[uplifting music] My name is Anna, and I was just about to do some work with sounds.

Would you like to join me?

Awesome.

Okay, before I introduce the new sound, I wanna make sure our ears are ready to work with some sounds, okay?

So let's do a sound exercise.

I'm going to say a word, okay?

Then I'm going to change just one sound, the initial sound in the word, and I want you to come up with a new word.

Sound tricky?

Not at all.

Watch, I'll do the first one for you.

If I said the word handle, repeat handle.

Now change the h to a k. What would be the new word?

Well, before it was h-andle, handle.

Now, I took away the h, and I made a k. So now it would be it k-andle.

The word is candle, you see?

All right, let's do one more together, ready?

The word is cousin.

Say cousin, okay?

Change the k to d. What's the new word?

D-uh-z-n, dozen.

Okay, I'm not gonna help you on these next ones.

You ready?

Okay, the word is habit.

Change the h to r, what's the new word?

Rabbit!

Okay, the word is pickle.

Change the p to n. What's the new word?

Nickel.

Okay, last one.

The word is kettle.

Change the k to s, what's the new word?

Settle.

Awesome job, okay.

So I think we're pretty ready to work on our sound for today.

So our sound for today actually is quite complex.

That means it can be a little tricky because there are so many ways to spell this sound.

Now, for today, we're only gonna focus on three ways to spell the sound, but let me not get ahead of myself.

Don't you wanna know what the sound is?

Of course, you do.

All right, today, our sound is ew, like chew, okay?

Everyone, say ew, chew.

Okay, so the first way we're gonna talk about the spelling of the ew sound is E-W. Now, most times when we see this E-W spelling for ew, it's at the end of a word.

If I had the word few, like to not have a lot, few, I would have the f sound at the beginning.

So f, what letter says represents that f?

F, and then I would have the ew sound.

Few, okay?

So let's see.

What about ooh, how about flew, right?

The bird flew into the tree.

Okay, well, f, I'm starting off with that same initial sound.

So now, we have f, l. That's right, it's an l. Thanks for your help.

And then that ew sound again.

E-W, flew.

How about the word grew?

Like, you grew way too much this year, okay?

Grew, so g, r, and then what is making the ew that we're hearing at the end of the word?

You got it, E-W.

Okay, so that's one of the spellings of this ew sound that we're working on today.

[eraser scratching] Now, the reason I chose these other two spellings is because they actually represent more than one sound.

So you may have learned them as one sound, and now, you're gonna see them and be like, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute."

Those make this sound.

And then I'm gonna tell you they actually make two sounds.

Okay, so the first one we're gonna look at is O-U, ou, like in soup, okay?

Now, some of you may have learned that O-U says ou, and it does, like out and trout, but O-U can also say ou, like in soup.

So let's work on our O-U, ou, okay?

Now, for O-U, ou, usually, you're gonna see that ou in the middle of a word.

So for example, our keyword that we're using is soup, right?

So we hear s-ou-p.

Okay, so what's that first sound?

S. And that's represented by...

Very good, my s. So I have my s, ou, and then my final sound p, p. Soup.

Okay, what about the word, ooh, I like this word, group, right?

I like to hang out with a group of friends.

Okay, so group.

Ooh, you hear that blend in the beginning, right?

G-r-ou-p.

Okay, so g. All right, so g is being represented by that g. R, r. Now my ou sound, O-U.

And then p, group, we have our p again, okay?

So notice, like I said, many times, our O-U, ou, will be in the middle of words, okay?

It's not always, but this is a kind of a good little trick for us, right?

'Cause a lot of times when we're reading and writing, we do, we flex the vowel.

That means we kinda swap the sounds to see which one sounds right, okay?

So in this case, we have our O-U, ou in soup and group.

[eraser scratching] Okay, ready for the third and final spelling for today?

All right, so we did E-W, like chew.

We did O-U, like soup.

And now, we are going to do, here we go, U-E, like my favorite color, blue, okay?

So U-E, blue.

Okay, so let's spell blue.

So blue, b-l-ue.

Okay, b, l, ue, okay?

Now, you'll see with this one, it tends to be at the end.

Now, once again, not a finite rule, not always, but many times when I'm hearing that sound ue at the end of a word, it might be represented by U-E, okay?

So besides the word blue, how about we use the word ue.

I like using this in school when I'm making my arts and crafts, glue!

Do you like using glue?

Yeah, all right, so let's spell glue, g-l-ue.

Okay, so what's that first sound, right?

And what letter represents that sound?

G. That's right, g, g. All right, next sound, g-l-ue.

Now, we need that l. You got it, l is representing that l sound.

And now, in this case, how are we going to write the ou sound in glue?

That's right, we're gonna use U-E, glue.

So now we have blue, glue, U-E, ue.

Good job, okay, so what we're gonna do now is I'm gonna show you guys some words.

And I wanna see, first off, if you can read the words, okay?

Then you'll get a chance to see if you can figure out which spelling of ue would go into some of those words.

I know you're up for the challenge.

- [Announcer 1] Remember, we are reading O-U, U-E, and E-W, like ou as in group and soup.

Read the words on the screen.

Did you say group, flew, blue?

Let's try a few more.

Read the words on the screen.

Did you say soup, grew, true?

Okay, let's try some spelling.

Which spelling for the ue sound is needed to complete each word.

O-U, soup.

E-W, flew.

U-E, blue.

- You all did an amazing job practicing reading and spelling using our different spellings of ue.

We have E-W, U-E and O-U.

So now remember, when you're trying to read or write words, see if these sounds kind of appear in your words, and then kind of flex them, right?

Work on them and see which one makes sense.

Because the only way you're gonna get this is through lots of practice, practice, practice.

But I know you got this.

Well, until next time, friends, bye!