- Hello there learners.

It's Mrs.

Spear again Welcome back to "Read Write Roar".

Today, you might notice that I'm in a new setting, I am at Otsego Lake State Park up in Gaylord, Michigan.

This setting is the where in a story, and when we do our writing today, the setting, the where in my story is right here at Otsego Lake State Park.

Are you ready to get thinking about writing?

Let's go.

- [Narrator] This program is made possible in part by the Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan and the WK Kellogg Foundation, additional support by... And by viewers like you.

Thank you.

(paper rustling) (upbeat music) (lion roars) (upbeat music) (lion roars) (upbeat music) - Hey, there learners, Mrs.

Spear again.

Now I'm back in the classroom and we are going to do some writing together.

We always think about topics, that's what we're writing about, so here's what we're thinking about.

Topics I can write about connected to, the big idea is, a time when the daytime or nighttime sky is an important part of a story in your life.

That's what you're thinking about, and I'm going to be sharing my story with you today.

The last time we met we went over all these different questions, and one of the things I asked you to do was to really think about what your topic would be, the big idea, and think about who would be in the story with you, and where the story would be happening.

Today, we're going to learn how to use a special organizer called a story map, to help you get your thinking down so that when you go to write the story down, you have your ideas already put in one place.

So, that's up next.

If you don't have a pencil or paper, or something you can write on, even scrap paper, this would be a great time to grab it.

(playful music) So, here we're are, we are ready to use this organizer to help us.

I'd like to show you how this organizer works to help you when you're writing a narrative text.

First off, there's always gonna be a title to any story that you write, whether that's going to be a narrative story, or if you're writing an informational text.

But characters, that's the who in the story.

That's a really important part of any narrative text.

Setting, that's where, like earlier I showed you where my story will be taking place at Otsego Lake State Park, but it's also when, like the time and the place can also be part of a setting of a story.

A goal, in a narrative story oftentime there's going to be a goal is trying to be reached.

Another thing that will often happen in a narrative story is some sort of problem that gets in the way of the goal, and then within the problem all of the things that happen are the what is happening and the how it's happening, and how we're feeling at that time.

At the end when we get through all the problems, this is called the plot, it's the action part of the story where all the big things happen.

There's something called a resolution, can you say resolution?

Nice.

That's connected to the word resolve, when you resolve something you fix it so there's not a problem anymore.

At the end of stories that have a problem, there's a resolution that solves that problem.

And then afterwards we often think, in a narrative story, "What's the theme, or what's something we can learn from the story?"

So, we're going to work through this right now, and be learning about how you use this map to be able to write your own story.

(playful music) Okay, so here's my story.

Now, I'm going to put a title for now but it might change later, oftentimes authors have to look at their stories and think at the end.

So far, here's what I think I might call my story, but it's not that exciting or interesting.

Oops, Otsego Lake State Park Day, because that's where we were.

We'll see, maybe you can help me come up with a better title by the time you hear my whole story.

Notice that every letter at the beginning of each word is capitalized.

There's a capital letter for a couple of reasons.

These four words are the name of the place, they're proper nouns, but because it's a title I also put the D capitalized.

So, read it with me, Otsego Lake State Park Day.

Great reading.

(playful music) So, we've talked about our title, and now we're talking about the characters.

Characters are the who in a story.

In the story that I'm going to be writing about, here are the characters, Matt, that's my husband, Logan, that's my son, Amelia, my daughter, and me.

So, I'm gonna add this up for characters.

(whiteboard cracking) The other thing that I wanted to make sure I named is that we were at a state park so there were a lot of people at the beach.

A way to talk about a lot of people that have gone to the beach and are spending time at the beach, we're gonna call them beachgoers.

Can you say beachgoers?

Yeah, people that go to the beach.

So, I'm gonna put that up here as well.

I have my title, I have my characters.

Can you say characters again?

Great, and the characters are the who other story, great.

Now we have our setting, can you say setting?

And let's read, the setting is the where and the when.

You know the where for my story, right?

We know that that is at Otsego Lake State Park, so I'm going to add that up here.

That's my where.

Now, as far as my when, this story happens in the summer.

(playful music) So, the where is Otsego lake State Park and the when is summertime.

You'll notice on our map here it ask about a goal.

So, my family's goal in going to Otsego Lake State Park that day was to cool off on a hot summer day.

(playful music) So, our goal was to cool off and play, (paper rustling) and that's why we were at Otsego Lake State Park that day.

The next part that we get into is where the heart of the story is going to come in for us.

I'm gonna tell you now that we did have a problem that came up in our story, and then we're going to go into our plot.

This is where all the action of the story is going to happen.

So, let's talk about the what, can you read that word, what?

Nice reading.

And the how, can you say how?

That's our next part, we're gonna talk about what exactly happened, how it happened and how we all felt at that time, at least in my family.

You're now thinking about a story, remember, you're thinking of a story that has to do with the daytime or nighttime sky in your life, and then you're gonna follow the same steps I'm following, I'm just showing you how to do it with my ideas.

Soon it will be your turn to do it with your ideas.

So, let's talk about this problem.

I'm gonna tell you the secret, the problem in my story is this, a nasty storm rolls in.

So, here we are at the beach trying to cool off and play, and uh-oh, a nasty storm roles in.

(playful music) So now we're ready to think about the plot.

The plot is the action of the story, can you say plot?

Excellent.

Can you say action?

Well done.

So, action we think like movement, right?

(hands clapping) Here's how we get started, we have to start with first, what happens first?

Now, I'm gonna close my eyes for a moment and I'm gonna picture myself at Otsego Lake State Park, I'm there with my husband and my two children, it's warm and it's sunny, and then picture what happens as we get there.

That's what's going to happen first.

So, it's hot, we're getting ready to walk down, I've got my beach bag, we have pales and we have buckets and we set up our blanket on the beach.

That is the first part of our story.

So, all I did, did this ahead of time, I jotted down some ideas.

This part is not needing to be perfect, this is your organizer.

I made it look really neat for you because you need to be able to read it.

When you do it on your own you just jot down any ideas that you have, you could even just draw pictures.

Like you might draw a picture of a sunshine, you might draw a picture of a beach pale, you might draw a picture of towels laying on the beach, to help you remember, and then maybe just write a couple of words.

That's what writers do, they give themselves organized ways to think about what they're going to write about, and then they give themselves clues to help them along the way.

So, that was first, getting there and getting all set up.

Then, okay, this is how our stories go, first, and then.

So then, as part of my story, we're putting on sunscreen, we're getting goggles out, we start heading down to the water and we're wading in and it's a little deep, and we're pushing ourselves out there, we're laughing, we're playing, we're splashing each other.

My kids are trying to get me wet, even though I'm not ready to get wet yet, I bet you might know what that's like, doing that to somebody else.

We start just jumping around and playing games that we like, at the beach, like the game red rover we like to play.

That's what happens next, still sunny, having lots of fun, great day to be at the beach so far.

(playful music) Next, I look out at the water, at the beginning of the episode you saw me standing at the beach and I looked behind me, if you remember at the beginning where I'm standing at that beach spot in front of the lifeguard station, behind me it started to get cloudy, I saw like really, really dark clouds and I thought, "Hmm, feel like we need to keep an eye on that," because dark clouds usually mean what?

Yeah, rain, And really dark clouds in summertime, remember we talked about the sky and the importance of the sky?

When you see really dark, heavy clouds in summertime, do you know what often happens?

Thunderstorms, right?

So it was time to keep a really good eye on the sky, in my story at this time.

Said to my kids and my husband, "Check out those clouds, we better get going."

And the kids were like, "We don't wanna go."

I bet you can relate to that, right?

Who wants to leave when they're having such a good time?

But I said, "We go look at those clouds, you guys, I think a storm's rolling in."

(playful music) And that is what happened next.

So first, then, next, and then, so this is when things start to get even a little bit more exciting in the plot or the action of the story.

The wind started to pick up, right?

So there I am, I'm picturing myself, my story, and I hope you're thinking about this too, think about your story, picture yourself.

What did it feel like?

What did it sound like?

In my story it starts getting windy, it starts getting just more and more dark, I started getting a little bit more nervous, and then sand starts blowing.

Now, our family's packing up, but I'm looking around on the beach and no one else is packing up, everyone else is just kind of hanging out and we're like, "Well, maybe it's not gonna come but it's looking pretty bad."

So, we pack up our stuff, we're throwing stuff very quickly in bags, this was not a careful pack up, this was like throw your goggles in the bag, "Quick, get a towel around you so we can get to the car."

And then it starts coming really fast, so we started running and heading toward the car, and that darkness is just settling in.

Really getting to this big problem that a nasty storm roles in, right?

(playful music) So, here is all of that last part that I just told you, this was all part of the end, then, the big part, the rising action and the story where so much is happening.

And now we're gonna start to come back down into the finally space.

And at one point during this part, (scoffs) my son, Logan, had run, safely, but run off, and there was tree near right behind the car, so he's over there, I got Amelia, so I put her down, I'm grabbing her hand as we were running, we get to the car, we put the kids in the car seats, I go find Logan and throw our stuff in the car.

We're making sure to be careful 'cause people are running all around us, we're trying to just make sure there's nothing we can do to help, but it seemed like the best thing we could do was slowly get ourselves out of that parking lot.

So, we got into the car, got settled in then we went... (breathing deeply) We took a deep breath and went, "We're safe."

So, that is the finally of my story that I wanted to share with you.

So, in the end all of this brings us down to the resolution.

Remember, we talked at the beginning how you resolve or fix what the problem is, a nasty storm all day.

I told you my beginning, my middle, all the way to the end, and the resolution at the end is we carefully out of the state parking lot, to make sure we weren't getting anybody, we're watching for floats flying at the car, drove off and then came the rain.

A downpour, we're watching thunder and lightning, and we all just went, "Phew," and felt nice and safe in our car that day.

So that would be our resolution, carefully drove off safely inside the car.

And, as you can tell, all these years later I have a good story that I can write about to talk about that day.

It will forever be in our minds.

(tuts) We're gonna do this next part, the theme part, and the theme is when you're trying to figure out is there a lesson or something that you learned from this story or idea to hang on to.

Well, if you think about the daytime and nighttime sky and how we're trying to think about the importance of them, can you think about an important lesson that you might learn from the story that I told you today?

I bet you have some really great ideas.

Here's one of the things I was thinking would be a really good theme, it's really important to pay attention to the sky at all times, but the summertime, pay attention to those dark clouds when you're out and about, because you just never know when a nasty storm is going to roll in.

Thanks for helping me with my story mapping process today, you're gonna be able to download this yourself.

If you would like to make sure that you would like to use this type of a process, so you can go to MichiganLearning.org.

And your families will be able to find this for you and download it for you to be able to use.

Thanks for your help today on our story.

Next time we meet, we'll take this and I'm gonna show you how you take all your brainstormed ideas in this kind of an organizer, and then start to actually write your story.

Can't wait to see you next time.

Wishing you a great day, and thanks for joining us on "Read Write Roar".

(bouncy music) - Are you ready for our brain break?

Today we're gonna practice moving like the weather.

Let's start by crouching down, and we're gonna rise like the sun.

Now, let's move our arms like the wind.

It looks like it's going to rain, let's trickle down like the rain.

Time to stomp your feet like thunder, (feet stomping) stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.

It's getting late, now it's time to set like the sun.

Look, the stars are coming out, let's twinkle our hands like the stars.

Twinkle your fingers with me.

Let's take two deep breaths.

(breathing deeply) One more.

(breathing deeply) Great job giving your brain a break today.

(bouncy music) - Amazing learners, my name is Ms. Rogers.

And today we're going to read a book entitled "Day and Night" by Patricia Armentrout.

This book is about basic patterns of the sun and the moon, and what causes day and night.

Hmm, patterns.

I thought patterns were like one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three.

So, does this mean that the sun and the moon are counting?

(laughs) No, not at all, but we have to understand what a pattern is.

So, a pattern is something that repeats, it's like a cycle, so that must mean that there's daytime and nighttime, daytime and nighttime.

So, that cycle repeats itself, it happens over and over.

Now let's take a look at the cover page.

The illustrator displays the day and night sky to allow us to see the difference between the two, at the same time.

Now, what do you notice?

We'll take a closer look as we read.

Today we will be reading "Day and Night" by Patricia Armentrout.

This book is read with permission from Bluedoor Education.

"Day and Night".

Day, the sun is rising in the sky, it is time to wake up, a new day has begun.

If we look over at the other side of the page, there's something that says, "Find out more."

This is called a graphic or text feature, which means the author wants us to understand something a little more, or give us more information.

So, we have over here something called a caption.

Let's read it and find out what he says.

We call it daytime when the sun is up.

The sun shines on our world.

It's light help us see.

It keeps us warm.

The sun is the closest star to Earth.

Now, if we look at the sun and then we look at the earth, it looks like the sun is really small in comparison to the earth.

Well, actually the sun is very huge, it's larger than the earth.

It's just that the sun is so far away that it appears to be smaller, just like an airplane appears to be smaller when it's flying in the sky.

Sunlight helps plants and animals live and grow.

Look up at the sky during the day.

Can you see clouds, blue sky, birds, and planes?

If you're near a window, I want you to take a quick look out of the window and tell me what you see.

I'll give you 10 seconds, go.

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

I hope you're back, did you notice anything about the sky, or what you could see in the daylight?

Hold on to that thought, I want you to share with me a little later.

Sometimes you can see the moon and the daytime sky.

A full day lasts 24 hours, but we only see the sun for part of the day.

There's the sun, there's the earth.

Daytime, where the sun beams we can see, and it gives us light, in the nighttime the earth is not facing the sun, so it's dark.

(mouse clicking) Night, sunset is the time of day when the sun goes down.

The sky grows dark.

Daytime becomes nighttime.

What can you see in the night sky?

Can you see the moon?

What shape is it?

Can you see stars or the blinking lights on planes as they fly across the sky?

Nighttime makes us sleepy.

It is time for bed, but that's okay.

Tomorrow the sun will rise again.

Daytime turns into night.

Nighttime turns into day.

Because this happens over and over, it is called a cycle.

Yes, the sun gives us light in the day and the moon reflects or bounces off the light from the sun, to give us light at night.

So, we have the moon to brighten up our night, and we have the sun that brightens up our day.

Now, I wanna give you a creative challenge, I have a sheet of paper, (paper rustling) and what I did was simply folded in half, sheet paper, just like this, regular, it doesn't have to be anything special, just a regular sheet of paper.

I fold it in half, and then what I want you to do is divide it in half and draw a squiggly line.

I can't really make straight lines so I usually just make squiggly lines.

So, on one side I have day and the other side I have night.

So, on the day side I'm going to draw something that I see in the sky, which could be clouds, birds, the brightness of the sun shining on a car, or on a tree.

And then I'm going to take that same drawing and I'm going to draw it over here, but I'm going to go outside and look and see what it looks like at nighttime.

The same thing, and actually have an example for you.

Don't laugh at my drawings, kind of sloppy but I tried my best.

Okay, so I have my day and night.

Here's a tree, I saw some birds, and I could see the blue sky and the clouds.

But at nighttime my drawing looks a little different.

The tree is still there, but it was so dark that I could only see just a little bit of the reflection of the moon on the leaves, so everything is pretty dark.

What I also did was label it, so that's another challenge, you can label your drawing, just like it was in the book.

But, oh my goodness, you can do sentences as well.

So, you could just do a drawing, you can label it, you can even write sentences or tell me a story about your day and night sky.

All of these ideas, oh my goodness, I have one more.

You can also... (playful music) You can have a trusted adult take a video of you outside, just like a reporter.

Now, if you notice something extra special happens at night, we can hear the sounds of nature.

I look forward to seeing 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 WK Kellogg Foundation.

Additional support by... And by viewers like you.

Thank you.

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