- Hello scholars.

Welcome to Read, Write, Roar!

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

We will make a mystery word, read a nonfiction text about the rainforest and revise our research writing.

Come join us for Read, Write, Roar!

(upbeat music) (lion roars) (upbeat music) Hello, word builders, I'm Mrs. Mora.

Today we are going to be making a mystery word.

Remember, a mystery is something that we don't know or understand.

We can solve mysteries by using clues.

Today, we're going to solve a mystery word so that we can become more accurate readers.

Accurate readers pay close attention to every letter in a word.

In one of our words today, we might even see a suffix we've learned about together.

Our goal for the day is to pay close attention to every letter in a word as we read.

For this activity, you're going to need two things, something to write with and something to write on.

You can use a pencil, a marker or pen, and your paper can even have writing on one side.

It is time to go get your supplies.

Ready, set, go.

(upbeat music) (lion roars) All of these letters are going to be used to make our mystery word today.

So let's start by writing these letters at the top of our paper, a, e, e, e, three of those, o, u, and then the consonants, d, m, n, r, s, t, v. Great job.

If you have a pair of scissors, you could quickly cut these letters out to make letter tiles like I have, but if you don't, you can always save that for later and cut these out when you teach this activity to somebody else.

We're going to start today by making the word den.

Repeat that word after me.

Den.

I hear three sounds in the word den, the place where some animals live.

Do you hear the three sounds in the word den?

On your paper, write down the sounds that you hear as I start to build the word den.

Duh, en, den.

These are the sounds that I hear in the word den.

Does it match what you wrote?

Here is our first word, den.

Now, we're going to change this word a little bit.

Let's change this word to make the word deem.

Say that after me.

Deem.

Deem means to believe that something is true.

I deem you all to be brilliant learners.

That means that I believe it's true.

Let's change these letters to make the word deem.

As I do this with the tiles, see if you can do it on your paper.

First thing I hear is dee.

I need this to be a long e so I'll add my second e. Deem.

Deem.

Does your paper match my word?

This word says deem.

Look at the difference between the word den and deem.

They're very similar.

Aren't they?

But den and deem mean they are very different things.

That's why accurate readers pay attention to every letter in a word.

Let's try our next word.

Let's see if we can change one letter in the word deem to make the word seem.

Say that after me.

Seem.

Change the letter that will make the word seem.

I'll do it up here as you write.

The difference I hear is the beginning sound.

Instead of duh, I hear ss.

Seem.

Does your word match mine?

Seem.

Seem means that something appears to be a certain way.

You seem really nice.

This is the word seem.

It's so similar to the word deem but the one letter makes it a brand new word.

Now, we're going to do something very tricky.

We are going to change one letter in the word seem to make the word seam.

But this time, the seam that we're talking about is the seam that you might see in a piece of clothing where two pieces of fabric are sewn together like this.

Seam.

What letter could you change in the word seem to make seam?

Write it down on your paper.

And I will change this e and add the a instead because the ea can also make the e sound.

Seam.

This is how we spell seam when we're talking about fabric, seam.

Now, let's add one letter to the word seam to make the word steam.

Steam.

Do you hear a difference between seam and steam?

I do.

Instead of just the ss at the beginning, I hear a consonant blend.

St, st, steam.

Does your word match mine?

This is the word steam.

Steam is the vapor that we see rising from a liquid as that liquid starts to turn into a gas.

Maybe when you've been cooking soup, you've seen steam rising out of the pot as that liquid turns into gas form, steam.

Hmm, let's try another word by adding one letter to the word steam to make the word stream.

Say that after me.

Stream.

I hear one new sound in stream here at the beginning.

It's another consonant blend.

And I have to add in the r. Is that what you worked on on your paper?

This is the word stream.

Did you notice how there's only one letter difference between steam and stream?

That's why it's so important for accurate readers to pay attention to every letter in a word.

Now, let's take this word and let's change it even more this time.

We're going to keep thinking about ea words, where the ea says the long e sound.

Let's make the word mean.

Mean.

I hope that you're not mean to other people.

How would you change the word stream to mean?

As you write this down, I've got a lot of rearranging to do here.

Mm, ea, the ea stays the same, and then I add the n, mean.

Three sounds to make the word mean.

Muh, ea, nuh.

Here's the word mean.

Now, let's change the word mean by adding a suffix to the end of the base word mean.

Let's take mean and change it to make meaner.

Meaner.

Hmm, how do I write the suffix er to change mean to meaner?

Well, I know that my suffix will go at the end, and I spell the er suffix with the E-R.

Does your word match mine?

This is the word meaner.

I think we can change the base word mean one more time by adding a different suffix.

Let's make the word meanest.

Meanest.

How do we change meaner to make meanest?

Well, I know my suffix is going to change so I'll take that off the end and I'll bring down these consonants.

Are you writing it down on your paper?

I know that the est suffix is spelled like this.

Meanest is the word.

Did you write this down?

Great job.

Here is the word meanest.

Did you notice how little changes make brand new words?

That's why good readers, accurate readers pay attention to every letter in the word.

We're going to take all of these words down and you could choose to start on a new piece of paper if you like because we're going to start a new series of words.

And remember our goal is to see how little changes in letters can change the entire word.

Let's start by making the word vent.

Repeat that after me.

Vent.

A vent is something that allows air to pass through from one place to another.

Like a heater might have a vent that lets hot air go into your home.

Vent.

I have a lot of changes to make here.

As I'm making these changes, you should be writing this down on your paper.

Vent, ent.

Vuh, ent, vent.

Do you match mine?

This is the word vent.

This is how we spell it.

Now, let's change vent by adding a suffix to the end.

Instead of vent, let's change this to make the word venture.

A venture is like a journey that's a little bit dangerous.

Venture.

This ure at the end is spelled with U-R-E. That was a little bit tricky, wasn't it?

Venture.

Do you see how this root here changes when we add a suffix to make a brand new word?

When we're reading, we have to make sure we pay attention to all of the letters or we might be reading the wrong word.

Let's change venture to make the word denture.

It's only a change of one letter.

Repeat that word after me.

Denture.

Do you know what letter you're going to change?

I'm going to change the letter v for a d. Now, I have the word denture.

Do you know what dentures are?

They're the false teeth that some people need to use when they don't have teeth of their own that they're able to use.

Venture is very different than denture.

It's important to pay attention to every letter in the word.

Now, let's change the root of denture to make the word nature.

The ending will say the same, but in the beginning now I would like to say nature.

How are you going to spell nature?

Nn, ay, ture.

Nature.

Do you match my word?

This is the word nature.

There it is.

Now, we have written so many words.

Let's get a little bit closer to our mystery word.

We're only two words away.

Let's change nature by going back to the idea of the word venture to make the word adventure, a journey or an experience that's a little bit dangerous.

I know that the ture part is probably going to stay the same, but I need adventure.

Adven, ven, three sounds there, adventure.

Adventure.

Does your word match my word?

This is how we write the word adventure.

Do you see how this is so similar to the word venture except we have two letters at the beginning.

Now, do you see how many letters we have left?

We are so close to our mystery word.

All we need to do is take the word adventure and add a suffix.

Do you think you know what it is?

Let's see if we can make the word adventure.

As I add the suffix, write it down on your paper.

Adventuresome.

Do you have a guess?

There it is.

This is our word.

What does it say?

Adventuresome.

Adventuresome!

This word means full of adventure and it's our mystery word because it uses all of our letters.

Today, we have seen that little changes in words, even one letter flipping for another letter can make brand new words.

Accurate readers have to pay attention to all of the letters in the words so that they are able to read words correctly.

As you are reading, make sure you're paying close attention to all the letters in the word so that you're becoming a more and more accurate reader every day.

(uplifting music) - Hi readers, I'm teacher Tan-A.

And I'm so happy you're here today.

We are going to be thinking about that really big question, how do animals survive in their habitat?

That's right.

Once again, you know that we have a job to do.

We're gonna be thinking of course about our topic.

And we know another word for that.

It's also called that main idea.

We're gonna be thinking about our subtopic and then also those details to support, uh-huh, our thoughts and ideas, the evidence.

Ooh, the temperate rain forest.

Look at all these clues.

Oh my goodness.

So many, uh, so many text features.

So of course we can see the big one right at the top.

That's gonna be your topic.

What our, yeah, text is mostly about today, friends, the temperate rain forest.

Okay, so we better put that up right away before we forget.

Okay, now, I wonder what we're gonna learn about the temperate rain forest and what kind of details we can find to support that.

The temperate rain forests are very rare, very old forest of giant trees.

They are found along the coast of oceans between the tropics and the polar regions.

The largest area of temperate rain forest stretches from Alaska to Northern California on the west coast of North America.

There are also temperate rain forests in Chile, South America that is, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, and a few other parts of the world.

So we know we're gonna be learning about the temperate rain forest and they're super duper old and cool.

We have the author given us a clue and that is a subheading.

So that means we now have a subtopic, friends.

All right, so foggy forest.

Sounds intriguing.

Can't wait to learn about some details about a foggy forest.

Hmm.

The climate in temperate rain forest is mild and wet.

Temperatures range from 50 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit all year.

The temperate rain forest receive less rain than the tropical rainforests but they get plenty of moisture from fog moisture.

So I think I know what moisture is like when it feels wet in the air.

So I'm gonna kinda look in the back and see if that matches my thoughts.

Hmm, moisture, wetness that can be felt in the air or seen as a liquid.

Oh, so I'm thinking about like when, ah, friends, when we go to school in the morning and when you're writing your name or making squiggle marks on the bus windows, that's when we can see moisture, right?

When you can just feel that wetness, that dampness in the air, that's when we can just feel that moisture in the air.

Okay, now I'm make you connections.

It makes sense.

Okay, let's keep going.

Fog is thick clouds made up of tiny water droplets that float near the surface of the earth.

I think we've got our first detail.

What do you think friends?

So here we have our topic, our temperate rain forest.

We need to know that, well, they've got some foggy forest in there.

Well, why though?

Well, because they don't get as much rain, right?

As the rain forest that we're used to thinking about but they get their moisture or their liquid, their water this way, through the the fog's tiny water droplets.

How cool is that?

The fog rolls in off the ocean and drifts into temperate rain forest.

It coats the leaves of the trees with moisture and some of the water drips down to the ground as precipitation.

A canopy of conifers.

Yeah, and are you noticing that is our next, uh-huh, subtopic.

So proud of you.

You guys are getting so good at this.

Fantastic.

The trees in the temperate rain forest are mostly conifers.

Conifers are trees that have cones and needle like leaves.

Okay, are you making connections?

Can you think about at one time when you saw a tree like that?

Mm-hmm.

I have one in my front yard, I do.

Did we just learn something about those trees, the conifers?

We sure did, yeah.

We should probably put that up there, right?

Details, uh-huh.

The detail about the conifers is that they, yes.

Mm-hmm, these are the kinds of trees that had the cones and the needles.

The wet conditions of these forests cause some conifers to grow tall with thick trunks.

Species, such as the Douglas fir, Sitka spruce and the western hemlock tower over the forest floor.

Some trees are hundreds of years old and more than 300 feet high.

So these old-growth forest may keep growing and growing unless they are affected by fires, wind storms, or people would cut down the trees.

What did we just learn about conifers?

They can grow 300 feet tall!

And they have huge trunks, my friends.

Wow!

Old-growth forests are cut down by the logging industry to make lumber and paper.

What actions can you take to conserve the rain forest resources and help keep this ecosystem in balance?

Great work today, readers.

You did an amazing, fantastic job.

Of course digging in deep to this text and finding out what our topic was, our subtopic, and all of these amazing and wonderful details.

So don't forget, when you're reading your nonfiction texts, you have a job to do.

Make sure that you're keeping track of all of your learning by using this fantastic graphic organizer.

(upbeat music) (lion roars) I have a question for you.

Do you think that Robin Johnson, the amazing author of our read aloud, actually wrote that book the first time perfectly?

I don't think so either.

Now, I'm gonna guess probably not because I have some friends that are pretty famous authors and I'm gonna tell you that they say that when they write books, they have to write them over and over and over and over again and revise and revise and revise.

I'm wondering if I can revise my research writing today with you.

Yeah, I went back through it and I was reading a couple of things and I thought to myself, ooh, I don't know.

I don't really like the way it sounds.

It kind of sounds a little choppy.

It didn't sound as smooth as the way that she wrote her book.

And I thought, hmm, I should probably work on that.

And then I thought, oh, what are some other details that I probably should add and elaborate more in my sentences?

Have you heard that before?

Elaborate, tell more.

Hmm, so are you ready?

Okay, come with me.

Let's revise, uh-huh, try something different to add more details and elaborate in my writing today, friends.

Okay, so here's my heading, Woodpeckers in Michigan.

Woodpeckers hang around in the forest.

Why do they hang around in the forest?

Right, uh-huh.

Because that is where they make their nests.

Why wouldn't I add that now?

So friends, I wanna teach you something today.

And that is when you need to elaborate and add some details, a great way to do that is to use the word because.

Because helps you, mm-hmm, to use those details or pieces of evidence, my friends, okay?

Now, another thing is I don't like to rewrite stuff so you can just add a flap.

That's what we call this.

We're just gonna add a flap to our draft writing today.

So here we go.

I know it should hang right here, okay?

All right, I did something different.

Now, let's reread it and see if it sounds good to our ear.

Woodpeckers hang around in the forest because that is where they make their nest.

They eat grubs.

They eat insects.

Wah-wah, yeah, nuh-uh, I don't like that one either.

We could easily combine those two simple sentences, right?

And make it into one sentence.

Here's my flap for this one.

We're just gonna stick it right on top of, my friends.

Okay, are you ready?

Now, we have to reread, listen to see if our revisions, mm-hmm, the things that we've done different, sound good to our ears.

Woodpeckers hang around in the forest because that is where they make their nests.

They eat grubs and insects.

Ooh, do you see how it has more flow and fluency to it?

Oh, awesome.

Okay, many woodpeckers live in Michigan.

Well, yeah, they do.

Not only do they live in Michigan, but guess what?

They live in my backyard, friends.

Ah!

How could I have forgotten that?

So I have to add that.

So exciting.

Look at all the revisions we were able to make.

Let's go through it one more time, listening to make sure it sounds good to our ears, it makes sense and that it flows.

And it has that fluency that we're looking for, right?

'Cause those are the things that engage our readers.

Okay, woodpeckers hang around in the forest because that is where they make their nests.

They eat grubs and insects.

Many woodpeckers live in Michigan and in my backyard.

Wow, great job friends.

We've had so much fun learning and growing together and we can't wait to see you next time.

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