- Hello, amazing learners.

Welcome to Read, Write, ROAR.

Today, we will learn about communities, and the citizens who help in them.

We will learn new high frequency words, and do some word work.

Are you ready?

Let's 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, learners, it's Ms. Rodgers 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 can understand how these words work, and learn how to spell them, it will help us when we read and write them.

So here we go.

My first word today is the word all.

I ate all of the ice cream.

All, O, L, all, two sounds.

Now let me hear you say all.

Now let's say the sounds O, L. O, L, good job.

Now, if I look at my word, it has three letters.

The A says the O sound, L says the L sound.

So these two letters make one sound.

When I put them together, it's all, all.

A-L-L spells all.

So I'm going to put this on my board, and I want you to help me to write them.

You can sky write in the air.

You can write on a sheet of paper, or whatever you have at home.

So let's write the word all.

O, L, all.

My second word that I have for you is the word from.

I received a letter from my friends, from.

F, R, U, M, four sounds.

Let me hear you say from.

Now, let's say the sounds.

F, R, U, M, from, good job.

Now let's look at the word from.

From has one, two, three, four, four letters.

The F says F, the R says R, the O in this word says U, and the M says M. So all of these letters put together sound like this, from, from.

Let me hear you say from.

Good job, so now we're going to try to write this word.

Also, remember, you can write up in the sky with your finger, or on paper, or anything you have at home.

So let's write the word from.

F, R, um, from.

So our two words today that we learned are all and from.

Now practice writing those words, because once we practice, we can easily identify the words when we read and write them.

(soft music) Hello, learners, let's have some fun with our high frequency words.

We're going to play with our letters and sounds to make lots of different words.

We're going to start with our first high frequency word, all, and end up with our second word, from.

Just changing one or two letters at a time.

You'll need to have some letters to work with, either magnets, paper, or you can use a whiteboard, or something to write with, or actually, you can just follow along with me.

Now here are some of the letters that you will need.

A, A. L, L, you'll need two of these.

T, T. C, C. W, W. F, F. St blend, st. B, B. M, M. S, S. O, O. G, G. And our final blend, fr, fr.

Okay, so first we're going to start with our word, all.

All is spelled A-L-L.

This is our word, all.

All kinds of people live in a community, all.

Now, if I want to change all to something different, like tall, T, T, what letter would I need?

I would need the T. So I would put the T right in the front.

And now this is T, all, tall.

The buildings in the city are very tall, tall.

Now I wanna change the T to a C sound.

What letter do I need?

I need the C, C. So I will replace the T with the C, and this word is C, all, call.

I like to use my phone to call my friends, call.

Now I think I'm thinking of another word.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Now I would have to change this C to a W sound.

What letter makes the W sound?

A W, excellent.

So now I have W, all, wall.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Excellent job.

Now, if I wanna change the wall to a F sound, what letter should I replace it with?

An F, yes.

So I will change that to F, all, fall.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, F, all, fall.

You're pretty good at this, pat yourself on the back.

Good job, little buddy.

Okay, so now that we have fall, we need to use another blend.

I want to change the F sound to a st sound.

Look at your cards, or whatever sound you think I should put up there, st. What do you hear?

St.

Yes, I will need my st blend.

So this is st, st, all, stall.

A horse stays in a stall in the barn, stall.

Now I wanna change my st blend to a B, what should I change?

Yes, I should replace the st with the B, or the letter B.

So now I have B, all, ball.

I like to play ball outside.

Hmm, something else I like to do.

If I would like to change the B to a M sound, what letter should I replace it with?

M, an M, and this makes the word M, all, mall.

So in addition to playing ball, I like to spend time at the mall.

All right, we're almost done.

Let's keep going.

Now, if I wanna change the M to a sm sound, what other letter should I add to the M to make the sm blend?

Sm blend.

Yes, the letter S. If I put the S in front of the M, not replacing it, but right in front of it, then I have sm, sm, all, small.

So we made another new word.

Small.

The Earth is very small compared to the sun, small.

Okay, now we're gonna do something a little different.

Instead of changing the beginning, we're going to change the ending of the word.

So if I want to change small to a smog word, so that all is becoming a O, and the G, og, what should I do?

O, O, what letter makes the O sound?

An O.

So I'm going to put sm, O, O, but I need a G at the end.

G, the letter G. So I'm going to replace these two L's with a G. So now I have the og, and if I put it together, sm, og, my blending, smog, smog.

Smog is a combination of smoke and fog, smog.

All right, I have two letters left.

Hmm.

Now, did you hear that?

I heard ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.

I'm just kidding.

I didn't hear a ribbit, but our next word, it's a clue for our next word.

What do you think the word should be?

If I want to make smog into frog, what sound do I need?

I need fr, fr, F, R, fr.

So I'm going to change my sm to my fr blend.

And now I have fr, og, frog.

The frog jumped on the lily pad.

Now I have one more letter in my hand, so I need to change this one more time from frog to from.

From my heart to yours, from, M, M. So now we have our final high frequency word, from.

Excellent job helping me to make words.

(soft music) - Hi there, learners, it's Mrs.

Spear.

I'm really excited to have you with me today on Read, Write, ROAR.

We are going to start learning about a big idea, and the big idea is going to be about the word community.

Let's say the word community together, ready?

Community.

That's a very long word, and it has four syllables.

Let's clap it out.

Community, community.

You've got it.

When you think of the word community, what do you think of?

Hmm.

Do you have some ideas?

Shout them out.

When you think of community, you think of.

You're saying some great ideas.

Let's look at what the word community looks like.

Here it is right here for you to see it.

Community, C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y.

That's how the word community is spelled.

And we are going to start to read a story about what community is, and then we're going to get out and about, and see what it's really like in a community.

So I asked you to think about what you think of when you hear the word community.

Did you think of something?

Maybe you thought about a sports team that you're on.

So maybe for a sports team, you could have been thinking about let's say, soccer.

That's a sport a lot of kids play.

Maybe you were thinking about something like gymnastics.

If you thought about like soccer or gymnastics, anything where you're playing a sport, or joining a group of people, even if it's at a place, even if it's at a building where you go, and someone provides you a service, like a sports center in your town.

Those things and those places that you take part in, where you see the same people, and get together, that's a community that you have.

Schools are a community.

And guess what?

Even all of us right here on our show, Read, Write, ROAR, are our own community.

I am the teacher.

That's the service that I provide to you, the learners, that are in the community on Read, Write, ROAR.

We're gonna be going out and about, and doing a little bit more thinking about other community members, helpers, that are around town that help us out with different things, and provide us services in buildings in our communities.

So right now, I'm in my community.

And this is a building that serves our community, called the Otsego County Sportsplex.

It is a building, and this building provides us with a service.

This building right here provides a lot of services in our county.

This is the Otsego County Building.

And here's a map of all different services provided in our community that I could find right on their website.

We can go into this building to find out things like how much taxes we have to pay.

They're in charge of doing that.

We can also come to this building if you have to serve and do something called jury duty.

That has to do with laws.

If someone breaks a law, they sometimes have to go to court.

And then there are jurors that sit, and listen to the arguments on both sides of the case.

Another thing on the backside of this building is the Sheriff's Department.

That's where law enforcement officers are.

They help to keep us safe in our communities.

They enforce the laws.

We'll be learning more about that in some more of our episodes.

This is the Sheriff's Department, located on the backside, and connected to our Otsego County Building.

Sheriffs enforce the laws in our town, so that we can stay safe.

They have a very big job, and we'll be learning more about that.

The service they provide is enforcing the laws to keep everybody safe in our town.

They work in this building right behind me.

Let's think now about community helpers, and do some reading together.

We are really lucky, because we have a great book, called "Community Helpers Then and Now".

This book is by Bobbie Kalman, and we are really thankful to Crabtree Publishers for letting us read it on Read, Write, ROAR.

Now, if you noticed, it says then and now, 'cause one of the things we'll be thinking about is how communities have changed, what they were like in the past, and what they're like now.

So the first thing we really need to know is what is a community?

Let's take a look at this page in our book.

It says community helpers.

That is the heading on this page that stands out in bright, bold letters.

It says, "A community is a place where many people live and work together, and share buildings, services, and laws."

Let's think about those things they said about a community.

It told us that communities share buildings, services, and laws.

We're going to dig into that a little bit more to find out just what that means for a community to share buildings, services, and laws.

Let's read a little bit more.

"Community helpers are people who make communities cleaner, safer, and better.

Name some community helpers that you see below."

Let's take a look at the people in this picture.

Hmm.

Who are some community helpers that you know that show up in the picture right here?

You can just shout them out.

You're doing some good observing, and picking out community helpers.

One of the helpers I was looking at is this person right here who's holding plans.

That looks like an architect, and I connected to that, because that's what my dad did for a job.

He is an architect.

I'm looking at this person who's in scrubs.

That tells me that this is some sort of medical person, probably a nurse or physician's assistant.

And then this person also is in a medical outfit, but the long white coat tells me that's probably a doctor.

We also have some women dressed in suits.

They could be doing lots of different jobs that are professional.

And a man in a suit.

And this guy right here, what do you think his job is?

What kind of community help does he give?

You've got it, that's a construction worker.

He helps to build things, and guess what?

We know that communities have buildings.

So these people on this page that we looked at are the people that are part of the big community.

And in the community, there are different buildings.

The people in the buildings provide services, and we're gonna learn a little bit more about laws, and how that works with buildings, and with the services that are provided in the community.

Keep thinking of other things, other people in your community that you would say are community helpers.

Did you think of some?

Hmm, keep thinking.

There's a whole bunch of 'em that help us out every day in our communities.

(soft music) - Hello, amazing learners, it's Ms. Rodgers here.

We're going to learn more about community helpers.

We're going to do that by reading a few pages from the book "Community Helpers Then and Now" by Bobbie Kalman, with permission from Crabtree Publishing.

Now let's take a look at the present and long ago section of our book for food and farm workers.

"Food and farm workers.

Next to air water, food is the most important thing we need to stay alive.

Agricultural workers or farmers grow the food we eat.

The farms send some of the food to factories, where it can be made into different kinds of food.

The foods are then sold in supermarkets.

Many people help get food from farms to our tables.

Who are these helpers?"

Let's look at the photograph at the top.

If you look behind this man, there's a whole field of corn.

Who do you think he is?

Yes, he's a farmer.

Let's read the caption.

Farmers grow the foods we eat, such as corn.

So let's go ahead and add the word farmer to our list for present.

Now the next photograph.

That person is holding something that looks like bread, and it doesn't look like he's outside, he's inside a building.

Let's read the caption.

Workers in factories prepare and package food such as bread.

So this person is a factory worker.

Let's go ahead and add that.

Factory worker.

All right.

Now, underneath that photo, I see a truck.

It says drivers deliver the food to stores where we buy it.

So the person who drives the truck is the truck driver.

Yes, that's a really important job, because we need to make sure that we're getting this food.

So let's go ahead and write truck driver.

Now what's interesting about the truck driver is that they do a lot of, let's make it drivers.

They do a lot of important things that we don't even see.

So, let's go over our list.

For present, we have farmer, factory worker, and usually there's more than one person working at a factory.

So what should we add at the end of worker?

An S for workers.

Okay, and then we have truck drivers.

Now let's look at long, long ago.

"Farming long ago.

In the past, most people got their food from gardens they planted next to their homes.

People also raised chickens, pigs, and one or two horses and cows.

Some farmers had large fields where they grew corn or wheat.

Farm helpers were often family members, like the children above, collecting pumpkins."

So, one thing that they mentioned that the same was farmer.

So let's go ahead and write farmer.

We need those farmers.

Oh, did I say farmers?

Yes, more than one.

And let's go ahead and add an S over here too to make it plural, because we still have more than one farmer there.

So next we see that it says that farmers had large fields where they grew corn or wheat.

So what's interesting about that is that they didn't mention anything about a factory.

They talked about the field.

Now who helped them in the field?

Yes, it said family members.

So farm helpers were family members.

So, let's just say farm helpers, farm helpers.

Helpers.

Almost like factory workers, right?

So now let's circle what's the same.

Present, we have farmers, long ago, we have farmers.

So let's go ahead and circle that.

Now factory workers and farm helpers, it may seem the same or similar, but it's actually a little different.

Factory workers work within a building.

Farm helpers work on the field.

So, it's a little different, so we can't necessarily circle that.

Truck drivers, we don't have that over here, because long ago, they didn't have truck drivers.

So as we can see, farmers are still in our business of making sure that we have food, so that we can be healthy and strong.

Thank you for learning with us today.

I hope you will go out into your community, your school community, and even your home community, and help out your city, and all of the communities that you work and live in, and see how you can be a better community helper too.

I'll 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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