[lively music] - Ew, ue, ew, ue, ew.

[Isabel gasps] Hi, friends!

I'm Isabel, and welcome to my learning corner!

Today, I'm trying to remember the two sounds, the long "U" can make in words, ew and ue.

Because today I wanna learn a little bit more about these vowel teams, E-W that says ue or ew, and U-E that says ue or ew.

Are you ready to learn with me?

[children cheering] Let's get started!

Before we start building words together, I'd like us to participate in a phonemic awareness activity.

Phonemic awareness activities ask you to listen to all the sounds you hear in words.

Today, I'd like you to listen to a word and break the word up into all the sounds you hear.

Let's try one together.

Chew, can you say that word?

Great job.

Let's break that up into all the sounds we hear.

Ch-ew.

I think you're ready.

Let's try another word.

The word is flew, like a bird.

Can you say that word?

Let's break it up into all the sounds we hear.

F-l-ew.

Good job!

Let's try another word.

Let's try true.

If it's not true, it's false.

True, t-r-ew.

Great job!

Let's try one more.

The word is blue.

B-l-ew.

Great!

Great listening.

Now you're ready to build some words with me.

Now, let's build some words together.

This is my favorite part of the day.

[hands smacking] Today we're gonna be looking at two vowel teams.

E-W and U-E. Vowel teams are letters that work together to make one vowel sound.

In this case, they both work together to say the long ue sound that can ew or ue.

Those are the two long sounds that you can make.

So let's start building some words.

[cardboard scratching] Here I see the C and the H. They work together to say?

Ch.

That's right, they say ch.

And now I have to decide, is it going to say the ew or is the ue?

Well, if I said ch, ue, that's a little awkward, right?

Ch-ue.

Are you going to ch, ue your food, right?

So that's when we say ew.

Ch-ew.

Chew.

I love to chew my food, and it's also very good for you.

Now, let's build another word.

I'm going to take the C and the H away, and I'm going to add n-ew.

Do you know what this says already?

[children cheering] You do!

N-ew.

New!

Did you get that?

I know you did.

Let's try using the U-E. [paper tapping] Hmm.

[chair squeaking] D-ew.

Due!

Now, this is a very interesting word.

When something is due, that means you have to return it, like a library book.

If this was spelled like this, it would still be pronounced the same, dew, but it has a different meaning.

Dew is the little drops of water that you might see on grass in the morning.

Like that.

[cardboard scratching] Let's try one more word.

[cardboard scratching] Now, is this going to say ew or ue?

Let's see.

K-ew.

Cew?

Mm-mm.

Cue.

A cue is a reminder to do something.

You did a great job!

You guys are really good at this.

Are you sure you've never seen these vowel teams before?

Let's get ready to read.

Are you ready to read with me?

[children cheering] Yes!

Today we have three lines of words and one sentence to read together.

Before you start to read, I want you to always look for the special pattern.

In this case, the vowel team.

What vowel team do you see on the first line?

U-E!

Good job!

And we know you U-E can say, ew or ue.

And I wanna give you a hint.

In this word, the U-E will say ue.

In the other words, it will say, ew.

Are you ready to read with me?

[children cheering] Due, hue, rue, sue, clue.

[Isabel gasps] Great job!

Do you see how knowing a vowel team can help you read words quickly and easily?

The word hue, h-ue, also means a color scheme.

Let's go on to the next line of text.

The second line of text has which vowel team in it?

That's right.

E-W is in each of these words.

Are you ready to read the words?

Dew, few, flew, hew, mew.

Excellent!

[Isabel gasps] Did you notice that there were two words, one in each line, that sounded the same?

Hue and hew.

in this case, the hew means to cut down something, like I might cut, mow the grass.

I would hew the grass.

Okay, let's go to the last line of words.

I notice that I see mostly E-W, but I also see a U-E vowel team.

Are you ready to read the words?

Let's go.

Blue, blew, slew, spew.

Now, blue and blew, this is the color, and this is when I've already blew some bubbles.

[Isabel exhales deeply] Slew is to slide and spew is to spit up.

Don't you love words, learning about words?

Let's read our sentence last.

Are you ready?

Come on, read it with me.

"The blue bird flew in the sky."

You did an excellent job reading today.

Are you ready to write our word of the day?

[children cheering] Great!

I want you to grab a paper or something to write on and a pencil or something to write with and meet me right back here.

[upbeat music] Are you ready to write the word of the day?

Yes!

The word of the day is grew.

Jack's beanstalk grew and grew.

All right, let's sound that word out.

G-r-ew.

Are you ready?

Go ahead and write it.

I wonder which vowel team you're going to use.

Hmm.

All right, my turn.

G-r-ew.

I have two choices, U-E and E-W.

I'm going to choose E-W. That spells grew.

Can you say that word?

Great job!

You have learned so much about the two vowel teams that can say, ew or ue.

And I bet you're starting to notice words that have the U-E and the E-W in them that you never noticed before!

That's why I love learning!

Today, when you are out and about, I want you to go on a U-E and E-W word hunt.

If you are reading a sign, if you are reading a book, I want you to be looking for these vowel teams.

Great!

I want you to have a wonderful day, friends.

See you soon.

Bye!