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Welcome to Read, Write, Roar.

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

We will learn about the suffix S-O-M-E. Read a nonfiction or true text about the rain forest and continue our research writing.

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(happy music) - Welcome readers.

Do you remember what a suffix is?

Well, we know that a prefix is a word part added to the beginning or fronts of a word to change the word and its meaning.

And the last time we were together we learned that a suffix is also a word part, but it's added to the end of a word to change the word and its meaning.

Our goal today is to read and understand words with the suffix S-O-M-E, we add the suffix S-O-M-E to the end of a noun.

A person, place or thing.

And when we do that it changes the noun to an adjective, a describing word.

When we read S-O-M-E as a suffix, we pronounce it some and we know that it means full of or very.

Just like the O-U-S suffix that we read together last time.

Let's get started reading some words with the S-O-M-E suffix.

And let's see if we can understand what these words mean.

Read with me.

Adventuresome.

Adventuresome.

this word is adventuresome.

You may have noticed by the way we broke up this word by reading each syllable that we can read the suffix as its own chunk.

When we do this it helps us read the word and understand what it means.

Do you see the base word here?

The base word is adventure which is a journey or experience that is exciting and sometimes a little dangerous.

So that thing, the adventure, when we add some to the end it becomes an adjective and it describes something that is full of adventure.

When I think of adventuresome, I think of the adventure of mountain climbing.

Mountain climbing sounds like an adventure to me.

So the word adventuresome, adventuresome could describe a mountain climber who goes to climb those moments.

Let's try the next word.

Both er some.

Bothersome.

This word is bothersome.

Did you see how we, again, chunked this word by looping each syllable to read the word.

And when we did that we were able to read S-O-M-E as its own chunk.

That way we can read the word more easily and understand what it means.

Bothersome.

Do you see the base word here?

I do.

The base word is bother which is a thing that's a little bit annoying or hard to do.

So bothersome describes something that is annoying or hard to do.

When I think of the word bothersome, I think of how long it takes me to tie my shoe laces when all I want to do is go outside quickly to do something that will only take me a few seconds.

Oh, I don't like having to tie my shoe laces.

Do you know what is not bothersome?

Shoes with Velcro.

This is not bothersome.

Oh, I wish these were my size.

Let's move on to our next word.

Fear some.

Fearsome.

This word is fearsome.

Fear is that feeling that you get when you're scared of something.

So fearsome describe something that makes you feel full of fear.

Well, fearsome, when I think about playing with a Teddy bear, for example I've never felt fear when I play with a Teddy bear but the fearsome growl of a grizzly bear would definitely scare me.

How about you?

We have done an amazing job reading these words with the suffix S-O-M-E. All right readers.

We have practiced using our loop and swoop skills to read words with suffixes.

Now we're going practice writing words with suffixes.

For this activity you're going to need two things, something to write with like a pencil or a marker, and something to write on, any piece of paper will work, even if there's writing on one side.

It's time to get your materials ready, set, go.

(happy music) first word is lonesome.

Repeat that after me lonesome.

When I say that word, I hear two parts.

Lone.

Some.

the base word lone and the suffix some.

Let's start by writing lone together.

Make sure you're using your paper and your pencil.

Lone.

I hear three sounds in lone.

Lone.

Lone.

Now that I look at that part I'm thinking that I'm missing something, because if I were to read this in a book, I would say lon, but I was trying to write the part lone.

What could I add to change this sound from ah to oh?

I know the silent E when I add that silent E it makes the O say the long vowel sound.

Lone.

That makes more sense.

Now we're going to write the second part, the suffix.

Some, we know how to spell that because we've been learning about that together.

Some.

Also with the silent E at the end.

When we put these two parts together we have lonesome.

Great work.

Let's try with another word that also has a suffix.

Repeat this word after me.

Density.

Density.

When I say density, I hear two parts.

I hear the base word dense.

And then the suffix ity.

Let's see if we can write that down on our paper.

Dense, ity.

let's start with the part dense.

Let's stretch this out to write the dense.

Four sounds in dense.

Dense.

Is that what you wrote on your paper?

Let's look at it.

You know, this reminds me of what just happened with the word lonesome.

When I read this, I read dens, like the dens the animals live in.

But I want it to say dense.

Do you think there's a letter we can add to change this from dens to dense?

It's the silent E again.

I add that silent E and now I have the base word dense.

Density.

I need the I-T-Y suffix which is the suffix we've learned about too.

Density.

Density.

I'm looking at that word and it's looking very strange.

And I'm wondering why.

Well, I know sometimes when I have a base word and I add a suffix to the ends if there's a silent E we have to get rid of it.

Like with the I-N-G suffix.

Sometimes we drop the E before we add ing.

I bet it's the same with the ity suffix.

Let me write that again.

And you can write it on your paper too.

Density.

That looks like a word that I know.

Density.

dense, ity.

Great job.

One more word, humidity.

Repeat after me humidity.

When I say humidity, I hear one base word and one suffix.

And the base word has two parts.

So there are three parts in all.

Hu, mid, ity.

Let's write that down.

Hu, mid, ity.

Let's start with the part hu.

Hu.

Two sounds that I hear in that part.

Hu, mid, mid.

there's the base word, humid.

Humid.

That looks right to me.

I don't think we need to add any more letters to that.

So now we just need our suffix, ity.

This actually is more than one syllable but let's write it as one chunk.

So that we're thinking about that suffix.

Ity.

Just like we wrote up here above.

Humidity.

When we add humid and ity, we have the word humidity.

Readers you have done an amazing job today working with suffixes.

We have learned about the S-O-M-E suffix, and we've even practiced reading and spelling words with suffixes.

As you read on your own, be on the lookout for suffixes that you are able to read and practice writing words with suffixes in your own writing.

(happy music) - Hi readers, I'm Teacher Tan-a.

And I'm so glad that you're with us today.

We are going to be visiting absolutely that big question about how do animals survive in their habitat.

Remember habitat, of course that's the place where the animals live.

So today we are reading this amazing book "Rain Forest Inside Out", my friends.

So when we are reading your job is to think about the topic, the sub topic and course the details, my friends.

And don't forget we're using the author's clues to help us align.

So you can see right up at the top.

The author has helped us with the heading Tropical Rain Forest.

So my friends that is our topic for today.

And of course, can you think of another word for topic?

Tha little clue over there for you.

That's right friends, aha.

What is the main idea?

Awesome.

Ready to go.

All right.

The tropical rain forests are lush broadleaf forests found near the equator in South America, Central America, Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia.

The climate, Ooh, climate.

The bold word.

You want to go check it out in the glossary?

Let's do it.

Hey, climate, the normal weather of an area.

Oh, climate.

Do you think we're gonna be talking about climate?

For some reason I think we are gonna be talking about climate when we think about a rain forest.

Yeah, do you think that's gonna be one of our sub topics?

There's some reason I have this weird feeling it just might be.

So let's go ahead and put that as a subtopic friends.

Climate.

the weather of the region.

In the tropical rain forest it's warm and wet.

Hey, I think we just got our first detail about climate.

The topic is Tropical Rainforest.

Our subtopic is what is the climate of the tropical rain forest.

And we just found out our first piece of evidence or details.

That's right.

It's warm and wet.

Okay.

Let's keep reading.

Temperatures range from 68 to 93 degrees Fahrenheit all year.

There is plenty of sunlight and it rains most days.

With so much sunlight and water many plants can grow.

A forest full of plants provides food for many animals living there.

So let's see.

Yeah, because right.

The climate allows for lots of food.

That makes sense.

Yeah, it does to me too.

Good.

Yeah.

All right.

We are now at the sub topic, um-hum, because that's a sub heading that's all right.

It's a text feature that the author helps us.

I know sometimes it's confusing, isn't it?

Okay, sub topic climate.

And this is the subheading that's gonna help us.

Tropical rain forests cover only about 6% of the earth surface, but they are home to more than half the plant and animal species in the world.

Wow, you guys, that's amazing.

This itty, bitty, bitty, bitty little place has over half our plants and animals.

Yeah, so I thought, oh, this is it.

Okay, this is our next subtopic.

The tropical rain forests are really precious my friends.

They have great value to you and me.

We just said, right, that they have half the plant and animal species in the world.

So is that one piece of evidence on why it's precious thumbs up or thumbs down?

I agree.

Okay, so I went ahead and wrote that down because I agreed that is absolutely one piece of evidence.

A detail of why we would think that the rainforest is precious.

Okay, let's keep reading.

There is more biodiversity.

Whoa, biodiversity.

Oh, I'm gonna have to break that apart into chunks.

So I'm thinking bio, right?

Ooh, hey, wait a second.

Let's go to the end.

That's an I-T-Y word.

We've studied those, oh.

So I can put this together.

Bio meaning life, diverse meaning like a variety.

Oh, so we're talking about there's, okay a lot of different type of life in this area or other biome like life.

Hmm, life habitat.

Like maybe the life rain forest.

Okay, so like in that little area.

Okay.

On earth.

Wow.

So much information.

Let's keep bringing.

Rain forest plants make oxygen that all living things in the forest and around the world need to survive.

Hey, that's our big question.

How do I survive in my habitat without the tropical rain forest?

Oh my goodness.

Is that a piece of evidence?

Is that a detail?

Yes, it is my friends.

And that is why tropical rain forests are so precious.

Absolutely.

Let's put that in here.

Wow.

Plants make oxygen for me and for you.

Animals take in oxygen and release the carbon back into the air.

And the plants use the carbon dioxide to make food and more oxygen.

Like all plants and animals, they are interdependant.

That's one of those bold words right, text feature, bold word.

I could look for that in the glossary.

Um-hum, I'm gonna break it apart instead, inter okay.

And dependent, putting it together.

That means they depend on each other, doesn't it, right?

Without one another, what would happen?

So these interdependent organisms rely on one another for their survival.

The Plants and the animals must work together to survive.

Oh my goodness.

And if they don't, what is going to happen my friends?

Yeah, then there isn't enough oxygen.

And then the plants don't have the food because they use our carbon dioxide.

Oh my goodness.

Kind of serious, isn't it?

Right?

Such amazing stuff we're learning here today.

Oh my goodness.

All right.

So my friends, we have learned that in the tropical rain forest we have an amazing subtopic, of course, climate.

And this climate has taught us about the rain forest that it's warm and wet, and of course that because of that has lots of animals.

Okay, we've also learned that in the tropical rain forest it's super precious for some really cool reasons, right?

It's precious or has great value because half of the earth plants and the animals live there, um-hum, that the plants make oxygen we need.

And of course that the plants and animals have to work together in order to survive.

Oh, so remember, next time you're reading your nonfiction books, friends you have a lot of work to do, too.

We've got to keep track of your thinking and your learning.

So make sure that you're writing it down and using this amazing graphic organizer friends.

All right, you can always be thinking about what is your topic or your main idea, absolutely.

Writing down that sub topic.

And of course, don't forget that evidence or those details.

Hi writers.

Oh my goodness.

I've really enjoyed reading this book with you the "Rain Forests Inside Out" by Robin Johnson.

And one of the really awesome things that I have loved is that we have been able to learn so many neat, neat things about the rain forest.

And what's made it easy is that she organized her writing in a way that it's made it easy for us to learn.

Oh, my goodness.

(happy music) So my friends, we have picked an amazing topic.

I chose woodpeckers.

And then we thought about a sub topics.

And then we thought about all of the evidence or the details.

Well, we were yeah, doing our research, right friends?

While we were reading, we were writing down leaving tracks of our thinking.

And did you notice my friends that in our reading we were using the same graphic organizer that we were using in our writing.

Yeah, absolutely, isn't that cool how it works that way my friends?

Yeah, you can use them.

That's a right, to leave any tracks of your thinking whether you're reading or you're writing.

So now let's think the last time let's see we use the mentor tacks to go ahead and sketch out our ideas on how we were gonna organize our page.

So thought about a heading.

And then of course, write a map.

And I was thinking about other text features that I was going to need like maybe a caption and a text box.

So now my friend today, we are going to be thinking about, that's right, how to start this writing piece.

But I don't know how to start it.

So I thought, I bet you our other has something to teach me again.

So I was reading through and I saw that's a really cool section with three-toed sloth.

And I thought, Hmm, I wonder if this could help me think of a way to start my section about woodpeckers.

Baapaase, that's how we say the initiative for that one.

Right.

So woodpeckers.

All right, let me think.

So I came up with, let's see, it says here that the three-toed sloths are large herbivores that hang around in the canopy.

And I know the canopy is the trees, right?

To be tops of the trees.

And I thought, huh, how can I use this?

And this is what I came up with.

Let's see topic woodpeckers.

What do woodpeckers do?

Woodpeckers hang around.

Where do they hang around?

Where's their habitat.

They hang around in the, like, it's a forest, right?

Woodpeckers hang around in the forest.

Oh, fantastic.

Do you see how I used the topic?

The subtopic, but more specifically the details.

Yeah, woodpeckers hang around in the forest.

All right.

So off we, I'm gonna write that down.

You're ready?

Okay.

Woodpeckers hang, around in the forest.

Alright.

Okay.

Are you ready for the next one?

Let's see what our next sentence is and see if she can keep helping us.

Off we go.

They eat mainly leaves which do not give them much energy.

Okay, so what I'd say woodpeckers food, which is one of our subtopics eat, grubs.

Woodpeckers hang around in the forest.

Oh, okay.

How about I got it.

I got it.

How about this, okay.

They eat grubs.

They eats insects.

What do you think?

So, all right, so good.

All right, well now that I've started, I think I can do this now.

All right.

What else can I come up with?

Let's see.

Okay, oh, many woodpeckers live in, oh, I can use my new information now.

Many woodpeckers live in Michigan.

Yeah.

Does that help?

Okay.

Awesome.

All right.

Many, woodpeckers live in, next one.

Isn't that great.

Look how easy it is to use a mentor text an informational book or a non-fiction text that you love in order to help you take your topic, the ideas about your subtopic and your details to make sentences for your own expert text.

Oh my goodness.

I'm getting so excited my friends.

Fantastic.

Wow, scholars, you have done such amazing work and we are just so proud of you.

Keep working really hard on your own non-fiction texts and we'll see you next time.

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