- Hello, amazing learners.

Welcome to Read, Write, Roar!

Today we will be reading more about our big question, how do citizens shape our community?

Through reading a book about how we can make a difference as citizens.

We will also have some fun with Mrs.

Spear as we do some word work together.

Are you ready?

Let's get started.

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Additional support by, and by viewers like you.

Thank you.

(cheerful music) (lion roars) (cheerful music) (lion roars) (upbeat music) - Hello, amazing learners.

Today we are going to be reading an informational text titled, "I Can Make A Difference" by Jessica P. We have permission to read this book from Crabtree Publishers.

We're going to read about different ways we can make a difference in our community, but before we get started, I would like to review some words that we've been working on so that it'll help us to understand our book.

The first word I have for you is community.

Let me hear you say community.

Excellent.

Now, a community is a place where we live, work, and play.

Our next word is citizen.

Let me hear you say citizen.

Excellent.

Now, a citizen is a person who belongs to a community.

You and I are citizens in our community.

Are you ready for our two new words?

All right, here we go.

The word I have for you is respect.

Let me hear you say respect.

Excellent.

And this is showing that you care about others by following rules and being kind.

So you can show respect to your family, friends, neighbors, and even your educators and your friends at school.

Our next is compromise.

Wow, compromise.

That's a big word.

Let's count the syllables.

Com-pro-mise.

Com-pro-mise.

So that's three syllables or sound parts in this word.

Now, what does this word mean?

Well, it means to come into agreement.

Let's say that you and someone you know have a disagreement about something.

Well, to compromise means that both of you will win or both of you will get what you want at the end.

For an example, I might want to color with a blue marker and my friend may want to color with a blue marker at the same time.

Now, that's a disagreement.

However, a compromise would be, my friend would color with it first and I would color with it after she is done with it.

So we both get what we want, but we had to compromise or wait a little bit of time so that both of us can get what we want and have some fun coloring.

So compromise.

I think families have to compromise a lot.

Now, let's get into our book.

Remember we said earlier that an informational text is an informational book that gives us information or facts about the world around us.

We can see just by looking at the first page that we have information that will help us.

It looks a lot like one of our other texts.

Now, if we look closely, we see a table of contents.

We have a heading, what is in this book?

And also the table of contents, which gives us the topics and the page numbers.

For example, citizens make a difference.

We will find out all of that information on page four.

So let's continue reading to see what we find.

Citizens make a difference.

Being a citizen means being part of a community.

A community is a place where people live, work, and play.

Some communities are small, like a family.

Other communities are big, such as a country.

The whole world is another kind of community, with Earth as its home.

Citizens make their community special by making a difference.

How do citizens make a difference?

By helping each other.

Citizens work hard to make their communities great places to live for everyone.

Citizens do this in many ways, such as helping their neighbors shovel snow or picking up garbage in parks.

If we look on the page, we see a heading, citizens make a difference.

We also see two bold words, citizen and community.

This means that the author wants us to pay very close attention to those two words and will provide a definition for each one of them in the back of the book.

What does making a difference mean?

Citizens make a difference in their communities by talking to other people and listening to their problems, asking questions to better understand their problems, taking action to try to help solve their problems.

Juan returns to school after having his tonsils removed.

He tells Katie it made him sad that there weren't many toys in the hospital for him and the other children to play with.

"Why did it make you sad?"

asks Katie.

"I was sad because having more toys to play with would have helped me miss my family less," says Juan.

"I have an idea," says Katie.

"Let's collect toys and donate them to the hospital.

We can help other kids not to be sad."

"Great idea," says Juan.

"We can make a difference!"

Wow!

Do you think those were some good ideas?

Yes!

Now, I wonder how we can think of things that could help our community, whether it's sick children, whether it's children who feel like they're by themselves, or even if there's a park that's a little messy.

How can we help?

(Ms. Rodgers gasps) Oh, it looks like this page is possibly giving us some suggestions.

The heading says, "How can you make a difference?"

There are many ways that you can make a difference.

In a small community, such as your family, you can show your loved ones you care for them by helping with the recycling or doing the dishes.

In a larger community, such as your school, you can make a difference by standing up to a bully.

What do you think?

Imagine you had a chance to change your community.

You could change something big or small.

Your change must improve people's lives.

Your decision would be final for one day.

After or one day, your community would vote on whether to keep your idea.

What would you do to make a difference?

That sounds like a great challenge.

I want you to think about that.

Making a difference at home.

There's another heading.

You can make a big difference at home by doing something thing without being asked.

Maybe you have toys you no longer use.

You could collect them in a box to give away.

You could tidy up a messy bookshelf.

At dinnertime, you could set the table.

Learning to compromise, there's a bold word there, is another way to make a difference.

Sometimes two people want to use the computer or watch television at the same time.

This can lead to an argument.

By talking to the other person, you can agree on how to share the computer or television.

All right, I see a page that's really special.

It says, "Making a difference at school."

So not only do you make a difference at home, but here are some additional ideas for making a difference at school.

Let's read.

Making a difference at school.

One way to make a difference at school is by showing everyone respect.

There's that bold word.

It means it's really important.

When you show respect to your teacher and fellow students, you help make school a great place for everyone.

Good citizens treat everyone as important members of the community.

They listen when others are speaking.

Yes.

Good citizens also take action.

If they see a problem, they try to fix it.

If they feel something is unfair, they speak up.

You can be a good citizen and make a difference in your school today.

So making a difference in our community can mean several different things.

It can mean getting along with others, listening and talking to people about their problems, asking questions, showing respect, or even compromising.

The next time we come together, we will finish reading about how we can take action and make a difference.

(upbeat music) - Hey, there are learners!

You saw me with my magnifying glass, so you probably know we have a mystery to solve.

We're getting into a mystery word.

We've been learning a lot about some patterns with short vowels and long vowels.

And today, we're going to get a chance to practice all our learning using what we know to solve the big mystery word.

(lively music) You need two letter As, letter E, letter I, letter C, letter D, letter M, letter P, letter R, letter S. (lively music) The first word that we need to build is the word, am.

Ah, mm.

Two sounds, and there's two letters.

Can you find the letters that you need to make the word, am?

I am a teacher, am.

(lively music) That's right.

We need a letter A and a letter M. A-M spells am.

Ah, mm, am.

Write that down on your page right under two-letter words.

And I'm going to put up my word, am, here as well.

As you're thinking about that, I'd like you to think about the next word we're building, which is the word, dam.

Now, this is talking about something that is built up and it creates a reservoir or a big area for water.

It blocks off one portion of water and creates a big pool of water in another area.

Beavers like to build those.

Let's say the sounds in the word, dam.

Dah, ah, mm, dam.

There's three sounds and there's three letters.

How can we change am to dam?

What do we need to do?

Yes, we need to add a letter D. There you go.

D-A-M spells dam, like the dam a beaver would build.

(lively music) Now let's think about another word.

The next word I want you to think about is the word, camp.

Can you say the word, camp?

Well done!

When I think of the word, camp, I think of the word, summer.

In summer, a lot of people like to camp in national forests and national parks.

Camp.

Let's do the sounds that we hear in camp.

Cah, ah, mm, pah.

Camp.

There are four sounds in camp, there are also four letters.

What will I do to change this word, dam, into the word, camp?

Four sounds, four letters.

The first sound is not with a dah, so I need to take that letter D out of there.

Cah, which letter should I put for that?

Yes, letter C. And we know we already have the am sound in the middle.

Cah, ah, mm.

Camp.

Yes, we need letter P. We just built camp.

C-A-M-P, camp.

Four letters and four sounds.

(lively music) We're gonna move on to another word, and this is gonna connect back to something else that we've been learning about.

We've been learning about things in the past.

So you might say, oh, I'm connecting to camp.

I camped in the state park last year.

Camped.

Can you say camped?

Nice job.

Let's think about the sounds in camped.

We already know camp, so we have four sounds.

Cah, ah, mm, pah, teh.

I hear a teh at the end, but I know something about when I put words in the past.

It's not letter T that goes at the end.

Do you remember what letters go at the end to put something in the past and it can make a teh sound?

Yes!

E-D can make the teh sound.

So we just changed the word camp into the word camped by adding E-D. (lively music) All right, you can see I've cleared my board off, and now I'm going to give you another word.

The next word is dim.

Can you say dim?

Nice.

There's three sounds in dim.

Dih, eh, mm.

When the light is too dim or low, it's really hard to read.

Let's do dim again.

Dih, eh, mm.

What letters do I need to make the word, dim?

Three sounds, three letters.

Oh my goodness, great thinking.

We need a letter D. Dih, eh.

You got it, eh, dih, eh, mm.

Yes, letter M comes next.

Let's do these letters.

D-I-M spells dim.

(lively music) Now let's think about something else.

This says dim.

I'd like to change it up, though.

And I'd like to make the word dime with you.

Can you say dime?

Well done.

A dime is worth 10 cents.

(lively music) Okay.

Let's say those sounds in the word, dime.

Dih, i, mm.

Dime.

There are three sounds in dime.

Hmm.

But we already knew there's three sounds in dim, but this says dih, mm.

We wanna make it to im.

Hmm, there must be four letters.

What letter could we add here that we've been learning about?

Yes.

We can add a final E at the end and it will help the I to say I.

Now this says dime.

(lively music) Now, as you're writing, dime, finishing that up, I'm gonna tell you the next word.

We've been talking a lot about community helpers.

The next word we have is the word crime.

We've been learning that, as a community, we want crime to be low, so we have to do our job for that.

But if a law is broken, it's a crime.

So we might have police officers help us with that.

Let's say crime.

Ready?

Crime.

Nice job.

Let's do the sounds we hear in crime.

Here we go.

Cuh, r, i, mm.

Crime.

Hmm, there are four sounds again in crime, but you know what?

There are five letters.

How can we change dime to crime?

That is some good thinking.

We know we have the ime part, so we're gonna leave that.

But we wanna take away the D. What do we have to put at the beginning to make it say, cr?

Cuh, r. You got it.

We've learned about blends before.

We have the C-R blend at the beginning.

Cuh, r, i, mm.

Crime.

C-R-I-M-E, crime.

Go ahead and sky-write that with me.

C-R-I-M-E. Write it where you are.

And it has how many letters in it?

Yes, there's five letters.

We're gonna put crime right there.

(lively music) The next word that you're going to make is the word, rip.

Can you say rip?

Nice work.

There's actually a rip in my coat pocket inside here.

Rip.

Let's do the sounds.

R, eh , pah.

Rip, what letters do we need to spell the word, rip?

You've got it, there's three sounds and there's actually three letters.

R, it's the letter R. Eh, pah.

Yes, letter P!

R, ip.

Rip.

Let's spell rip, ready?

R-I-P, rip.

Rip has three letters, so it's gonna go right over here.

You're getting so fast at this.

I wanna change rip into the word ripe.

Farmers, their community helps too.

They produce things for us to be able to buy.

Farmers wait until their items, like strawberries, are ripe before they sell them to us.

Let's say the word, ripe.

Great job.

Ripe.

R, i, pah.

Ripe.

Hmm.

Three sounds.

But it can't be spelled this way, right?

Because this says, rip.

What are we gonna do?

Yes, we're going to add an E at the end.

That final E can make the I say I. R, i, pah.

Ripe.

R-I-P-E spells ripe.

(lively music) All right, we have cleared boards.

The next word is medic.

Can you say medic?

Well done.

A medic is a person that is trained to help when people are injured or hurt.

Medic.

Let's do the sounds we hear in medic.

Here we go.

Mm, ah, dih, eh, cuh.

Medic.

Five sounds.

And guess what, there's five letters.

How could we make the word, medic?

Oh, I know you are grabbing letters and making it right now.

You're right.

Mm, ah, dih, eh, cuh.

Medic.

(lively music) Let's now think about the word, care.

Can you say care?

Great.

We can show care for people in lots of ways by doing nice things for them.

Let's do the sounds in care.

Cuh, eh, r. Care.

Hmm, three sounds, but there's four letters.

How could I make the word care with four letters, but three sounds?

Mm, the cuh, letter C. Cuh, a.

Yes, care.

Hmm, that would say car, so that's not gonna work.

Oh my goodness.

Yet again, you're right.

That final E, that makes this word say care.

(lively music) Okay, we wrote the four-letter word, care.

And now we're going to change care into cared.

The vet cared for our dog when she was sick.

Cared.

Say cared.

Nice job.

Now, that happened in the past, and I know that this says care.

How could I make that say cared?

Let's do the sounds.

Cuh, a, r, duh.

Cared.

There's four sounds, but we already have four letters.

What do we know about words in the past?

They can make the duh sound.

Yes, E-D work together for that.

So we're going to add the D here, 'cause we had care.

And there's this thing where you say drop the E and add E-D. Now we say cared.

(lively music) All right, you've done it, my mystery word helpers.

We've got the word medic up here, but you know what?

I want to think about, hmm, What I could make with the letters that I have left.

Here's what I have left.

The mystery word that we're building today has to do with a community helper.

We've been learning about different community helpers.

This community helper does something medical and helps people so that they're ready and well enough to get to the hospital and see a doctor or a nurse.

This type of person and helper is not a doctor or a nurse.

They have special training to work in the field on things like an ambulance.

Hmm, do you remember what that word is for that person that can do that job?

I'll give you a hint.

It starts with a pah.

Hmm.

Pah, medic.

Here's another one.

Pah, ah, r. Did you get it?

Paramedic.

What's funny is in the word, para, that a kind of makes an ah sound.

People call that the schwa.

This says paramedic, but there's still one letter left.

Hmm, where should that go?

That s. You got it, right at the end.

Our mystery word today is paramedics.

Can you say paramedics?

Woo-hoo, well done!

Give yourself a pat on the back.

(lively music) I'm gonna put our word, paramedic, up here, right under our spot for 10 letters, because it has 10 letters in it.

Thanks for helping me today, mystery word solvers.

I hope you have a fantastic day, thinking of ways you can thank those community helpers in your area and be on the lookout for some paramedics that are helping people in need.

Have a great day.

See you soon.

- [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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