(upbeat music) - Hi Readers!

Welcome back to Teaching in Room Nine the area's largest classroom.

I'm Mrs.

Forth from the Rockwood School District back with another reading lesson.

And this week in teaching in Room Nine, it's all about underwater.

(Underwater bubble sounds) That's right, under the water!

We're gonna be reading books, exploring, talking about all things underwater.

Do you like to go under the water?

You do?

When you are at a pool, lake, or ocean and you're jumping in, do you jump in and hold your nose?

Or do you just jump in without holding your nose?

You do?

Yeah I don't hold my nose either.

This week I wanted to do something a little bit different.

If you've been with me all summer and even before the summer, we've really worked hard on our reading strategies and thinking about things that readers do.

And one thing that I noticed even still as an adult when I'm reading a book, that there's times that I get stuck on a word.

Does that happen to you?

Oh good I'm not the only one!

Yeah it happens to all of us.

Sometimes as we're reading along enjoying our favorite books, or reading new information there are words that are a little bit tricky to figure out.

So I thought maybe this week I could clue you in to something you could try to help you figure out those tricky words.

It's all about syllables.

You're like "What are you talking about Mrs.

Forth?"

Do you know what a syllable is?

Oh I see some of you clapping out there.

Yeah we have claps that beats to words.

That's what a syllable it's, it's the word part.

So if I were to say "Ocean", say "Ocean" now watch as I clap it out, O-Cean.

You try it!

That's right so how many syllables does ocean have?

Two!

Do you wanna try a few?

Yeah let's make this a game, okay how about submarine?

Yeah they go underneath the water.

Sub-ma-rine, can you clap it out?

Sub-ma-rine, (claps hands) how many was that?

Three!

Three syllables, okay how about shark?

Shark!

Just one, just one beat to that word.

Castle, like you're building a sand castle.

Castle, Cas-tle, that's right there's two.

Hmm how about dolphin?

Dol-phin.

Yup there's two hmm, how about seashell?

Sea-shell, two!

How about scuba?

Like a scuba diver?

Scu-ba, that's also two.

You guys are great at finding how many syllables in words and being able to find syllables is an important part of, yeah figuring out what words are and being able to spell words as a writer too.

We can use 'em for both reading and writing.

And did you know something about syllables and vowels?

Anybody out there?

That's exactly right Jamal!

There's a vowel in every syllable, it true.

Let's think about that, let's do hmm scuba.

Ready?

Scu-ba, what was that first syllable?

Scu, yeah that "Ouh" sound that long "U" sound.

That's a vowel, let's think about the second one.

Scu-ba-a that's also a vowel sound.

Yeah it's making a "schwa" sound which is tricky.

But it is another vowel.

Every syllable has to have a vowel sound.

I say vowel sound because there's some tricky letters out there, like the letter "Y" likes to pretend he's a vowel.

So sometimes he's making a vowel sound even though a "Y" is not a "A, E, I, O, U" an actual vowel.

Right?

That's why sometimes you've heard "A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y" because that "Y" is making a vowel sound in some words.

That's right, so we're gonna take all of that and I'm gonna teach you what to do when you get to a tricky word because even though clapping syllables are super fun.

I'm telling you the word, you didn't have to figure it out.

But when you're reading a book and you're looking at all of those letters, they're not gonna yell out to you.

Yeah that's right, they're not gonna be like "Hey this word is octopus!"

You have to figure it out and that can be tricky.

So I'm gonna teach you something that you can try.

It's super fun and then we're gonna play the game together.

Are you ready to see?

All right I'm close.

Dividing syllables, so now when we're reading and we look at these tricky words.

We're going to divide up the syllables.

So these are the directions on a game that we're gonna play together okay?

So the very first thing that we wanna do is look at the word.

So we're gonna look at our tricky word and we're gonna circle the vowel sounds.

Remember I say vowel sounds okay?

So we need to pay close attention to maybe somethings that might be making a vowel sound.

Like a "Y" or a when two vowels are together they make a sound.

Or a bossy "R" all the things we've been working on, right?

The second thing we're gonna do is underline the consonants between the vowels.

Between means in the middle, so we don't care about every consonant in the word.

Just the ones in between the vowels 'cause it's gonna help us break up the word into a syllable.

And then we're gonna figure out the syllable division.

That just means where we're gonna break it apart.

So I might have a vowel-consonant, consonant-vowel.

And the I'd break it apart in between the consonants.

Or we might have vowel-vowel together that is not a vowel team, we're gonna break it apart between the vowels.

We might have vowel-consonant-vowel.

Vowel-consonant-vowel there's two ways for us to try it on that one.

And same with vowel-consonant-consonant-conso.

That's a mouth full, I'm gonna use this chart to help us out, are you ready to try one?

Okay so I have this word right here and we are pretending like we're reading along.

Doo doo doo doo doo, and we get to a word and we're not quite sure on how to say it.

If you know what this word is don't shout it out and ruin for us.

Okay so looking at the directions, look at the word and circle the vowel sounds.

So let's think vowel sounds, what do you see in there?

Well I do, I see an "I" so I'm gonna circle that and we see an "E" also.

But oh gosh, I see an "R" next to it and I'm thinking about "ER" that's a bossy "R" role.

So that actually a vowel sound, yeah so I'm gonna circle that together because that whole part makes the vowel sound "ER" Right?

The bossy "R" okay so now I did the first part, let's take a look at what it asks me to do next.

Underline the consonants between the vowels.

So let's look, what's between my vowels.

Oh yeah, just that "V" just the "V." So I have vowel-consonant-vowel.

I look at here, vowel-consonant-vowel.

Oh it looks like I have two ways to try it.

I can try it by dividing it between the first vowel in the consonant.

Or the second vowel with the consonant.

So let me see here, if I were to read this word I could rr-ri-or ri-ri, then what do we have over here?

V- you already told me this is "er", ver-ver.

So ri-ver, river, river, river, river!

That's a word, river!

The word is river.

Ri-ver, do you see how we figured that out?

We knew exactly where to break it apart.

Look it, it's like the two syllables ri-ver, ri-ver.

Do you wanna try another one?

Isn't this game so much fun?

Okay let's try another one ooh, mmh look at that word.

That would definitely stop me in my tracks if I was reading a book, it's super long.

Okay so does anybody remember the first step.

Give you a clue, I used my red pen.

Yeah, circle the vowel sounds.

Okay let's see, yup we've got a "U" oh I love it, you notice Natalie that there's an "A" and an "R" together that's another "Ar" sound right?

So that's a sound right?

What else do you see?

The "I", you guys think this is a silent "E" because the "E" at the end of the word is often silent.

That's good so since it's not making a sound should I circle it?

Because remember the rule is to circle the vowel sounds.

Nope I'm not gonna circle it, okay.

So I have a lot of situations here don't I. I think this is gonna be more than one or two syllables.

So let's underline the consonants between the vowels.

Because that's the second step.

Let's underline the consonants between the vowels so here's two vowel sounds, yup.

We've got two right here, and then oh.

There's not even a consonant there, is there?

Interesting, okay, let's see if we can figure this thing out.

Hmm so let's look at the first part.

So this is vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel.

Do you see that anywhere on here?

Vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel.

"VCCV" yeah it's right here and it tells me to do what?

Yeah divide it right in between those consonants.

Okay, love it, okay so oh we have more.

What do we have here?

It's just vowel-vowel.

Do you see that on here?

What do we do with vowel-vowel?

That's right, just divide it between the vowels okay.

Well it looks like this is gonna be a three syllable word.

Three syllable word, because we divided it up based on the rules on how to divide syllables.

Can you figure out what this part is?

Sub, mar, sub-mar, sub-mar, sub-mar-ine, -ine, -ine.

Submarine, submarine!

(gasp) Submarine!

Sub-mar-ine three syllables, we figured it out.

We figured out that tricky word.

I love it, can we do another one?

Okay hmm let's see let's try this one.

Hey you tell me what to do this time.

What's the first step, find the vowel sounds and what should I do?

Circle them, okay.

Any others?

The I, okay I circled the vowels then what do I do?

Underline the consonants, all of 'em?

Just the ones between, so we've got the "L" and then hm "PH" PH is a diagraph that actually makes one sound, the "ffh" sound.

So I'm gonna underline those together right?

So I've got vowel, consonant, consonant sound, vowel.

Hmm what do I do with that?

Take a look at the chart and see if you can figure it out.

Vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel.

You found it, where should I divide it?

Between the two consonants, okay.

I'm just gonna use my scissors and cut it up.

D-ol-ph-in, dol-dolphin, dolphin, the word is dolphin.

Two syllables in dolphin, do you want to try one more?

All right I think we have time for one more, one more.

Let's try, ooh what could this be?

All right tell me what to do.

Circle the vowel sounds, point to it!

Let's see where else are you pointing?

Oh okay and so we got vowel-vowel-vowel right here.

After I do that then I underline the consonants all right so I have between these vowels.

I've got two, between these vowels, I have one.

So this is vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel.

vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel, what do I do?

Break it apart between the consonants.

Okay, so I know I'm gonna break it apart here.

Here's one syllable, looks like there's gonna be more than one syllable because there's another yup there's another two vowels.

So vowel-consonant-vowel, vowel-consonant-vowel, let's see.

Oh I have to decide don't I?

vowel-consonant-vowel.

So let's see this first part's gonna be "Oc" right?

And so "Oc" and then I can decide do I want to do it like this or like this?

Oc-top, oc-top-us, oc-top-us, oc-top-us, oc-top-us.

That doesn't make sense, let's try again.

Oc-too, oc-too-ta-ta, oct-to-pus-pus, octopus, octopus!

Octopus, the word is octopus, oc-to-pus oh my goodness.

You guys are really getting great at figuring out tricky words, especially big long words.

So as you're reading today, I want you to try this out.

You can even get a piece of paper and write those tricky words, down to help you figure it out.

I can't wait to see what big long words you're able to figure out.

And remember to come back, because we're gonna keep doing this all week long.

Happy reading!

- Thanks Mrs.

Forth okay, here we are.

I don't know if you can tell but my shirt's a little wet my hair's a little wild today, because we are under the sea.

Oh my gosh and we have some critters over here that we are going to go fishing for.

We're gonna go deep sea fishing.

But whoo!

Before we get to that, we have to get our bodies moving and I have to show you something really cool that I figured out.

Okay, so I'm getting too excited.

Let's get up and get our bodies moving okay?

Miley (claps) come here, come here!

Come here move your body with us.

Now if I ignore her she'll probably come over.

Okay so, now here's how we're going to move.

Let's think of a creature that might be under the sea.

Hmm an octopus could be under the sea right?

An octopus has I believe eight, is it eight?

And I think they call them tentacles, I think?

And they move around, whoo yeah.

They're kinda crazy looking right?

And then you have sting rays, and they're like (whooshing noises) I feel like they go really fast sometimes and they have their little tail.

But that tail helps to move them.

Then there's seahorses under the sea.

Actually really really little I think so they move, it looks like they're just rocking under the sea, wow pretty cool.

Okay so, I was thinking about number patterns and number patters are really important.

And sometimes I think we forget how important they are and we think that they're super easy all the time.

I was looking at this hundreds chart.

And I'm like y'know what we can use this hundreds chart and I see patters on here right?

Like each row goes to 10 and when you're moving down the hundreds chart, you're increasing the tens place by 10, right?

But then I got out my scissors and I got to thinking.

You know what?

I feel like not only are hundreds charts helpful and you can find patters on them but there's another tool that's really helpful as well.

And that tool is called a number line and let me show you how I'm going to make a number line.

So I have one through ten right here, you see that?

So now on my chart up here I have one through ten.

Oh go on there, go on there, there we go.

One through ten, pretty cool right?

Well I want mine to keep going so I'm gonna take the next row of my hundreds chart.

You're right, yeah and look, line it up and it just keeps on going.

How crazy cool is that?

Next row, so just like we know how to use a number or a hundreds chart.

We also can use a number line, they are very very very similar.

And now we have a number line that goes from 1 to 30.

Okay let me move this down just a bit.

So that it's easier to see, okay I have a number line it goes from 1 to 30, wow.

So definitely I know that hundreds chart and number lines are closely related.

If I know how to use a hundreds chart, I bet I could probably also use a number line don't you think?

Okay come in here a little closer.

Can you see that number line a little better?

Awesome, also see me real up close.

Okay so this number line, if I'm looking for patterns on this number line, hmm I wonder can I skip count on here?

Just like I could do on a hundreds chart.

Let's try skip counting by twos, are you ready?

Okay one-two, one-two, one-two, one-two, one-two wow!

Look at that, there is a pattern here we go.

Two, four, six, eight, ten, what would come next?

You're right, one-two, one-two, one-two, one-two wow.

So here we go, 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18.

Okay visualize the rest of the number pattern for me.

Can you go all the way to 30?

Good!

Yeah 20,22,24,26,28 and 30 nice!

Okay, now do you think we could do this by like 5s.

Look at our number line, our hundreds chart that we made into a number line.

Could we skip count by 5s on this number line.

Hmm yeah, all right let me grab another color.

Okay ready five, one, three, four, five whoa 10!

one, three, four, five, 15. one, three, four, five, 20!

one, three, four, five, 25 wow!

one, three, four, five, 30, that is really cool.

Let me finish off, 30.

So if I could use a hundreds chart to like add and subtract do you think I could also use a hundreds chart to I mean, a number line to add and subtract?

Let's just see, okay let's see.

So if I have the problem 9+2 could I use this number line to help figure out the answer?

Ill give you a minute, you try it 9+2.

Good I start at 9 and then I count up two.

One, two, and my answer is 11.

Wow so it's very similar to using a hundreds chart okay.

What if we try 21 take away 5 what does that make?

Could you use this number line to try 21 - 5?

Ahh okay let's try it, ready?

21 here we go and then we're gonna take away 5.

One, two, three, four, five, 16!

Wow so 21 take away 5 is 16.

Number lines are a really helpful tool.

Okay now do you think we could use a number line I don't know to add like a really hard problem.

Like what if we wanted to do 4 + 3 + 2?

Could we use a number line for that?

4 + 3 + 2 I want you to try it on that number line.

Hmm (bag rustling) yeah so I start at 4, I add 3, one, two, three.

I'm at 7 then I'm going to add two more, one-two.

My answer is nine, wow number lines are super super helpful.

Okay now I want you, look at this number line we counted by twos, we counted by 5s.

Is a number line helpful if I say you have to start at 3 and count by twos.

Start at 3 and count by twos, well it is kinda helpful look.

One-two, 5, one-two, 7, one-two, 9, one-two, 11 one-two 13, you got it 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, good job.

25 wow, wait so if we were at 3 could we also keep going the pattern that way?

Yeah so counting by twos we would start at 1 if we started at 3 and went backwards counting by twos.

It would have been 1, wow number lines are powerful tools.

I think we're gonna use these all week.

Ill see you right back here under the sea tomorrow, bye.

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