[bright music] Ow, ow, ow!

Hi, friends, I just got a paper cut.

Ow!

Do you know what that reminds me of?

That reminds me of these two vowel teams.

They can both say ow, O-W and O-U.

Are you ready to learn about how O-U and O-W can work in words?

Great!

Let's get going.

I just need a band-aid, ow.

Whew, much better.

Before we start reading together, I'd like us to start with a phonemic awareness activity.

Today, we're going to be listening for all the sounds we hear in a word.

I'm gonna say a word.

You're gonna repeat the word, and together we're going to break the word up into all of the sounds that we hear.

Are you ready?

Let's try one together.

The first word is melt.

M, eh, l, t. Good job!

Let's try another one, camp.

C, ah, m, p. Excellent!

Send.

S, eh, n, d. Great job!

Let's try one more, bond.

B, ah, n, d. Excellent!

We're ready to read.

Let's get started.

Are you ready to read with me, friends?

- [Kids] Yay!

- Great, today we're gonna be learning about these two vowel teams, O-U and O-W that can both say ow.

O-U will say ow at the beginning and in the middle of words, and O-W will say ow at the end of words.

So let's try to build some words together.

The first word I want to build is pout.

Can you say that word?

Pout.

Just like that.

P, ou, t. Where did you hear that?

So let's see.

P, ow, t. I need a vowel team in the middle.

That's right!

I'm going to use O-U in the middle of the word.

This says pout, p, ou, t. What's the word again?

Pout!

Let's try another word.

Let's try to make the word vow.

A vow is a promise that you make.

A vow is a promise that you make, v, ow.

I need a vowel team at the end of the word to say, ow.

Which should I use?

That's right!

I should use O-W, vow.

What's this word again?

Vow.

Let's build the word loud.

Whoa, that was loud.

L, ow, d. What vowel team am I going to use?

Excellent!

L, ou, d. What's the word?

Loud!

We are really on a roll today.

Let's build one more word.

The word is brow, like your eyebrow, brow.

B, r, ow.

O-U, O-W.

Excellent, O-W!

Brow.

Can you say that word?

Great!

Now, I do want to say one thing.

Sometimes you're going to see a word that has the O-W in the middle, but only when the word ends with an N or an L, like in this word.

What's that word?

Brow, n. Brown, the color brown.

I love that color.

It's the color of my eyes, you know.

Are you ready to read with me?

Great!

Let's get started.

Let's read.

I want you to think of our vowel teams for today.

Let's answer a question before we read.

What sound do these vowel teams represent when you see them together?

Ow.

Ow.

Great, now you're ready.

Get ready to show what you know.

When the word appears on the screen, read it as fast as you can.

If you need to sound out the words as you read, that's fine.

Let's go!

Great job!

Did you read all of the words correctly?

Noun.

Out.

How.

Stout.

Frown.

Bow.

You are excellent readers.

For our last activity of the day, we're going to write a word together.

So before we start, go ahead and grab a paper or something to write on and a pencil or something to write with and come right back here.

[bright music] [upbeat music] Ready?

We've been learning about the vowel teams O-U and O-W that can say ow, right?

Now we're going to build a word that has one of those vowel teams in it.

The word is shout.

That was good.

Can you say that word?

Shout.

Excellent!

Let's tap the word together.

Sh, ow, t. Did you see where ow comes in that word, where the sound is?

Go ahead and write it.

Oh, so good, so good, so good!

Hold on.

Is this what you wrote?

Sh, ou, t. Great job, friends.

I am so proud of all of the hard work you've done today, and I want you to continue to look for more ow words in your everyday life.

And see you next time, friends!

Bye!