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welcome to Read, Write, ROAR.

Today we focus on the big question, how do animals survive in their habitats?

We will learn about the suffix I-T-Y, read a nonfiction or true text about the forest and plan our research writing.

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(mellow music) - Welcome readers.

Today we're going to be working with suffixes.

Do you remember what a suffix is?

Well, I remember that a prefix is a word part that goes at the beginning of a word to change what that word means.

So a suffix is a word part that goes at the end of a word to change what the word means.

Today our goal is to read words with the suffix -I-T-Y.

We pronounce this suffix in most words as id.

Id.

The T doesn't it make the sound that you might expect it to usually make.

When we add the suffix I-T-Y to the end of a word, it changes that word from an adjective, a describing word, to a noun, a person, place or thing.

Let's read some words together that have the suffix I-T-Y.

Read with me.

In-fin-idy.

Infinity.

As you saw by the way we looped this word by breaking it into syllables, we can chunk that I-T-Y suffix together even though it's made of more than one syllable.

When I leave that I-T-Y suffix together it helps me better read and understand what this word means.

Infinite is the base word of infinity.

Infinite describes something that never ends.

So infinity is a place that never ends.

When I think of infinity, I think of going beyond the stars.

It never ends.

Let's move on to our next word.

Paa suh bi luh idy,.

Possibility.

This word is possibility.

The base word here is possible.

Possible describes something that can happen.

So a possibility is a thing or something that can happen.

Is it a possibility that you might watch our read aloud today?

Yes it is a possibility because it's something that can happen.

Let's move on to the last word.

Read with me.

Uh vei luh bi luh idy.

Availability.

This word is availability.

You might have noticed by the way we looped this word that we can chunk the I-T-Y suffix together to read this word even though it has more than one syllable.

When I do that it helps me better read and understand the word.

The base word of availability is available.

Available means that there is something that you are able to get that describes something that you can get.

So availability is a thing that you can get.

It's about something you can get.

For example, if I go to my favorite ice cream shop, I might ask, like I always do.

"Can I please have cookies and cream ice cream?"

And they usually say to me, "of course you can have your cookies and cream, it's available."

But if one day I walked in to that ice cream shop and ordered cookies and cream ice cream, they might say to me, "I'm sorry our availability has changed.

We don't have cookies and cream ice cream, any more."

What a sad day that would be.

We have read all of these words.

Let's go back and see if we can do it again.

Read with me and infinity, possibility, availability.

Now it's your turn.

Infinity.

Possibility.

Availability.

Now that we have practiced reading the suffix I-T-Y let's practice reading some of these words in sentences.

I have a story to share with you.

Let's read this story together.

Be on the lookout for words, with the I-T-Y suffix.

Here we go.

It was summertime in the forest.

Kara loved the diversity of the birds in the woods.

The humidity made her feel sticky but her curiosity made her stay.

Did she hear a woodpecker?

The density of the leaves made it hard to see the bird.

Did you notice any of our I-T-Y suffix words?

I did.

For example, when I saw the word diversity I noticed the base word diverse and the suffix idy.

Diversity.

Remember we can think about the base word and read it and then add that suffix to the end to make the word that we're reading.

I also noticed another one down here, humidity which we could read humid idy, humidity.

Remember by thinking about the base word and the suffix at the end, it helps us read the word and understand what it means.

Until we meet again next time be on the lookout for words with the I-T-Y suffix.

I wonder what words you'll find.

I'm so excited that we get to meet again soon and learn more together.

(bright music) - Hello readers!

I'm so glad you're here with us today.

Today we're gonna be thinking about a really big question.

How do animals survive in their habitat?

Oh my goodness friends, habitat.

What habitat mean?

Well habitat is where the animal lives.

So as you can see that this animal's habitat probably is a forest.

"Forest Inside Out."

This forest might look like your backyard or even the park that you live by my friends.

Am wondering what or if this is gonna tell us what this book is mostly about.

All right.

So as we go through today and as we read just the section "Temperate Broadleaf Forests."

we're gonna be thinking to ourselves what is our topic, our main idea.

And today we're gonna add sub topic to our list and our organizer my friends.

After subtopic and then of course we're gonna be looking for details.

Those details could also include right.

The evidence.

Okay so let's get going my friends.

Temperate broadleaf forest.

Temperate!

And that sounds like a stylish word to me.

Doesn't it?

Do you hear it to?

All right.

They're popping up everywhere aren't they my friends?

Let's keep going.

Temperate broadleaf forests are found North of the tropics.

Many are in Eastern North America, Western Europe and parts of Russia, China and Japan.

Summers in these forests are warm and rainy while winters are cold and snowy.

At least three to six feet of rainfalls there each year.

Wow.

Hmm.

So friends I'm thinking to myself and I'm gonna take some clues from our text.

This is going to be what our whole page is gonna be about.

This is our topic or our main idea.

So let's go ahead and add this here now.

All right.

Ready?

Let's keep going and see if we notice our sub topics, ready?

Okay.

Spring and fall.

Hey, wait a minute.

I think I got another clue.

Look at this.

Yeah it's kind of in a bright color and it's all by itself on top of that paragraph my friends.

I think we got another clue.

I'm pretty sure that these next two paragraphs are gonna be about the "Temperate Bradleaf Forest" during the spring time and the fall time.

I think we have our next.

Yes, we do sub topic my friends.

So let's go ahead and put that up.

Okay.

Are you ready?

Let's keep reading.

All right.

And see if we can find those details.

There all that evidence.

All right.

Off we go.

The trees of the temperate forest are mostly deciduous.

They include oak, maple, birch.

In spring and summer these trees produce large flat leaves to catch sunlight.

And in the fall, the trees stop producing chlorophyll.

Well if they stopped producing chlorophyll in the fall that must mean I can infer.

Remember from before I can use my schema and infer that means in the spring time that's when they have to start doing that again.

All right.

Let's keep going.

Okay.

The leaves lose their green and change to shades of red, gold, purple and brown.

Oh, just like in the fall time up here in the Upper Peninsula.

Its beautiful.

The leaves make beautiful show of colors.

The trees drop their leaves.

Leaving only bare branches in the winter and this helps them save energy.

The trees.

Oh wait a second.

I think I've got another, Yes in the fall time.

What are those trees do?

They drop their leaves my friends.

Oh my goodness.

They sure do.

All right let's keep going.

The trees are then dormant.

A bold word.

Do you know what to do about them?

Okay let me finish the sentence.

The trees are then dormant through winter before waking and producing new leaves in the spring.

Okay.

Yes.

What does that bold word tell us about it.

Then we can find that bold word where, you're right my friends in the glossary.

So a bold word can be found here and this is where dormant can be found.

Dormant is when an organism goes into a long period of inactivity to survive.

Yeah.

They are trying to survive.

Aren't they?

Yeah we presented a couple of times now.

Haven't we?

All right.

Are you ready to keep going?

Okay let's keep going.

The fallen tree leaves add to the rich soil in the temperate forest.

Mosses, ferns and wild flowers grow in the fertile soil.

Okay.

Mosses, ferns and wild flowers grow in the fertile soil.

Okay.

I'm gonna keep reading but I think I've got some more details and evidence for your spring time.

Okay keep reading with me.

Worms and insects eat the leaves and provide food for birds and small mammals.

Hey, so would you say that soil is a good habitat?

Yeah for those insects, right?

And for the birds, maybe for those small mammals that are helping them out.

Ooh worms.

Yeah I think that soil might be a good habitat for the worms.

Let's go ahead and put that.

Yeah, here we go.

In the spring time.

I'm using that inferencing again.

I am.

There we go.

Deer and moose eat the plants while larger predators such as coyotes and wolves eat other animals.

We have coyotes and wolves in the Upper Peninsula.

During fall these animals must find ways to survive through the winter when food is hard to find.

Ooh I like this detail.

In the fall what did the animals have to do?

They've got to find a way to survive.

It is hard.

It is absolutely hard when yes.

All of the trees are going dormant, right?

And I know I can use my thinking about maybe some of those hibernating animals during this time.

Okay here we go.

Many animals such as squirrels build up fat in their bodies during fall to last them through the winter.

Others such as bears hibernate until spring comes and food returns.

Look at that my friends.

So we use the clues of our book to go ahead and find our topic, our sub topic and our details.

We were able to use the clues, big, bold beautiful titles at the top.

"Temperate Broadleaf Forest."

Then we were able to use the clue of "Spring and Fall" just above the paragraphs, the text.

And then within the text, within the paragraphs we were able to find our details.

Oh my friends we need to make sure that we use all of the clues in order to help us.

So we're not done yet.

Okay.

Okay.

I can see that this is a beautiful photograph and that in this photograph, I also have a caption which is another text feature heading says, "broadleaf forests drop their leaves every fall as growing new ones in the spring takes less energy than trying to keep leaves alive throughout the cold winters."

Wow.

Right?

Here we have a text box and then another, right photograph of one of those animals that lives in this habitat my friends.

So many facts, right?

So many amazing things.

What would you ever focus on?

Well we have to focus on the clues that the book gives us.

And that's how we were able to come up with our topic, our sub topic and our details.

All right my friends, you have done some really great work readers.

You've dug into the text and you have found an amazing topic.

All of the sub topics, those two extra pieces and all of this amazing evidence as details.

So the next time that you read make sure that you're thinking about what is the text mostly about your topic.

Look for clues that might be a subheading to tell you what the subtopic mean means or is and then of course don't forget to read the text and then to leave tracks of your thinking, your evidence in your supporting details my friends.

(bright music) - Are you ready for a brain break?

Stand up wherever you are and get your hands ready to move.

I like to call this activity grab your ear not your nose.

It's a little bit trickier than you might think.

This is what you're going to do.

Take one hand and move it across your body to grab the opposite ear.

Then take your other hand and poke your nose.

Make sure you're not grabbing or pinching your nose.

You don't want to hurt yourself.

Then put your arms down and switch.

Grab your opposite ear and poke your nose.

Make sure your arm is always crossing your body.

Are you ready?

Let's see how quickly we can do this.

Grab and poke.

Grab and poke.

It's not super hard when you start out slow but the faster you go sometimes you end up pinching your nose.

Make sure you don't do that.

And sometimes I even almost poke myself in the eye.

Be careful how fast are you?

Let's do a couple more.

You can do it.

Here we go and stop.

Take a deep breath through your nose and out your mouth.

How'd that go for you?

If that was easy.

Congratulations you did it.

If it was hard, don't worry.

You can do anything with practice.

See if more practice can make you the master of grab your ear not your nose.

(bright music) - Hello authors!

I'm so excited that you're with us today.

Today we are going to start our very own research.

Oh we are gonna have so much fun.

Now research, do you know non-fiction text authors have to sometimes do research because just like James Bell, I wonder, do you think he knew everything about all of these amazing forests that you see in this book?

No he probably didn't.

So we probably had to do some research, research means he's gonna find some answers or facts.

Maybe he had some questions about these amazing forests.

Oh my friends but today we're gonna think about maybe three or four different animals.

And I want you to think of maybe one of those animals that lives in the forest and we are going to be, we're gonna become experts and do some research on that animal.

Are you ready?

Okay so I'm gonna think to myself.

Well we just read awesome book about muskrats.

So we have a muskrat and I remember saying, a woodpecker in the last book we read.

All right.

I'm thinking to myself.

I am bear toe dumb.

or I have a muck wado dam.

So that is my clan.

So maybe I could do bear.

What else can we do.

I have these two amazing new little cats.

They not kittens anymore but maybe cats.

Okay, so I came up with some, do you have some ideas yet my friends?

Did you notice I have more than one animal that lives in the forest.

That habitat.

Okay so which one you gonna pick?

You know what?

I'm gonna pick the woodpecker to start with.

Maybe I'll become an expert at all of them.

All right, here we go friends.

So I'm gonna choose the woodpeckers.

So we have woodpeckers and now am gonna go back to our text and I'm gonna read this section right here and I'm gonna do some research to find out more about this kind of woodpecker.

It's a black woodpecker.

All right.

"Eco Up Close."

The black woodpecker is a species found in the temperate forest of Western Europe, Siberia and China.

So it's found in the forest, right?

So what is it habitat?

Yes habitat is where it's found, right?

And it's found in a forest.

Look at those details my friends, all right.

So look at this.

We have woodpeckers are the habitat in the forest.

Ready to go more?

All right let's keep going.

Okay.

Like other woodpeckers it eats insects and grubs from dead trees.

I'm thinking I got another sub topic that might be interesting to a reader that I can write about, food.

What does it eat?

Let me reread it.

It said it eats insects and grubs.

I might have to do more research on grubs.

Here we go.

Insects and grubs.

Okay.

See if we find any more information about our habitat or our food as we read listening with that lens, my friends.

Okay this protects other trees from burrowing insects.

Bold word.

We know I can find that in the back.

The black woodpecker does not migrate.

Migrate and okay.

Keep reading that's one of those things we can do.

Instead it uses a hole it makes in a tree as a nest chamber.

Oh so I'm thinking to myself migrate means to move right back and forth.

So this one doesn't move, right?

Like maybe a Canadian goose.

They migrate.

They move South for the winter he stays in the forest where he lives.

Yes and he has his own nesting chamber.

So instead it uses a hole and makes a tree as a nesting chamber, sheltering it from the cold.

The holes woodpeckers make are also used as homes by other animals such as squirrels.

Well friends this is your job now you've got to get started.

You've gotta make sure that you pick an animal right out of a list that you're gonna think about and then you are gonna do some research.

You might be able to find some non-fiction texts some teaching books about your animal.

Maybe you could go to Epic and luck or maybe even you could go to your local library and see if you could find some of my friends.

Now, when you do that we're gonna look for our topic.

What animal?

You're gonna look for subtopics, what do you wanna teach and then of course think about those details.

Awesome my friends.

What an amazing job you have done today.

I'm so proud of all of the hard work.

You have worked with the I-T-Y suffix.

You have helped me look for this amazing topic in our book along with our subtopics, looking for the lens and then details to support those subtopics my friends.

We have started to organize our own research.

We are gonna keep growing this idea about our topic my friends and we're gonna have so much more fun with this I promise.

Okay.

I can't wait to see you next time.

So (speaks foreign language) and we'll see you next time on Read, Write, ROAR.

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The State of Michigan and the Kresge Foundation additional support for educational programming provided by and by viewers like you.

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