- Hello, amazing learners.

Welcome to "Read, Write, Roar!"

I'm so super excited that you're joining us today.

We will be learning about what it means to be a citizen by reading a book about citizenship.

Mrs.

Spear will also teach you how to make words past tense, by adding E-D, to the ending.

So, grab a pencil or something to write with, and some paper or something to write on, and meet me right back here.

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(soft music) (lion roars) (soft music) - Hello, learners.

It's Ms. Rodgers.

I have two questions for you.

Do you know what a citizen is?

Have you ever heard of the word, citizenship?

Well, we're going to read an informational text, or a nonfiction book, titled, "What is citizenship?"

But, before we get started, I would like to review a word that will help us understand what citizenship is, and that word is, community.

Let me hear you say, community.

Now, a community can be defined as a place where people live, work, or play.

Now, a group of people have a common interest, or who live near each other is a part of a community.

It can be made up of a large group of people or a small group of people.

But today we're going to be talking about a community, as a place where we live or work.

So, let's take a look at our book, and we'll read only, maybe a half of it today, and then we'll read the rest at another time.

(soft music) Now, let's take a look at our book.

"What is Citizenship?"

Written by Jessica Pegis.

We have permission to read the book from Crabtree Publishers.

So, as I said earlier, this is an informational text.

An informational book is one that tells you facts or information about the world around you.

Many nonfiction books have text features.

Now, those text features are a tool that helps us understand what the story is about.

It also helps readers to figure out what's important.

We're going to take a look inside of the book, and we're going to find something very special about this book.

If we look here, we have a Table of Contents.

Let me hear you say, Table of Contents.

Table of Contents.

Very good.

Now, Table of Contents gives us headings of what's inside the book.

It also tells us what page to find those things.

For example, we have, "What is citizenship?"

If we wanted to understand, what is citizenship, we would go to page four.

Underneath that we see, "What makes a citizen?"

If we want to know information about citizens, then we can go to page number six.

Now, let's look a little further down.

"Working together", is another heading or content that will be covered in the book, and that is found on page 20.

So again, this text feature of the Table of Content helps us to understand what we will encounter in the book, and also the contents of this book.

So, let's get started reading.

(paper rustling) "What is citizenship?

"Citizenship means being part of a community.

"A community is a place where people live, work, and play.

"Being a citizen is like being part of a family.

"Your family meets your needs by making sure "you have enough food to eat.

"Your community meets your needs "by fixing roads and building new schools.

"A citizen's community can be small, such as a school, "or big, such as a country.

"Citizens usually belong to just one country.

"They feel a special pride for their country.

"Citizens also care about people in other countries.

"They want the world to be a good "and safe place for everyone."

Now, if we look on this page, we see two words that are darker or in bold print.

Those two words are, Community and Citizen.

The author decided to make those two words bold, because it's really important to the story.

So, the author wants us to pay very close attention to those two words.

Let's continue.

"What makes a citizen?

"Some citizens are born in their community.

"Other people become citizens "when they move to a new community.

"When you are born, you become a citizen "of the country you are born in.

"If you move to another country, "you can apply to be a citizen.

"You must obey all the rules of the new country.

"You must also pass a test "to prove you know some facts about the new country."

Now, here's another text feature right here.

This is called a caption.

Let me hear you say, caption.

A caption gives us more understanding about a photograph or an illustration that's in the book.

So, let's read it to see what it says.

"New citizens feel pride in their country, "just like citizens who were born there."

So, this caption explain to give us more details about this photograph and why these people are smiling and holding flags.

(paper rustling) "Be an active citizen.

"Active citizens play an important role in their community.

"If they spot a problem they try to fix it.

"If there are people in their community who are in need, "active citizens work together to help them.

"Active citizens work hard to make their community "a great place for everyone."

And this caption says, "What are some ways "you can be an active citizen in your community?"

Let's try to answer that question.

What are some ways that you can be an active citizen in your community?

What are some ways that you can help?

Let's see if you can name one or two.

Think about your classroom, think about what you do at home, think about what you do in your yard, or in your neighborhood.

Do you have an answer?

Let me hear it.

Oh, those are some good answers.

Now, let's look at another text feature.

This says, "Be an active citizen."

Now, this is a heading.

This tells us that this portion of our book will be about what an active citizen is and what an active citizen does.

So, we also were able to read these two paragraphs, here and here, and it all pointed us back to what it is to be an active citizen.

So, text features are extremely important, and they always help us to better understand the books that we read.

Now, Mrs.

Spear will be working with you to do some more writing about your ideas.

Thank you for reading with me today and learning about informational text features.

Be sure to be on the lookout for these features in nonfiction and informational books that you may have at home.

Thank you for reading with me, learning with me, and I'll see you soon.

(soft music) - Hi there, learners.

I am so glad to see you.

We're going to do some detective work today.

Are you ready for that?

Help me to solve a mystery of some sorts.

Thank you.

What we're going to do is some really careful looking and some careful listening for some sounds in some words.

Some of these words that we're going to talk about today will be connected to the work we've been talking about.

We've been learning about communities and citizenship.

So, I'm going to read some words to you, to make sure that you know what they say, and you're gonna repeat them after me.

Are you ready for that?

Okay, let's go.

The first word is, rented.

We rented an apartment to live in.

It was in the community where we wanted to live.

Can you read, rented?

Great.

The next word is, added.

They added some yummy meals onto the lunch menu.

Added.

Can you say, added?

And we've learned about, we have school helpers, right?

That are in our school community that help work in the lunchroom.

(gasps) Planted.

Can you say, planted?

We planted some trees in a park in the town.

Planted.

Started.

Can you say, started?

We started learning about communities and citizenship together.

Followed.

Say, followed.

Great.

We followed the rules, so everyone would be safe.

Followed.

Enforced.

Can you say, enforced?

Great.

The police officers or law enforcement officers enforced the laws when people broke them.

Enforced.

Treated.

Can you say, treated?

We treated everyone kindly in the classroom.

Treated.

That's an important part of being a part of a community, right?

It's how we treat people.

Worked.

Can you say, worked?

Excellent.

We worked really hard together, to build a nice community garden.

Worked.

(soft music) Supplied.

Can you say, supplied?

Great.

The farmers supplied their crops, so we'd have good food to eat.

Supplied.

Helped.

Can you say, helped?

Great.

My children helped me make dinner.

Helped.

Last word for today, voted.

Can you say, voted?

Excellent.

We voted for people in the community that we thought would make it stronger.

Voted.

Excellent job reading these, and now, we're gonna take a special look at the words together to see if we can discover something about them.

(upbeat music) (lion roars) Okay, learners, we've read these words, and now we are going to do some detective work.

So, help me look at these words, and see if you notice something.

As we look across the words there's something that's similar, or the same in all of the words up here.

Can you find something that's the same in them?

Did you figure it out?

Yes.

Each of these words has the letters E and D at the end.

Did you notice that?

Well, great job.

Give yourself a pat on the back.

You just solved the first mystery of something that we need to do together today.

And now, we're going to find out what this means when we see E-D at the end of words.

(soft music) You just found that clue, that all of these words have E-D at the end of them.

What we can know is that when we see the letters E-D at the end of words, it gives us a clue that the word is probably going to be telling us about something that happened in the past, in the past.

Something that happened in the past and is a past tense verb or action word, tells us it happened yesterday, or last week, or last month, or last year.

Let's do an example of this.

I might say, I can hop.

Hop, is the verb.

Can you hop with me?

Let's hop.

Excellent.

We all just did a hop.

But now I want it to say, we've already done it.

We all just hopped.

(soft music) So, we hopped.

This happened in the past.

When we look at hopped, we can notice that it ends in E-D, but I want to remind you of something that we just learned, when we did our inflected ending of I-N-G. (paper rustling) If it's a word that has, one syllable like, hop, one vowel, O, and ends in one consonant, we double that final consonant before adding E-D.

Remember, that was our one-one-one rule, that we talked about with I-N-G. One syllable, one vowel, one consonant, double that final consonant before adding the ending.

(soft music) So, hopped happened in the past.

E-D, is a clue to tell us that this verb is happening in the past.

(soft music) Okay, detectives, now you have another job, another mystery to solve for me.

I'm going to read down this column of words, and I want you to read the words with me, but I want you to pay attention to the sound that you hear at the end of each word.

Let's read them together, and be listening really closely for the ending sound that you hear.

Here we go.

Added.

Started.

Planted.

Treated.

Voted.

Rented.

What did you hear at the end of all those words?

Yeah.

Did it sound like an /id/ to you?

Let's try one.

Let's look at this word, planted.

We planted a community garden.

Do you hear how it says /id/ at the end?

Well, that's funny.

How about, voted?

We voted for new officers.

Voted (soft music) At the end of all these E-D words, it actually sounds like, /id/, /id/.

Interesting, even though it's an E-D, it sounds like /id/.

Let's check the second column, and read these together.

Here we go.

Supplied.

Followed.

Let's see, supplied, followed.

What do you hear at the end of those words?

Yeah, I hear a /d/.

Interesting.

These have E-D, but they sound like an /id/ at the end, and these have E-D but it sounds like a /d/ at the end.

I'm going to put a letter /d/ at the top, and these slashes are showing it makes the /d/ sound.

Okay, let's read this very last column.

Worked.

Helped.

Enforced.

Worked.

Helped.

Enforced.

What do you hear at the end of those three words?

What sound do you hear?

Yes.

It sounds like a /t/, doesn't it?

Well, isn't that interesting detectives?

We did some looking and some listen.

First, we discovered, all the words that we had today ended in the inflected ending E-D.

But now, when we've taken a closer look, we've actually discovered that E-D can have three different sounds at the end.

Like in, added, it sounds like /id/, supplied, it sounds like /d/ at the end, and worked, it sounds like /t/ at the end.

So, think about that, when you're reading or writing if you know the word is a verb in action, and then it's happened in the past it might have a sound that you're not expecting.

It might sound like /id/, /d/, or /t/, that will help you with your reading and your writing.

Check those sounds when you're doing your reading, and play around with which one sounds right.

And same thing when you're doing your writing if it's something that happens in the past, be thinking, huh, it sounds like a /t/, but it's in the past, so really, I wanna put an E-D, especially the word, worked, right?

That's when you might use a lot.

I worked really hard.

And you would think, well, that's a T, but now we know, it's really an E-D at the end, that's giving us the meaning to this past tense verb, and can make three different sounds.

(soft music) - Hello, amazing learners, it's game time.

We're going to play a listening and assorting game for the E-D ending.

But, before we get started, did you know that E-D represents three different sounds?

/ed/, /d/, and /t/.

Let me hear you.

/ed/, /d/, /t/.

Let's go faster.

/ed/, /d/, /t/.

Excellent.

Now, I want you to put your listening ears on, and I'm going to show you some words that actually have the E-D ending when it's spelled, but the sound is, /ed/, excuse me, /d/, or /t/.

So, let's figure out which ones we hear.

We're gonna start with this first word.

Wanted.

(paper rustling) Planted.

(paper rustling) Obeyed.

(paper rustling) Worried.

(paper rustling) Jumped.

(paper rustling) Liked.

Now, if you were listening closely, you heard three different sounds at the end of these words, but if you were not, I want you to close your eyes even now, and all I want you to is listened to the ending.

Ready?

Liked.

(paper rustling) Jumped.

(paper rustling) Wanted.

(paper rustling) Planted.

(paper rustling) Obeyed.

(paper rustling) Worried.

Now, open your eyes.

Now, you should have heard an /ed/, /d/, or /t/ ending all the words.

Now, we're going to sort them and I need your help.

So, let me go ahead and mix them up, and you're going to tell me where I should put these words based on the ending sound.

Ready?

My first word is, worried.

Worried.

Where should it go?

Yes, it has the /d/ ending.

Worried.

Jumped.

Jumped.

What sound do you hear at the end?

Jumped.

Yes, /t/.

Wanted.

Wanted.

/ed/ sound.

Very good.

Planted.

Planted.

/ed/ sound.

Liked.

Liked.

Yes, the /t/ sound.

And finally, obeyed.

Obeyed.

Yes.

The /d/ sound.

Thank you for helping me to sort my E-D endings.

(soft music) - Well, learners, we've been thinking about ways that we could be part of our community, be good citizens, and great helpers.

And then I started thinking, in the recent past, I helped in my community, when I was at the grocery store.

So, I'm gonna share some of those ways with you.

And as I'm reading them to you, you're going to notice that because they're in the past the verbs end in E-D. Be thinking about which sound that the words make at the end, because we know now that E-D can sound like /id/, /d/, or /t/ at the end.

Here we go.

Let's read them.

I helped when I, here we go.

Look, helped, the E-D sounds like what at the end?

Yeah.

/t/.

Here's the first thing I helped.

I was at the grocery store, and I opened the door for someone.

Let's pretend we're opening the door.

Open the door and let someone through.

Opened.

Yes, it has a /d/ at the end.

Then another thing I did, because I'm really tall, this is something I can help a lot with when I'm out at the store.

I reached a box of cereal for someone.

Someone that was smaller than I was couldn't reach it on a high shelf, so I reached the box for them.

What sound is at the end of reached?

Yes.

It's a /t/.

Reached.

Sounds like /t/, but we know it's E-D, because it's the verb of reach, but it's in the past.

Okay, the next thing I did at the grocery store, I picked up a bag of chips when they fell off a shelf.

Have you ever helped someone and picked something up when it's fallen and put it back?

Yeah, that's being a citizen in your community.

I picked it up.

What sound do you hear?

Picked.

Great.

Yes, a /t/ is at the end of, it was, pick, and now it's, picked, cause it was in the past.

The last thing I was thinking about, is I handed a bag to another shopper.

Pretend we're handing the bag.

Here you go.

Right.

I handed a bag to a shopper.

What sound do you hear at the end of, handed?

(gasps) It has the /id/ sound.

/id/, handed, but it's spelled with E-D, because it's the word, hand, in the past with the /id/, and it's, handed.

Well done today, learners.

We did so much together learning about the E-D past tense verb ending, and how important it is for reading and writing and how many different sounds we can hear.

(soft music) Thank you learners for being here with Ms. Rodgers and me today, on "Read, Write, Roar!"

You learned about community some more and being a good citizen.

And then you learned about that E-D ending, which can make the /id/, /d/, or /t/ sounds when it's at the end of verbs that are in the past.

See if you can use that new information when you're reading or writing.

When you're out and about in your community where you live, think about how you can be a great citizen, and be a good helper where you are.

We look forward to seeing you next time.

Join us right back here, on "Read, Write, Roar!"

- [Announcer] 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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