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Today, we're gonna be learning all about the letter G, and we'll be reading a book about goods and services.

Let's practice saying those together.

I'm gonna mix them up, ready?

Uppercase G, lowercase G. Let's try it again.

Lowercase G, uppercase G. One more time, uppercase G and lowercase G. I love the letter G because it makes two sounds.

The first sound that the letter G makes is called hard G. That's the sound /g/.

Can you make that sound with me?

/g/.

Watch my mouth as I make that sound.

You can hear it and feel it in your throat, /g/.

Your tongue comes up just a little bit and your teeth open in the back.

Let's try it one more time.

Put your hand on your throat and see if you can feel it, ready?

/g/, did you feel the sound?

G says /g/, great job.

Now, the second sound that G makes is called soft G. Soft G makes the sound /j/.

Notice it sounded different, and my mouth looked different too.

Watch how I make the soft G sound.

My lips kind of pucker and my teeth come open just a little bit, /j/.

Do it with me, /j/.

You don't feel the /j/ sound in your throat at all.

Soft G says /j/, great job.

Let's look at some things that begin with hard G and soft G. Let's look.

The first thing I have is gum.

Can you say gum?

Great!

Gum begins with hard G. The next thing I have is glue.

Can you say glue?

Glue also begins with the /g/ sound.

That's hard G. Now let's look at some things that begin with the soft G sound.

I bet you know this animal.

This is a giraffe.

Can you say giraffe?

Giraffe begins with the /j/ sound.

That is soft G, giraffe.

And the last thing I have is a gem.

Can you say gem?

Gem begins with the /j/ sound.

/j/, soft G, great job!

It's time for us to go searching for the letter G, are you ready to help me search?

We're gonna read our sentence and when I get ready to highlight, you'll tell me to stop when you see an uppercase or a lowercase G and then we'll highlight it.

First let's read our sentence together.

Gianna got grape gum at the grocery store.

Did you hear some of the /g/ and /j/ sounds?

Great, let's go searching.

Remember, when you see a G tell me to stop.

Here's our first word.

Gianna.

I heard you say stop already.

Great job, searching letter heroes!

There's an uppercase G at the beginning of the name Gianna.

Let's highlight it.

(pen rubs) Gianna is making the /j/ sound.

That was soft G. Let's keep searching.

Gianna got... That's right, I heard you say stop.

There is the hard G sound.

It's a lowercase G this time.

Let's highlight it.

(pen rubs) Keep searching with me, grape.

Good job, letter heroes, we found another one right at the beginning of grape.

I'll highlight it.

Here's the next word, gum.

Gum also begins with the G sound, hard G. Let's highlight it.

(pen rubs) Keep searching with me.

At, no G there.

The, I didn't hear the /g/ sound or the /j/ sound.

Keep searching, grocery.

You're right, you said stop.

Right there is a lowercase G. Great job, we'll highlight it.

(pen rubs) One last word, store.

No G in the word store.

Can you help me count how many Gs we found in our sentence?

One, two, three, four, five.

We found five letter Gs in our sentence today.

Great job letter heroes.

Now it's time for us to practice writing the letter G. (tone rings) The first thing we're going to do is sky write.

Are you ready to sky write?

We'll start with the uppercase G. Put your finger in the sky and trace it with me.

Around like a big curve, and then a little line in.

Try it with me one more time.

Put your finger up, around with a big curve and a little line in.

That's the uppercase G. Let's practice writing it together.

Do you have something to write on and something to write with?

Great, I'm going to start at the top and go around with a big curve up and a little line in.

Great job, let's do another uppercase G. Start at the top, around with a big curve, touch that bottom line up and a little line in.

Let's do one more.

Start at the top, around with a big curve, up and a little line in.

Uppercase G, nice job.

Now it's time to practice writing lowercase G. Notice with the lowercase G, we start in the middle.

Let's practice skywriting it.

Get your finger ready?

Start in the middle, we're going to go around with a little curve, close it up, and then a big line down into the basement, and a small curve around.

Let's do it one more time, ready?

Start in the middle, small curve around, close it up, big line down into the basement and a little curve, nice job.

Get ready to write it with me.

We'll start in the middle, around small curve, close it up.

Then we're gonna do big line down into the basement with a curve, lowercase G. Let's do another one.

Start on that middle line, around with a small curve, close it up, then big line down into the basement with a curve.

Nice job, let's do one last one.

Start in the middle, small curve around, close it up.

Then our big line down into the basement with a small curve.

Nice job.

Today, we learned all about uppercase G and lowercase G. Great job, letter heroes.

(upbeat music) Hi, friends, are you ready to be word builders?

Great, we've been learning so many new letters and sounds.

Now it's time to put those sounds together and blend some words, let's get started.

When I tack my hammer like this you'll say the letters sound.

And when I move my hammer like that you'll blend the sounds together to read the word.

Let's give it a try.

Here's our first sound, /p/, /i/, /g/, blend with me, pig.

Now let's say it in a snap, pig.

The farmer had a big pig, pig.

Let's change our beginning sound.

Let's say the sounds.

/w/, /i/, /g/, blend with me, wig.

Now, say it in a snap, wig.

I wore a wig last Halloween, wig.

Great job.

Now we'll change the middle sound.

Let's say the sounds.

/w/, /a/, /g/, blend with me, wag.

Now, say it in a snap, wag.

The dog likes to wag his tail.

Good job.

This time we're going to change the beginning sound.

Let's get ready to say the sounds.

/t/, /a/, /g/, blend with me, tag.

Now, say it in a snap, tag.

I love to play tag.

Nice job, let's change our ending sound.

All right, let's say the sounds, /t/, /a/, /p/, Blend with me, tap.

Now, say it in a snap, tap.

I tap my chin.

Last word, we'll change the beginning sound, ready?

/g/, /a/, /p/, blend with me, gap.

Now, say it in a snap, gap.

When I write a sentence, I leave a gap between my words, gap.

Great job, word builders.

(upbeat music) Hi, friends, I'm Mrs. Pung.

Did you know that the word good has more than one meaning?

It does, we know that the word good means we like it or something's fine.

But today we're gonna be learning about a different type of good.

We're going to be learning about goods and services.

And today's big question is what are goods and services?

Have you ever heard of that before?

We're gonna be doing some reading to find out.

Today's book is a non-fiction book.

Remember non-fiction tells us information that is real or true.

And the title of our book today is "What are Goods and Services?"

The author is Carolyn Andrews.

Remember authors write the words, that's right.

And this book is read with permission from Crabtree Publishing.

In this book, you'll find a table of contents.

A table of contents tells us where we can find information in the book, let's get started.

Our first heading says, "Introduction."

Adrienne entered the small apartment that would soon be hers.

She was about to start college.

College is where many people go after high school to continue learning.

And had found the apartment close to the campus.

A campus is where the school is.

She was excited about getting it furnished with the items she and her parents had bought during the summer.

"Consumers and Economics."

She and her mom had shopped at yard sales, thrift shops and discount stores to find the things she would need.

Notice, need is a bolded word.

That means that's really important.

Now the movers carried a couch, a bed, a table and chairs and boxes with dishes, silverware, towels and the rest of her things.

Adrienne wanted to add pictures, a television and rugs to make the apartment more like home.

Adrienne and her family are consumers.

Can you say consumers?

Great, a consumer is a person who buys and uses things.

Everyone eats, wears clothes and lives in some sort of house.

Everyone may not have the newest fashions or brand new furniture, but everyone consumes.

Every consumer is part of an economic system.

Can you say economic system?

Good job, an economic system is the way things are made and the way people get those things.

For example, in one economic system, what people buy help manufacturers know what to make and sell.

A manufacturer is someone who builds things or makes things, a manufacturer.

Economics is the study of how people make choices to get the things they need and want.

Needs are the things people must have to live, want are the items people like to have but are not needed for life.

People need to eat healthy food, people might want toys, cars, bicycles or chocolate cake.

Needs and wants, those are different.

Let's look at the picture and let's read the caption.

This family act as consumers when they eat a meal.

Did you know you and I are consumers too?

Let's keep reading.

Goods are objects like shoes, houses, and books.

Adrienne moved all sorts of goods into her apartment.

Services are actions or activities one person performs for another.

Goods and services.

The movers provided a service to Adrienne.

Services could also include babysitting, healthcare and education.

Many people have service jobs in making and selling goods.

Other people use goods to perform services.

Many countries get their goods through trade.

Can you say trade?

Great, trade is the voluntary exchange of goods and services between people or countries.

When you voluntary trade, that means you want to do it.

Both people want to trade, voluntary.

Countries trade because they want and need the things that are made in other places.

Let's do some more reading on this page.

There's some facts and another caption.

Let's look at the picture.

Automobiles are goods that people can buy.

A fact stop, countries want to know how many goods and services their countries make or provide each year, they add the values to get the gross domestic product, GDP.

We learned a lot of interesting information about goods and services.

And I think we know enough to answer our big question, what our goods and services?

We'll do some more learning on that today.

(upbeat music) Friends, in our story today, we learned a lot about goods and services.

Do you remember what a good is?

That's right.

A good is something you want or something you need, that's a good.

Do you remember what a service is?

That's right, in our book it said, a service is something that you do for someone.

Today, I'm gonna need your help.

I have a bunch of cards and we're gonna sort them.

If it's a good, I want you to tell me to put it in the goods basket.

And if it's a service, we're gonna tape it up on our board with the services, let's get started.

Our first item says, hat, what do you think?

Is a hat a good or a service?

That's right, a hat is a good, it's something you want or need.

Let's put it in the goods basket.

Let's see what's next.

Next we have a car, what do you think?

Is a car something you buy?

You're right, a car is a good.

A car is something we want or need.

Let's put it in the goods basket.

Let's see what's next.

Our next card says teacher.

What do you think, teacher?

That's right, a teacher is providing a service.

Learning is helping us, right?

We'll put the teacher up with the services.

Let's see what's next.

Next I have a chef.

Do you know what a chef does?

Right, a chef cooks food.

Is cooking food a good or a service?

That's right, chefs provide a service.

Let's tape it right up here.

Chef and teachers, they both provide services.

Let's see what's next.

Our next card is a ball, what do you think?

Is a ball a good or a service?

That's right, that was an easy one.

A ball is a good, we'll put it in the goods basket.

And our last card says nurse.

What do you think?

Is a nurse goods or services?

Nurses provide services, great job friends.

We'll put it up here with our services.

For services, we have a teacher, a chef, and a nurse.

They're all providing services.

And in our basket for goods, we had a hat, a ball, and a car.

Those are all goods, things you want or need.

Great job readers and writers.

(upbeat music) Okay, writers, are you ready to write with me?

Do you have something to write on and something to write with?

Great, today, we're going to use sentence stems to help us with our writing.

Sentence stems are when we have some of the words already filled out and we need to work together to find the rest of the words.

I'm gonna need your help sounding out sounds and finding the right words to fill in our sentences.

Let's get started.

We have two sentences today.

Our first sentence says, goods are things we blank or blank.

Let's think back to our story that we read about goods and services.

Goods are things we?

What do you remember from the story?

That's right.

Goods are things that we want or need.

We need to find the words want and need.

Let's think about that word want, first.

Can you help me with that beginning sound in want?

/w/, want, what letter makes the /w/ sound?

What do you think?

Did you say W?

That's right, W says /w/.

Do you see the word want?

Can you point to it?

Great, there's the word want?

Good job, writers.

Let's take the word want and put it in our first blank.

Goods are things we want or need.

Need is our second word.

Let's think about the sounds in need.

Can you stretch it out with me?

/n/, /e/, /d/, there's three sounds in need.

What's the beginning sound in the word need?

Need, /n/, what letter makes the /n/ sound?

Did you say N?

That's right, point to a word that begins with the letter N. Do you see it?

That's right, there's the word need.

/n/, /e/, /d/, need.

Let's put need in the next blank.

Let's go to our next sentence.

Our next sentence says, services are something you blank for blank.

Let's think back to our book.

What did our books say about services?

Do you remember?

That's right, services are something you do for someone.

We need to find two words, do and someone.

Let's search the words that we have left.

The first word we need is the word do.

Think about that word do.

What letter does it start with?

/d/, /d/, do you know what letter makes that sound?

That's right, it's D. Can you point to word that begins with D. Is this it?

No, is this the word do?

Yeah, there's the word do.

Let's put it in our first blank.

Services are something you do for someone.

Our last word is someone, let's think about that word someone.

That's a bigger word, we should clap the syllables, ready?

Some one, two word parts, or two syllables in the word someone.

Do you see the word someone?

Let's think about the beginning sound in someone.

/s/, some.

That's the letter S. Great, point to a word that begins with S, is this it?

No, you're right, that word does begin with S but it's too small to be the word someone.

Someone is a larger word, this is the word so.

Can you point to the word someone?

There it is, great job, someone.

All right, nice work, readers and writers.

(tone rings) Today, we learned all about the letter G, we read a book about goods and services, we sorted goods and services, we practiced building words and we completed some sentences.

Great job today, readers and writers, 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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