- Hello, readers and writers.

Welcome to Read, Write, ROAR.

Today, we're going to learn all about the letter A, have some fun with sounds, learn one new high frequency word, and sing a song.

For today's lesson, you will need something to write with, and something to write on.

So go ahead and get those things, and we'll get started.

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

Kellogg Foundation.

Additional support by, and by viewers like you, thank you.

(upbeat music) (soft music) - Hello, readers.

I'm Mrs. Erfourth.

It's alphabet time.

Did you know that readers and writers use the letters in the alphabet to write and read many, many words.

Today, we're going to sing the alphabet.

I'd like you to stand up, and get ready to sing along with me.

Are you ready?

♪ A, B, C, D ♪ ♪ E, F, G ♪ ♪ H, I, J, K ♪ ♪ L, M, N, O, P ♪ ♪ Q, R, S ♪ ♪ T, U, V ♪ ♪ W, X ♪ ♪ Y, Z ♪ ♪ Now I know my ABC's ♪ ♪ Next time, won't you sing with me ♪ Great job.

This time when we say the alphabet, I'm going to say the letter's name and sound, and I would like you to echo me, which means you repeat after me.

Are you ready?

Keep standing up.

Here we go.

A, A.

B, B.

C, C. Let me hear you.

Great job following along.

D, D. Great job.

E, E. F, F. G, G. H, H. I, I. J, J. K, K. L, L. M, M. N, N. O, O. P, P. Q, Q. R, R. S, S. T, T. U, U. V, V. W, W. Great job, a few more letters.

X, X. Y, Y.

Great job, and our last letter, Z, Z.

Let me hear you nice and loud.

Great job, readers.

Great job singing the alphabet, and saying the letter names and sounds along with me.

(soft music) Hello, readers.

Today, we are going to use our listening skills to pay attention to how words sound.

Let's have some fun with rhyming words.

Words that rhyme have the same ending sound, like mat and cat.

Mat and cat rhyme, because they both have at.

Let's practice saying rhyming pairs.

When I say the rhyming pair, you echo or repeat after me.

You ready?

Everybody stand up.

After you say the pair of rhyming words, we're going to clap once.

Let's try it.

Everyone clap once.

Great, let's do the first pair.

Hop, mop.

You repeat.

(Erfourth clapping) Let's do the next one.

Ran, fan, you repeat.

Great.

Red, bed.

You repeat, red, bed.

Zip, lip, you repeat.

Zip.

(Erfourth clapping) Great, let's do a few more.

Fun, run, you repeat, fun, run.

Do you hear the rhyming part of the word in fun and run?

Un, they both have un, fun, run.

Let's keep going.

Bug, rug, you repeat.

Clap.

Yum, gum, you repeat.

Mouse, house, you repeat.

Mouse, house.

Last one, nice and loud.

Glue, blue, you repeat, glue, blue.

Great job rhyming.

Now I'm going to say two words, and you are going to listen to see if they rhyme.

If the words rhyme, remember that means they have the same ending, if the two words I say rhyme, you are going to nod your head.

Everybody nod your head.

Yes.

If they don't rhyme, you are going to take your hands, and say no way.

Everyone say no way.

Let's practice one.

Sat, mat.

Do those two words rhyme?

Nod your head yes.

Let's practice one more.

Red, tree.

Do those two words have the same ending sound?

No way.

Great job, here we go.

Ready?

Pig, wig.

I see you nodding your head.

Those two words rhyme.

Pig, hat.

Do they have the same ending sound?

No way.

Sun, fun.

We're shaking our head, nodding our head yes.

Those two words rhyme.

Sun, zoo.

Do you hear the same ending sound in sun, zoo?

No way.

Here's the next one.

Listen for the ending sound.

Run, sun.

Nod your head yes.

Stick, pick.

Yes, those two words rhyme.

Let's do one more.

Listen for the ending sound, bed, mad.

No way.

Great job, readers, listening for words that rhyme, and words that do not rhyme.

Let's have some more fun with words.

A compound word is a word that is made up of two words.

When we blend the two words together, it makes a compound word.

For example, cupcake.

The compound word is cupcake.

Cup, cake, those two words together make cupcake.

Let's practice blending two words to make a compound word.

I will say the two words with a pause in between.

For example, cup, cake, you will repeat the two words, and we'll blend them together, and say the compound word.

Let's practice one.

Ready?

Get your hands ready to clap.

When we put the two words together to make a compound word.

Here we go for practice.

Bath, room.

You repeat, bath, room.

blend the two words together, bathroom.

Great job, let's do another one.

Fire, man.

You repeat, fire man, fireman.

Sand, box, you repeat, sand box, sandbox, great job.

Birth day, you repeat, birth day.

What's the compound word?

Birthday.

Let's do a few more.

Pan, cake, you repeat, pan, cake.

Blend the two words together, pancake, great.

Here's the next one.

Hair, cut, you repeat.

Haircut.

Side, walk, you repeat, side, walk, sidewalk.

Tooth brush, you repeat, tooth, brush.

What's the word?

Toothbrush.

Great job, readers, practicing blending two words together to make a compound word.

Let's have some more fun with compound words.

Now we'll say a compound word, and then we'll segment or break it apart into the two words that make up the compound word.

For example, playground.

The two words in playground are play, ground.

Playground.

I'll say the word, you repeat the word, and then we will say the two words that make up the compound word.

Let's try it, ready?

Repeat after me, say bathtub.

What are the two words in bathtub?

Bath, tub.

Bathtub.

Notice how I said a pause in between the two words.

Let's try another one.

Rainbow.

Repeat after me.

Rainbow.

What are the two words in rainbow?

Rain, bow, rainbow.

Repeat after me.

Say snowball.

What are the two words in snowball?

Snow, ball, snowball.

Repeat after me, say butterfly.

What are the two words in butterfly?

Butter, fly, butterfly.

Let's practice another one.

Repeat after me.

Say goldfish.

Gold, fish, goldfish.

Last one.

Repeat after me, say jellybean.

What are the two words?

Jelly, bean, jellybean.

Great job, readers.

(soft music) Hello, readers.

Today, you are going to be letter heroes.

We will be learning the name, sound, and how to write the letter A.

This is the letter A.

The letter A has two shapes.

This is the uppercase letter A.

This is the lowercase letter A.

Let's practice naming the letter A. I'll hold up the card.

You tell me what letter, ready?

What letter is this?

A.

What letter is this?

A.

What letter is this again?

A.

And what letter is this?

A.

This is the letter A.

Now let's practice saying the letter A.

The letter A is special, it has two sounds.

The letter A represents the sound A, like in apple.

The letter a also represents the sound A, like in the word ape.

We call that the long A sound.

Now, letter heroes, let's see if we can be letter detectives, and find the letter A in a sentence.

Let's read our sentence first.

I like apples and bananas.

Do you see the letter A in the sentence?

Let's take a closer look, letter detectives.

We're going to circle the letter A when we find it.

Let's start looking.

Let's start at the beginning of our sentence.

Do you see the letter A yet?

I like apples.

Yes, I see you pointing.

Point to the letter A in the word apples.

Right at the beginning.

Apples.

Do you see any other letter A?

Do you see any other A's in our sentence?

Let's keep reading.

And, great job.

Yes, I hear you.

There's another A, and it's at the beginning of the word again.

And.

Do you see any other letter A's?

Can you point to the letter A's that you see?

That's right.

There are a few letter.

A's in the last word, bananas.

Let's take a closer look.

Right here, we'll circle it.

Do you see another one?

You see two more?

That's right.

There are three A's in the word bananas.

Great job, letter heroes.

How many A's did we find in our sentence?

Let's count them.

One, two, three, four, five.

Five letter A's in our sentence.

You did a great job being a detective to find the letter A in our sentence.

Great job, letter heroes.

(soft music) Today, we're going to learn a new word.

The new word is called a high frequency word.

High frequency words are words we see often when we read.

Let's read the sentence.

The apple is red.

Let's look at the word that's underlined.

Repeat after me.

The, let me hear you say that word.

The.

The is a high frequency word.

We see it a lot when we're reading.

Let's take a closer look.

Listen to me say the sounds in the word the.

Th, U.

There are two sounds in the word the.

Watch me write the word the.

The first sound, th, is represented by the letters T-H. And the next sound, U, is the sound E. This sound E, we remember by heart, because it doesn't make its regular sound.

This is the word the.

Let's practice spelling the word the.

Everybody, stand up.

To practice spelling the word the, we're gonna put our arm out.

Take your other hand, start at your shoulder, and we're going to tap the letters.

Ready?

T-H-E, everybody say it, the.

Let's try it again.

Start at your shoulder, tap out the letters.

T-H-E, the.

One more time.

Let me hear you nice and loud.

Tap out the letters.

T-H-E, the.

Great job.

Now let's trace the letters in the word the.

Get your tracing finger out.

You ready?

Here we go.

T-H-E, the.

Great job, we learned a new high frequency word today, readers.

I want you to be on the lookout when you're reading for the word the, and I bet you're going to see it a lot.

(soft music) Today, we're gonna sing a song called Mr. Golden Sun, and we're gonna add our name to the song.

Mr. Golden Sun comes out and shines on all of us all across the world.

Each one of us is unique and special.

One of the things that makes us unique and special, and identifies who we are is our name.

My name is Mrs. Erfourth.

My first name is Jill.

Our caregivers are the ones who name us, or give us our first name.

Our last name's are special, because our last names are part of our family's history.

What is your name?

Can you say your name out loud?

Great.

So many different unique and special names.

When we sing our song, Mr. Golden Sun, first, I want all of you to stand up, and we can have Mr. Golden Sun right here above us.

Make a big circle for a sun.

And when we sing our last line.

♪ Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun ♪ ♪ Please shine down on ♪ You're going to say your name here.

So I could say.

♪ Please shine down on Jill ♪ And you say your name, and then we'll sing the song again with a couple different names.

Are you ready?

Get out the sun.

I wonder if Mr. Golden Sun is shining where you're at today.

If not, let's sing, and call him out to play.

Here we go.

♪ Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun ♪ ♪ Please shine down on me ♪ ♪ Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun ♪ ♪ Hiding behind a tree ♪ ♪ These little children are asking you ♪ ♪ To please come out so we can play with you ♪ Sing it with me.

♪ Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun ♪ ♪ Please shine down on ♪ What's your name?

Good job.

Today, we practiced the letters of the alphabet.

We practiced singing them, and identifying all 26 letters in the alphabet.

We can use those letters to make words, and then use the words to make sentences.

Let's take a look at what we have here.

We have five letters of the alphabet.

Do you recognize any of those letters?

Let's take a look.

P, L, E, P, A.

We can put those letters together to make a word.

This is the word apple.

The word apple has A, P, P, L, and E. I used those five letters, and arranged them to make the word apple.

Now we can use apple in a sentence.

A sentence is a complete thought.

Let's read our sentence.

I like apples and bananas.

Let's count how many words are in that sentence.

Say it again with me.

Repeat the sentence after me.

I like apples and bananas.

Now let's count how many words are in the sentence.

Ready?

I like apples and bananas.

How many words?

That's right.

There are five words in the sentence.

The sentence has an uppercase letter at the beginning, and punctuation, a period at the end.

A sentence is a complete thought.

Let's think about that sentence, and I want you to tell me what you like.

Our sentence says, I like apples and bananas.

I want you to think about two things you like.

I want you to say the sentence with the two things you like, ready?

Ready to say it out loud?

I like, and, great, that sounds yummy.

You just said a complete sentence.

Today, we sang the alphabet, we identified the 26 letters in the alphabet, and their sound.

We learned all about the letter A, we learned a new high frequency word.

We also sang a song, Mr. Golden Sun.

And we learned the difference between letters, words, and a sentence.

Great work today, readers and writers.

Thank you for learning with me.

See you next time on Read, Write, ROAR.

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

Kellogg Foundation.

Additional support by, and by viewers like you, thank you.

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