- Hi, readers.

Welcome to Read, Write, Roar.

Today we're gonna be learning all about the letter S, and we'll be reading a book about storms.

The big question we wanna answer today is, "How do you stay safe in a storm?"

You're gonna need something to write on, like a piece of paper or a notebook, and something to write with, like a pencil or a marker.

So go gather your tools and then we'll start learning.

- [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) (lion roaring) (upbeat music) (lion roaring) (upbeat music) (gentle music) - Hey friends, are you ready to be letter heroes?

Great.

Let's get started.

Today's letter is the letter S. Can you say S?

This is an uppercase S, and this is a lowercase S. Let's say it together.

Uppercase S. Lowercase S. I'm gonna mix them up, but see if I can trick you.

Lowercase S. Uppercase S. One more time.

Uppercase S. Lowercase S. Great work.

The sound that S makes is the sound sss.

To make that sound, my teeth come together.

My tongue goes up and touches my teeth just a little bit, and I blow out some air, like this.

Sss.

Can you make that sound?

Sss.

Awesome job!

Let's look at some things that start with the sss sound.

The first thing I have is soap.

Can you say soap?

Soap begins with the sss sound.

The next thing I have is a special number.

This number is six.

Can you say six?

Six begins with the sss sound.

Now I have something called scissors.

You've probably used scissors before.

Scissors starts with the sss sound.

Let's say it together.

Scissors.

Nice job.

And the last thing I have is an animal that starts with the sss sound.

This is a snake.

Can you say snake?

That's right.

Snake begins with sss.

Nice job, letter heroes.

Now friends, it's time to search for the letter S. The letter S is going to be found in my sentence.

Let's read the sentence together.

When I stepped outside, it started to storm.

Did you see any uppercase or lowercase S's?

I did too.

I'm gonna use my special magnifying glass.

When I come to a letter S, I want you to say stop.

Stop starts with S, too.

Let's get started.

The first word is when.

Is there an S there?

No.

I.

No S in that word.

Stepped.

I heard you say stop.

That's right.

Stepped begins with the letter S. Let's highlight that lowercase S that we see in the beginning of stepped.

Stepped.

Great, let's keep searching.

The next word is outside.

You said stop again.

There's no S at the beginning, but there is a lowercase S in the middle of outside.

Do you hear it in that word?

Let's say it.

Outside.

There's the lowercase S. I'll highlight it.

Let's keep searching.

It.

No S there.

Started.

I see an S. Do you?

Started begins with a lowercase S. Let's highlight it.

Okay, friends, help me keep searching.

To.

No S there.

Storm.

There's another lowercase S. Storm begins with a lowercase S. Let's highlight it.

Nice work, letter heroes.

Let's count how many S's we found in our sentence today.

One, two, three, four, nice work.

Letter heroes, do you have something to write on and something to write with?

Because it's time to practice writing uppercase and lowercase S. This is an uppercase S. To make an uppercase S, we start at the top, big curve forward and then big curve back.

Let's practice sky writing it.

Ready?

Start at the top, big curve forward, big curve back.

Great.

One more time.

Start at the top, big curve forward, big curve back.

Nice job.

Watch me write it on our paper today.

Start at the top, big curve forward, big curve back.

There's an uppercase S. Let's do another one.

Start at the top, big curve forward, big curve back.

That's an uppercase S. Now let's try lowercase S. Uppercase S and lowercase S look similar.

Lowercase S is just smaller.

Smaller also starts with S. This time, to make the lowercase S, we start in the middle and we do little curve forward, little curve back.

Let's sky write it.

Ready?

Little curve forward, little curve back.

One more time.

Little curve forward, little curve back.

Nice work.

Let's practice writing lowercase S. Ready?

Start in the middle, little curve forward little curve back.

Make sure you touch the dotted line and the bottom line.

Let's do one more.

Start in the middle, little curve forward, little curve back.

Lowercase S, great work, letter heroes, practicing uppercase S and lowercase S. (gentle music) Hi friends.

I'm Mrs. Pung.

Have you ever heard thunder?

Have you ever seen lightning?

How did it make you feel?

Today we're gonna try to answer the question, "How do you stay safe in a storm?"

Our book today is a nonfiction book.

Remember, nonfiction book tells us information that's true.

The title of our book is Thunder and Lightning, and the author is Wendy Pfeffer.

Remember authors, write the words.

This book is read with permission from Scholastic Publishing.

Let's get started.

Because this is a non-fiction book, you'll notice many of the illustrations are photographs.

And at the back of this book, there's a text feature called the glossary.

The glossary tells us the meaning of important words in the book.

You can see those words are in bold or dark print.

Let's get started.

Thunder and Lightning.

Here comes a storm.

Black clouds sweep across the sky.

Strong winds whip through the trees.

Lightning flashes.

Thunder crashes.

Rain begins to fall.

This is a thunderstorm.

How do thunderstorms happen?

It takes a few steps for a thunder storm to form.

On hot days, puddles of water dry up.

Your wet bathing suit dries, too.

Where does the water go?

It goes up into the clouds.

You cannot see it, but this is happening all the time.

How does this happen?

Hot air turns water into gas you cannot see.

This gas is called water vapor.

Can you say water vapor?

Great job.

Hot air rises like a balloon.

It carries water vapor up to the clouds.

Cold air in the clouds turns the water vapor back into water.

Storm clouds hold billions of drops of water.

Some of the drops join together.

They get heavy and fall to the earth as rain.

Winds push the other drops around in the storm clouds.

The drops bump into one another.

The bumping causes static electricity.

You see a flash.

You hear a sizzle.

Sometimes static electricity makes your hair crackle when you comb it.

When electricity starts to flow, it isn't static anymore.

Electricity flows through the air like a river flows on the ground.

In this picture, this machine is making static electricity.

When electricity flows through a cloud, a giant spark lights up the sky.

This is lightning.

There are many types of lightning.

Some of them are zigzag, ribbon, ball, and sheet lightning.

Every lightening flash makes thunder.

How does a flash of light make sound?

As lightning flashes, it heats the air.

The hot air pushes out.

Then it rushes back.

The hot air pushes out again and rushes back, over and over.

This makes the sound you hear.

The sound is thunder.

The sound of thunder travels fast, but lightning travels about a million times faster than sound.

You see lightning before you hear thunder.

Thunder may be scary, but it cannot hurt you.

Lightning can be dangerous.

It splits trees.

It starts fires.

Lightning can knock a person off his or her feet.

If lightning strikes a person, he or she may be badly hurt.

How can you be safe from lightning during a thunderstorm?

What do you think?

Stay in a house or a car.

Keep away from open doors and windows.

Do not use the telephone, television, computer, or shower.

If you are outside, stay away from water, open fields, and trees.

Do not lie down on the ground.

Take off any metal like jewelry.

As the storm moves away, thunder rumbles, and rolls.

In this picture, lifeguards warn swimmers to leave the water when thunderstorms are in the area.

When the storm stops, the air often feels cool and clean.

Puddles left from the storm give birds a drink and kids a place to play.

If the sun is shining after the rain, you may see a rainbow.

That was a great book about thunder and lightning.

We'll talk more about how you stay safe during a storm.

(gentle music) Friends, we learned many new words in our book today.

Now it's time to learn more about three of those words.

Our first word is the word electricity.

Can you say electricity?

Good.

Electricity is energy made to move.

It can be made in nature, like lightning, or made by humans, like light bulbs.

Electricity.

Our movement for electricity is energy that moves.

Can you do that with me?

Energy that moves.

Great.

Let's clap the syllables in the word electricity.

Ready?

E (Mrs. Pung claps) Lec (Mrs. Pung claps) Tric (Mrs. Pung claps) I (Mrs. Pung claps) Ty.

(Mrs. Pung claps) How many syllables did you hear?

That's right.

Five syllables in the word electricity.

Let's see what our book said about the word electricity.

In our book, it says, "Electricity flows through the air like a river flows on the ground."

Electricity, energy that moves.

Our next word is the word lightning.

Can you say lightning?

Great.

Lightning is a huge spark in the sky made from electricity.

Lightning, a spark in the sky made from electricity.

Our movement for the word lightning is a zigzag, like this.

Lightning.

Can you do that with me?

Lightning, a spark in the sky.

Let's clap the syllables in the word lightning.

Get ready.

Light (Mrs. Pung claps) ning.

(Mrs. Pung claps) How many syllables did you hear?

Two.

There were two syllables in the word lightning.

Let's see what our book said about the word lightning.

In our book it says, "When electricity flows through a cloud, a giant spark lights up the sky.

This is lightning."

Energy in the sky, it moves like a zigzag.

Can you do that with me?

Lightning.

Great.

Our last word today is the word thunder.

Can you say thunder?

That's right.

Thunder.

Thunder is the rumbling boom sound you hear after lightning.

Thunder.

Our movement for thunder is going to be sound that we hear, like a rumble.

Let's do that again.

It's a sound we hear like a rumble or a boom in the sky.

It comes after lightning.

That's thunder.

Let's see what our book said about the word thunder.

In our book it tells us, "Hot air pushes out again and rushes back over and over.

This makes the sound you hear.

The sound is thunder."

Thunder comes after lightning.

It's the sound you hear, the rumbling in the sky.

Great.

Let's say our words one last time.

Say 'em with me.

Electricity, energy that flows.

Lightning, a giant spark in the sky.

And thunder, the booming sound you hear after lightning.

Try to use your new words with someone in your home today, readers.

(gentle music) Are you ready for our brain break?

Today we're gonna practice moving like the weather.

Let's start by crouching down, and we're gonna rise like the sun.

Now let's move our arms like the wind.

It looks like it's going to rain.

Let's trickle down like the rain.

Time to stomp your feet like thunder.

Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.

It's getting late.

Now it's time to set like the sun.

Look the stars are coming out.

Let's twinkle our hands like the stars.

Twinkle your fingers with me.

Let's take two deep breaths.

(Mrs. Pung inhaling and exhaling) One more.

(Mrs. Pung inhaling and exhaling) Great job giving your brain a break today.

(gentle music) Friends, today, we learned all about storms.

And now it's time to answer our big question.

Let's read it together.

How do you stay safe in a storm?

Do you have something to write on and something to write with?

Okay, let's get started.

Do you remember from our story how do you stay safe during a storm?

That's right.

We can stay safe inside during a storm.

Our answer today is going to say, "I can stay safe inside when it storms."

Let's count how many words are in that sentence.

Ready?

I can stay safe inside when it storms.

How many words are in our sentence today?

Eight, eight words in our sentence today.

The first word is the word I. I know it's going to be an uppercase I because I is always uppercase and it's the beginning of our sentence.

Do you see an uppercase I?

That's right.

It's right here in the top.

Here's the word I. I is our first word in our sentence.

The next word is can.

What letter do you think starts the word can?

Ck, C. I only see one word that starts with C. Right here is the word can.

I can.

The next word is stay.

Stay starts with our letter of the day, S. S makes the sss sound.

Hmm, I see three words that start with S. Which one do you think is stay?

It has an S and a tt sound.

Do you see it?

Is it this one?

No, this is the word stay.

It has an a in the middle.

Stay.

Let's see if it's making sense.

I can stay safe.

The next word is safe.

I hear the sounds sss aaa fff.

Which word do you think it is?

Point to the word.

You're right.

It's this one.

That's the word safe.

Great.

I can stay safe inside.

Inside should be next.

Hmm, inside starts with the sound eh.

Which word could it be?

Is this the word inside?

No, this is the word inside.

Inside.

I can stay safe inside when.

When is the next word.

Which word do you think is when?

Point to it.

There it is.

There's the word when.

I can stay safe inside when it.

It is a high frequency word.

I bet you know that word.

Point to the word it.

It.

I can stay safe inside when it storms.

Storms is our last word.

We know that this is storms because it starts with sss, S, and it has a period at the end, so we know it comes at the end of our sentence.

Let's read it and make sure it makes sense.

I can stay safe inside when it storms.

Now, friends, it's time to draw a picture to match our sentence.

(whistling music) The last thing we're gonna do today, readers and writers, is we're going to label our picture.

To label our picture, we're gonna stretch out the sounds we hear in our words.

This is a house.

So let's stretch out the sounds in the word house.

The first sound in house is huh, huh.

Do you know what letter makes that sound?

H. You're right.

We'll start by making a lowercase H. Big line down, little line up and around.

There's my H. The next sound is ow.

That's a little tricky.

I think it's O and U.

Let's try it, O and U.

What's the last sound you hear in the word house, sss?

S, it's our letter of the day.

That's right.

Let's make an S, little curve back, little curve forward.

There we go, house.

It's okay if our words are not spelled perfect.

We're still learning.

We're just writing the letters for the sounds that we hear.

So we wrote house.

Now we need to write storm.

Help me stretch out the sounds you hear in the word storm.

The first sound is sss.

What letter makes that sound?

You're right.

It's S again.

Let's start by making our S. The next sound is tt, tt.

What letter makes the tt sound?

T, great.

Then I hear st or, hmm.

Or that's also a high frequency word.

We've learned that before.

Or is O-R.

I'll make a lowercase O and then a lowercase R. The last sound in the word storm, mmm, mmm.

What letter is that?

M. M is the last letter in the word storm.

Let's make a lowercase M. There's the word storm by our storm cloud.

Let's read our sentence one last time.

I can stay safe inside when it storms.

Great job, friends.

Be sure to share your picture and your sentence with someone in your home today.

(gentle music) Today we learned about the letter S. We read a book about storms.

We learned three new vocabulary words, and we answered the big question, "How do you stay safe in a storm?"

Remember, it's best to stay inside when it storms.

Great job.

Thanks for learning with me today.

And I'll see you 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.

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