(upbeat music) - Hi friends, welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, our region's largest classroom.

My name is Julia.

I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School.

In here for Teaching in Room 9, my lessons focus on phonemic awareness, the smallest units of sounds that letters make.

Welcome back friends!

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to be here together with me.

I hope you're having a really great start to your week.

I'm so excited that we get the chance to do some learning and reading here together.

All right, so in order for us to warm up our brains, go ahead and tickle those brains.

We are going to review some of the things that we've learned here together.

All right, so loosen up those bodies, sit up nice and straight and tall, or you can stand, and you are gonna repeat after me.

Are you ready?

I say, you say, print awareness.

Good!

I say, you say, parts of a book.

Nicely done!

Now we're going to do a little bit of mirrors on.

So when I say, "Mirrors on", you're going to repeat everything I say and do until I say, "Mirrors off".

We've done a lot of mirrors on activities here together and I would love nothing more than to be able to see either a picture or a video of you following along and doing the mirrors on activities with me.

If you want to take a picture, or having an adult take a picture or a video of you, you can post it online, #ninePBS.

We'd really love to see all of the things that you're doing along with me at home.

All right, are you ready?

Mirrors on!

We know that letters have sounds.

Letters come together to make a word.

Letters are consonants or vowels, and vowels are short or long.

Long vowels can be heard in many different ways.

Magic E makes the vowel say it's long, long sound.

Open syllables are long vowels not followed by a consonant and a syllable.

Y twins are when Y says I in a one syllable word.

(claps) Or when Y says E in a two syllable word.

(claps) Vowel teams are two or more letters that come together to make a long vowel sound.

A-I, A-Y, A. E-A, E-E, E. I-E, I-G-H, I. O-A, O-W, O. U-E, A-W, ew.

O-O makes two sounds.

Ew like in the word spoon.

Uh like in the word book.

Vowel diphthongs glide in your mouth.

O-I, O-Y, oy.

Oy, oy, oy, oy!

O-U, O-W, ow, ow!

A-U, A-W, aw, aw yeah!

Mirrors off, that was incredible!

You did such a wonderful job following along.

And then we also talked about consonant blends are when letters glide together but you hear both sounds.

We learned about when you have to double the final consonant with the last consonant.

This happens when it is following a short vowel in a word and the letters L, F, S, or Z.

So we're gonna go ahead and sing our song.

It goes along to the tune "If You're Happy and You Know It".

♪ When the letters L, F, S, or Z ♪ ♪ Are following a short vowel in a word ♪ ♪ And the word part is only one syllable ♪ ♪ Then you have to double final consonants ♪ Good job, like in the words bell, sniff, miss, and jazz.

Amazing job, friends!

Now that our brains are nice and warmed up, let's go ahead and jump back to that same learning goal or objective that we started focusing on last week.

I can decode words using syllables.

So we are using syllables and the way you divide up syllables in order for us to be better readers and to be able to learn or decode words that we do not already know.

Let's review some of the things that we talked about last week.

We have this chart right over here.

These are some of our basic rules and just sort of a visual reminder for some of those rules.

Now, what's a syllable?

I'm hearing some really great answers.

I'm hearing some friends say, "Syllables are beats in a word."

(clapping) Or maybe the sounds you hear in a word.

We know that syllables are built around a talking vowel.

So that's a really important thing.

Syllables are going to be a vowel sound in each syllable.

It has to be a talking vowel, not a silent vowel, like in our magic E. So one vowel sound per syllable is one of our main rules.

If you have C-K or X, you will split the syllable after the C-K or the X, like in the words boxes.

Ready, when I say test it you're just going to gently tap underneath your chin the syllables that you hear.

Are you ready?

Let's test it.

Boxes, boxes, you see how we split it after that x?

Or in the word nickel, test it, nickel.

So you divide it after that k, nickel.

Then we talked about compound words.

Who remembers what is a compound word?

It's okay if you don't know.

Oh, you think I'm hearing some friends say compound words are when you have two words that are words all on their own.

And then they come together to make a new word, like in the word birdhouse.

Bird is a word, houses is a word, and they come together to say birdhouse.

Rain, bow, rainbow.

Butter, fly, butterfly.

Snow, man, snowman.

These are all examples of compound words.

And when you have a compound word you're gonna split the syllable right between those two words.

And we'll practice that today.

Then you can see here from our little doubled friends here that if you see doubled letters in a word you're gonna, cha, split the syllable right between those double letters like in the word summer.

Ready, test it.

Summer, you split it right down the middle of those two letters in the middle here.

And then we also talked about it, the word letters actually has two letters as well.

And you would split it right between those two t's.

Are you ready?

Let's try it!

Test it, letters.

So you have letters.

One of the main patterns that we focused, or the first one that we focused, you can see it over here.

We'll talk about this in a sec.

Is that when you have a vowel/consonant, consonant/vowel, you're gonna split the syllable right between those two consonants, like in the word sister.

Test it, sister.

You split it right between those two consonants in the middle, and then you have your vowels on those sides.

And the word after.

Test it, after.

All right, and then the last thing we looked at was prefixes and suffixes.

Who remembers what's a prefix and a suffix?

Yeah, very good!

A prefix and a suffix, these are word parts.

Will you say that with me, friends?

Prefixes and suffixes are word parts.

Very good!

A prefix comes at the beginning of a word.

A suffix comes at the end.

Very good!

So we have our root word in the middle.

Prefixes a word part that comes in the beginning.

The suffix comes on the end, and you will divide up your syllables after the prefix and before the suffix.

We'll practice that today as well.

All right, now, go ahead and look at this chart.

But before you do, I want you to go ahead and get your lab coats on, get your science goggles and your magnifying glasses because we are about to be reading scientists dissecting all of these words, looking at the letters.

Are they vowels, are they consonants?

What sounds do they make?

And how do we divide up those syllables?

And that will understanding this will help us to be better readers and help us to figure out new words.

All right, reading scientists, are you ready?

So we looked at these top four last week.

Then this week, we're going to look at these bottom ones here and we're gonna do a little bit of a mixed review and that will incorporate some of these ones down here at the bottom.

So the first one we did, again, it was the same as this one over here was vowel, consonant, split, consonant, vowel.

The word we had was basket.

All right, sounds up, friends.

I want to see the sounds on your fingers, ready?

Ba, ah, s, ka, e, t, blend it, basket.

Test it, basket.

Very good!

So you can hear, we split the syllable bass ket between those two consonants right there in the middle.

Then over here, we have a vowel, consonant, vowel.

And this time we only have that one consonant that's dividing up our vowels.

So you are going to split the syllable after that consonant and before this vowel.

All right, here's our word, cabin, okay?

Sounds up, ca, ah, buh, ih, n. Blend it, cabin.

Test it, cab in, very good.

Do you hear how we split the syllable after that constant, that buh, cab in?

Now over here, we've got, again, vowel, consonant, vowel, but this time we're going to split it after the vowel and then mostly it's a long vowel here and we're gonna split after that long vowel sound.

And then the consonant over here will be by this vowel.

Our word here that we have basic, basic.

Ready?

Sounds up.

Ba, ay, ss, ih, ca, blend it, basic.

Test it, bay sick.

Do you hear how we split it after that long vowel?

Bay sick.

You're doing such a good job, reading scientists.

Okay, as you can see it starting to get harder.

Now look at this one here.

We worked on this last week.

We have vowel, constantly, split, constant, constant and vowel.

This time we have three consonants between our vowels.

So you are going to split it after that first C. All right, our word is complex.

Complex means like it might be a little bit more challenging or there might be layers to it.

Okay, it's not simple, it's complex.

All right, let's sound it out.

Sounds up, ca, ah, m, p, l, eh, ca, s. Blend it, complex.

Test it, com plex.

You might have noticed when I put those sounds up I put up two sounds, or two fingers, for our letter X. X, can you make the X sound with me?

Ks, ks, do you hear that?

Do you hear how, if you really kind of slow it down, ca, s, it's almost like you hear a K, E, and an S. X actually makes two sounds.

So we had ca, ah, m, then we split our syllable, pa, ll, eh, ca, s. Blend it, complex.

And you split the syllable after that first consonant.

And then the other two consonants and the vowel will go together in the second syllable.

All right, reading scientists.

Now, we really got to stretch our brains because look here!

Oh my goodness, look how long our words are getting!

we've got a vowel, a consonant, and you're still going to split it after that consonant, split!

And then you have three more consonants and a vowel.

All right, so our word here is construct.

Construct just means to build.

All right, let's put a sounds up.

Ka, o, n, s, t, er, uh, ca, ta, nine sounds!

Blend it, construct.

Test it, con struct.

So you still split it after that first consonant.

And then the other three will be on this side with the other vowel.

All right, then another two that we're gonna look at over here is this one is a consonant plus L-E.

So this is kind of gonna be on the end of a word.

Here our word is candle.

All right, ready?

Sound's up, ca, ah, n, da, le.

Ca, ah, n, da, le.

Blend it, candle.

Test it, can dle.

All right, now these are a little bit tricky.

You are going to divide before, this is C-L-E, so consonant, L-E. You are going to divide it before the consonant L-E. And you can see here, or maybe you can't see it super-well at home, but it is an upside down e. That's kind of weird, right?

Have you seen that before, an upside down e?

It's a lowercase e that is upside down.

Are you ready to know what that is?

It's called a schwa.

Will you say that with me?

Schwa, kind of a fun word to say.

All right, a schwa, will you repeat this?

A Schwa is any vowel can make the schwa sound.

The schwa sound is like ah, but even weaker.

Good job.

So schwa sometimes called a lazy vowel because it basically makes the short u sound, uh, uh.

You sound barely even open your mouth.

It is so lazy.

It's just like uh.

And any vowel can make that schwa sound.

So here it is L-E.

Okay, so, and then you split it here, candle, and you hear how it makes that like duh el el sound?

Candle, and you split it after the constant here and before the consonant L-E.

So we'll divide it before that last continent L-E. Then here you see vowel, vowel.

Now we're going to divide between the vowels when they aren't a vowel team, right?

'Cause we talked about some of those vowel teams and diphthongs.

If they're supposed to be together like that, or like a bossy R, which we'll talk about those, then those will stay together.

You see how it says, "Keep these together!"

So we'll practice that.

But here is an example of a word that doesn't do that.

The word is lion.

Let me hear your best lion roar!

Roar, nicely done!

So the word lion has four letters in it.

Are you ready?

Sound's up, ll, eye, uh, n. Blend it, lion.

Test it, li on.

So you divide the syllable between the two vowels.

Here we have a long vowel and then that second vowel, again, makes that lazy, lazy schwa sound.

Then now we see those compound words again.

The example here is the word windmill.

Let's put our sounds up.

Wa, ih, n, da, mm, ih, ll.

So I see we doubled the final consonant again.

We've got a short vowel there and you still, you just divide it right down the middle between those two compound words.

And then here it says affixes.

Affixes just means prefixes and suffixes.

So this word here is the word unkindly.

Unkindly, so this actually has a prefix and a suffix.

And just like I said when we talked about them over here, you divide it after the prefix and before the suffix.

Okay, ready?

Sound's up, uh, n, ka, I, n, da, ll, e, eight sounds.

Blend it, unkindly.

Test it, un kind ly.

Very good, friends.

All right, it's finally time for us to go ahead and practice some of these skills here together.

So, I am going to share my screen.

All right, friends, and I have pink and blue just like we have on our chart.

We're going to practice our first one here.

It says at the top syllable division, and this is going to be vowel, consonant, consonant, consonant, vowel.

All right, now let's go ahead and look at some of these words.

Let's look at the first word here.

Obstruct, say that with me, friends.

Obstruct, obstruct, okay.

So the first thing we need to do is we need to find our vowels, and our vowels are in pink.

Ah, ah, okay, I hear a vowel there.

Is that a short or a long vowel, friends?

Yes, you're absolutely right.

Ah, ah, ah, is a short o.

So I'm gonna give it that macaroni noodle.

Again, that's called a breath symbol.

It just means that the vowel is short.

Ah, buh, buh.

Okay, that's a consonant.

And then we know after that first consonant, that's where we divide our syllable.

Okay, then we have consonant, ss, ta, ta, consonant, er, consonant, uh, uh.

There's that vowel.

And then ka, ta, ka, ta, on the end there.

And that uh, uh, uh, again, is a short vowel.

So I'm gonna give it another macaroni short, short.

All right, friends.

Let's try out our sounds.

Ah, buh, ss, ta, er, uh, ca, ta.

Blend it, obstruct.

Test it, ob struct.

Obstruct just means if something is sort of blocking the way or blocking your view to where it's obstructing your view.

You cannot see because of the thing that's in the way.

And you see here how we split it, after it goes vowel, consonant, and that the other three consonants are there together.

All right, now let's look at this next word here.

This is the word hamstring.

Say it with me, hamstring!

Very good, all right.

Let's go ahead and sound it out.

Huh, huh, ah, ah.

Found a vowel!

Okay, ah is short, macaroni short short.

Now we have mm, mm, consonant.

And I know already I divide it after my first consonant.

It kind of protects that short vowel there, so I'm gonna draw my line to divide my syllables.

And then I have ss ta er ih, there my vowel, ng, ng.

And again, ih is short.

So it gets another macaroni.

But if you haven't noticed, what example of a word is this?

This is an example of a word that we talked about.

Do you remember what it is?

When two words are words all on their own, then they come together to make a new word?

Yes, I heard friends shouting out compound word!

So it still followed that same pattern of dividing it after that first consonant.

But we also would divide it right there anyways because it is a compound word.

Ham is a word, string is a word.

They come together to make the word hamstring.

Test it, ham string.

Hamstring is a muscle in your leg.

All right, let's practice a different one here.

Okay, here is our consonant L-E.

So you're gonna divide it at the consonant L-E on the end.

All right, you can see that grumble is already divided here for us.

So now let's divide the word cattle, cattle.

Okay, ca, let's sound it out.

Ca, ah, ah.

Okay, there is our vowel, ah, ah.

Is that short or long, friends?

Short or long?

Shout it out, nice and loud.

Oh, so smart, macaroni, short, short.

Then I have ta, ta.

All right!

Even though we have two T's, we only hear one T sound.

And then you have that ll on the end, that L-E.

So I know I divide it right here between the consonant and the L-E. All right, so let's go ahead and put our sound's up.

Ca, at, el, blend it, cattle.

Test it, cat tle.

And this is another example, too, where you can see here, these are doubled letters.

So it does follow the pattern of the consonant L-E, but it also follows that rule of splitting the syllable between your doubled letters.

I can see some other examples of doubled letters here on the page as well, like in the words wiggle, ripple.

All right, let's try another one here together.

Let's look at an example of vowel vowel.

We see our first word here, lion, lion.

Okay, so let's try this word right here in the middle, trial.

I see our two vowels right here.

Vowel, vowel, so that is where you would split your vowels.

Try, and then I'm gonna make that schwa symbol here, because it makes that uh, uh.

Test it, try el, try el.

All right, and then let's really quick look at an example of some words that have affixes, prefixes, and suffixes.

All right, let's look at this word here because I love this word so much, thankful.

Thank full, okay?

So I see that full is a suffix.

Okay, let's put the sounds up.

Th, ay, un, ka, f, uh, ll, thankful.

And you divide this syllable, thankful, with that suffix at the end.

It just means full of thanks.

All right, I'm gonna stop sharing my screen.

All right, friends.

Thank you so much for all of your hard work today, reading scientists.

You did a wonderful job dissecting all those letters and sounds, and I know you are just going to get to be better and better readers as you practice.

Thanks again, I'll see you next time, bye!

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