(bright upbeat music begins) ♪ 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 ♪ (bright upbeat music continues) - Good morning third graders.

My name is Mrs. Nix and I am so excited to be here with you to help you become an amazing thinker, reader and writer.

Speaking of reading, do you ever just have some favorite books that you just enjoy?

They make you feel good and they remind you about what's important in life.

This is a fantastic book.

I would love to share it with you.

It's called "Something Beautiful".

It's about an eight year old little girl who lives in a city that not everybody's gonna think is beautiful all the time but she is able to look past it and find the beauty.

She's making a choice, right?

I wonder if you could see any connections maybe to where you are living.

Check it out, "Something Beautiful".

You can do that through your local library or you can check it out maybe on Sora and check out what the beautiful things that she sees in her community.

Boys and girls, another thing that I would love to suggest to you if you're looking for something fun to do at your home while you're there at home, we have some really fun activity books that we'd love to send to you.

Super easy.

All you have to do is send me a note to the little address that's listed here on your screen.

Tell me, just write me a note.

Hi, Mrs. Nix, here's something that I've been learning in school or something I learned by watching your PBS show or maybe you just wanna write and say hi.

Draw a picture.

I'd love to see it, I'd love to share it and I'd love to share a fun activity book with you.

It's free.

Okay, don't forget to include your address so that I can get that mailed back to you.

All right.

Today, I have three things that we're gonna go through.

We're gonna look at dip thongs, prefixes and then we're gonna finish up with some suffixes but we're gonna mix it up with a little comprehension.

You ready to start?

Okay, let's start out with those high frequency words.

Those are those words that you need to be able to read and write that you come across often in your reading and your writing.

So it's important you're able to spell them correctly.

Now, we've been practicing 'em a couple of days.

Have you had one that maybe you wrote on a little post-it note and stuck it next to the sink when you're brushing your teeth you've practiced it?

Great, that's how you're gonna get better, right?

Practice, practice, practice.

I love hearing those success stories.

Okay, let's read 'em and see how we're doing so far this week.

Okay, practice 'em with me.

You should be reading 'em at home.

Let's go.

Play, please, Pretty, pull, pick, place, part, people, over and own.

Nice, we're gonna work on place and pick today.

So pick is P-I-C-K. Don't forget to put that C in there and place, P-L-A-C-E.

So, oftentimes boys and girls will write it with an S. So even though it has the /s/ sound at the end remember that CE says /s/ so think about it.

Okay, help me put 'em in a couple of sentences.

I've got two of 'em here.

It's your turn to hmm a movie to watch.

And, please put everything back in it's hmm.

All right.

Help me figure it out.

It's your turn to place a movie to watch.

Oh, that doesn't make any sense.

It's your turn to pick a movie to watch.

Is it your turn to pick a movie?

I love it.

Please put everything back in its place.

Oh, boys and girls if my children could just put their things back in place it would make me so happy.

I bet it would make your adults at home so happy if you could put your things back in their place.

Makes me feel happy.

Okay, let's go through let's talk about dip thongs.

Now, dip thongs.

That's such a silly word, right?

But it's simply this, you take two letters, put 'em together and they make a new sound.

All right, I've got a couple of examples.

So /oi/, I have my boy card to remind me of the /oi/ sound.

I have two different ways I can spell it.

I can spell it with an O I or an O Y.

Now an O Y is at the end of a syllable.

Okay, let's look at some examples.

O I like in the middle of coins or in the middle of the word foil.

O Y, remember it's gonna be at the end of a syllable, so, enjoy or look right here, royal, royal.

So you see that Y, it's even in the middle of a word.

Okay, then I have my cow card to remind me of that /ow/ sound.

O W and O U.

So let's look at some words.

We've got allow at the end or how about this one?

Powerful, powerful, good.

And /ou/ says or O U says /ou/ like in sound and pounce.

Excellent job.

All right.

Let's move right over here and start talking about prefixes and we'll get into suffixes in just a second but it's all on the same poster.

Okay.

Here in the middle, we have our base words.

Now base words are those words that simply mean they have meaning on their own.

I'm gonna move these out of the way for just a second 'cause I want to talk about 'em first.

So, known, order, and returnable all are words that have meaning on their own.

We can add prefixes, which are just a group of letters.

They're not words, it's a group of letters but those letters change the meaning of the word.

So these three prefixes mean not or opposite of.

So for example, if someone is known we would say that they're known.

If I don't know them, if they're not known, here's what I can do.

I can add the prefix un and now I have the word unknown.

Take order.

So if I have everything in order, I have all of my things in place, like we were just talking about.

That's fantastic.

It's all cleaned up.

What's the opposite of cleaned up and orderly?

We would put this prefix right here and we would say now everything is in disorder.

Disorder means that it's in chaos.

It's messy.

It's not organized.

It's not in order.

And then finally, returnable.

So if something's returnable, it means I can take it back, right?

Well, if it's not returnable, I can put the prefix non in front, nonreturnable means that it is not returnable.

Okay, yesterday we talked about some non examples 'cause I think that this is really important especially as we're starting to read more words and we're training our brains to start to recognize, some of these prefixes.

Sometimes you're gonna come across words that actually start with these letters and they're not prefixes.

Yesterday we talked about this one right here.

This is non, it has N-O-N, none sorry, I just said non.

But none has non here in the beginning but if I took that prefix off it's not a prefix because that actually is the whole word.

All right, I have a second one to show you just so we can kind of make sense of it.

How about this word?

Dish.

It starts with D-I-S but I can't take that off.

That's not a prefix.

Dish is a word all by itself.

So just remember that as we go through and we're practicing, train your brain to pay attention is it a prefix or is it just a word that starts with those letters.

Okay, let's go through and let's practice some of those dip thongs and then let's practice some of those prefixes.

Now on this one we're gonna go through and we're gonna sort.

So help me do a little bit of sorting.

We're gonna sort them with the /oi/ sound and the /ou/ sound.

So we've got two different things.

This is something you could do at home.

You could take your words and just kinda start sorting 'em.

Put a column, what would go in each of the sides.

So we have /oi/ and /ou/.

So what's this word?

Coin, so where would it go?

You got it, over here.

How about this word, round, nice.

So it's gonna go over here, excellent.

Next one.

Noise, good.

Town, where does it go?

Yep, you got it.

Owl, oh, you're so smart.

Joy, over here.

Shout, oh, yep.

I'm just gonna add it right here.

And toy, has that /oi/ sound so I'm just gonna stick it right in there.

Great.

Now let's look right here.

This one's kind of a little bit easier than what we did yesterday, right?

'Cause now we're just drawing a line from the word to it's meaning.

Unknown means what?

Opposite of payment?

No.

Not known, yes, right there.

How about disagree?

What does disagree mean?

Well, it's not opposite of payment.

Not happy, no.

To not agree, yes.

To not agree is to disagree.

How about this one?

Nonpayment, is the opposite of making a payment.

That's right.

Nonpayment, we didn't pay.

How about unhappy?

That means you're not happy.

Oh, third grade you are so smart.

I love it.

Okay.

Last little bit for today.

We've been practicing some of those suffixes, we've got three of 'em.

We have able, less and ful.

Able simply means that you are able to do it or it can be done.

Less when we add that to the end of a word it changes the meaning to that it's without, it's without whatever it is that you're asking and ful is full of.

It's almost the exact opposite of without, right?

Okay.

Let's look at some of these words that use some of these suffixes.

So we have successful, acceptable, so that means that you're able to accept it, right?

Fixable, moonless, and careful.

Okay.

I've got a sentence right here.

Let's go through, let's read this and see if we can figure out which of these words would make this make sense.

Read with me.

At first, steamboats filled the Mississippi River.

Then the railroad came along.

Trains became the most hmm way to travel.

So trains became the most hmm.

Well they wouldn't be moonless and fixable we don't really have a problem.

How about acceptable?

Do you think people started to accept it more?

So, acceptable, what does it mean?

Let's think about it.

Well, A-B-L-E means that it can be, or it's able to, and so what does that mean?

It's able to hmm.

Would it be without acceptance?

Well, no that doesn't make sense because able means that you can.

How about, can it be a problem?

No, it's not gonna be a problem.

How about is accepted?

Yes, so it's an acceptable way to travel.

That means that it's accepted.

Excellent job.

Boys and girls, you have done a fantastic job today going through, practicing those dip thongs, prefixes, suffixes and even a little bit of comprehension.

It was awesome.

So thanks for hanging out with me this morning as you're getting ready for school and 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 can't wait to see you back here tomorrow at PBS.

Have a good one.

Bye-bye.

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