to the L, and then I heard a friend out there yell at me and say, "Hey, Mr. Dawson, you have to put a space!"

So I'm gonna put a space.

Green, G-R-E-E-N.

The wheat looks like tall green grass.

Now we have to spell grass.

What's the beginning phoneme?

Guh, guh.

Guh is for G. Tell me some more letters.

Grrr is for R. Grrr, ah is for A. Grass, S. And in fact, it is two S's.

There you go.

The wheat looks like tall green grass.

Am I done?

No, I'm not done.

What am I missing?

I have my uppercase first letter.

I have my nouns.

I have my verbs, looks, and now I need what?

Oh, that's right.

I need a period.

That's my fourth thing.

I need to have a punctuation that tells me I'm done.

So now we can read it.

Here we go.

The wheat looks like tall green grass.

You did it.

You guys are so amazing.

We've learned so much today.

We read a book.

Oh, it was so good.

And we wrote!

Oh, it's so amazing!

Hey, let's do it again tomorrow!

Be back.

I'll see you later, 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)