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Welcome back to Teaching in Room Nine, our region's largest classroom.

My name is Julia, I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school, but here for teaching in Room Nine my lessons focus on phonemic awareness.

Exercises that work with being aware of the smallest units of sounds that letters make.

Welcome back friends, thank you so much for being here with me.

I'm so excited for us to jump right in and do some learning and reading here together.

We're going to start by warming up our brains and reviewing everything that we've learned so far here together.

We're going to be singing a lot of different songs and doing some whole brain teaching exercises.

As you know, I love doing "mirrors on" activities with you at home.

And remember, whenever I say "mirrors on", all you have to do is copy along with everything I say and do until I say "mirrors off".

I would love nothing more than to be able to see pictures or videos of you following along at home.

Always feel free to take pictures or videos and send them into the Nine PBS station or post them online and #ninePBS.

All right, are you ready, friends?

We're gonna start by warming up our brains.

So tickle those brains, get your thinking caps on.

And we're going to start by singing a song that I wrote here about print awareness, concept of print, and parts of a book.

And it's to the tune of "The Ants Go Marching".

Are you ready to sing along?

(clapping) ♪ When we first learn how to read ♪ ♪ We look at books ♪ When we first learn how to read ♪ ♪ We look at books ♪ We have the front and back covers ♪ ♪ And then you have a spine like mine ♪ ♪ The spine holds books together ♪ ♪ And keeps them straight and tall ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪ On the front cover ♪ You'll find the author ♪ The author is who worked so hard to write the book ♪ ♪ Then the illustrator is the one who drew ♪ ♪ Well the pictures ♪ And you have a title ♪ That is the name of a book ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪ Between the covers of the book ♪ ♪ You'll find the pages ♪ On the pages are the letters that make words ♪ ♪ The words then form the sentences ♪ ♪ That came straight from the author's mind ♪ ♪ They will tell a story or teach us facts ♪ ♪ Imagine that ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪ When we read, we always go from left to right ♪ ♪ When we read, we're always sure to touch each word ♪ ♪ Each time we start at the capital letter ♪ ♪ Reading every word ♪ Until we get to the end period ♪ ♪ And then, we did it ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪ Once we read the book from front to back ♪ ♪ But hold on ♪ Just you wait, there's much more fun ♪ ♪ Let's talk about what we just read ♪ ♪ Did we understand the words ♪ What was the author trying to say to us this day?

♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom - Yay, that was incredible, friends!

Thank you so much for following along and listening at home.

If you don't know all the words, it's okay.

Just feel free to jump in whenever you feel comfortable.

All right.

We also have been talking a lot about Magic E and that's one of the ways that we hear long vowel sounds.

We sung this song together a couple of times.

It's to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".

♪ Magic E, magic E ♪ The end of a word is where I'll be ♪ ♪ I don't say "eh" or "ee" ♪ I just sit there silently ♪ But the vowel that I'm around ♪ ♪ Gets to make their long, long sound ♪ - Nicely done, friends!

Now we're going to also finish reviewing by doing some more Mirrors On.

Are you ready?

Mirrors on!

Letters are consonants or vowels.

And vowels are short or long.

Long vowels can be heard in many ways.

Open syllables are long vowels, not followed by a consonant and a syllable.

Y-twins are when Y says "iy" in a one syllable word.

(claps once) Or when Y says "ee" in a two syllable word.

(claps twice) Vowel teams are two or more letters that come together to make a long vowel sound.

AI, AY: "ay".

EA, EE: "ee".

IE, IGH: "iy".

OA, OW: "oh".

UE, EW: "oo".

OO makes two different sounds.

"Oo" like in the word "spoon".

"Uh" like in the word "book".

Vowel diphthongs glide in your mouth and make one sound in a syllable.

OI, OY: "oy" Oy, oy, oy, oy.

OU, OW: "oh" I mean "ow"!

(laughs) AU, AW: "aw" Aw, yeah!

Consonant blends are when letters glide together, but you hear all sounds.

Mirrors off!

That was amazing, friends!

You were doing such a wonderful job following along with me at home.

I can't believe we learned so much here together.

We also talked about when we need to double the final consonant.

And we learned a song to the tune of "If You're Happy, and You Know It" ♪ When the letters L, F, S, or Z ♪ ♪ Are following a short vowel in a word ♪ ♪ And the word part is only one syllable ♪ ♪ Then you have to double final consonants ♪ - Very good!

We also started talking last week about Bossy R Let me see you do your best Bossy R. Bossy R!

Good job, you're very bossy.

And Bossy R is when the letter R changes the vowel sound that it's next to.

We did a Mirror's On, so we're going to do that in here to practice.

You ready?

Mirrors on!

Bossy R is when the letter R changes the vowel sound.

AR: "ar", like in the word "car".

OR: "or" like in the word "storm".

The next three vowels make the same sound.

ER: "er", "hammer".

IR: "er", for "bird".

UR: "er", "surf".

Mirrors off!

That was amazing!

I know that can be kind of tricky, too.

That all of those letters, or Bossy R, make the same sound.

So we just have to keep practicing and trying our best and then we'll feel more comfortable knowing which one to use.

Whether it's IR, ER, or UR since they all make those same sounds.

And then we practiced so many different ways to chop or divide up syllables.

And we learned a song that went along with it to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in "basket" ♪ And tell me what you heard - Bas-ket: two syllables.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in "cabin" ♪ And tell me what you heard - Cab-in: two again.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in "basic" ♪ And tell me what you heard - Ba-sic: two again.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in "complex" ♪ And tell me what you heard - Com-plex.

Very good!

You're really getting so good at being able to be reading scientists and really dissecting those words, looking at all the different letters.

What vowel sounds do we hear?

What letter teams need to stay together?

And how do we divide up our syllables?

All of this helps us to be better readers.

That way we can learn new words.

So today, we're kind of going to put all of that wonderful knowledge here together.

And our learning goal, or objective, is "I can decode".

Remember we said that "decode" means to just figure out or be able to read a new word.

Now here's a really big word.

"Multi-syllabic": can you say that?

That's a really big word.

Multi-syllabic!

Let me hear it!

Good, you were amazing, readers!

"I can decode, or read, multisyllabic words."

And all this big fancy word means is just words that have more than one syllable.

So we're just going to put all of that learning that we've done here, together in order for us to be able to decode or read new words.

All right, friends.

We've kind of talked about prefixes and suffixes before.

Prefixes are word parts that come in the beginning of the root word.

These are my roots.

And a suffix comes at the end of a root word.

And again, it's a word part.

In all of these different word parts, prefixes and suffixes mean different things.

And they help us as readers to know what the new word is that we're trying to read.

So I thought we could just kind of review some of these here together.

I'm going to teach you a little chant that goes along with prefixes and suffixes.

And then my second graders helped me to come up with movements to practice some of these different prefixes and suffixes.

I love to see you following along with me or maybe you could even come up with your own.

All right, friends, are you ready?

Repeat after me.

A prefix is word part.

You add it on, on to the front of a root word.

A suffix is word part.

You add it on, on to the back of a root word.

Prefixes and suffixes help us to, to understand.

Very good!

Let's do it again, just to practice it even more.

And then I'll teach you the different ones.

Let's see if we can maybe even go a little bit faster.

Do you think we can?

I think so, too.

Let's go ahead and try.

A prefix is a word part.

You add it on, on to the front of a root word.

A suffix is the word part.

You add it on, on to that back of a root word.

Prefixes and suffixes help us to, to understand.

Very good.

Now I'm going to kind of go through some of these different examples.

As you can see, there's a lot of different ones.

We're just going to talk about a couple.

All right, ready?

Prefixes: "re-", again.

"Un-", no.

"Pre-", before.

"Dis-", not.

"Mis-", wrong.

"Non-", not.

Suffixes: "-ful", full of.

"-less", without.

"-ly", how.

"-er", "-ist", "person who".

"-es", plural.

"-ed", past.

"-ing", now.

Very good.

Do you want to try putting it all together now?

Let's see if you can follow along and do it all with me.

Let's see if we can speed it up a little bit too.

Are you ready?

A prefix is a word part.

You add it on, on to the front of a root word.

A suffix is a word part.

You added on, on to the back of a root word.

Prefixes and suffixes help us do to, to understand.

Prefixes: "re-", again.

"Un-", no.

"Pre-", before.

"Dis-", not.

"Mis-", wrong.

"Non-", not.

Suffixes: "-ful", full of.

"-less", without.

"-ly", how.

"-er", "-ist", is "person who".

"-es", plural.

"-ed", past.

"-ing", now.

Very good.

Do you like the movements that my second graders came up with?

I do too.

I bet you could come up with some really good ones, as well.

All right, friends.

So again, just to review.

Prefixes and suffixes are word parts that come on either the beginning or the end of a word.

And they all have different meanings, so that we're able to figure out what our new word is.

And prefixes and suffixes, they get their own syllables.

Now I'm going to go ahead and turn my chart to a new chart here.

And this is going to kind of go through all of the different syllable types.

I say, you say.

Syllable types.

Good, well done.

And guess what?

I wrote another song.

It's also to the tune of "If You're Happy, and You Know It".

And it goes through these seven different syllable types.

Are you ready?

Let's go ahead and sing it here together.

♪ There are seven different types of syllables ♪ ♪ There are closed and open vowels ♪ ♪ And magic E ♪ Then consonant "-le" ♪ And these all stay together ♪ Vowel teams, Bossy R and diphthongs ♪ - Okay, let's do that again, friends.

♪ There are seven different types of syllables ♪ ♪ There are closed and open vowels ♪ ♪ And magic E ♪ Then consonant "-le" ♪ And these all stay together ♪ They are vowel teams, Bossy R, and diphthongs ♪ - One more time.

Are you ready?

Just for good measure.

♪There are seven different types of syllables ♪ ♪ There are closed and open vowels ♪ ♪ And magic E ♪ Then consonant "-le" ♪ And these all stay together ♪ They are vowel teams, Bossy R and diphthongs ♪ - Very good, friends!

So as you can see, I'm just going to kind of go through this chart here and then we can practice dividing up our syllables Closed syllables.

Vowels are closed in by at least one consonant.

So you can see: Buh-eh-tuh.

Bet.

This vowel here is closed in by this constant, T. And it says vowels are short: "eh-eh-eh".

It's a short E. Here we have mag-net, mag-net.

Okay.

Mag- is the "a".

Short A is closed in by the G, and same thing here at the end, T closes in that "a".

And then you have, again, the word rab-bit, rab-bit.

You're vowels are closed in by constants around them and they make the short vowel sound.

And then you have open syllables.

This is when there is no consonant after it.

And the vowels are long, like in the word "be", "be".

And he's saying a little long E sound there.

And here's some examples.

We've got a cute little robot here.

Ro-bot, ro-bot.

You hear that O is long.

It's not followed by a consonant in a syllable.

Same thing here, ti-ger ti-ger.

I is long because it is open, it's not followed by consonant in a syllable.

"-ger" is in its own syllable, "-bot" is in its own syllable.

Then we have Magic E. And this is when a syllable with a vowel is followed by one consonant and then E. The first vowel is usually long.

And the E is silent, like in the words: cake, cake.

So that's a one syllable word, cake.

Magic E broken out by that K and the A is long.

Here's a two syllable word: rep-tile.

Here's our cute little iguana guy here.

Rep-tile.

Okay.

"-tile" on this side here has that E that Magic E makes that I long in "-tile".

Then we have consonant "-le".

This is found at the end of words, the "-le" sounds like "ul".

Can you do that with me?

"Ul", very good.

And you can see here, the super cute turtle in a pud-dle.

So you have tur-tle.

So your turtle, you divide after that Bossy R, Bossy R always stays together.

And then consonant "-le", it's a "tuh-ul" that "-tle".

Tur-tle.

And here, we've got the word pud-dle.

Okay, so that you have that it's broken right in between.

Those two double letters.

And you have "-dle" is that "dull" at the end.

Tur-tle, pud-dle.

Then we have these three things that we've talked about many times here before.

We have a vowel teams.

It's when two or more vowels come together to make one long vowel sound.

Here's an example of rain-bow.

AI makes that "ay" sound.

OW makes that "oh" sound.

So they stay together in their syllables.

Rain-bow.

And then we've got a super cute little seal right here.

EA, "ee".

Suh-ee-ul, seal.

Rainbow is also an example of a certain type of word.

Who remembers?

What type of word is rainbow?

If rain is a word, bow is a word.

It's an example of..?

You're so smart, friends.

You're right, good memory.

It is a compound word.

Compound words are when you have two words, they're words all on their own, and then they come together to make a new word, like in a word "rainbow".

And we have this really angry Bossy R here.

And this is when the syllable's vowel is followed by an R, which changes the vowel sound.

And here's the examples: "-ar", "-er", "-ir", "-or", "-ur".

And now we have this little guy here, farm-er, farm-er.

So you've got "-ar" stays together, "-er" stays together.

And what is he holding?

He's holding a pitch fork, fork.

That's just one syllable.

Your vowel is that Bossy R "-or", "-or".

And then last, but not least, our cute little friends these diphthongs down here.

That's when two or more vowels come together and they make a new sound, like OW, "ow".

Ow!

And OY, "oy".

And this word is cow-boy, cow-boy.

So you've got the "-ow" and the "-oy", are two examples of diphthongs.

And wait a minute.

Cowboy?

Is that also an example of something?

Yeah, you're right.

It's another example of a compound word.

Cow is a word, boy is a word.

They come together to say cowboy.

And then the last one here is couch, couch.

You have that OU, stays together.

You've got cuh-ow-ch.

CH is a digraph that comes together to make that "ch, ch" sound.

Very good, friends.

These are all of the seven different types of syllables and they help us to decode, or read, words with more than one syllable.

All right, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen really quick, friends.

And we are going to practice dividing up some of our consonants here together.

I'm sorry, some of our words here together.

So you can see here, it says at the top, these are two syllable words, two syllable words.

We've got some beautiful pictures here.

All right, what is this a picture of here, friends?

What do you think?

Oh, I'm hearing some friends say cat.

Cat.

You right, it is a cat, but remember it's a two syllable word.

What do you think it could be?

If it's not cats, it's a two syllable word.

You're right!

And we can tell what it is because it's so young and cute.

It's that it is a kitty, kitty.

Okay.

So let's divide it up.

Kuh-ih-tuh-ee.

There's our word, kitty.

Okay.

We have kuh-ih, ih.

- Is that a short or long vowel?

You're so smart!

You're right.

"Ih" is a short I.

Kit.

And then we split our syllable over here.

Tuh-ee, ee.

That's one of our Y twins and it makes the long E sound because it is a two syllable word.

Sounds up.

Kuh-ih-tuh-ee.

Kuh-ih-tuh-ee.

- Sorry four sounds, kuh-ih-tuh-ee.

Because we don't hear that T twice.

It's not kit-tt-ee (laughs).

So it sounds up kuh-ih-tuh-ee.

Blend it!

Kitty.

Test it for your syllables gently under your chin.

Kit-ty.

You split it right between those double letters.

Very good.

All right.

What do we see a picture of right here, friends?

Yeah, it looks pretty delicious, right?

A cookie, cookie.

All right.

So I'm going to write kind of tiny here.

Cook-ie.

All right.

Let's look at our word.

Kuh-uh-uh.

Now remember: OO makes two different sounds.

"oo" like in the word "spoon", "uh" like in the word "book".

Cook, book.

Those rhyme, don't they?

They have those same "uh-kuh" sounds.

When all OO says "oo", it's a long vowel sound.

When it says "uh", it's a short vowel sound.

So I'm going to give it that little macaroni, "uh".

And then the end, "ee, ee", that's a long vowel sound.

Ready?

Sounds up!

Kuh-uh-kuh-ee.

Four sounds again.

Blend it!

Cookie.

Test it!

Cook-ie.

Very good.

Let's practice something a little bit harder to stretch your brains.

Okay.

Let's see.

We can see this super cute little buggy right here.

What kind of bug is that?

Or insect is that?

You are so smart, friends.

You are absolutely right.

It is a ladybug, ladybug.

Okay, so let's write it out.

La-dy-bug.

We're dealing with three syllable words now.

Okay.

Sounds up!

Luh-ay-ay.

Long or short?

Shout out for me, friends, nice and loud.

A is... Yeah, it's a long vowel sound.

Luh-ay-duh-ee-ee.

Got that Y twin making that "ee" sound again.

Buh-uh-guh.

"Uh, uh".

Short vowel.

Okay, ready, friends?

Luh-ay-duh-ee-buh-uh-guh.

A lot of sounds there.

Blend it!

Ladybug.

Test it!

La-dy-bug.

We really divided up there between those syllables.

All right.

Let's go ahead and do this one right down here.

Mostly because elephants are my very favorite animal.

What's your favorite animal?

Hearing a lot of good ones.

This is a very beautiful picture of an elephant here.

All right.

Elephant.

Are you ready?

Eh-luh-eh-fant.

Right.

"Eh" short E, "luh", "eh, eh", we've got another short E. And then PH actually comes together to say "fff" like an F. "fah, ah" short A, "nt".

All right, ready?

Sound's up!

Eh-luh-eh-fant.

Blend it!

Elephant.

Test it!

El-e-phant.

Very good, friends.

All right.

We're going to go ahead and stop there for today.

So I'm going to stop sharing my screen and just to review again, we learned about all seven different types of syllables.

And learning about these different types of syllables and how we divide up our syllables really helps us to be better readers.

And we talked about closed, where they're closed in by a consonant.

Open long vowel, open not followed by a consonant in a syllable.

Magic E, consonant "-le", making that "ul" sound at the end.

Then we have vowel teams, Bossy R, and diphthongs.

Vowel diphthongs.

Very good friends.

Thank you so much for all of your hard work.

I'll see you next time.

Bye!

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