Let's Learn | Short u Vowel Sound | Season 2023

September 15, 2024

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[upbeat music] ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪ Ah, ah, ah, - Hi, friends.

My name is Isabel and welcome to my learning corner.

I've been waiting for you!

Today we are going to be learning all about the short U sound.

That says, can you guess what that says?

That's right.

Uh.

The short U sound says uh.

Can you repeat that?

Great job.

We're going to be building words, reading words, and writing words all with the short U sound that says...

Uh.

Are you ready?

Let's get started.

Our first activity of the day is going to be a phonemic awareness activity.

Phonemic awareness activities are listening activities.

So before we even start, we have to get our ears ready.

[soft bell music] Don't forget this one.

[horn honking] Good job.

Now you're ready.

Today I'm going to say a word, you are going to repeat the word, and then we are going to say all the sounds we hear in that word.

Let's try it.

The first word is bun.

Bun.

Ba.

Uh.

Nn.

Good job!

Let's try another word.

Tub.

Te.

Uh.

Ba.

Good job.

The next word is spud.

A spud is a potato.

Spud.

Ss.

Pa.

Uh.

De.

Good job.

Last one.

Lump.

Ll.

Uh, Mm.

Pa.

Lump.

Good job!

Are you ready to build some words with me?

[kids cheering] I really need your help today, friend.

This word, I'm not sure what this word is.

I know.

We should sound it out.

Cah.

Uh.

Te.

Hmm.

Cuh.

Tt.

Cut.

Cut!

Oh, thank you guys.

But what would I, what would happen if I needed to change cut to cup?

Which letter am I going to change in the word to make the word cup?

What do you think?

Cup.

I definitely have to change that last letter from a T to a, cup.

Thank you, friends.

Let's see.

Does this work?

Cup.

Cup!

What if I wanted to change cup to sup?

Sup is when you eat supper, right?

If I wanted to sup.

What would I do?

Sup.

Oh, I should change the first letter to ss.

Let's see if this works.

Sup.

Thank you.

You guys are really good at this.

What if I wanted to changes to sup to sun?

Sup to sun.

What has to change?

The P has to change!

And what is the P going to change to?

The letter N!

Sun!

Now I was thinking sometimes when I'm out in the sun, the sun will stun me or it will shock me because it's so bright and so beautiful.

How can I change sun to stun?

Stt.

Uh.

Un.

Tt.

Oh, I've gotta move this over.

Uh-nn.

Stt.

Uh.

Nn.

What's the missing letter?

You guys are really good at this.

I think you're right.

Let's try it out.

Stt.

Did you see how I blended the two letters together?

Stt.

Uh.

Nn.

Stun!

Yay.

I think we're ready to read some words together.

Do you think we're ready?

[children cheering] Okay, let's get started.

Now we're ready to read some words together.

We're gonna take all of the skills that we used in the previous section and we're going to use them to read these words with the short U sound that says...

Uh, very good.

It says, uh.

Ready?

Lug.

Pug.

Mug.

Rug.

Run.

Good job!

These words on the second line begin with a blend.

Okay, they begin with a blend.

That's two sounds that blend into each other.

So this is how we would read it.

Ss.

Nn.

Blend them together.

Snn.

Snub.

When you snub someone, you ignore them.

Stt.

Stub.

When I stub my toe, I bump it against something.

Stt.

Stun.

When you stun someone, you shock them.

Spun Spun.

Spun is past tense for spin.

Spud.

Potato.

Let's read these words together.

Snub.

Good job.

Very good.

Blends can also happen at the ends of words.

Gust.

That's wind.

The word is gust.

Buh.

Bust.

Da.

Dust.

Mm.

Must.

Rust.

All right, let's take it from the beginning.

You read it out loud, as loud as you can.

And I will whisper it.

Okay?

Let's go.

Lug.

Pug.

Mug.

Rug.

Run.

Snub.

Stub.

Shun.

Spun.

Spud.

Gust.

Bust.

Dust.

Must.

Rust.

Yay!

Good job!

Now let's take all of our decoding skills and use them to read this sentence.

Read this sentence with me.

The gust of wind made me jump.

Who knew wind could make someone jump?

Good job.

Now, before we begin our next activity, which is our dictation activity, I'd like you to get a paper or something to write on and a pencil or pen or something to write with, and come right back so that we can write some words that have the short U sound in them.

[upbeat music] You're back!

Hi, guys.

[children cheering] Okay, so this is how dictation works.

I will say the word, you'll repeat the word, we will tap the word out or segment it, like we did at the beginning, and then you guys are going to write down the words, and then I'll write down the word right after you.

The first word is tusk.

The elephant has a long tusk.

Okay?

Tt.

Uh.

Ss.

Ka.

Tusk.

Go ahead and write that now.

Okay, let me go ahead and write tusk as well.

Tt.

Uh.

Ss.

Ka.

Did you write this?

Did you notice the blend at the end?

You did?

Great job!

We have one more word that we're gonna write today.

The word is snug.

I bury myself under the covers so I can be snug.

Snug.

Ss.

Nn.

Uh.

Ga. Go ahead, write it.

Write it.

Mm-hmm.

Uh-huh.

Yes!

Okay.

So you should have written... Ss.

Nn.

Uh.

Ga. Snug.

Did you write that?

You did?

Awesome!

I am so proud of all of your hard work today, friend.

You have worked so hard today.

You have built words, read words, written words.

You are awesome.

And after today, what I'd like you to do is I'd like you to start looking for all of the words, looking all around you for words with the short you sound that say uh.

You can play I Spy only using uh sounds.

I spy a bright yellow ball in the sky and it gives off light.

You would say, "Sun!"

I hope you have fun playing I Spy today and I can't wait to see you again soon.

Bye, friend.

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