[airplane flying] - Hi friends.

Are you ready to travel to the land of learning with me?

[children cheering] Great, my name is Isabel and I love to learn about words.

And today I'm looking at ways I can hear the long O that says, oh, in words.

Maybe you might see O in a open syllable word.

Or you might see the vowel team O-W that says, O, in some words say O.

Are you ready to learn with me?

[children cheering] Great, let's get started.

[airplane flying noises] Let's start with a phonemic awareness activity.

Phonemic awareness activities call for us to pay attention to all the sounds we hear in words.

And today we're going to play a game where I tell you some sounds in the word, you repeat those sounds and together we blend those sounds into a word.

Let's try one together.

S-n-ow.

Your turn.

S-n-ow.

Snow.

What's the word?

Snow.

Great job.

Let's try another word.

S-l-ow.

Your turn.

S-l-ow.

Slow.

Slow!

Slow, like a turtle.

Let's try another one.

G-r-ow.

Your turn.

G-r-ow.

Grow.

What's the word?

Grow.

Good job.

Last one.

C-o-a-ch.

Your turn.

C-o-a-c-h. Coach.

Coach.

Great job.

Now you're ready to build with me.

Let's build some words together.

Sometimes when you hear the long O sound in words, it happens when a syllable is open.

This is an example of a closed syllable.

In a closed syllable, the vowel is followed by a consonant or more than one consonant.

And when that happens, the vowel will say it's short sound.

in this case, ah.

N, ah, t. Not.

But if I take away the consonant, it's not closed anymore.

It's open.

And because it's open now the O says it's name or it's long sound of O. N-o, no.

You've heard that word a lot, right?

Let's try a few more open syllable words.

What does this say?

Go.

How about this one?

So.

You've got the hang of this.

When the vowel is not followed by a consonant, the syllable is open and the vowel will say it's name.

Now, what's really cool is we have a vowel team that also says, oh.

O-W can say oh in words.

So let's make some words together using the vowel team O-W. What's this going to say?

B-ow.

Bow, like a bow in your hair.

What does this say?

L-ow.

Low, good job.

Oh.

B-l-ow.

Blow, like when we blow bubbles.

Last one.

What is this going to say?

F-l-ow.

Flow.

Water in a stream can flow from east to west.

Are you ready to read some words with me?

[children cheering] Great, today we have three lines of words and a sentence.

And as always, before you read, I want you to take a good look at the words before you get started.

So let's look at line one.

What do you notice about the words?

They all have open syllables.

They're all open syllable words.

So I know exactly how to read them.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

No, so, go, good job.

Let's look at line two.

What do we notice about all of the words?

They all end in the vowel team O-W that says, oh.

Are you ready to read?

Great.

Bow, low, mow, row.

You guys are excellent.

We are ready for our last line.

It's definitely a little trickier than the second line.

I see a blend at the beginning of each of these words.

Keep that in mind as you read, I want you to read as loud as you can and I will whisper read right underneath you.

Are you ready?

Slow, glow, grow, crow.

Great job.

Are you ready to read our sentence?

The star will glow at night.

Is that true?

Do stars glow or shine at night?

They do, right?

You did a great job reading with me.

Are you ready to write our word of the day?

Great, I'd like you to get a paper or something to write on any pencil or something to write with and come right back.

[upbeat music] - Are you ready to write our word of the day?

[children cheering] Great, our word of the day is show.

Can you say that word for me?

Show.

Listen to me use that word in a sentence.

I would like to show you how to dance.

Show.

Now, let's say all the sounds we hear in the word.

Sh-ow.

Great, now I'd like you to write the word show.

How do you think we should spell it?

Hmm, interesting.

Are you ready?

Did you write this?

Sh-ow.

That's right.

We use the vowel team at the end of show.

Great job.

Today I'd like you to look for words that have the long O sound in them and when you see them in writing or hear them ask how they're spelled, you might learn something new.

Have a wonderful day friends.