
Episode 35 | Literacy Lessons
4/27/2021 | 28m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers.
The first lesson (aimed at PreK-K learners) helps students understand concepts of print. The second lesson (aimed at 1st-2nd graders) explains how words can be broken into individual parts (phonemes). Classroom Connection is your At-Home Learning companion where children love to learn. All lessons are led by NC educators.
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Episode 35 | Literacy Lessons
4/27/2021 | 28m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
The first lesson (aimed at PreK-K learners) helps students understand concepts of print. The second lesson (aimed at 1st-2nd graders) explains how words can be broken into individual parts (phonemes). Classroom Connection is your At-Home Learning companion where children love to learn. All lessons are led by NC educators.
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Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 46s)
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Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 46s)
Video has Closed Captions
Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 45s)
Video has Closed Captions
Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 45s)
Video has Closed Captions
Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 46s)
Video has Closed Captions
Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 46s)
Video has Closed Captions
Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 45s)
Video has Closed Captions
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Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 45s)
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Literacy lessons for early learners, led by NC teachers. (28m 45s)
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[cheerful upbeat music] ♪ - Hi.
Get ready for a super cool literacy lesson.
Literacy means reading, and we're going to learn all about reading sounds, words and sentences.
Did you know without reading you wouldn't know what street you live on how would you even get the mail?
Well, get ready because we're going to get started right now.
- Hello Super learners!
My name is Mrs. Kellogg and I'm so happy to be here with you today.
For today's activity, you will need a stuffed animal friend while you are finding a stuffed animal friend, I am going to go find mine.
I'll be right back.
[Uplifting Music] Okay.
I'm back.
And I see you are too.
Let's get started.
Today, I'm going to be reading a story to you.
Entitled, Fruit salad.
Have you ever had a fruit salad?
Let's make a fruit salad together right now.
To make our fruit salad, We are going to play a game together.
I'm going to say a letter sound and you are going to tell me which fruit begins with that sound.
And then we will add it to our salad bowl which I have right here.
First, I will show you the fruits so you will know what your choices are.
I have grapes, apples, berries, melons, oranges and bananas.
Let's start making our fruit salad.
I am thinking of a fruit that begins with "Ah" which fruit up here begins with "Ah" Whisper you answer to your stuffed animal friend.
Are you ready for the answer?
Apples begins with "Ah".
Very good super learners!
Letter A makes the "Ah" sound.
Let's add apples to our bowl.
Okay.
Onto the next fruit.
I'm thinking of a fruit that begins with "Uh" whisper your answer to your stuffed animal friend.
Are you ready for the answer?
Oranges begins with a very good super learners!
Letter O makes the "uh" sound.
Let's add oranges to our bowl.
This salad is looking tasty.
Okay.
Onto the next fruit.
I am thinking of a fruit that begins with "buh" Whisper your answer to your stuffed animal friend.
The answer to this question is a little bit tricky.
Are you ready for the answer?
Bananas begins with "buh" and blueberries begins with "buh" Great listening super learners.
Letter B makes the "buh" sound.
Let's add bananas and blueberries to our bowl.
Yum.
Yum.
Okay.
Onto the next fruit.
I'm thinking of a fruit that begins with "Mmm".
Whisper your answer to your stuffed animal friend.
Are you ready for the answer?
Melons begins with "Mm".
very good super learners.
Letter M makes the "Mm" sound.
Let's add melons to our bowl.
This salad is looking amazing.
You are such good helpers.
Okay.
Onto the last fruit.
I am thinking of a fruit that begins with "guh" Whisper your answer to your stuffed animal friends.
Are you ready for the answer?
Grapes begins with "guh", very good listening, Super learners.
Letter G makes the "guh" sound.
Let's add grapes to our bowl.
Wow super learners, you just helped me make fruit salad.
Give your stuffy a high five for helping.
Now.
Let's take a look at the book.
Every book has a front cover and a back cover.
On the front cover of the book We have the title or name of the book which in this case is fruit salad.
Tell your stuffy the title of the book.
Good remembering.
Now let's spend a minute looking at the illustrations on the front cover of the book.
What illustrations or pictures do you see on the front cover of our book?
Whisper your answer to your stuffed animal friend.
I see different kinds of fruits on the front cover of the book.
I see apples, grapes, bananas, oranges, melon and blueberries.
These are the same fruits we used to make fruit salad.
I also see one, two, three little bunnies.
How do you think these little bunnies might be feeling right now?
Whisper your answer to your stuffed animal friend.
I think they might be feeling hungry.
Let's take a picture walk.
During a picture walk, We look at the pictures on each page of the book to help us learn more about the story.
Let's turn to the first page of the book.
Look, I see bunnies and they have fruit Whisper to your animal friend.
What fruit you see on the page?
Did you see apples?
Let's look at the next page.
On the next page, I see another fruit.
What is this fruit?
Whisper your answer to your animal friend.
Did you see oranges?
Let's look at the next page.
I see another fruit.
What fruit do you see now?
Whisper your answer to your animal friend.
Did you see bananas?
Let's look at the next page.
This fruit is small, round and blue.
And do you know what it is?
Whisper your answer to your animal friend.
Yes, you're right.
Blueberries.
Are you ready to see what is on the next page?
Me too.
Let's turn the page.
I see another type of fruit.
Do you know what it is?
Whisper your answer to your stuffed animal friend.
I see melon.
I am getting more and more hungry.
Just looking at all of these fruits.
Let's go to the next page.
Take a look at this fruit.
Do you know what these are?
Can you tell your animal friend?
Yes.
Grapes.
Now onto the last page of the book.
What do you see?
I see lots of bunnies standing around a big bowl of fruit salad.
Doesn't that salad look delicious?
So now that we have looked at the pictures and have an idea of what the story is about, we are going to go back to the beginning and read this book together.
To read this story, you are going to need to know two words.
Let's look at our first word.
The first sound says, Ooh, tell your friend that sound.
The next sound says, E tell your friend that sound.
Now listen to me, blend them together.
"ooh eee" We Do that with me.
We.
We.
Now tell your friend.
We.
We.
Great job.
You just sounded out the word WE.
Our next word is have.
We can use our letter sounds to read and spell some of the letters in have.
And other sounds we learned by heart.
Have has three sounds "h" "ave" say those sounds with me "h" "a" "v" The first sound "H" is spelled with the letter H tell your friend the letter for "h" That's right.
H The next sound AH is spelled with letter A.
Tell your friend the letter for "Ah".
That's right.
A.
We can read these parts using what we know about sounds.
The last sound "V" is spelled with the letters V E Tell your friend the letters for "VE".
That's right.
V E. This is the part we have to learn by heart.
Let's spell have together.
H A V E What word?
Have.
Now I can read those words in our story and then will stretch out the sounds for the other word.
And you can say that word super fast.
Last we'll count how many sounds are in the word.
Let's get started.
When we read, we start reading here and go this way.
The words say we have.
Now it will stretch out this word so you can hear all the sounds and say it super fast.
We'll do this one together.
Here I go.
Apples.
Apples.
Say it's super fast to your animal friend.
Right!
Apples.
How many sounds we hear in apples?
Let's count A-pples.
Tell your animal friend, how many sounds.
Four.
Now, let's read our sentence to your animal friend.
We have apples.
What do you think you'll see in the picture?
Hmm.
Do you think it will be apples?
You're right.
We have apples.
Great reading.
Let's go to the next page.
The word say we have.
Now I will stretch out this word so you can hear all the sounds and say it super fast.
Here I go.
Oranges.
Say it super fast to your animal friend.
Right!
Oranges.
Now let's read your sentence to your animal friend.
We have oranges.
What do you think you'll see in the picture?
Tell your animal friend.
Did you say oranges?
You're right.
We have oranges.
Great reading.
Let's turn to the next page.
I see the words we have.
Now.
It will stretch out this word so you can hear all the sounds and see it super fast.
Here I go.
Bananas.
Say it super fast to your animal friend.
Right!
Bananas.
How many sounds do we hear in bananas?
Let's count.
Ba Na Nas Wow, How many was that?
One, Two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Tell your animal friend, how many sounds.
Seven.
Now let's read our sentence to your animal friend.
We have bananas.
What do you think you'll see in the picture?
Tell your animal friend.
You're right.
We have bananas.
Great reading!
Now on to the next page.
I see the words we have.
Now will stretch out this word so you can hear all the sounds and say it super fast.
Here I go.
Berries.
Say it super fast to your animal friend.
Right!
Berries.
Now let's read our sentence to your animal friend.
We have berries.
What do you think you'll see in the picture?
Tell your animal friend.
You're right.
We have berries.
Great reading.
Now onto the next page.
I see the words we have Now will stretch out this word so you can hear all the sounds and say it super fast.
Here I go.
Melons.
Say it super fast to your animal friend.
Right!
Melon.
How many sounds do we hear in Melon?
Let's count.
Me lon.
Tell your animal friend how many sounds.
Five.
Now let's read our sentence to your animal friend.
We have melons.
What do you think you'll see in the picture.
Tell your animal friend.
You're right.
We have melons.
Great reading.
Let's read the next sentence.
I see the words we have now will stretch out this word so you can hear all the sounds and say it super fast.
Here I go.
Gra-pes.
Say it super fast to your animal friend.
Right.
Grapes.
How many sounds do we hear in grapes?
Let's count.
Gra-pes.
Tell your animal friend how many sounds.
Five.
Now let's read our sentence to your animal friend.
We have grapes.
What do you think you'll see in the picture.
Tell your animal friend.
You're right.
We have grapes.
Great reading.
Here's the last page.
I'll read this page and you guess what will be in the picture.
We have fruit salad.
Hmm.
What do you think will be in the picture?
Tell your animal friend.
Did you say fruit salad?
You're right.
We have apples.
Oranges, bananas, berries, melons, and grapes.
This fruit salad looks delicious.
That means yummy.
So today we successfully read a book together about making fruit salad by knowing where to start reading on a page, where to go next and using a few words that we know, Like we, have, And blending sounds to say our fruit vocabulary words.
I am so proud of all of you for helping me read this book.
I'm going to go eat some fruit salad now.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
- Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Drop everything you're doing and check out this super cool video.
- Lalo's Lunchbox - Hello.
My name is Lalo and this is my lunch box Lunchbox just said he's happy to meet you.
[Lunchbox Bell Ringing] As you can see, I have a special lunch box [Bells Continue Ringing] which can be a handful.
Excuse me.
[Ringing Intensifies] [Boing] Wowsers!
Lunchbox just [Inaudible] bananas left and right.
day and night.
And I put up help wanted flyers all over town this week but instead of these flyers giving me more help, they've only given me more business.
[Phone Ringing] And the phones are ringing off the hook with all the food requests.
[Excuse me] Lalo's Lunchbox, this is Lalo.
Oh yes, I can do that.
You betcha.
Okay.
Bye!
Wowsers.
I've got a lot of work ahead of me.
- A lot of work ahead of you, but what do you got behind ya?
- I have a sink.
- Silly man, I'm here to talk to the guy in charge around here.
- Oh, that would be me.
I'm Lalo.
And you are?
- Fabulous.
- Oh, nice to meet you Fabulous.
- No boss man.
My name is Daisy.
I saw your flyer all around town.
I'm here to be your fabulous new assistant.
- You saw the flyer!
So great to meet you Daisy.
[Lunchbox Dings] I could sure use some help.
Oh, this is Lunchbox.
- Hi Lunchie.
- What can you do?
- I can dance.
And I've been known to yodel - Dance and yodel?
- What else do you need to know to handle a magic lunchbox?
- Lunchbox psychology?
- That's overrated.
- Lunchbox physics?
- Boring.
- Lunchbox potty training?
- Now, that could be useful.
[Phone Ringing] Hold that thought.
Lalo's Lunchbox, this is Daisy.
A new order?
Sure.
One moment.
What is it that you wanted?
107 sandwiches.
Sandwiches?
That seems kind of boring.
How about we make it an even 200 banana peanut butter wraps.
Great.
Be here by four o'clock to pick them up.
Bye!
How was that?
- I was overwhelmed at 107.
- Do I get the job?
[Lunchbox Dings] - Oh, excuse me.
[Boing] Lunchbox!
Lunchbox!
[Grunts] [Daisy Yodels] - That was amazing.
It was the first time Lunchbox settled down all week.
Great job, Daisy.
- Absolutely.
I'm glad to help.
Helping is making it easier for someone by giving your time and service.
Do I get the job?
- Um, hold that thought.
Lunch box?
What do you think?
Should I hire Daisy?
[Lunchbox Dings] Well, she did help calm you down and I could sure use her help preparing 200 banana peanut butter wraps.
- I can hear you.
So does this mean I get the job?
- You betcha.
Welcome aboard.
- Today's affirmation is I honor my body.
Say it with me.
I honor my body.
I honor my body.
I honor my body.
- Did you know that there are no words that rhyme with orange?
Well, that's what I heard, anyway.
Maybe we'll see one in this literacy lesson.
I'll keep an eye out.
- Hello readers.
My name is Ms. Cliette.
I am so excited to be learning with you today.
Before we get started with our lesson, Let's say hello with our welcome song.
♪ Hello readers.
♪ Hello readers.
How are you?
How are you?
I'm so glad to see you.
I'm so glad to teach you.
Hello you.
You and you.
♪ Very good.
I am so glad that you came to learn with me today.
Well, readers, have you ever wonder how we know what sounds to say when we're reading words?
When I'm reading words or hear words, how do I know the sounds that the letters make and what sounds are in the words?
How do I know what letters are used to make those sounds?
We know what words are and what sounds letters make because as readers, our brains tell us which letters to use and determine the sounds that we hear in the word.
That is what helps us to read and write words.
For example, when I hear the word map, my brain tells me that the sounds are Mm ah puh Because the word map is spelled with the letters M A P. Before we read words, we have to know what the sound say.
Let's see and say the letter names and sounds of these letter cards together.
This is letter M. Letter M makes the mmm sound.
Can you say mmm?
Good!
This is letter R The letter R makes the "r" sound.
Can you say "r"?
Great job.
Do you know what this letter is?
That's right.
Letter H and letter H makes the "h" sound.
Can you say huh Awesome.
This is letter K. And letter K makes the "k" sound.
Can you say "k"?
Good!
We have one last letter.
Look at this letter.
It is letter D and it makes the D sound.
Can you say D?
Perfect To keep practicing these letter sounds you can make letter cards too!
Ask a responsible adult to help you gather some index cards and paper and write the letters and then practicing the sounds and names of those letters.
You can practice on your own too.
This will help you get even better at knowing the letter sounds when you hear them or read them.
In addition to knowing how a letter sounds during each of our lessons, we are going to learn words that we call heart words.
Some words contain one or more sounds that are a little bit different than they usually are spelled.
Since these parts are different than usual we have to learn them by heart.
We can call these words, heart words.
You will need a piece of paper and something to write with.
While you grab your items, I'll grab mine.
I'll be right back.
[Upbeat Uplifting Music] I'm back with my sheet of paper and something to write with.
I grabbed a marker but a pen, crayon or pencil is just fine too.
Let's get ready for our first heart word.
Look at this word.
The word is come.
Let's discuss the word come As in, come over to my house to play.
We can use our letter sounds to spell some of the sounds in come.
And other sounds we'll have to learn to spell by heart.
Come has three sounds.
Cuh ah mmm.
Say those sounds with me.
Cuh ah mmm The first sound Cuh, is spelled with the letters C. What letter?
that's right.
C. The last sound mmm is spelled with the letter M What letter?
You got it.
M You can read these parts using phonics knowledge the middle sound, ah, it's spelled with the letter O and there's a letter E at the end of the word that doesn't spell any sound.
The O and the E are the two parts that you need to learn how to spell by heart.
Let's spell come together.
C O M E what word?
That's right.
Come Write down the word come on your sheet of paper.
All right, readers.
Let's get ready for our second heart word.
Let's discuss the word two.
As in, I have two brothers that are under the age of five.
We can use our letter sounds to spell some of the sounds of two and the other sound we will need to learn to spell by heart.
Two has two sounds.
T- - oo.
Say those sounds with me.
T- - Ooh.
The first sound T- is spelled with the letter T. What letter?
That's right.
Letter T. The last sound -oo is spelled with the letters W O What letters?
That's right.
W Oh this is the part that you need to learn to spell by heart.
Let's spell two together.
T W O What word?
That's right.
Two.
Now, it's time to write this one down on your heart word sheet of paper.
T W O Wow.
You learned two new heart words.
come and two.
Good.
I hope that after this lesson you'll share your heart word list with someone whom you love.
Together, you can keep adding onto the list.
In today's lesson, we are going to learn how to break apart the sounds that we hear in words, we also will be taking away a sound, which relates our brand new word.
I think you're going to enjoy today's lesson.
Let's get started.
I'm going to show you a picture.
Can you tell me what you see?
That's right.
This is a picture of a cat.
You're going to break apart the sounds that you hear in the word cat.
In order to break apart the sound that you hear in the word cat you're going to tap out the sounds on your arm.
I'll show you first, and then you can do it with me.
Cat.
Cuh, ah, T-.
Cat.
As I tap out the sounds of the word, Then I quickly rubbed down my arm to blend the sounds together.
Then stated the word again.
Okay.
I'm going to do that one more time without the directions in between.
Cat.
Cuh, ah, t-.
Cat.
So we know the sounds in the word cat are Cuh ah, T-.
If I take away the "cuh" sound in cat, what would my new word be?
Did you say at?
That's right!
The new word is at.
Let's try another word.
All right.
Here's the next picture.
Can you tell me what this is?
That's right.
It's a picture of a bed.
We're going to break apart the sounds that we hear in the word bed just like we did in the word cat.
Remember, we're going to say the word, tap out the sounds in the words, then blend them all together.
Are you ready?
Bed.
Buh eh d- Bed.
Wonderful.
So we know the sounds in bed are buh, eh, d-.
If you take away the buh sound in bed, what would your new word be?
Ed!
Yes.
The new word is ed.
Alright, we're doing so well.
Let's look at another picture.
This was a little tricky.
What do you see?
Did you say spot?
That's right.
This is Spot.
Let's break apart the sounds that we hear in spot.
Sss puh ah T-.
Spot.
Wow.
The word spot had four sounds.
So the sound in the word spot are Sss puh ah T-.
if you take away the sss sound in spot, what would the new word be?
Pot?
That's right.
The new word is pot.
You did so well with the words, cat, bed, and spot.
I think that you're ready to practice on your own.
Together, we practice breaking apart the sound blending them back together and deleting the initial sounds.
Let's see if you can practice these skills on your own with some new words, can you do it?
Of course you can.
Let's get started.
Here is your first picture.
What picture do you see?
Yes, this is a picture of a sun.
Tap out the sounds that you hear it in the word sun.
Very good.
The sounds and the works sun are Sss uh n-.
if you take away the sss sound in the word sun, what is your new word?
You got it.
The new word is un.
We have time for one more.
What picture do you use see?
That's correct.
This is a picture of a clock.
Now tap out the sounds that you hear in the word clock.
This word had four sounds.
The sounds in the word clock are Cuh- l- ah C-.
Clock.
If you take away the cuh sound at the beginning of the word clock, what is the new word?
Yes.
The new word is lock.
I knew that you could do it.
You did an amazing job in today's lesson.
Thank you all so much for joining me and learning how to break apart words, delete sounds of words and to create new words.
Remember to practice these skills as you read and write.
I'll see you next time readers.
Bye bye!
- Wow.
What a great lesson.
I love reading so much.
I feel like I learn something new each time.
Do you?
I bet you do.
I can already see your brain looks bigger than it did before the lesson or did you just do something different with your hair?
Either way, you're looking smart.
[cheerful upbeat music] ♪
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