(upbeat music) - Good afternoon, campers.

Welcome back to Teaching in Room Nine, our Summertime Edition.

My name is Julia.

I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard School but here for teaching in Room Nine, my lessons focus on phonemic awareness.

All right, friends, let's go ahead and jump right in.

I mentioned my lessons focus on phonemic awareness.

Now, again, what our phonemes?

Phonemes are the smallest units of sounds that letters make.

And we know that letters have sounds.

They come together to make words.

We've been practicing being reading scientists, dissecting words to look at all the individual letters, the sounds that they make, letter patterns and how they're put together and many ways to make the words that we can say, read or write.

All right, we're gonna go ahead and start by warming up your brain.

Go ahead and tickle those brains.

And we're gonna start by reviewing everything we've learned together here so far this summer.

Now, if you remember, way back in the beginning of the summer, we started by learning about rhyming words.

We did a song that went along with it.

So if you're a member, feel free to sing it along with me, otherwise just listen to jump in whenever you can.

♪ Rhyming words are words that have the same sounds ♪ ♪ They have to end in the same way ♪ ♪ Rhyming words have the same vowel sounds ♪ ♪ And the same sounds at the very end ♪ Very good, learners.

I can tell some of you remember our song from before.

So as we said in our song, rhyming words have the same ending sounds.

And then we also looked at making new words by changing the onset, just the letters and sounds that come before the rhyme, those ending sounds.

And we learned that words that all have that same rhyme are all apart of word families.

We also learned, oh, we practiced our stretchy snake decoding strategy.

And again, friends, the word decoding means, how am I able to figure out or read a word that I don't know?

And one really great decoding strategy is stretchy snake, where you take a word and you really stretch it out to look at all the letters and sounds.

We looked at sounds that came in the beginning of the word, our middle vowel sounds, and sounds that come at the end.

We also focused on consonant blends.

So in order to review consonant blends, we're gonna do my very favorite thing, which is of course mirrors on.

So when I say mirrors on, you're gonna follow along with everything I say and do until I say mirrors off.

Are you ready to go ahead and try?

We're gonna do it a couple of times in our time here together.

All right, ready?

Mirrors on.

Consonant blends are when letters glide together in your mouth, but you hear all sounds.

Mirrors off.

Very good, friends.

So consonant blends are consonants and they're letters that come together and they glide, but you still hear all sounds and they're usually found in the beginning or the end of words.

All right, very good learners.

We focused on our long and short vowel sounds and we also worked with changing around and manipulating sounds and letters in order to help us be better readers and writers.

So today friends, we are going to have a wonderful St. Louis theme and we're gonna be taking all of this wonderful knowledge that we've learned together so far and using them to help us figure out or decode unknown words and we're specifically gonna be looking at our syllable rules.

So that takes us to our learning goal for today, friends.

Can you say this along with me?

I can, let me hear you, very good, decode words using syllable patterns.

Very good.

I noticed that word right there again, decode, again, decode we're learning how to read words that we don't know.

So today we're gonna be decoding words specifically looking at syllable patterns and these syllable rules here as well.

All right, so let's go ahead and look at our syllable rules chart right here.

So these are just some generic or general rules for us when we are looking at how we divide up syllables.

So the really important thing for us to remember is all syllables are organized around a talking vowel.

So if it's like a super silent magic E, that doesn't count, it has to be a vowel that talks or a vowel that we hear.

So say this with me, friends.

There is one vowel sound per syllable.

Very good.

So that's really important for us to remember when we're thinking about our word and how to divide it into syllables.

You also split after CK or X.

Let's try this word boxes, boxes, good.

And here's a CK one, nickel, very good.

So you broke your syllable right after that CK or X.

Then down here, friends, it says we're gonna split between compound words.

Who remembers?

What is a compound word?

Wow, I'm really impressed.

Compound words, again, if you didn't remember, that's okay.

It's when two real words that are words all on their own and they come together to make a new word.

For example, birdhouse, bird is a word, house is a word, they come together to make a new word, birdhouse.

Snow man, snowman.

Butter fly, butterfly.

And you always chop your syllables between those two words.

Birdhouse, butterfly, snowman.

Very good.

Now you see our little double letter twins over here and we always split between double letters.

So if you see double letters in a word, that is where you are going to split your syllable.

So here we have summer, and the word letters also has double letters, letters, very good.

All right, now we're gonna come down here.

It says split VC, CV VC, CV, what do you think those letters might stand for?

Let's think about what we know about letters.

We've got two types of letters.

We've got.

Yeah, you're gonna learn.

Say vowels and consonants, very good.

So when you have a vowel consonant, you always you're gonna split your syllable right after that first consonant.

So even if you have more consonants before you get to your next vowel, you still are gonna split it right after that first vowel consonant, then you split your syllable and then you have the rest of your consonants and the next vowel.

So here's some examples, sister, after, very good.

And then lastly here, friends, we've got prefixes and suffixes are syllables.

All right, so we're gonna do a little mirrors on to review prefixes and suffixes, are you ready?

Mirrors on.

Prefixes is a word part.

You add it on onto the front of a root word.

Suffixes is the word part.

You add it on onto the back of a root word.

Mirrors off.

That was awesome, friends.

So prefixes and suffixes are word parts that either come in the beginning or the end of words and they help us to figure out what the word might mean.

And we are always going to have prefixes and suffixes get their own syllable.

All right, so these are kind of some general rules that we're gonna use when practicing syllables.

And another way for us to really understand better for when we divide up our syllables is understanding the different types of syllables.

So I'm gonna take this chart down and we're gonna look at these syllable types here.

All right, so you see syllable types and there are seven different syllable types.

So we're gonna do a song that reminds us of the different types of syllables and then we'll kind of go through each of these and practice a little bit more.

So hopefully we're gonna just review for your brain.

Hopefully we remember hearing some of these or learning some of these before, either with me or during your school year.

Otherwise, that's okay.

Turn your listening ears all the way up and try to follow along with me.

So we're gonna start by singing your song about the seven different types of syllables and it's to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It."

Are you ready?

♪ There are seven different types of syllables ♪ ♪ They are closed and open vowels and magic E ♪ ♪ Then consonant LE and these all stay together ♪ ♪ They are vowel teams, bossy R, and diphthongs ♪ Very good, let's go ahead and sing it one more time.

♪ There are seven different types of syllables ♪ ♪ They are closed and open vowels and magic E ♪ ♪ Then consonant LE and these all stayed together ♪ ♪ They are vowel teams, bossy R, and diphthongs ♪ Very good.

I can tell some of my friends have heard some of my songs.

So far you're doing such a great job of following along.

All right, so now let's kind of look through some of these.

We start at closed and open vows and magic E. All right, so a closed vowel has a short vowel sound and it's closed because it is closed in.

You've got your vowel in the middle and it's closed in by consonants.

So here's an example, it's the word bet.

/B/ /e/ /t/, bet, very good.

So you hear the /e/, that E is short vowel, it's a short vowel sound.

And then we've got open syllables.

Let's do some mirrors on, are you ready?

Mirrors on.

Open syllables are a long vowel sound not followed by a consonant in a syllable.

Mirrors off.

Great job, friends, so we learned closed, the vowel is short and it's closed in by consonants.

Open, it is a long, a long vowel sound, and it's not followed by a constant the way that the closed syllables are.

So here's an example is the word be, /b/ /E/, be.

So we hear that /E/, it's all by itself there and it makes that long vowel sound, very good.

Then we have magic E. And of course, we have our magic E song and it's to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle."

♪ Magic E, magic E the end of a word is where I'll be ♪ ♪ I don't say /e/ or /E/, I just sit there silently ♪ ♪ But the vowel that I am around ♪ ♪ Gets to make their long, long sound ♪ Very good, friends.

So with that magic E, it might be called bossy E or super silent sneaky E, comes at the end and it makes the vowel say its long vowel sound, like in a cake and here reptile, magic E comes at the end to make that I in reptile long.

Then consonant LE is when you have a constant and LE and it makes the /l/ sound, turtle, puddle.

And you always break the syllable right before that consonant LE.

And then we said, these all stay together, they are vowel teams, bossy R, and diphthongs.

All right, let's do some mirrors to review.

These three things, again, they all stay together.

So let's start with our vowel teams.

Are you ready?

We're gonna do mirrors on.

Mirror on.

Vowels teams are two or more letters that come together to make a long vowel sound.

AI, AY, A. EA, EE, E. IE, IGH, I. OA, OW, O. UE, EW, /oo/.

Mirrors off.

It was so good.

I can tell you are remembering some of these things we've talked about here together so far.

Vowel teams is a team of vowels, they come together to make the long vowel sound.

We went through all those examples.

Then we have bossy R. Mirrors on.

Bossy R is when the letter R changes the vowel sound.

A, R, R, car.

O, R, or, storm.

The next three vowels make the same sound.

E, R, /er/, hammer.

I, R, /ir/, bird.

U, R, /ur/, surf.

Mirrors off.

Very good, friends.

So, bossy R is a vowel sound, but it changes the vowel sound so it's not short or long, it just makes its own sound.

And then last but not least, we can't forget about our diphthongs.

Are you ready, let's do mirrors on again.

Mirrors on.

A diphthong is a vowel sound.

It's glides in your mouth from one sound to the next.

OI, OY, /oi/, /oi/, /oi/, /oi/, /oi/.

OU, OW, /ow/, /ow/.

AU, AW, /aw/, aw, yeah.

Mirrors off.

That was so good.

I'm really impressed you remembered so many of these different things.

Again, diphthongs, kind of like bossy R, it makes a vowel sound, but it's its own thing.

It's not short or long, but that /oi/ or /ow/ is your vowel sound.

And again, vowel teams, bossy R, and diphthongs stay together when we're doing syllables.

All right, we also learned a song to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" to practice syllables, so let's practice some of these words we see here.

Let's start with magnet.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in magnet and tell me what you heard ♪ Magnet, perfect.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in robot and tell me what you heard ♪ Robot.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in rainbow and tell me what you heard ♪ Rainbow.

I also notice rainbow is an example of a compound word.

I can tell so my other friends are picking up on that too.

All right, let's do farmer.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in farmer and tell me what you heard ♪ Farmer, very good.

Last one, let's do cowboy.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in cowboy and tell me what you heard ♪ Cowboy.

Wait a minute, cowboy is also an example of what type of word?

I knew I couldn't get anything passed you, you're absolutely right.

Cowboy is also a compound word.

So rainbow was a compound word, and we had the AI and the OW vowel teams.

But again, it's two words on their own so that's where you chop your syllables.

Same thing, cowboy has two examples of diphthongs, /ow/ and /oy/.

But again, since it's a compound word, we just chop it right between those two words, cowboy.

Incredible, friends.

Now, getting back to our St Louis theme.

We are talking about St. Louis this week because we are learning about the bicentennial.

Will you say that word with me?

Bicentennial.

Very good, it's a big word.

Bicentennial means that it is celebrating its 200th anniversary.

So on August 10th, it marks the 200th anniversary of Missouri entering in as the 24th state into the United States.

So again, bicentennial, centennial means hundredth anniversary and bi means two.

So the 200th anniversary.

So we have this beautiful St. Louis chart here and I wrote a song to the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."

I wrote a St. Louis song, so let's sing it together.

Just try to jump in when you can.

We'll sing it more than once.

♪ Take me to St. Louis ♪ Take me to Forest Park ♪ The history and art museums and boats ♪ ♪ Then see a muni play to hear every note ♪ ♪ And we'll root, root, root for the Cardinals ♪ ♪ And our Stanley Cup Champs, the Blues ♪ ♪ For it's great here under the arch here in St. Louis ♪ Very good, friends.

And if you noticed, some of the songs or the attractions I'm singing about in the song our on our chart here, let's see if we can find them.

Let's sing it again.

♪ Take me to St. Louis ♪ Take me to Forest Park ♪ The history and art museums and boats ♪ ♪ Then see a muni play to hear every note ♪ ♪ And we'll root, root, root for the Cardinals ♪ ♪ And our Stanley Cup Champs, the Blues ♪ ♪ For it's great here under the arch here in St. Louis ♪ Beautiful job, friends.

I love when you sing along with me at home.

All right, so you notice I pointed out a lot of these different attractions here.

Now we're gonna spend the rest of our time together, friends, diagramming those words.

So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen really quick.

All righty, friends.

So obviously I think starting with the word St. Louis is a perfect place to start.

You'll notice that I have written our consonants in blue and our vowel sounds in pink.

That's important because bossy R and our diphthongs, they might not all be vowels, but if they make a vowel sound, I've written it here in pink.

I've also, if I've got like a team of letters here, you can see I've kind of looped it together underneath.

And then I have green dots here for each individual sounds.

Finally, you can see I made a dash for long vowel sounds and a little, I like to call it a macaroni noodle, it's a bread symbol for our short vowel sounds.

All right, so if you're writing along with me, you can go ahead and write this word down.

I'm gonna take you through our word and we're gonna look for those syllable patterns in the letter patterns.

So we have /s/, /A/.

That here, friends, is a vowel team AI, AY, A, so it's a long vowel sound.

/N/ /t/, Saint, /l/ /oo/ /i/ /s/, Louis.

Very good, maybe you didn't even know that ST is short for Saint, right here, for St. Louis.

So AI is my long vowel sound.

In Saint, I only have that vowel team, so it just is one syllable, Saint.

In here, I've got my long /oo/.

Here OU makes that /oo/ sound.

And then I have short I saying /i/, /i/, so I have two talking vowels.

So Saint, one syllable, Louis, two syllables.

So if you put it all together, Saint Louis, three syllables.

Very good learners, all right.

Now let's look at that big, fancy schmancy word here, bicentennial.

Okay, we've got a lot of letters going on here.

/B/ /I/, right here I see this an open syllable.

It's also an example of a prefix.

A prefix is a word part.

You add it on onto the front of a root word.

So our root word here is centennial and bi means two, so our 200th anniversary.

All right, let's look again at the whole word.

/B/ /I/ /s/, here our C is soft because when C is followed by I, E or Y, it makes a soft C sound.

So we have /B/ /I/ /s/ /e/, /e/, short E. /N/ /t/ /e/, /e/, short E again.

/N/, I'm seeing double letters.

/I/ /l/, so when you've got two vowels here together, the first one is long and the second one makes a schwa, which is this upside down looking E. Schwa is just a very lazy, lazy, kind of sounds like a short U, it makes that /u/, /u/, okay, so let's put it all together again.

/B/ /I/ /s/ /e/ /n/ /t/ /e/ /n/ /I/ /l/, wow, really long.

So now if we're going to split it up into syllables, Bi, you got your open syllable plus your prefix would break it right there.

Cen, right here is closed.

Ten is closed here.

I'm also chopping it right between my double letters.

And then ial.

Bicentennial.

(hands clapping) Bicentennial.

Five syllables, wow.

All right, let's do another one.

Of course, we've got Forest Park.

In Forest Part, we've got so many amazing things.

We've got the St. Louis Art Museum.

We've got the Missouri History Museum.

We've got our incredible zoo and you can see a muni play.

And they also have boats that you can rent and go out in the water as well, so, so many wonderful things to see in Forest Park and they have the new Playscape there as well.

So, Forest Park.

/Or/, /or/, what's that an example of?

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Bossy R and then we've got /e/ /s/ /t/, blend it all together, Forest.

I've got /or/, bossy R, and then a short E. So Forest, two syllables.

/Ar/, what's that an example of?

Yeah, let me see it, bossy R, good.

Some here our bossy R is our only vowel sound in Park, so Park would be one syllable.

Forest Park, three altogether, very good.

All right, we know that in Forest Park we've got the St. Louis Art Museum.

So this is kind of long and we'll kind of shift it over.

So here, I just wrote Saint, but we know that Saint has /s/ /A/ /n/ /t/, four sounds altogether.

/L/ /oo/ /i/ /s/, Louis, Saint Louis.

Then we have art.

What is this again here?

Let me see it, bossy R, very good.

Art, so art would just be art, that one syllable.

And then lastly here, we've got /m/ /U/, long U, that's an open syllable.

And here S makes the /z/ sound.

/M/ /U/ /z/ /E/, here I've got my two vowels together.

So again, my E is long and my U is that schwa, and then /m/.

/M/ /U/ /z/ /E/ /u/ /m/, blend it, museum, but I've got /U/ /E/ /u/, so it would be museum.

Let's put it all together, can you do that with me, friends?

Saints Louis Art Museum.

Wow, fantastic job.

I'm gonna stop sharing my screen now, friends.

I am so impressed, learners.

You did an incredible job.

We reviewed so many things here together today.

We focused on our syllables and how we break apart words into syllables in order to help us to read words we do not know.

And syllables again are broken down into each talking vowel.

We looked at the seven types of syllables.

We learned these three stay together and we reviewed vowel teams, bossy R, and diphthongs.

And then we got to practice with our St. Louis attractions here.

Thank you for your hard work, friends.

I'll see you next time, bye.

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