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Hey, welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

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

Join me here each day.

So we can go on brand new discoveries together.

In fact, if you'll let me know of something that you've learned, I will send you an activity book.

Just send your letter right here to Valley PBS.

And I'll get one of these back to you as soon as possible.

All right, it's time for phonemic awareness.

You know how to say it, you ready?

Let's do it together.

Daily phonemic awareness!

Yes, we've been playing some games.

Oh my goodness.

I love playing for phonemic awareness games.

What game should we play today?

Oh, I know.

I know, identification.

Okay, let's see if you can find the phoneme that I want.

I have my paper here so I can remember what words to do.

Okay, here we go, you ready?

Here's my first word.

You ready?

Wet, say wet.

Right, now my question is what is the beginning phoneme in wet?

Let's see if I sounded it out.

W-E-T, and I said the beginning phoneme.

Right, right, W, W. That's right the first phoneme was W, you guys are amazing, okay.

Here's the next one, here we go.

You ready?

Hug, can you say hug?

All right, this time I want the middle phoneme in hug.

Okay, how do I do that?

I'm gonna sound it out.

H-U-G. And I said the middle pho, right again.

Right, U, U is for U.

Yes, that's awesome.

Okay, the last, last one, here we go.

Oh, you're not gonna get this one.

No way you are, will not get this one.

Are you ready?

The word is zap.

Can you say zap?

Right this time, are you ready?

I want the ending phoneme.

So if I was to sound it out, Z-A, what?

You already know it.

I didn't even get through all of the phonemes and you got it.

Yes, it's P, the ending phoneme is P. You guys are amazing.

I really knew that you were gonna be able to do that.

I was only tricking you.

You guys are really good at this identification of the phonemes that I want.

Oh my goodness, that's so great.

All right, well, let's move on and do our sight words then.

Remember sight words are important because when you know them in your brain when you see 'em in a book, you'll be able to read them.

And if you need to write them, you just recall it right out of your brain and say, oh, I know how to spell that word.

Okay, here we go.

We've done these two sets.

Let's do this one, are you ready?

Here we go in, play, she, a, will, what.

Be, they, he, I, all, some.

Good job, we've done it.

Now, let's use all of our skills that we've been learning to talk about vowel teams.

And these are the vowel teams that we've been reviewing.

Do you remember them?

This is book.

And it says, oo.

And when you see this clue, you might be saying, OO.

But you remember there's other phonemes that have O-O in them like this one, spoon, OO.

And these are all the clues you'll see in books of how it might say, OO.

But when it's the same as, O-O, you'll have to choose.

Am I gonna say OH, or am I going to say OOH.

And when you sound it out you'll usually figure it out that's spoon.

OOH, okay.

This is boy.

And it says, OI.

And these are all the ways, the clues that you can see in a book, that'll say OI, right.

And then our last one is cow, OW.

OW is our phoneme.

And this are the clues that you'll see in books that will, you'll think about it and say, oh I think I better say, OW, right.

And then what are we learning about today?

We're learning about, a, AW, like straw, right, straw.

And these are all the clues.

These are all the clues.

Let's go through all the clues.

A, A-W, A-U, A-U-G-H, and A-L. All of those will say aw.

Now I have a story but before I tell you that I wanna tell you, it seems like to me that A-W is the one that you'll see all a lot, that says, AW.

And it's true in the story that I have for you today.

Here's my story.

It is "Hawk at Dawn!"

Let's read it.

Six, six hens met.

We need to make a plan.

A hawk will come at dawn.

Ooh, that doesn't sound good at all.

Six hens got busy.

These hens made a plan.

They ran across the lawn.

They crawled under a mill.

Six hens hid from a hawk.

Now, I think we'll spend two days on this but let me get a, a, my trusty, dusty pen out of here somewhere.

Ah, I have green today.

And I want you to look at the title.

Here's the title.

And do you see some of the clues that we've been talking about in aw?

Yes, A-W, what does A-W say?

It says, AW.

And what, there's another one.

Do you see that?

A-W, so that's when I sound it out, I wouldn't say, h-awe-k, hawek.

That doesn't make sense does it, but if, if I remember that the A-W says, aw, then I can sound it out.

H-AW-K, hawk.

Or the same thing here.

It wouldn't be D-AWE-N. That doesn't make sense to me.

But if I remember that A-W says, aw then I could say D-AW-N, dawn.

So there's our title, Hawk at Dawn.

Isn't that amazing.

It really is.

Now, I need to do the next thing.

Are you ready for the next thing?

I am.

Okay, so I'm gonna take this down and then I wanna put this next one up but I wanna talk about our essential questions.

Do you remember what it is?

What kinds of bugs do you know about?

Yes, and we talked about it yesterday and we wrote, we wrote yesterday and I typed it up kind of like what I saw in there.

And now I wanna take a look at it very closely.

Are you ready?

Let's read.

I have my topic.

I have my details and I have my conclusion.

Let's read it.

There are many kinds of bugs in nature.

A spider is a bug, a ladybug is a bug, a beetle is a bug.

These are some bugs we find in nature, alright.

Now like we talked about yesterday.

We were saying there was all kinds of mistakes in there.

Wasn't there.

Okay, so let's take a look at the first one.

First of all, they're spacing issues, isn't there.

No spaces, a good sentence is always gonna have spaces.

So, so I need to fix that.

And then the uppercase letter.

There's no uppercase letter in any of these, are there?

So I'm gonna have to fix that.

And then periods are there, but I need a period there, don't I?

And then I have to start thinking about how to spell words a little bit better.

Here we go.

So let's re-fix this, fix this one.

I'm gonna put it right over here.

I have to put in uppercase letters, A.

And then I have to remember my space, a spider, S-P-I-D, and I'm gonna E-R, a spider is a, and then we have what, bug.

B-U-G, three sounds.

So I have to have three letters, B-U-G. And then I put my punctuation.

I have my upper case letter.

I have my punctuation.

I have my noun, and I have my verb, is.

Now this is kind of boring, so we'll have to fix it up tomorrow.

It's kind of boring, but we'll fix it up again tomorrow.

Now here's the next one.

A ladybug is a bug.

The, so I'm looking at it and I'm thinking, oh, same thing.

I have to put uppercase letter a.

And it definitely needs spaces, that's what I heard a lot of people tell me yesterday.

So let's put a space and spell ladybug.

How many, how many syllables are in ladybug?

Let's do that one.

La-dy-bug.

(hands clapping) How many syllables?

Three.

What's the first syllable?

LA.

So I can spell that one.

L-A.

What was the next syllable?

DY.

Well, that should be easy, just a D, but guess what?

I have to put a Y at the end to say that E sound.

L-A-D-Y, because D by itself just says D. But if I put the Y there, it can say E, ladybug.

Oh I already know how to spell bug.

B-U and G, A ladybug.

Oh, and I'm going to copy this, why?

I don't have to think anymore.

Well I still have to think but I already have the words here.

So why not use it?

Is a B, I'm making, you see what I'm doing?

I'm making sure that I have my spaces.

It makes it way easier to read.

Look, when I have these spaces.

Here, it was kind of hard, I couldn't figure out where the spaces were supposed to go or where the word starts and where it ends.

But when I put the spaces, it makes it far easier.

Okay.

So now I have the last one.

We're almost done with the editing.

Remember in editing, I have to make sure it has upper case, a punctuation and the verb, and then noun, and then we have the word or the sentence.

A space beetle.

Now, did you hear the E sound, E. This one just says, EH.

I have to have a clue.

E-T-L-E, beetle.

A beetle is a bug.

And don't forget what?

The punctuation, right?

I think we've done it.

I have the uppercase letter, the punctuation, the noun, and the verb.

So it works.

All right, even though it's not the best sentences, we'll have to do that tomorrow.

There are many kinds of bugs in nature.

A spider is a bug.

A ladybug is a bug.

A beetle is a bug.

These are some bugs we find in nature.

Isn't that amazing?

Oh my goodness, we've done so many things today.

We've, we're talking about AWE and all the clues that we have for that.

We, we've done sight words.

We, we did phonemic awareness.

And then we edited our writing.

Tomorrow when we come back, if you come back and you should, we'll get, we're going to make these now, we're gonna add some interesting parts to it.

I hope you'll be here with me while we do that.

Have a great day.

And we'll see you tomorrow.

Bye-bye.

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