[gentle playful music] - Hi, friends.

- Welcome to a wonderful Day of learning.

My name is Anna.

And I was just thinking about all the things people like to tell.

Like, I love to tell stories, especially when they're really funny.

My youngest daughter, she loves to tell secrets.

Her favorite secret?

"I love you."

I know.

I love that secret too.

My oldest daughter, she's into telling jokes lately.

You wanna hear her favorite joke?

It's, "What do you call two birds in love?

Tweet hearts."

Get it?

Instead of sweethearts, tweet hearts.

There's a lot of things people like to tell, but you know what I noticed?

In the word tell, tuh eh eh, that middle vowel sound.

That's actually going to be our focus sound for today.

Today we're going to be reviewing the sound of short E. Okay?

Short E makes the eh sound.

I'm gonna put you right here for now.

But before we do that, let's get our ears ready to do some work with sound, okay?

First what I'm going to do is I'm gonna give you two parts of words and I want you to blend them together.

So for example, if I said butter fly, you would put them together and you would say butterfly.

Okay, let's do a couple of these.

How about cat nip?

Catnip.

Basket ball.

Basketball.

Home work.

Homework.

All right, last one.

Base ball.

Baseball.

Okay, now let's do something where I'm gonna give you sounds.

Smaller units, now, not word parts.

And I want you to blend those together.

So let me give you an example.

If I were to say cuh ah tt.

I would want you to blend those sounds together and tell me cat, because cuh ah tt put together says cat.

Okay, how about this one?

Mm, eh, tt Met.

Good job.

How about this one?

Puh ih tt.

Pit.

How about this last one?

Listen carefully.

Ff ll oh tt.

Float.

Good job!

You notice how I added that extra sound in there?

Cool, right?

Okay, let's review some of the letter sounds that we'll be working with to create our word chains today, okay?

So I'm gonna show you a letter.

I want you to first tell me the letter name, then tell me the sound it represents.

So if I showed you the E, you would first say E, and then the sound that we're working with today is A, okay?

What's the letter?

M. And what sound does it represent?

Mm.

Good job.

Make sure those lips are together.

Mm.

What's the letter name?

T. And what sound is it represent?

Tt.

What's the letter name?

V. And what sound does it represent?

Buh.

Great.

What's the letter name?

L. And what sound does it represent?

Ull, good.

What's the letter name?

D. And what sound does it represent?

Duh.

Last one.

What's the letter name?

F. And what sound does it represent?

Ff.

That's right.

Use that T with your lip.

Ff.

That sound.

Awesome.

Okay, so let's start our word chain.

Now remember, all of our words in our word chain today will have the same vowel sound.

Which is that eh sound.

Everyone say the sound again.

That's right, eh, like Ed.

Okay, so the first word I wanna build is the word met.

How would we build the word met?

What sound do we hear in the beginning?

We know the sound in the middle, eh.

And then what's the sound at the end?

Hmm.

Let's see.

Met.

Let's stretch it.

Met.

What letter represents that first sound?

That's right.

We have our M representing that mm sound.

Okay, so mm eh tt.

What do I need here for that tt?

That's right.

I should have my T. All right, let's blend it through.

Ready?

Mm eh tt.

Read it?

Met.

Okay.

Now how do I turn met into bet?

Like, I bet you can figure this letter out.

That's right.

I'm going to need the letter B representing that buh sound.

But now where does it go to change bet?

Hm.

Met, bet.

You're right.

I'm gonna change that first sound.

So away goes the mm and in in goes the buh.

So let's blend it and then read it.

Buh eh tt.

Read it.

Bet.

All right.

How do I change bet into bed?

Like I really wanna take a nap in my bed right now.

Okay.

Stretch it if you need to.

Bed.

Bed.

Where do we hear the change in sound?

That's right.

The ending.

So we're gonna say goodbye to tt, and then what are we going to add for bed?

That's right, our D. Blend it, read it.

Buh eh duh.

Bed.

All right.

How do I turn bed into led?

Like, I led the line.

You're right.

I'm gonna get rid of my buh, and I'm going to put in the L, representing the ull sound.

All right, let's blend in and read it.

Lead.

Lead.

Okay, now here is a tricky one.

Can you turn lead into fled?

Like he fled the house?

Like, to run away.

Do I have to remove something to turn lead into fled?

No, I don't.

I just need to add which letter to represent which sound?

That's right, fled.

So when we stretch it, fled, and instead of lead, I now hear that ff sound and we know that F represents that sound.

Alright, let's blend this one.

Fuh Fled.

Read it?

Fled.

Excellent job.

Okay, let's try blending some more words with that short E sound, which is what?

That's right, eh.

Like Ed.

Let's start with the first line.

Let's blend it and then read it.

Ready?

Come on.

Et.

What's the word?

Et.

Buh et.

Read it?

Bet.

En.

En.

Huh en.

Hen.

Ed.

Ed.

Led.

Led.

Okay, now we're getting to some words here!

Let's do this.

Ff eh duh.

What's the word?

Fed.

Err eh duh.

Red.

Buh eh duh.

Bed.

Okay.

Now notice, I have a challenge word down here.

Let's see if we can figure it out.

Let's blend all those sounds together to figure out this word.

We can do it.

Ss wuh eh puh tt.

Ooh, what's this word?

Swept!

Right!

Like, he swept the floor.

Awesome job.

Thank you so much for learning and playing with me today.

I hope you have fun learning and reviewing the short E sound, which is what?

That's right, eh.

Like Ed, or as you hear it in bed and web.

Have a great day, and continue looking for those short E words around you.

I'm gonna go find my daughter and see if she can tell me some more jokes.

Tweet hearts!

So funny!

Bye.

[gentle playful music]