- Hello first grade learners.

Welcome to Read, Write, Roar.

Today we're going to discover a mystery word while we're doing word building, Learn about the R-controlled vowels, A-R and O-R, read a story and then talk about the parts of the story.

Are you ready to learn?

Let's Read, Write, Roar.

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- Hi there, first grade learners.

I'm Mrs.

Spear.

Today we are going to be learning about R-controlled vowels.

When the letter R is next to a vowel, it makes it say a special sound.

It changes its sound and controls it.

Let's read that.

I wrote it here on our chart.

R-controlled Vowels.

When a vowel is followed by the letter R, the R makes the vowel change its name.

Like in A-R that says ar.

E-R, that says er.

I-R, that says er as well.

O-R, that says or.

And U-R, that also says er.

For today, I'm going to cover up the ones we're not going to be looking at.

We're going to cover E-R I-R, and U-R. And instead we're going to focus on A-R and O-R. For A-R, we're going to use a keyword to help us remember the sound that A-R makes.

A-R says ar like in car.

So I'm going to put the car up here to help us remember that.

If I were going to spell car, here's how I'd write it.

Let me sound it out.

Cuh-ar.

Are there's only two sounds in car, but there are actually three letters.

Watch me write them.

C A R. That spells car, with the A-R saying ar.

The other sound we're thinking about today is O-R. O-R says or.

The picture we're going to use to remember or is with the word fort.

Sometimes you may make a fort at home and read and play inside of it.

Can you say fort?

Great.

Fort has three sounds, but four letters.

Let's say the sounds.

Ff-or-tih.

Fort.

I'm going to write the letters for fort.

F-O-R-T with the OR saying or, O-R saying or in fort.

So we're gonna take what we just learned about A-R, ar, like in car, and O-R, or, like in Fort, and we're going to solve a mystery word using those new patterns.

Let's go.

Hello there, first grade learners.

Today you are going to be word builders with me.

And I am in this outfit because we are going to solve a mystery together.

Do you know what a mystery is?

A mystery is something that you have to figure out and you use clues to solve it.

So today we're going to be using some clues to figure out what a mystery word is.

In order for us to get started, you're going to need a few things.

The first thing you're going to need is something to write with.

Pencil, marker, crayon, whatever.

And you're going to need these piece of paper.

It can be any scrap paper.

On your piece of paper, you're going to draw one line down and then another line down and one line across the top and put the number two, the number three, and the number four.

The last thing you're going to need is eight little pieces of paper.

And on each piece of paper, you're going to write a letter, like my letter A here.

Here's all the letters that you're going to need.

So when you come back with your piece of paper and your eight little pieces of paper, you'll write one letter on each piece of paper.

And over time, we're going to take these eight letters and build one big word to solve the mystery word.

Go ahead and get your things, I'm going to give you 20 seconds.

(soft music) (soft music) Wonderful job getting all your supplies, my mystery word builders.

Now, you've got these eight letters.

I'm going to say the name and you hold it up at home.

Are you ready?

A E K M O R T W. Well done writing those letters down.

And you have your piece of paper.

You wrote the number two, the number three, and the number four on it.

What we're going to do is build one word at a time.

As we take letters, you'll notice that I'm going to build up here in this yellow spot.

I'll tell you how many letters are in the word we're building, and how many sounds are in the word.

Then you'll see me build it up here.

And then I will put the word down here in the right column.

If it has two words, it'll go here.

Three words, here, four word, if it has two letters here, three letters it will go here, if it has four letters it will go in this last part.

What we're doing today is thinking about what we know about those are R-controlled patterns.

Just like in the word car.

I'm going to zoom on my... A-R says ar.

We need to remember that.

The other word we talked about earlier was the word fort.

Let's zoom in, that O-R says or.

And now we're going to start building small words to make one big mystery word.

The first word that we're going to build is the word at.

Can you say at?

Great.

At has two letters and two sounds.

Aah-tih, at.

The first sound I hear is the letter A.

Can you pick up your A at home and put it up top with the other letters?

Aah, and the tih sound is letter T. We just said aah-tih, and we found the letter A for aah and T for tih, and built the two letter word at.

Well done.

Now I am going to put the word at right here on here under my two letter part, and you can write it under your part at home.

If you didn't have paper or pencil, you can just write it in the air or on the ground.

Now I'm going to clear this whole word out, nothing left up here on the top, and I'm going to build another word.

The next word I'm going to build is the word or.

Now we've been thinking about that sound, or.

It's one sound, but it's two letters.

What two letters do we know that make the or sound?

That's right, mystery word builders.

That's going to be letter O, oops, and letter R. O-R spells or and makes the sound or together.

Can you build that at home with your letters?

And then you're going to put the word or, O-R, you're going to write it under your number two on your paper at home.

Or trace it, O-R, in the sky.

Now we have built the word or, I'm going to clear my mystery word building spot again, and the next word we're going to make is going to be a three letter word, and the word is arm.

This is my left arm.

There are two sounds, arr, mm, but there are three letters.

We know that ar sound is made by what two letters?

Yes, A-R.

So let's grab letter A from your pile and letter R. Arm.

The mmm sound, which one's that?

Right, letter M. A-R-M spells arm.

You're going to write arm under three letters on your column at home, or you can sky write it if you don't have paper.

I'm going to pet my word A-R-M for arm right here under the number three.

Now remember, our goal is that by the end, we're going to figure out how to unscramble all these letters to turn them into one big word.

Hmm.

For now, though, what I'm going to do is I'm going to clear off my board altogether and give you a whole new word.

The next word is the word tea.

Now I'm not talking about tee like when you play golf and you put a ball on that thing to holds it.

I'm talking about tea.

I like to drink a cup of tea at night.

The sounds in that word are tih-ee.

There's three letters though.

The first sound, tih, what would that be?

That's right, letter T. Put your T in your building slot.

And the second sound, ee, is made with two letters in the word tea, like drink a cup of tea.

What letters would that be?

Yes.

You might've learned this already, but E and A together can say ee, like in the word tea.

T-E-A spells tea.

Can you write tea down on your paper at home and put it under number three?

'Cause there's three letters.

T-E-A spells tea.

Now, word builders, we're going to build a new word that has four letters, but you know what?

This four letter word has three sounds, and the little word tea is inside of it.

The next word we're building is team.

Can you change the word tea into the word team?

What would we do to make it team?

That's right, we would add a letter M at the end because the sounds are tih-ee-mm.

Team.

So we just added M up there.

Can you add a letter M on your space at home?

And then can you write the word team, T-E-A-M on your paper at home under the number four?

I'm going to clear all these letters and build my next word.

The next word, we're going to go back to something we've already done before.

It's got, we're going to think about the or sound that we know and the word or.

Do you know what letters?

You do.

O-R. And the word we're going to build is the word more.

I always want more ice cream, because I love ice cream so much.

The sounds in more go like this: Mm-or.

You really have two sounds, but there's four letters.

What would the first sound be?

Mmm, and what letter makes that sound?

That's right, letter M. Now, the last letter that we need here, you don't hear that letter.

It's silent.

Do you know what letter oftentimes can be silent at the end of a word?

That's right.

Oftentimes letter E can be silent.

This is the word more.

M-O-R-E.

It has the sounds mm-or.

Can you write more on your paper, or trace it in the air?

And I will do the same here.

Now, I'm going to clear away my M. I'm going to clear away just the E here.

I'm going to leave about the letters O and R. And we're going to make the last word of the day.

It is going to be part of the big, long mystery word that we need.

The last word that we are making today is the word work.

And we left the O-R up there because O-R says a different sound in this word.

It sounds like er.

Let's do the sounds.

Can you say work?

Great.

Now let's do the sounds.

Wuh-er-ck.

First sound is made with the wuh.

What letter is that?

Right, letter W. So O-R sounds like er, and the last sound is a kih.

Which letter is going to be there?

Yes, that's going to be a letter K. So I'm actually gonna move these over just a touch.

We just made our last word that we were going to make for the day before we figured out what the mystery word is.

This word is work.

W-O-R-K. Can you write work down and then can you add the word work under four?

Number four, 'cause it has four letters in it.

We've made all these words today.

At, or, arm, tea, team, more, and work.

The mystery word that we have is going to be a word that means working together.

Hmm.

Working with maybe a partner.

Can you think of another word we could make with these four letters to make one big word?

One more clue, it's a compound word.

Compound words mean you take one word and another word, put them together to make one big word.

What word would mean working together if we can make the first part of it with these words?

Did you figure it out?

I bet you did.

I'm going to start building it, you see if you can guess.

Tih ee.

There's one more letter that needs to squeeze in here.

I bet you know what this word is.

And then let's squeeze it all together, the word is teamwork.

You were amazing mystery word solvers, and you worked with me as a wonderful team to make the word teamwork and make lots of other words as we went along.

Great job listening for sounds, building small words to build big words, and then reading and writing those words.

Thanks for helping me solve this mystery today.

Have a great rest of your day, first grade learners.

- Hello, first grade learners, and welcome back to Read, Write, Roar.

Today, we are going to read a story that's written in the form of a poem.

As we read this story today, we will be practicing reading with a strong, smooth voice so that it sounds like talk.

We're also going to look for some rhyming words in our poem, so as we read it, you think about what words you hear that rhyme.

Let's get started.

This is how it will work.

I'm going to read the poem one time through, and then we're going to read it together where I read a line and you read a line.

So right now you're just listening to the story.

There's a character in our story named Oscar.

This is my friend Oscar, who's a horse.

You're gonna read about Oscar in the story, or poem, and you're going to find out something that Oscar does that's new.

Here we go.

Oscar the Charming Horse.

This is written by Shannon Fuller.

Oscar was a charming horse.

Charming means he is really nice and easy to like.

He used to live in the city.

His family moved to a farm up north where the yard was very pretty.

Oscar loved the large new barn.

It was full of corn and hay.

He pulled the cart to a local store.

That means nearby.

And went to the park to play.

Oscar saw a garden full of beautiful flowers to munch.

A lady started yelling that...

Her garden was not his lunch.

Oscar smiled and tipped his hat.

This time, as we read Oscar, I'm going to read it and you'll be my echo.

I'm going to point out real quick a couple of things.

Did you notice this dot, dot, dot?

That's called an ellipsis.

Can you say ellipsis?

You don't need to remember that, but it's a good word to know.

What's really important for you to know though, is that when you see this, you kind of pause, and something is coming.

It's telling you something's going to be coming.

So when we read it this time, you'll notice me reading in a strong, smooth voice, and you're going to read just like that so it sounds like talk.

I'll read and you're my echo.

Are you ready?

Here's the title.

Oscar the Charming Horse.

Your turn.

Oscar the Charming Horse.

Written by Shannon Fuller.

Written by Shannon Fuller.

I'll kind of whisper when it's your turn to read, but you read a lot at home.

Oscar was a charming horse.

(whispers) He used to live in the city.

(whispers) His family moved to a farm up north.

(whispers) Where the yard was very pretty.

(whispers) Oscar loved the large new barn.

(whispers) It was full of corn and hay.

(whispers) He pulled a cart to a local store store.

(whispers) And went the park to play.

(whispers) Oscar saw a garden full of beautiful flowers to munch.

(whispers) A lady started yelling that... (whispers) Her garden was not his lunch.

(whispers) Oscar smiled and tipped his hat.

(whispers) You did some wonderful reading, first graders.

You read in a strong, smooth voice, and you learned about Oscar and how he was learning how to act moving from the city and moving to the country.

Now we're going to look at our poem again, and we're going to look for rhyming words.

Are you ready?

Okay, first grade learners.

We are going to think about words that rhyme now.

This is the word rhyme.

Words that rhyme sound the same at the end.

Like cat, hat.

They both have at at the end.

C-A-T spells cat, H-A-T spells hat, but they both have the at chunk that makes them rhyme.

Cat, hat.

What we're going to do now is look at our poem about Oscar, and we're going to find words in our poem that rhyme.

When you write a poem, the parts are called stanzas, so we're going to skip this first stanza, and we're going to look at this next stanza right here.

When I look at this stanza, I'm going to read this to you.

Oscar loved the large new barn.

It was full of corn and hay.

He pulled a cart to a local store.

And went to the park to play.

Did you notice that hay and play rhyme?

Hay and play rhyme because they both have ay at the end.

Let's add those words over here to our chart, and while I'm doing that, I'd like you to think about if you have words that you know that rhyme with hay and with play.

Hay.

Play.

They both have ay, that makes them rhyme.

Did you think of another word that rhymes with hay and play?

Maybe day.

Hay, play, day, they all rhyme.

Let's look at the next stanza.

In this next stanza, Oscar saw, Oscar saw a garden full of beautiful flowers too munch.

A lady started yelling that...

Her garden was not his lunch.

Oscar smiled and tipped his hat.

Did you hear words that rhyme?

I heard two sets of words that rhyme.

The first set of words that rhyme, there's a word that rhymes with munch.

Did you hear it?

Yeah, you're right.

It's the word lunch.

Munch and lunch rhyme.

I'm going to write them on our chart, and while I do that, you think of another word that you think could rhyme with lunch and munch.

Mm-uh-nn-ch.

C-H is saying that sh sound.

And luh-uh-nn-ch.

The unch makes those words rhyme.

Another word that I thought of that rhymes with much and lunch would be bunch.

Let's look at the other words that rhyme in this stanza.

Did you hear them when I read it?

That, is there a word that rhymes with that in this poem?

Yes, you're right.

Hat.

That, hat.

They both rhyme because they have at the end.

And look at this, we already know that cat and hat have at at the end and rhyme.

Can you think of another word that would rhyme?

Hat, that, cat.

You think, I'm going to write our words up here.

T-H is making that th sound.

At rhymes with hat.

That, hat, cat.

Did you think another one that rhymed?

Pat, maybe?

Great rhyming, first grade learners.

First grade learners, you did a wonderful job today.

We read our wonderful poem about Oscar.

We found rhyming words, and now you've practiced reading in a strong, smooth voice that sounds like talk.

You've also practiced being able to find words that rhyme.

Keep thinking today about rhyming words as you go throughout your day, and see if you can make up some more rhyming words to go with the ones that we did today.

Have a great day.

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