- Hello, readers.

Welcome to "Read, Write, Roar."

Today, we are going to learn all about the letter U, we'll learn two new high frequency words, and we'll read a story about how wolves live in a community, or pack, and how they care for each other.

For today's lesson, you'll need something to write with and something to write on.

So go ahead and grab those things and we'll get started.

- [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.

(upbeat electronic music) (lion roaring) (light electronic music) Hello.

I'm Mrs. Erfourth.

Today, you are going to be letter heroes.

We are going to learn the name, sound, and how to write the letter U.

Learning to read and write the letter U will help us to read and write many words.

This is the uppercase letter U, this is the lowercase letter U.

Let's practice naming the letter.

When I point to the letter, you say its name.

Ready?

What letter is this?

U. Uppercase U.

What letter is this?

U. Lowercase U.

What letter is this again?

U.

And this letter.

Uppercase letter U.

Great job, letter heroes.

(bright music) The letter U represents two sounds, short U, uh, and long U, yoo.

Watch and listen as I make the short U sound.

My tongue is flat, my lips are flat, and my mouth is wide open.

Like this.

Uh.

Uh.

It's a voice sound.

My vocal cords vibrate.

Let's hear you try it.

Say it with me.

Uh.

Let's practice the short U sound first.

Short U, uh.

When I point to the letter, you say the sound.

Short U.

Ready?

What sound?

Uh.

Great.

What sound?

Uh.

And what sound is this again?

Uh.

The short U sound, uh.

Next is the long U sound.

Watch and listen as I make the long U sound.

My tongue is lifted high in the back of my mouth, my lips are rounded and pulled close together like this.

Yoo.

Yoo.

Can you try that?

Yoo.

Unicorn begins with U.

Can you say unicorn?

Great.

You hear yoo at the beginning of unicorn.

Great job, letter heroes.

(bright music) Now, let's practice saying the long U sound.

When I point to the letter, you say the long U sound.

Ready?

What sound?

Yoo.

Great.

And this sound?

What is the long U sound?

Yoo.

And again.

Yoo.

Great job, letter heroes.

Now, let's see if we can find the letter U in our sentence.

(bright music) We're gonna take a close look and see where the letter U is in our sentence.

Our sentence comes from the story that we're gonna read today.

Let's read our sentence first.

The pups get up and run under the sun.

Let's look closer and look for that letter U.

The.

That's one of our high frequency words.

Pups.

Do you see the letter U?

Right.

Yes!

The letter U is right between those two P's, so let's circle it.

Let's keep reading.

Get.

Do you see the letter U?

Up.

Up begins with the letter U.

Let's circle it.

Can you find another U in our sentence?

And run under the sun.

Can you point to the letter U?

Do you see it?

You see it more than once?

How many times do you see the letter U?

Three more times.

Great job, letter heroes.

Can you point to the letter U?

And I'll circle it.

Good job.

In the word run.

Run.

Point to the next one.

Under.

Wow, letter heroes, we are finding many U's in this sentence.

Do you see another one?

Where's that third one?

Sun.

Fantastic.

How many letter U's did we find in our sentence today?

Two, three, four, five.

Five letter U's in our sentence.

A few of our letters are at the beginning of the word and a few of them we found are in the middle of the word.

We're gonna talk a little bit more about middle sounds later on.

Great job, letter heroes.

Now, let's learn to write the letter U.

Let's learn to write the uppercase letter U.

Watch me write the uppercase letter U.

We start at the top line of our paper, we pull down, around, up, and down.

Let's trace it.

Get your tracing finger ready and trace it with me.

Ready?

Start at the top line of our paper, pull down, around, up, and back down.

Great.

Now, let's practice writing it together.

Go ahead and grab your pencil or something to write with and something to write on and let's write it together.

Start at the top line, pull down, around, up, and down.

All right.

Good job.

Let's do another one together.

Start at the top line, pull down, around, up, and straight down.

That's the uppercase letter U.

Now let's practice writing the lowercase letter U.

Watch me write the lowercase letter U.

Start at the middle line of our paper, pull down, around, up to the middle line again, and down.

Let's trace it with our finger.

Ready?

Get your tracing finger ready and trace it with me.

We start at the middle line for our lowercase letter U, pull down, around, up, and straight down.

We're ready to write.

Grab your pencil or something to write with and something to write on and let's practice the lowercase letter U.

Start at the middle line, pull down, around, up, and straight down.

Let's practice another one.

Ready?

Start at that middle line, pull down, around, up, and back straight down.

And that's the lowercase letter U.

Great job, letter heroes.

You did an amazing job, letter heroes.

We learned the name, the sound, and how to write the uppercase letter U and the lowercase letter U.

And we learned the letter U represents two sounds, short U, uh, and long U, yoo.

Learning to write and read the letter U will help us to read and write many words.

(light electronic music) Today, we are going to learn two new words.

These words are called high frequency words because we see them a lot when we're reading.

Let's take a look at our first sentence, which is from the story that we're gonna ready today.

The pups stay by mom.

The word that's underlined is by.

Can you say that word?

By.

The word by is used when we wanna say something is near us or next to something.

The pups stayed by, or near, mom.

Listen to me say the sounds in the word by.

Buh-eye.

There are two sounds in the word by.

Watch me write the word by.

(bright music) When we write the word by, let's think about the sounds.

What sound do we hear at the beginning of by?

Buh.

The letter we write for buh is B.

And the next sound, the last sound in by, is eye.

The letter we write for that is Y.

We have to remember that part by heart.

Y represent the sound eye in the word by.

Let's practice spelling the word by.

Everybody, stand up and let's tap out the letters in the word on our arm.

Start at your shoulder.

Watch me.

B-Y, by.

Let's try it together.

Ready?

B-Y, by.

Last time.

Start at your shoulder.

B-Y, say it, by.

Now, let's trace the letters in the word by.

Get your tracing finger ready and let's trace.

B. Y.

By.

(bright music) Now let's practice our second high frequency word.

Let's read this sentence, which is from our story that we're going to read today.

The pups and mom get a nap.

The underlined word is get.

Can you say that word?

Get.

Listen to me say the sounds in the word get.

Guh-eh-tuh.

Get.

There are three sounds in the word get.

Now, watch me write the word get.

(bright music) Let's think about the sounds we hear in the word get.

Guh.

The letter we write for guh is G. Eh.

The letter we write is E. And what sound do we hear at the end?

Guh-eh-tuh.

The letter T. Get.

Let's practice spelling the word get.

Stand up again, put your arm out, and let's tap the letters in the word get.

Ready?

G-E-T, get.

Let's do it again.

Ready?

G-E-T, get.

Now, let's practice tracing the letters in the word get.

Get your tracing finger ready and trace it with me.

G. E. T. Get.

Great job.

We learned two new high frequency words.

Remember to be on the lookout when you're reading for those high frequency words.

(light electronic music) Hello readers.

Today, we are going to read a story called "Wolf Pups and Mom."

The authors of the story are Dwayne Nunez and Meghan Shea.

This story is read aloud with permission from Beyond Decodables by Julia B. Lindsey.

Our target or I can statement today is I can read common high frequency words correctly.

High frequency words are words that we see a lot when we're reading.

Today, we learned two new high frequency words that we're going to look for in our story.

By.

Can you say that word?

By.

And our second high frequency word we learned today is get.

Can you say that word?

Get.

We're going to be on the lookout for those two high frequency words while we're reading today.

The story that we're reading is a nonfiction story.

Nonfiction stories give us information with facts.

(bright music) While we're reading, remember, we're going to look for the high frequency words and you are going to do echo reading, which is repeating after I read the sentence.

I'll read the sentence and you echo, or repeat, the sentence.

Are you ready to get started?

"Wolf Pups and Mom."

Let's look at the picture.

Do you see the pups in the picture by mom?

Pup is a baby wolf.

And one of the pups are peering out of the cave as they wake up in the morning.

The den is lit by the sun.

The den is where they live.

Can you repeat that sentence with me?

The den is lit by the sun.

Did you see a high frequency word?

Can you point to it?

That's right.

By.

I'll read the sentence first and then you echo read.

The pups get up, but not mom.

You repeat.

The pups get up, but not mom.

Did you see another high frequency word?

Can you point to it?

Right.

The word get.

I'll read first, then you echo read.

"Get up, mom!"

You repeat.

"Get up, mom!"

Did you see another high frequency word?

We saw that word again.

Get.

I'll read first and then you repeat.

The pups nip and tug at mom.

Repeat.

The pups nip and tug at mom.

When you echo read, remember to keep your eyes on the words.

Sip, sip, sip.

You repeat.

Sip, sip, sip.

Ready?

I'll read the sentence, you echo repeat.

Pups get fed.

Yum!

Look at the words and repeat.

Pups get fed.

Yum!

Pups tug at mom.

You repeat.

Look at the words.

Pups tug at mom.

Pups run in the sun.

You repeat.

Pups run in the sun.

You see the picture?

They're playing.

Pups get wet.

You repeat.

Pups get wet.

You saw another high frequency word.

Great job!

The word get.

We sure are seeing that word a lot while we're reading, right?

Pups get mom wet.

You repeat.

Pups get mom wet.

Yes, you saw that word again.

Get.

Ready to repeat.

I'll read first.

Yum!

Mom will get a little bit.

Can you say it like that?

Look at the words and repeat.

Yum!

Mom will get a little bit.

Yes, you saw the word again!

You saw the word get.

Lap, lap, lap.

You repeat.

Lap, lap, lap.

Mom can get fed.

Yum, yum.

You repeat.

Mom can get fed.

Yum, yum.

The pups and mom get a nap.

You repeat.

The pups and mom get a nap.

And yes, you're right.

There's our high frequency word again.

Get.

So let's think about our target or I can statement.

I can read common high frequency words correctly.

Did we read them correctly?

We are focusing on these two high frequency words, by and get.

Yes, you did a great job practicing and reading those high frequency words correctly.

So remember to keep a lookout for those high frequency words and the others that you have learned already.

(light electronic music) Hello writers.

Today, we're gonna write a sentence about the story that we read, "Wolf Pups and Mom."

So grab something to write with and something to write on.

Let's think about our story again.

What is something that mom did to help take care of her pups in the story?

Can you remember?

Yes, she fed them.

What else do you remember from the story?

She took care of them.

Yes, and she protected them.

She played with them.

So let's write a sentence about how mom fed her pups.

(bright music) The pups get fed by mom.

There are two high frequency words that we learned today in our sentence.

Let's repeat the sentence.

The pups get fed by mom.

Let's say it one more time and count how many words are in that sentence.

Ready?

The pups get fed by mom.

How many words are in our sentence?

Six.

There are six words in our sentence.

So on my paper, I am going to draw six lines because we have six words in our sentence.

You can do the same thing with your paper or whatever you're writing on.

Six lines.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

Six.

The first word is the.

That's one of our high frequency words.

What do we start with at the beginning of a sentence?

Our letter needs to be uppercase at the beginning of a sentence, so we need to write an uppercase T. Our first word is the.

T-H-E.

The.

Our next word is pups.

What sound do you hear at the beginning of pups?

Can you say that sound?

Puh.

The letter we write for puh is, do you remember?

You're right, it's a P. Uh is the letter we learned today.

What letter represents the sound uh?

U. Puh, uh, puh, sss.

We hear another P and sss, S at the end.

The pups get.

That was our high frequency word today.

Guh.

We hear guh at the beginning and we write the letter G for guh.

Eh.

E. And what sound do we hear at the end of get?

Tuh.

Can you say that sound at the end of get?

Tuh.

And the letter for tuh is T. The pups get fed.

Fff, fff.

F. Fff, eh.

Same sound in the middle as get.

Eh.

We write the letter E. And what sound do you hear at the end of fed?

Can you say that sound?

Duh.

What letter do we write for that sound?

D. All right, two more words in our sentence.

The pups get fed by.

That was another one of our high frequency words today.

Do you remember what the first letter is in by?

Buh.

Great job.

B.

And the next letter was the letter we had to remember by heart that makes the eye sound.

Y.

The pups get fed by mom.

Mm.

M. O. Mm-um-mm.

Another M. Great job.

I need one more thing at the end of my sentence.

A punctuation.

I need to put a period at the end of my sentence.

Let's read it again together.

Ready?

Look at your words, look at your sentence, and read it along with me.

The pups get fed by mom.

Great job, writers.

You did a great job writing those high frequency words and stretching out those words to hear sounds when you're writing.

Remember to keep doing that when you're doing your writing.

You could add a picture and draw a picture to go along with your sentence.

(bright music) Today, we learned all about the letter U, we learned two new high frequency words, by and get, we read a story about how a wolf takes care of her pups, and we wrote a sentence using our high frequency words and stretching out those words to hear the sounds to help us write the word.

Great work today, readers and writers.

Thank you for learning with me.

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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