[bright upbeat music] I was just about to do some fun work with sounds.

Do you wanna play along with me?

Awesome.

Okay.

Now, before I tell you our sound of the day, let's get our ears ready and let's listen to some sounds and see if we can identify them.

What I wanna do is I wanna see if you can hear the first sound in some words that I'm going to say.

Let me show you.

If I were to say the word ride, what's the first sound you hear in the word ride?

Ride?

Oh, wait a minute.

That first sound, "r." Okay, so if I said ride, you would say "r." Okay?

Let's try another one together.

How about the word hat?

What's the first sound you hear in the word hat?

Hat.

Right, the first sound you hear in the word hat is "h." Okay, let's see if you can do some of these on your own.

Now remember, I just want you to pay attention to the first sound, okay?

How about the word duck?

Good, "d" is the first sound we hear in the word duck.

How about the word hen?

"H" is the first sound we hear in the word hen.

How about the word neat?

I love how some of you are repeating the word before giving me that first sound.

Yeah, the first sound in neat is "n." Okay, how about the word less?

"L," all right, last word.

How about the word pick?

"P," beautiful.

All right, now I wanna do the same activity, but instead of listening for the first sound, do you think you can tell me the last sound that you hear?

So watch, I'm gonna take that word "ride" again.

This time I wanna pay really close attention to the last sound that I hear.

So ride.

Ride.

Okay, so the last sound I hear in the word ride is "d." Okay, try this one.

What's the last sound you hear in the word hat?

So hat.

"T." Okay, I'm not gonna help you for these now, you ready?

What's the last sound you hear in the word duck?

"K." What's the last sound you hear in the word hen?

"N." Notice those lips are apart.

"N." Good job.

What's the last sound you hear in the word neat?

"T." What's the last sound you hear in the word less?

"S," all right, last one.

What is the last sound you hear in the word pick?

"K." Awesome sauce.

Okay, let's talk about our focus sound for today.

Yay.

Okay.

Think about what you're learning in school.

You've probably learned that there's a bunch of different ways to represent the "k" sound.

So what are some of the ways you represent the "k" sound in school?

Shout 'em out to me.

Ooh, you're right.

I hear some of you saying that C, like cat.

"K." Okay, what are some other ones?

Yeah.

So we have K, like kite, represents "K." There's one more way of representing that "k" sound that we're gonna be focusing on today.

Yeah, so some of you know this.

When I put CK together like this, this is called a digraph.

A digraph is when two letters represent one sound.

So in this case, the CK represent the "k" sound.

Now, we'll normally see the CK "k" spelling at the end of those one syllable words that have a short vowel sound.

Okay?

So let's take a look at some of those words.

I'm gonna put our focus sound up here, so we remember it.

All right, so think of the word, like luck, right?

Like when you have good luck.

So the word luck.

Well, how many sounds are in luck?

Luck.

Luck.

I hear three sounds.

Okay, so I'm gonna draw three lines.

Luck.

All right.

That first sound, "l," what letter is representing that "l" sound?

Yeah.

L is representing that "l" sound.

Okay, let's keep going.

Luck.

Uh, uh.

Uh.

That's right.

The letter U is representing the "uh" sound in this word.

All right, now here we are, that "k" sound.

Well, it's not gonna be C because we said we're not gonna use that.

And I mean, it kind of feels like I should put the K there, but it's not.

Since U is that short vowel sound, it's saying, "uh," I'm gonna use my CK at the end to represent the "k" sound.

So now I have luck.

Luck.

Awesome.

All right, let's try another one together.

How about if I was going to write the word duck?

I love this word because there's more than one meaning behind it.

It could mean like a duck, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, right?

Or it can mean duck.

Ooh.

Right?

Okay, so duck.

Duck, duck.

All right, once again, I hear those three sounds.

One, two, three.

Drawing these lines is a great strategy to help you hold onto all the sounds that you hear in a word.

All right, "d," what letter is gonna represent that "d" sound?

Good.

D is gonna represent our "d" sound.

Well, now we're gonna remember that "uh" sound from before from luck.

So we're going to write our U to represent the "uh" sound.

Now, what's going to say "k" at the end of this word?

That's right.

Once again, I'm gonna use my CK because it's a one syllable word with that short vowel sound.

Duck.

Okay.

Let's do a couple more.

And then, actually, you know what?

Go get a piece of paper and something to write with.

Ask a trusted adult so that way you can write some of these with me.

I'll wait.

Go ahead.

[upbeat music] All right, awesome.

You came back really quickly.

Okay, let's try writing the word stick.

Okay, stick.

All right, so what sounds do we hear in stick?

Stick.

Stick.

Yeah, I like this.

All right.

Write down the first sound you hear in stick.

Ooh, I like how some of you are showing me.

S is representing the "s" sound.

Love it.

What's the next sound in stick?

"S" "t." That's right, our T. All right.

"S" "t" "i" "i."

What's representing that "i" sound?

"I."

I!

Okay, now how are we gonna make the "k" sound in our stick word?

That's right.

We're gonna write CK.

Stick.

Stick Okay.

Ready?

Let's do one more together.

How about the word, ooh, one of my favorite colors, black.

How do we spell black?

So black.

Black.

so what's that first sound?

"B."

B is gonna represent our "b" sound.

"B" "l." "L." Yeah, that same sound from the word luck.

Our L. So "b" "l" "ah."

What's gonna say "ah."

Eating an apple.

"Ah."

Okay, our A.

So "b" "l" "ah."

"K." There you go.

CK once again.

Short vowel sound.

One syllable word.

Black.

Okay.

I want you to write down these words on your own.

I'm not gonna help you yet.

I'm just gonna sit here and twiddle my thumbs, okay?

The first word I want you to try to write all by yourself is the word back.

Okay, like put your pencil back when you're done.

Back, go ahead.

Okay, if you spelt back B-A-C-K, give that brain of yours a kiss.

Awesome job.

If you didn't, it's okay.

Fix your mistakes and you'll remember it for next time.

All right, last word before we're gonna practice reading through some words with that "k" sound at the end.

Okay.

Let's see.

Can you spell the word, ooh, how about pick?

Like to pick a flower or to pick something up?

Spell the word pick.

Go ahead.

Okay, did you write, "p" P, "i" I, "k," C-K?

If you did, give yourself a nice little pat on the back.

Say, "Good job, self."

Okay, let's practice reading through some words with that "k" sound.

Let's review.

Think of our sound for today, and let's see how you do with some of these words.

Remember, what sound does CK represent in this word?

That's right.

CK represents the sound "k." The word is pack.

All right, when the word appears on the screen, read it as fast as you can.

If you need to blend the sounds first, do so.

Ready?

Let's go.

[no audio] Awesome.

Did you say luck, stick, duck, black, pick, and flock?

If you did, give yourself a high five.

Awesome job, scholars.

You did an amazing job working with our "k" sound, represented by the letters CK.

As you're reading books, see if you can find some more words with those "k" sound in them, or when you're writing, whether it's in school or at home, see if you can add some words that also have the CK "k" sound in them.

Well, until next time, bye scholars!