- Hello there learners and welcome to Read, Write, Roar Today, we are going to continue learning about R-controlled vowels and really thinking about here.

We're also going to be learning a new word called homophone.

Then you're going to read a story about nature and be able to find the important details in the story, find the main idea.

So let's get started thinking about nature and all these wonderful things on Read, Write, Roar - [Announcer] This program is made possible in part by Michigan Department of Education the State of Michigan and The Kresge Foundation additional support for educational programming provided by.. and by viewers like you.

(paper crunching) (up beat music) - Hello there learners, we've been learning a lot about R-controlled vowels.

Let's review what that means, R-controlled vowels.

When a vowel is followed by the letter R the R makes the vowel change its name.

We talked about AR and thought about the word car.

C- AR, Car, AR sayings R. We talked about, IR saying "ir" like in the word, bird, b-ird bird OR saying the sound "or" like in Fort, F- ort.

Fort And you are saying the R sound like in the word purse, p - Urse Purse Today we're talking about R final, R-controlled pattern.

And that is the ER pattern, guess what?

ER says R, just like in bird and purse our keyword for ER is going to be person, Can you say person?

Let's think about those sounds, P - er- - s- - a- o-n person I heard the ER Sound in person.

I'm going to put our picture here of our person and I'm going to write the word person underneath so you can see where that, ER sound is.

P- - er- - s- - a- on There's that ER sound made by ER, in this word the O makes a different sound, It sounds like an A, let's spell person P -E-R - S-O-N, person.

The other thing that I want you to know about R-controlled vowels, especially, ER, is that ER can also be used as a suffix, it can be added to the end of a word, for example, I like to teach this is the word teach, T-E-A - C - H I would be called a teacher, teacher look, it has teach right inside of it, T-E-A-C-H, but the ER sound on the end because it's talking about what the person is called, Who does the action to teach Now we've learned about the ER sound when it's R-controlled it sounds like IR like in bird, Purse and person.

Great job thinking about the R sound today.

Let's do some more learning together.

(sober piano sound) Hello again there learners now we gonna learn a new word, the word is homophone.

Can you say homophone?

Great, homophones, homophones are a special kind of word they're words that can sound the same, but they don't look the same and they don't mean the same thing, you hear and see homophobic words all the time.

And today we're gonna use our poem to think about homophone words The word that's gonna help us with that is the word weather, we're thinking about nature, We're going to talk about weather.

W-E-A-T-H-E-R is the word weather when we're talking about if it's sunny or if it's cloudy W-H-E-T-H-E-R is the word whether again but that's a word that you use when you're comparing things.

Like, I'm not sure whether I want vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream.

So up next, we gonna read our poem, I'll read it to you, And then you'll read it with me.

And we're going to learn about the homo words weather and have some fun too, you ready?

Here the poem about the weather, I'm going to read it and you're going to be my echo the second time around, this time you can just listen to me.

Weather, Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, we'll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.

Great job listening to that poem, now this time, I'm going to read it and you're going to be my echo.

I'll use my marker to point so you'll know where to be when we're reading, weather your turn, whether the weather be fine, whether the weather be fine Or whether the weather be not or whether the weather be not whether the weather be cold, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, whether the weather be hot We'll weather the weather, we'll weather the weather whatever the weather ,whatever the weather, whether we like it or not, whether we like it or not.

This is a traditional poem and we don't know who the author is, but I wished we did because I'd love to thank the author for writing such a fun poem about the weather.

It helps us also learn about homophone words How did it go rainy at home?

Did you have fun?

Did you read in a strong, smooth voice?

The sounds I talk?

Great, for the rest of your day, you can be thinking about what do we use to describe the weather and then maybe you could practice thinking about this poem.

I hope you enjoyed learning it and be on the lookout for more homophone words, words that sound the same, but don't look the same and don't mean the same thing.

Great learning today, see you next time (upbeat music) This time We're gonna see how fast we can read this poem about weather because it's kind of a tongue twister.

I'll be pointing to the words, let's see how fast we can read it, Weather, whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, well, weather, the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not kind of a silly tone and fun to read, I hope you had fun reading it.

You can practice it at home and see if you can read all the words and just have fun with it reading it fast and then practicing, practice reading it like you normally would in your regular strong, smooth voice, so that it sounds like talk, have fun (upbeat music) - Hello amazing learners.

We've been learning a lot about homophones which are words that sound the same but they have different meanings and they're also spelled differently.

Well, I would like to play a game with you and it's a homophone game, all right?

So I'm gonna give you some words that sound the same but have different meanings and you're going to help me figure out where they should go.

So let's start off first by reading words.

So I have deer and I have dear.

So I have two different deers here.

So D-E-A-R is someone who is very special like a family member may say hello, dear.

And then we have deer, which is an animal.

You see how they have they sound the same but they're spelled differently.

So I'm gonna clip those on my pocket chart.

So I have deer and dear (upbeat music) So the next two words I have for you are whether and weather, okay so weather spelled with the EA, this one means something like rain or if it's sunny outside, this one right here is like a choice between two different things, okay?

So whether and weather, so I'm gonna put that up there.

(Paper crunching) Weather, whether My next two words I have for you, are horse and hoarse.

So this horse, I believe it makes the sound neigh.

(laughing) I think the horse makes the neigh sound, I'm being serious.

So horse like an animal and also hoarse as in your voice can hardly be heard like I'm hoarse today okay?

So we have a hoarse and horse.

Okay so we put that up there Well, that's a funny one Okay, my next two words, wood and would.

Okay, so this one right here, I think you know what that is Yes, looks like what we can find from a tree.

We use the wood from the tree to build things.

W-O-O-D then we have would and I'll put that in a sentence.

Would you like something to eat?

So it's almost like asking a question or giving a choice.

So would and wood.

(Paper crunching) (upbeat music) So my last two words, are you ready?

I have whole and hole, now when I was younger these two words would confuse me because I would write them in a sentence and they would always be mixed up.

So this one means like, for instance, the entire amount like I would like to eat that entire or that whole pizza it means something that's all one.

And then this one, is like a hole in your shirt or a hole in the ground, something that you can fall into or something like that.

So when I think of whole, I look at that W right, I look at the W and I think, wow, that was my way of remembering, like, wow I get the whole thing, so one way to remember is that W think, wow I get the whole thing, which means one entire amount.

And then the regular one, H-O-L-E it's just a hole in the ground or a hole in the shirt okay?

A spot that's open, okay?

So that's the only way to remember that, now, I wanted us to play this game what you can do is show your family all of the words, all the homophobes and then you would pretend and act out what that word is.

So let's see if you can figure out this one, okay?

So I have whole, and hole now watch this, I'm gonna stand up, I'll kinda gonna be on camera, but that's okay.

So I'm walking along right then all of a sudden, (falls down) what do you think happened?

I fell in a hole, right?

And that would be H-O-L-E hole Let's try one more ah hoarse and horse.

Now, all of a sudden I am just talking and talking and talking.

(indistinct) Yes,em am I horse or hoarse?

Am hoarse H-O-A-R-S-E So we can play this game in so many different ways.

And it's a really good way for you to understand the difference with homophones and also how they're spelled.

So try to do this with your family or any of your friends, or do it by yourself.

You can try to remember how to spell the words, see you next time.

(upbeat music) - Hello there learners, we've been talking a lot about a few things today, one thing we did was to learn about a homophone word with our weather poem, and then we're going to be reading stories and learning over the next few days about nature like animals and nature.

So what we're thinking about now is this question.

How does the weather affect animals and plants?

Because depending on what the weather is like, animals might be doing different things and plants and trees might look different.

I was thinking about that today, and I was thinking, I would love to write about that and think about my observations, when you observe something, you notice it, you take note.

So I might use it up here, It says weather observations.

This says, when it's cold and windy, I notice when it's cold and windy, what do you notice?

I notice that squirrels are hiding in trees.

I'm gonna write that here on my line, when it's cold and windy, I notice squirrels are hiding in trees.

My squid sound is SQU, squirrels are and then you know that word, A-R-E hiding, h - I - d - I-ng there's no E at the end because I'm an add the ing junk.

When it's cold and windy, I noticed squirrels are hiding in trees, T- r - e s ,Trees.

There's my full sentence, let's read it.

When it's cold and windy, I noticed squirrels are hiding in trees.

Maybe you can write a sentence about what you noticed when it's cold and windy later.

I was also thinking, when sometimes it's warm and sunny, when it's warm and sunny, I notice when it's warm and sunny,I noticed that children are outside, Playing, birds are chirping and squirrels are running wild.

That's a lot of things to write, let's see if we could fit it here, when it's warm and sunny, I notice children are playing outside, birds chirp and squirrels run wild.

I think I can fit it, let's see, when it's warm and sunny, I notice chil- dr- en play, this is a compound word, outside.

It has out and side together.

And I'm gonna add to that.

So I'm bringing a combining parts children play outside birds, look this is gonna have that IR R- control vowel we've been talking about, birds, em whoops, I'm gonna cross out right in front of that, birds Ch - Ir There's IR again, and squirrels, we just wrote that up here, squirrels run wild.

When It's warm and sunny, I notice children play outside, birds chirp and squirrels run wild.

Have you noticed any of those things?

The last part I was thinking about is sometimes it's hot and dry and when it's hot and dry I notice, what do you notice when it's hot and dry?

I notice animals and people are near water to cool down.

That's what I'm gonna write here.

Animals and people are near water to cool down.

Animals and people, P-e-ople that's how that word looks.

P-E-O- P-L-E, animals and people find you can just find water to stay cool.

Even if that's not exactly what I said, it's pretty close.

Sometimes writers change what they're going to write as the lines still make sense, It's okay.

When it's hot and dry, I notice animals and people find water to stay cool.

We took our learning about trees and nature and animals and our learning about weather and put those things together to write some observations.

I hope that you have fun today observing the weather where you are and thinking about what observations you might make about animals or plants or trees and people because of the weather, have a great day (upbeat music) - Hello amazing learners, welcome back to READ, Write, ROAR, My name is Ms. Rodgers and I have a wonderful book for you today.

It is called "Who Will Plant a Tree?"

This book is written by Jerry Pallota and the illustrator is Tom Leonard, he drew the pictures.

Now this is a nonfiction book which means the author wants us to learn some things.

And some of the things we'll be learning about would be seeds and how they're planted and how they grow into trees.

I will be using an anchor chart which helps us to organize our ideas and our thoughts.

And that will help you to understand what's going on in the story and also what the main idea is.

So let's begin, (upbeat music) "Who Will Plant a Tree?"

written by Jerry Pallota and illustrated by Tom Leonard.

I wonder "Who Will Plant a Tree?"

last fall a squirrel buried an acorn.

He didn't know it, but he planted an Oak tree.

If you look at this illustration you can see how the acorn becomes a tree.

Look at how it sprouts and then grows into a tree.

It'll take several years for this to happen.

Seeds, stuck to the messy fur of an apple eating black bear, the bear tripped, and a seed fell off.

And he planted an apple tree, a goose migrated which means to move from one place to another, with a Chestnut burr, that's something that's really kind of prickly and sticky, and it stuck to her feathers.

Miles away, the burr came off.

she planted a Chestnut tree.

A dolphin pushed a coconut into ocean currents.

The current is the moving up the water back and forth.

The coconut floated to an Island and a Palm tree grew.

Ants marched a pine nut down their tunnel.

They didn't know it.

They planted a pine tree.

Cherry seeds got caught on the tail of a wild horse.

She switched her tail, a seed fell and grew into a cherry tree.

A Beaver uses sharp teeth to chop down a maple tree Crash Maple trees were planted along the riverbank.

The river bank is just the edge of the river.

Playful monkeys threw figs at each other.

They planted fig trees.

"Stop it, Don't throw food".

A moose got a pear tree branch stuck and its antlers.

It walked and walked as Pears fall off trees were planted and owl swallowed a mouse that had been eating Elm tree seeds, later the owl coughed up an owl pellet and an Elm tree grew.

In the Amazon river, a Pacu ate floating fruit.

It pooped seeds, trees were planted all over the rainforest.

A camel chewed, some dates, and then spit the seeds out.

Dates are like a chewy fruit, similar to a raisin.

It wasn't long before a seed grew into a date Palm tree.

A Wren flies to her nest with a Juniper berry in her beak.

Now this is a type of tree that has small seeds that look like little berries.

Oops!

The tasty berries fell, the Wren planted a Juniper tree.

A teacher taught her students all about trees.

They went on a filter and planted trees.

What fun!

Wait a second, did an elephant plant a tree?

(upbeat music) As I read today, we're going to be filling out this Main Idea anchor chart.

So main idea is what the author wants me to know about the topic.

Our story is "Who Will Plant a Tree".

So in that story, we read that our first main idea is animals plant trees, they burry and drop seeds and nuts that grow into trees.

Now we need to figure out what were some details that the author shared with us.

Our first detail was the squirrel buries and acorn.

The next detail, the bear traps and apple seed.

We need one more detail, ant bury a pine nut so this anchor chart helps us to understand again the main idea or what the author wanted us to know about the topic.

Did you figure out what the main idea could be?

We're going to turn back to the cover of our book and look at "Who Will Plant a Tree?".

And we're gonna be able to answer that question together.

(upbeat music) Thank you for joining me today, I really loved having you along, now remember, when we're reading a book we're thinking about the main idea and so details that helps us to understand what's going on in the story, so next time you pick up the book, think about those things but I really want you to also explore your neighborhood with your parent or brother or sister or someone who would walk along with you to discover what's in your area and what you can see that will help you to become an even better learner.

So I'll see you next time on Read, Write, Roar (upbeat music) - [Announcer] This program is made possible in part by Michigan Department of Education the state of Michigan and The Kresge Foundation additional support for educational programming provided by and by viewers like you.

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