(upbeat ambient music) - Hello, amazing learners.

Welcome to "Read, Write, ROAR!".

Today, we will continue learning about being good citizens in our community.

We will also continue to read our book, "What is Citizenship?"

We will learn some new high frequency words and join Mrs.

Spear as she shares her community.

So don't go anywhere, stay right there and let's get ready to learn.

- [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 ambient music) (animated roar) (animated roar) - Hello, amazing learners, it's Ms. Rodgers here.

Last time we started reading our informational book about citizenship.

We learned that the word citizen means a person who lives in a particular place like a community, a city or even a country.

Today, we will learn more about citizen rights and responsibilities.

Now the word right can sometimes mean correct.

For instance, you have the right answer or the correct answer, but when we're talking about the right of a citizen, it means something different.

Right means that you are allowed or have the legal right to do something or to have something.

For example, adults have the right to cast a vote or vote for someone in government.

That means they get to choose.

Now this book, What is Citizenship is written by Jessica Pegis, and we're reading it with permission by Crabtree Publishing.

Let's take a look at this page, "Rights of citizenship".

If you look at the picture here, this citizen is casting her vote on her ballot.

The ballot is a piece of paper where she selects her choices or what she would like to vote for.

So she's putting that into the ballot box.

Rights of citizenship.

Citizenship gives each person rights.

A right is something you are allowed to have or do, your rights are protected by laws.

A law is a rule made by government and is enforced by police officers.

Active citizens speak up for their rights and also for the rights of others.

All citizens have the right to be treated fairly, vote for their leaders, follow their faith, speak out and share ideas, choose where to live.

If we look closely on this page, we see that some words are in bold print, which are the text features.

That means that the author wants us to make sure that we pay close attention to those words because they are important.

And usually those words are also defined in the back of the book, giving us the true meaning of each of those words.

So again, those are our text features bold print.

Okay.

So let's go to our next page.

"Responsibilities of citizenship".

Citizens have a responsibility to make their community a great place for everyone.

A responsibility is something you should take care of or do.

Active citizens work hard to be responsible in their community.

- Now let's read our next page, Rights and responsibilities.

Active citizens know that rights and responsibilities go together.

Citizens have rights, citizens also have the responsibility to protect the rights of others.

Even if a citizen has the right to do something the citizen still has the responsibility to protect the rights of others.

Active citizens know that their actions affect others.

"What is government?"

Countries meet the needs of citizens through government.

A government is a group of people who run a country, province, state, or community.

Now this photograph here has a caption, and remember, a caption gives us more information about a picture or a photograph.

So let's see what it says.

"Citizens elect leaders by voting for them.

Citizens have a say in how the government is run.

Who are some people in government?

A president or prime minister is an important person in government.

He or she leads the whole country.

He or she works with other people in government who pass laws and help run the country.

Police, firefighters, teachers and many other workers are also part of the government.

They help to provide the services that citizens need."

So who are some of the citizens that provide services in our community?

Let's take a look at some of these photos to give us some clues.

Now, if we look here, we see that that is someone who is signing an official document.

Look at all of those pages.

So who do you think that person could be?

Probably a prime minister or a government official.

Now let's take a look at this photograph.

There's a book, there are other children in the classroom, there's one adult, and it looks like they're sitting at desks.

So what could that be?

Yes, a classroom.

So who could he possibly be?

A teacher.

Excellent.

So we have a teacher in this classroom, and then let's look at this photograph here.

Now the clues are in the gear or the clothing that they are wearing.

Yes, this is a police officer.

And who do you think this person is?

Take a look at his helmet.

And all of the protective gear he has on.

Yes, that's a firefighter.

So let's go ahead and list some of our community helpers and citizens.

So I'm going to start with the first photograph that we saw, which was a teacher.

So I'm going to write the word teachers because of course we always have more than one, te, e-a makes the 'e' sound, ch, c-h, er, e-r, and then finally s, which is an s. So we have teachers.

Another one we saw was firefighter.

Now firefighter of course is a compound word, fire fighter, two words put together to make one word.

So let's go ahead and write the word fire, f-i-r-e, fire and then fighter.

Figh-t-er and let's make it plural by adding an s. Firefighters.

We also saw a photo of a police officer.

So let's go ahead and write the word police.

We have male and female police officers.

So let's right police.

And it's funny because that c makes the 's' sound.

And finally, let's write government officials, people who have the authority to make decisions based on some of the votes that we actually have.

So let's write government, gov-er, government, wow, that's a long word.

Let's see how many syllables, go-vern-ment.

Three syllables.

Really long word.

Government officials.

Government officials.

So here are just four of our community helpers and citizens.

And we know we have so many more teachers, firefighters, police, government officials.

Can you think of some other citizens and community helpers in your area?

(upbeat ambient music) Hello, amazing learners, it's Ms. Rogers to talk about high frequency words.

We learn these words because they're going to show up a lot when we are reading and writing.

If we understand how these words work and learn how to spell them, it will help us when we read and write them.

Our first word today is place.

Place, a community is a place where people live and work together.

Let's try the sounds, place.

P-l-ace, place.

Place has four sounds, try that with me, p-l-a-ce, place.

Now let's take a look at the word.

Hmm.

This word has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 letters, but it only has four sounds.

The p says p, l, l, a says a, the long 'a' sound, because the e at the end is telling the a to say its name, and the c in this word makes the 's' sound.

So this word is place, place.

Now let's try writing the word.

I'm going to put this word on my board.

And when I write this word this time, I'm going to write it pretty big.

So you can try writing the word at your house too.

You can write it really big on paper, you can sky write it, or you can write it in the palm of your hand using your finger.

So let's go ahead and do it.

Place.

Pl-a-ce, place.

Huge.

(chuckles) Now let's go to our next word.

My next word is live.

Live, a place where people live and work is called a community.

Now we have that definition before, so I'm going to switch it up just a little, even though I'm using the word live and place.

So let's say I live in a large community, live.

L-i-ve.

Now, let me hear you, l-i-ve, live.

Live has three sounds, but now let's take a look at the actual word.

Live has four letters.

1, 2, 3, 4.

The l makes the 'l' sound, i, 'i', v, 'v' and the e is silent.

(gasps) But remember we have the e rule, the silent e rule that says the e tells the other vowel to say its name.

Well, in this case, the word would be life if the e was telling the i to say its name, so that is a different word.

But in this word, the e is silent and the word is live.

Now, let me hear you say live.

Good.

Now of course, we're going to write the word live.

I'm going to put it on our board.

And this time I'm going to write it big but then I'm going to write the squiggly letters.

Okay.

So live and don't forget, I want you to write along with me, sky write it in the air, write it in the palm of your hand with your finger or on some paper.

Live.

L-i-ve, live.

Now, remember those squiggly lines?

I'm going to just make my letter squiggly, make it a little more fun.

So you can do the same thing, you can decorate your letters, whatever you would like to do to make it more fun learning how to read and write your words.

So great job working today with me on our new high frequency words, place and live.

Now that you know how words work, you can put them together and make sentences, paragraphs, and even stories.

So remember, this will help us to read and write.

Excellent job, wonderful, amazing readers.

(upbeat ambient music) - Hi there learners, we've been learning about community helpers, then and now, thank you to Crabtree for letting us read this book today, and thanks to the author, Bobbie Kalman.

Today, we're going to talk about a special kind of community helper, and that's going to be police officers.

Let's read a little bit.

"Police officers.

Police officers protect people in towns and cities."

They take care of them and keep them safe.

"They patrol or drive regularly through neighborhoods as well as along highways to watch for people who are breaking the law."

Remember we talked about laws before.

Police officers provide a service to all of us.

"They also help people who need help.

Long ago, some people who broke the law were locked up in jail wagons like that."

Can you imagine?

This is the picture showing a police officer going to someone's house to help them.

We're going to meet a special friend today who's a special kind of police officer who works with other police officers that are called their handlers.

This police officer we're going to meet has four legs.

Can you think about what that might be?

Keep watching and we'll find out together.

(upbeat ambient music) We're going to meet canine officer Max.

This is his badge, and it's in a case that keeps it safe.

And it has his name right at the bottom to thank him for his service when he was a police officer.

Max is a canine officer that was specially trained for his job.

He actually came to this country, the United States from another country.

You'll notice that we use different commands with him.

He does respond to the word 'here' but we tell him a different word when we want him to sit or lie down.

See if you can hear that when you meet Max and hear how we talk with him.

Okay, let's meet canine officer Max.

Max here.

Good boy.

(speaking foreign language) Max (speaking foreign language).

Good (speaking foreign language).

Max off.

Good, off Max.

Max just came to me, he sat and he laid down because they gave him those commands.

He's a great listener.

Max here.

Good, here max.

Hey (speaking foreign language).

Good (speaking foreign language).

(upbeat ambient music) Hi there learners, you've been doing such a wonderful job learning with Ms. Rodgers and me all about communities and citizenship.

We're going to think some more and be reflecting on our book that we have here, "Community Helpers Then and Now" by Bobbie Kalman.

We know that there are community members that are parts of our communities providing us services and really helping all of us every single day.

As we sit here, we can think about people that we might want to know more about.

One way that we can find out more about people is to interview them.

That's what we're going to learn about today.

In your community, there are actually people that might have a job that is actually all about interviewing.

For example, if you're a journalist that writes for a newspaper, you have to interview people all the time.

And that interview gets information to people in the community.

There's other people, for example, historians, they study about historical events, things that happened in the past.

Historians study about historical events or things that happened in the past, and then they go out and interview people sometimes to find out about what it was like if it's a time that they're studying about when people would still be alive, that they can ask questions to.

So let's find out how you can think about writing an interview and maybe you'll even try it and go out and interview a community helper where you live.

(upbeat ambient music) Okay, so in our different writing units that we've done when we've thought about writing a story and using a story map, we've used the wh questions to help us and the question, how.

Let's look at these words because they're gonna help us to think about interview questions as well.

So when we've done our writing, we've thought about the word who, repeat it with me.

Great.

What, when, where, why, and how.

These wh words, who, what, when, why and the word how can help us when we're thinking about our interview.

You might be trying to think, who would you wanna interview and why would you want to interview that person that works in your community and provides a service?

I was giving that some thought, and I was thinking about lots of different buildings that are in my community and places that provide services to my family and to me.

One of the places I love that I bet you won't be surprised that I love is the library.

And I was starting to think about who would I interview at the library, and what would I want to find out?

I would also want to know where I would go to do that interview.

If I wanted to interview someone at the library, who might I interview there?

What do you think?

I could interview someone at the circulation desk.

Yeah, the circulation desk would be a great place, that's where people help check out books.

(upbeat ambient music) Hmm, who else might I interview at the library?

Yes, I might interview the librarian.

That's the person that works at the library who's done lots of studying about books and how libraries work and knows a lot about the history of libraries and librarians to be able to help me out.

So I think that's what I'd like to do is I'd like to see if I can put together some questions that I would ask a local librarian and find out more information about our local library.

It's a building that provides a service to lots of people in my community.

And I also am really curious about what kinds of services that the library offers us.

So I'm gonna think of some of those questions right now and share them with you.

(upbeat ambient music) All right, learners, I thought about what I wanted to ask the librarian, I looked at these questions I had right here, and then I wrote some questions down.

So here's what I came up with for interview questions.

What is your name?

Ah, there's that what question?

I would wanna find that out from the librarian first.

Where do you work?

Now I know I'm going to the library, but if I'm gonna share this out with other people, I do need to ask that so it gets into my interview so I can share that with others later.

What is your job like?

I'm really interested to find out what a librarian's job is like day to day at the library and the different services that are provided by a librarian.

How did you train for this job?

Do you ever wonder when you're curious about people that work places, how did they get to that job?

What kind of work in education or training did they do to be able to get to that job?

I wanna know that so I used the question how.

Why, why did you choose it?

Why, why did the librarian choose to become a librarian?

I wanna know that what.

What, here's that what question again?

What did your day look like?

I'm really curious, what does it look like day to day for a librarian to provide services in that building in my community?

(upbeat ambient music) The next question I have is another what question?

What are services that are provided here, meaning in the library by community helpers?

So the librarian has lots of helpers in a library.

What kind of services do each of those helpers provide there?

Here's that how question again, how are library services offered today different from the past?

We are trying to find out how things are different now versus how things were in the past.

I'd love to know if the librarian can help me figure that out about how library services have changed over time.

And then this one, what is your favorite service you provide here?

I'd love to know what the favorite thing is of a librarian for her job and what she enjoys doing there.

So these are my questions, and now it's time for me to get ready, set up an interview, figure out the time and the place of when I can interview a librarian and ask these questions to a librarian in our local community.

(upbeat ambient music) This is something I invite you to think about.

Think about community helpers, people where you live that you'd love to find out more about.

You could use the questions that we have here and do some interviewing.

It could be someone in your school or your neighborhood.

You wanna make sure you talk to an adult and let them know that you want to do this and ask their permission to do it.

But, you could write your own interview questions.

You might even interview someone in your own family.

You could even call on the phone, it doesn't have to be in person, but interviews are great ways to learn about people that we really appreciate and want to know more about.

And it's a great opportunity to find out more about community helpers.

(upbeat ambient music) Thank you so much for coming and joining us today on Read, Right, ROAR!.

I hope that all the things that Ms. Rodgers taught you about high frequency words and thinking about citizenship are really gonna help you when you go out and about to be considering and giving some more thought to them.

And don't forget, you can look for those high frequency words everywhere you are out and about.

I also am hoping that maybe you're thinking about doing an interview with someone in your community that you wanna find out more about.

We hope that you'll come back next time and join us on Read, Write, ROAR!

(upbeat ambient music) as we continue to learn about citizenship and community.

See you soon.

- [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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