- Hello, amazing learners.

Welcome to Read, Write, ROAR!

Today, we will sort some long and short A words, learn new high frequency words, and go out and about in the community with Mrs.

Spear.

So stay right there, we're going to have a lot of fun.

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(cheerful music) (lion roaring) (tranquil music) - Hello, amazing learners.

It's Ms. Rogers.

We're going to work with words that have the A vowel sound.

But before we do that, let's review.

I have have the word cat.

Cuh-at, cat.

The A in this word represents the short A sound, which is ah.

Let me hear you say ah.

Excellent.

So all of my words that have a ah sound will go in my first column.

The next vowel sound sound for A is A. Cuh-a-kuh, cake.

So the A in this word represents the long vowel sound A.

Let me hear you say A.

Excellent.

So the final E tells the A to say it's name.

So it's cuh-a-kuh, cake.

So all of my words that have the long vowel sound for A will go on my second column.

As you can see, I have a third column that says oddball.

So that's for any words that don't follow my short A or my long A pattern.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

My first word is made.

Mm-a-duh, made.

Where should it go?

Yes, it should go in a long A column because it's the A sound as in cake, not the ah sound as in cat.

So that will go in this column.

My next word, ask.

Ask.

Is it the ah as in cat or the A as in cake?

Excellent, it is ah as in cat.

My next word is rake.

Rr-a-kuh, rake.

Which sound do you hear?

Long A sound.

Excellent.

Base, base.

Buh-a-ss, base.

Wow, good job, readers.

It goes with the long A sound in that second column.

Guh-ah-ss, gas.

Is this the ah as in cat or the A as in cake?

Excellent.

The short a as in cat.

My next word is came.

Cuh-a-muh, came.

Where should we put this one?

Excellent, under the long A sound.

You're pretty good at this.

Next word, plate, plate.

Do you hear the short A as in cat or the long A as in cake?

Plate.

Excellent job.

We have a few more.

Last.

L-ah-st, last.

Yes, it goes right under the short A sound as in ah.

Snap.

(Ms. Rogers snapping) I can snap my fingers really fast.

Sn-ap.

Snap.

Short A.

Very good.

Our next word is what.

W-uh-tuh, what.

What?

Wait a minute, I see an A, but it's not saying the ah or the A sound.

So this A represents the uh sound.

W-uh-tuh, what.

So where would I put this?

Oddball.

Yes, I'll put it under our oddball column because it doesn't have the long A sound nor does it have the short A sound.

Let's keep going.

Hand.

Huh-and, hand.

Yes, short A.

Goes under cat.

Our next word is fuh-ast, fast.

Yes, I hear the ah sound.

Oh, amazing, amazing, amazing.

I think we have about three or four more.

Let's go.

Puh-ast, past.

Do you hear the long A as in cake or the short A as in cat?

Puh-ast, past.

Very good.

Short A.

Same, same.

Ss-a-mm, same.

I see that final E. Excellent job.

It goes under cake.

Last two.

Guh-ate, gate.

Long A.

And our final one is mm-a-kuh, make.

Right, it should go right under our long A sound for cake.

(tranquil music) Hello, amazing learners.

It's Ms. Rogers.

And it's time for us to work on some high frequency words.

We learn these words because they're going to show up a lot when we're reading and writing.

If we can understand how these words work and then learn how to spell them, it will help us when we read and write them.

Our first word today is they.

They.

They are good citizens.

Let me hear you say they.

Excellent.

They.

Th-ey, they.

Let me hear you.

Th-ey, they.

I hear two sounds.

Now let's take a look at this word.

They.

It has one, two, three, four, four letters, and it's spelled T-H-E-Y.

Now th, T-H represents that sound, th.

E-Y represents the long A sound.

So it's th-ey, they.

Now, let's try writing this word.

You can write this word on a sheet of paper, you can sky write it, or you can pretend to write it in the palm of your hands.

So I'm gonna put this first word right up here, and then I'm going to write the word really big as I spell it.

They.

T-H-E-Y.

Th-ey, they.

My second word for you is with.

With.

I'm going to go to the store with my dad.

Let me hear you say with.

With.

Now, wuh-ih-th, with.

With has three sounds.

Let me hear you.

Wuh-ih-th, with.

Now let's take a look at our word with.

With has one, two, three, four letters, and it's spelled W-I-T-H.

The W represents the wuh sound, the I represents the ih sound, and T-H represents the th sound.

So we have wuh-ih-th, with.

Now it's time for us to write the word.

Remember you can sky write it, write it on the sheet of paper, or in the Palm of your hand with a pretend pencil.

So let's go ahead and put our word with up there, and now we're going to write it.

W-I-T-H spells with.

Wuh-ih-th, with.

Now you know how these words work, you can be able to read them and write them.

Our two words again were they and with.

Excellent job, super readers.

(tranquil music) - Well, hey there, learners.

It's Mrs.

Spear.

And if you can see that building behind you right now, I am in the city of Lansing.

This is the capital of Michigan.

And we've been talking about our communities and things that are important in our community.

Community helpers.

Right now, I'm in Lansing.

And this is where bills and laws are made and followed through.

Right there in that capital building is where lawmakers meet.

And all these places around me are buildings and places where there are people working and making laws and rules in the state of Michigan.

I'm wondering if you've been thinking about a community helper that you might want to interview.

Have you thought of somebody?

Who is it?

Tell me.

Oh, those are some really great ideas.

(tranquil chiming) I am so grateful that one of the librarians in our great state of Michigan was able to give me an interview and give us a glimpse into the services that are available at our local library in Otsego County.

You could be thinking about someone in your area that you would like to interview and find out more about services in your community or the helpers that do these things for you.

So have you thought of some other people?

Keep thinking.

(tranquil chiming) Let's review some of the things we did as we prepared for an interview.

Let's look at these really important W words that you probably see a lot when you read and write that we could think about when we were framing the different questions we wanted to ask for an interview.

Who.

First of all, when you plan you want to know who you're interviewing.

What.

You wanna know what you're trying to find out about this person that you're interviewing, that way you might ask some really good what questions about that person.

For instance, I was asking Ms. Jackie what they offered at the library, right?

When.

When you're planning your interview you're gonna have to plan when you'll do the interview and set that up.

But when you're interviewing you might want to ask someone questions.

For example, I asked Ms. Jackie when she started doing the work that she does now?

Where.

Where are you going to do your interview when you're planning?

And where questions will also come up when you're trying to think about places that this person in your community serves.

Where do they do the work?

Why.

Why are you interviewing this person?

You're gonna wanna be able to really explain why it's so important for you to ask this person interview questions.

And then when you're interviewing them you're going to be thinking about why questions to ask them, like why did you choose this job?

Why do you like it so much?

Why do we have to check books out of the library and get a library card?

Why questions are also important to ask in an interview?

How.

We also thought about how questions.

How did you start this job?

How did you become interested in this work?

Or it might be something like when we saw Ms. Jackie, she showed us things like a 3D printer.

And we might ask, how does that work, and how do I sign up to use it?

(tranquil chiming) All right, we're really excited to get to know the community helper here with us today.

So can you tell us, what is your name and what is your position here at this building that provides a service?

- Hi, my name is Jackie Skinner.

I'm the library director, and I've worked here since 1998.

- My goodness, that's a long time.

(Jackie laughs) - It is so a long time.

- That's so great for the community to have you here for such a long space of time though.

And what is the name of this building we're in that provides a service right now?

- We are in the Otsego County Library.

- Library's one of my favorite places to go, actually.

Can you tell us a little bit about what your day is like every day here and the work you do?

- Well, we make sure that everybody has all the reading materials that they need in whatever format that they prefer.

So if we have somebody that has a visual impairment, we make sure that they have large print.

If we have somebody that is reading on their tablet, we wanna make sure that we're able to ha have eBooks that are available to them.

And we wanna make sure everybody's interest from babies on up to 100-year-old people have what they want to read.

- That's so important.

It makes such a difference, right, when you have an interest in something.

You're just so much more motivated to read, so.

- And it just makes your whole life better, your vocabulary everything.

- Yes, exactly.

You should be thinking about maybe what are your interests, because the next time you go to the library where you are you could ask the librarian there what books they have that match interests.

Do you have kids come in and ask you for advice on books sometimes and what they should read?

- All the time, and that's one of my favorite things about this job is just to talk about what is available that they can read and what's going to make them more excited about reading more.

- Yes, I love that as well.

Okay, so Jackie, tell us a little bit about why you chose to become a librarian and a library director, and then how you studied for that.

- Well, I started out as public services librarian here at the library, which is where I would answer a whole lot of questions, and I would do training on computers.

Anytime somebody was the looking for particular information, I would help them find it.

And again, that would be for anybody from babies on up.

So I had a wide variety of things that I got to look into.

So that made it really exciting.

I went to school, and I got my English, bachelor's degree in English.

And then I went to Wayne's State University in Detroit for my master's degree in library and information science.

So that's where I trained and got my master's degree.

And then that's when I moved.

After I got my degree, that's when I moved up to Gaylord and became public services librarian.

So I was public services librarian for 20 years.

- Wow.

So are you realizing that Ms. Jackie has been providing a service to people for so long being a librarian.

And maybe some of you even connected to some of the places that she talked about.

Maybe when you heard Detroit, you were making a connection.

Were you making a connection?

Give me a thumbs up if that was some thing you connected to.

How about when she said Gaylord or moved up North, were some of you making a connection to that?

It's really great to find out that you can start out one place and then move to another place and still do something that you love so much.

- Whilst I was working, and whilst I was going to school in Detroit, I worked in Port Huron.

So some of you might know about Port Huron.

And I worked for the subregional library for the blind and physically handicapped.

So that was a special library.

- [Mrs.

Spear] Oh, wow.

- So for people that had low vision or had hearing impairments.

- That is excellent.

So Jackie, what's your favorite service that you provide at this library for people?

- Well, I love books, but I also love animals.

And so we have a Tales to Tails program.

So for anybody that's wanting to learn how to read or struggling learning how to read, we have a therapy dog that comes in, and they can read to the dog.

And the dog is just beautiful, and kids just enjoy it so much that their reading skills just go crazy.

So we're really, really excited about that.

- Oh my goodness, that sounds so fun.

- Yeah, it is, yes.

- Now, if you, for some reason, don't have this program at your library, you can still grab a favorite stuffed animal and read to your stuffed animal.

You could grab your own pet.

I shouldn't say grab, but you can snuggle up with your own pet at home, and do that because it really does help, right?

- It does.

- Cozy and comfortable.

- It just makes you happy while you're reading.

It makes you relaxed.

And that's where you're supposed to be when you're reading.

- Yeah.

Thumbs up if you're thinking about some stuffy or some animal that you might wanna snuggle up with and read a book too.

You should try that sometimes soon.

That's a great service that you can provide here too that I bet people wouldn't even imagine happens here.

- Yeah, so far we've had big, really big dogs.

(Mrs.

Spear laughs) So they're just so sweet, and fluffy, and big, and yeah.

Like the size of small ponies.

(Jackie laughing) - Oh my goodness.

That sounds like a really good time.

- Yes it is.

- Wow.

Well, thanks.

And I'm thinking we're in this really neat room.

What is this room for?

- This room is for teens.

So it's a space where folks can sit down and talk about school or just talk about anything.

And then we have new things that are available just for teens.

So there's games that they can play.

We have a Wii that's available.

And then if you look behind me we have computers that folks can sit at to do whatever it is that they would I'd like to do.

And if you look behind me you can see that almost right in the back of me there, you can take a look into the children's area too.

So if you have a family that's here with you you can check out where they're at as well.

So not too far from the front desk here too.

So if you have any questions or need any assistance, we're here.

- That sounds so great.

We're gonna get out and about and just see a couple of other spaces and other services they have here at the library.

Are you ready to do that?

Let's go.

(tranquil chiming) Wow, let's learn about this space.

Jackie, where are we now?

- Hi.

Well, good to see you again.

I'm glad you're here.

This space here for the children.

So this is for anybody that's aged zero on up.

So up to sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade even.

We have materials for everybody.

And behind me we have our puppet theater.

So you can see that we have puppets here that you can choose from, and then you can go in behind here and make up your own stories if you like.

- That is so fun.

Wow, what's this area about?

- Well, this area is our chapter books, and our graphic novels, and our new books.

So we get new books all the time.

So you come one day, there'll be something, that you come the next day, there'll be something new.

So look behind us here, all the things that you can choose from.

And everything is organized by author's last name, their last name first, and then their first name, and then by title.

- That is so great.

So we're gonna take a peek at what that looks like.

So if you're trying to find a book in the library, you'll have some strategies to help you find it if you know the author's last name.

Now you think about it, what does the author mean?

Right, that is the person that writes the story.

Great job.

- This is our stacks, what we call the stacks or our shelves where we put all of our books.

And you can see here that we have a guide so that you can find the books.

And the guide is, this tells us that we're looking at juvenile fiction.

So those are stories that aren't true necessarily, but they teach us a lot of truths, right?

And they're all organized by last name of the author.

So we've got the Pav.

So we've got the P's through the Z's.

(tranquil chiming) - One more thing that you mentioned was how when you first started, the name of your title of your degree was different because things have changed.

So can you tell us a little bit how things have changed from how they were before at a library and how they are now at a library?

- There's always going to be books at libraries, and that's what we first think of when we think of libraries, but there's a lot of other ways that we get information now in through the internet.

There's a lot of different magazines and books that you can only get through the internet.

And so we wanna make sure that everybody has access to those.

So some people don't have internet at home.

And some people don't have computers at home.

And we wanna make sure that you can take some of those tablets and computers home to check them out, or you can come in and use the robust computers that we have here to do whatever it is that you need to do, whether it be finding a job, talking to your doctor, doing a job interview, or even just talking to family.

- Yeah, so if you're watching as a young learner, this might be a place where you come to get books, and maybe look at tablets, and maybe be able to talk to family through a tablet or through the computer.

But if you come to library with a family member, it might be helping them to do things like look for jobs.

So again, no matter what age you are, the library is a wonderful place to be able to come.

(tranquil chiming) - This is the library's maker space, and maker spaces are new to libraries.

And that's why we put a definition of what a maker space is up on our wall even.

So you can see here, it says a place in which people can learn and create through hands on experience while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge.

So we have special equipment that you wouldn't necessarily have access to in other places.

So you can come in the library and learn how to use them.

So right here, we have a CNC machine or a CNC router that allows you to carve into wood and do all kinds of special things.

You can see right in front of the CNC machine, an example of some of those things that we could do with it.

This is a 3D machine.

It's also in our maker space at the library.

And what it does is it takes plastic that are in these roles right here.

And through this extruder here it makes whatever you design.

So for instance, we've made this little sign here, maker space and you could make all kinds of different things.

Like maybe parts for a car you could make.

You could make parts for any kind of device that you were using that you needed to repair.

You can just make something that's fun, like a statue or something like that.

And right behind me here, if you wanna take a look, you can see what the library looked like in 1984 when it was starting to be built.

This is the model of what it was going to look like.

They don't make these anymore.

So when we expanded our building in 2000, at the start of 2017, all we had was a drawing, but back in 1984, they wanted to make sure that you could see exactly what the building was going to look like.

So we are lucky to have this model of the library from way back then.

(tranquil chiming) - No matter what kind of service you need, a librarian can provide that service for you at a library.

- And we want to.

We love to give everybody whatever they need.

- Yes, I hope you're sitting there getting really excited about being able to go either to your school library or your county or city library and meet an amazing librarian like Ms. Jackie.

(tranquil chiming) Well, learners, we're really thinking about community helpers then and now.

We focused on the now.

We had a chance to have a great interview with Jackie from the local Otsego County Library.

We are so thankful to Ms. Jackie for joining us and helping us see all the things that we might be able to discover and explore at our own local libraries with the help of a librarian.

(tranquil chiming) So when you're thinking about writing an interview, who, what, when, where, why and how will be great questions for you to answer and think about in the planning and in writing interview questions.

Thanks for joining me on this very special field trip to the library.

I hope that maybe it'll get you excited to go to your library and check out some great books.

(upbeat music) Looking forward to seeing next time on Read, Write, ROAR!

- [Announcer] 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 music)