♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning beings is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Good morning third graders.

My name is Mrs. Nix and I am so excited to be here with you to support you as you become amazing thinkers, readers, and writers.

This morning I was reading Lon Popo and I don't know if you've read this story.

It's very similar to the story of The Little Red riding Hood.

And if you are looking for some different versions of fairytales, I strongly encourage you to check out a book.

You can do that at your local library or maybe your school library or a third place you can do, especially here in Fresno Unified is using the app called Sora.

Now, speaking of Sora, we had a little challenge this last week, a digital challenge.

We took and kept track of all of the minutes that our elementary school students were reading using the app.

And you know who came in in the top five?

Well, we're gonna count it down this week.

So let's start with the fifth place.

And over here for the highest number of minutes in fifth place is Ayensworth Elementary.

So great job Ayensworth.

You guys have been reading so many minutes on the Sora app.

So with that, I also wanna put in a quick little plug for some of our activity books.

Now, if you are looking for something to do at home for free, you can always check out a book and do it with Sora or you can send a note to me.

You're gonna see an address pop up on the screen right there, down at PBS.

And I will put an activity book in the mail for you to do at home.

And it's totally free.

I'd love to hear about something, maybe a book that you are reading, maybe you have something that you've really enjoyed or something you've learned in class or something you've learned here at PBS.

I'd love to hear about it.

All right, let's get started, third grade.

I have three things that we're gonna do today.

The first we're gonna start with prefixes, we're gonna go into some related words and we're gonna finish off some comprehension around root words.

Are you ready to start?

Okay, we're gonna begin our day by warming up that super smart muscle, our brains.

So let's warm those up today.

I've got some high frequency words.

Remember high frequency words are just those words we come across often.

Now in third grade, I mentioned often that you are responsible for your learning success.

And one of the in third grade is that not only are we able to read them but we need to be able to write them as well.

So if you see a word up here this week and you think to yourself, you know, I could probably practice those.

That's okay, jot it down, practice it.

And I'd love to know how successful you are by the end of the week.

Cause I know you can do it.

All right, let's go through and let's read them together.

You read them big and loud at home, I'm gonna read them here in the studio.

Ready?

About, always, am, after, again, an, all, and, another, also.

Great job, third grade.

So we have two of them words right here.

We have the word about, A-B-O-U-T and always, A-L-W-A-Y-S.

So let's use them in a sentence.

Help me out, let's read a couple of them.

Here we go.

She hmm sees the good in people.

And what's our second one?

He loves talking hmm the good old days.

Hmm, which one do you think goes where?

She about sees, oh, that doesn't make sense.

How about, she always sees the good in people.

That's a good thing to be able to do, right?

And he loves talking about the good old days.

Excellent job.

Great.

So now we've warmed up those brains.

We're ready to get started.

We're gonna dig in, we're gonna talk about those prefixes.

Now, we have worked with prefixes and suffixes multiple times this year.

And remember, I wanna just talk about it.

Prefixes are found at the beginning of the word whereas a suffix is at the end.

Now it kinda made this look like our pencil.

Remember our pencil graph we've looked at before, our chart.

But I wanted to make sure that I put all of them because look at all of these prefixes we've been working on, we're getting towards the end of the year.

So now we're just practicing using all of them.

Now a prefix can't stand alone.

It's just a group of letters but those letters change the meaning of our base word.

Now a base word stands all by itself, it makes sense.

So let's look at our base words and then we're gonna read some of our prefixes and see how they change the meaning of our base words.

So right here, let's just go through, let's read them together.

We have wrap, able, paid, print and read.

Good job.

Okay, let's start up here at the top.

For our prefixes, let's review these.

We're gonna go through top to bottom.

Here we go, un, dis, pre, re, and mis.

Did you see how those are not real words?

They're just groups of letters.

So let's practice putting this prefix un with wrap.

We know rap means to cover.

And if I put un with wrap, what's my new word?

Unwrap.

What does un mean?

Un means not.

So if I'm not wrapping, it's like I'm unwrapping, right?

When I unwrap my birthday present.

Okay, let's do another one.

So if I have able, meaning I'm able to do something and I take the prefix dis, which means not again, it's simply, we'll see, it means that it's not able but let's read what our word is, disable, disable.

Good.

Let's do another one.

Pre means before, our word is paid.

So we've paid something.

We've given some money.

If I add pre to the beginning, let's read the word, prepaid.

What does that mean?

What does pre mean?

Well, it means before.

That means that we paid before we got there.

Maybe you went online and paid beforehand.

Let's look at down here.

We've got two more prefixes.

So we've got re which means again.

And so if I have the word print, if I'm printing out my paper on the copy machine, now I'm going to, let's read this word.

What is it?

Reprint.

What does it mean that I'm doing?

That means I'm printing it again, good job.

And this word can be read as read or read, we know that.

Let's read it as read.

So if I read something, let's look over here.

Let's add the prefix mis, which means wrong.

What's my new word?

Misread.

I misread it, means I read it incorrectly.

Oh my goodness.

So many prefixes.

You guys are doing a fantastic job with it.

And we've been working so hard.

Now, whoops, I'm gonna flip this around, sorry.

I forgot I moved some stuff over onto the back.

I wanna work on our related words.

Not related words our, yes elated words.

Got it.

All right, so words that share a common root or a base word which is what we were talking about, they can be called related words.

So we're gonna be a detective.

And we're gonna look here.

I wanna just show you what this looks like and then we're gonna go through and we're gonna practice some.

So if I have these three words, heater, preheat, and reheat, did you see a base word that was found in all three of these words?

What do you think it was?

Yes, did you see the word heat?

So you saw heat in heater, preheat and reheat.

Those are related words because they have the same root or base.

Now it's time for us to go through and practice some of that.

Some let me move that out of the way.

Okay, so we have a poster here that's talking about some of the different things.

So we have up at the top remember our pencil, it has our prefix, base word and suffix here to remind us.

It also talks about that a prefix is found at the beginning of a word and it's to make a new word.

So we have our prefixes that we were just practicing.

So we have un and dis, and they both mean not.

We have pre means before and re means again, and miss means wrong.

Okay, so let's go through and we're gonna look at the meaning of each of these words.

And we're gonna connect it to the words that's in the box, to match the meaning.

Okay, so here's our definition.

To cook before.

Which word do you think means to cook before?

Well, I see that the base word is gonna be cook.

So what would I add to it?

Let's look mislead, resell, dislike, precook, unlucky.

Oh, did you see it?

You're so smart.

Yes, right here.

Precook would be our word because pre means before.

So that simply means that we're gonna cook it before.

Good, let's try another one.

To sell again.

Okay, what's our base word?

Right here, we're gonna sell.

Now if we're doing it again, do you remember which prefix means again?

Let's look and see.

Can we find the base word sell?

Yeah, right here.

What's our prefix?

Re and sell, excellent job.

So we were able to do a little bit of practice with that, good.

Let's jump down because I wanna talk about our related words just a little bit.

So remember words that share a common root or base word, those are our related words.

Here's an example.

The words rebuild, building.

You can see the building and builder are related because they have the root word build in all of them.

So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna come down here and we're gonna read each pair of related words.

We're gonna underline that common root or base word in each word.

So we have two words and they're related.

So let's find what's the base word.

Let's read it.

Return and overturn.

Do you see a base word that is in both?

Yeah, turn, right there.

Good job.

Let's do another one.

Unkind and kindness.

What do you see?

Excellent, kind is in both of them.

Wonderful job.

Okay, so let's finish off with one last little activity.

We're gonna talk a little bit about some comprehension.

We're looking for that root word.

And all of our work today is kinda interlaced, right?

So now we have a sentence here.

We're gonna look at this word and we wanna find where's the root word.

So let's read the sentence.

I feel miserable because of this stuffy nose.

Okay, so miserable is right here.

Can I make this of a base word?

Well, I see able and able can be taken off cause that's a suffix, right?

It means that I'm able to feel a certain way.

What's my root word?

Misery.

Now, if I know what misery is, I can think to myself, what does able add to it?

It means that I'm able to do it, right?

So I'm feeling miserable.

So think about it for a second.

Does it mean that I'm feeling thrilled or does it mean that I'm feeling unhappy?

Probably unhappy.

Do we like having a stuffy nose?

Nah, you guys are amazing.

And I so appreciate all of the hard work that you've done today.

So third grade, I just wanna say thanks for hanging out with me today as you're getting ready for school.

Remember, you're responsible for your learning success.

So listen, ask questions and share your ideas because together we can do so much more.

I hope you have a fantastic day and I look forward to seeing you back here at PBS tomorrow at the same time, same place.

Have a great one, I'll see you then.

Bye-bye (upbeat music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music)