♪ 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 ♪ (playful music) Good morning third graders, My name is Mrs. Nixon, I am so excited to be here with you today and to support you to become amazing thinkers, readers and writers.

So this morning I was thinking about what are some of my favorite chapter books that I just really enjoy reading and you know what I've decided?

I think my favorite genre are mystery stories, I love a good mystery story.

If you would love to check out a really fun mystery story and you're kinda new to chapter books I've got a great series for you.

This one is called "Dinosaurs Before Dark."

This is the first one in the "Magic Tree House" books series.

And there are several of them, so I'm gonna pull some of them up here.

So we've got "Dinosaurs Before Dark" we've got "The Knight at Dawn" is the second one, "Mummies in the Morning."

So there's all kinds of stories, and every single one of them have the same characters and kind of the scene storyline that continues, it's like when you watch a movie and you wanna see what happens next, you had to check out the next book.

So these are a great series, it's a mystery series, if you're into that so much fun you can do this and you can check these out through your local county libraries or you can go on Sora and check it out there.

Speaking of Sora, we love to count down who are schools that have been checking out the most books, because we know that there are some amazing readers that are there at that school campus.

So we've been counting down our top checkout schools of the week, and in second place is Hoover High School, so we've got some high school students who are getting in on this and they're starting to read, great job Hoover High.

Alright, I'm super excited to see who's gonna be in first place, we'll find that out tomorrow.

Okay, before I jump over and start today's learning, I always like to put in a quick little plug.

We have these really, really fun activity books things where they've got word puzzles and word searches, stickers, coloring pages, anything that you could imagine to do, it's always fun, they're free, and it's super easy to get, all you need to do is send me a letter in the mail, there's the address it's showing up on the bottom of your screen or email.

If you email though don't forget include your return address so that I can make sure that one of these fun activity books gets in the mail for you.

And in that email you can tell me whatever you'd like to tell me, maybe it's something you've learned here on PBS, something you're learning at school, or maybe it's a favorite story or a book that you've read, you'd love to tell other third grade students about, I'm happy to share that.

Okay, are we ready to start today?

Okay, we're gonna go through, we've got three things we're gonna learn today.

We're gonna start by looking at some variant vowels, we're gonna dive into some related words and then we're gonna finish off with some comprehension with regards to our root words and prefixes.

Are you ready to start?

Okay, so here we go today.

We're gonna start by warming up our brains, looking at these high-frequency words, words that you see often, we need to be able to read them, spell them.

Have you been practicing them this week?

You've got them down, oh, that's so awesome.

Let's go through, let's read them.

Now, remember you're at home and I'm here, so you're gonna have to really speak up so I can hear you.

Alright, let's do this, said, same, run, round, ride, right, this one can be read or read, both ways are right, good job.

Red, put, ran.

Okay, so we're actually gonna talk about this read and read and then red again today.

Alright, so I'm gonna pull them out.

So we have red, R-E-D like the color red and then we've got read or read.

This is what we call a homograph, it's a word that's spelled the same but can be pronounced different ways, and they're used a little bit differently in sentences, right?

So I've got things that are gonna go with both of these.

And I made two of them so we can practice both.

Okay, so let's start with this one here.

So I like red and green apples, which one is gonna help us with the color?

R-E-D, right?

Okay, so I'm gonna just put that right here because that I feel like is an easier one, So I like red and green apples.

But I'm going to cause I've got a second one, I'm gonna cover that up, I just didn't have enough spot on my pocket chart to be able to do this.

So I'm gonna cover it up, and you're gonna help me figure out, read or read.

We know that the word is spelled the same but which one fits where?

So I like to, what would we say?

Read mystery stories or read mystery stories, yes, we would say read.

So I like to read mystery stories.

How about this one?

What is the best you've read or read?

You got it.

What is the best book you've read?

So even though these words are spelled the same they actually have a different meaning.

So remember, we're always having to think as we're reading.

So great job this morning.

Alright, let's get started, we're gonna start with those variant vowels I have with me two different sound spelling cards to remind me of the sounds we've been working on this week.

So the first one I have the spoon card with me and I have that to remind me that it says, u, u, okay, so there are seven different ways that we can spell u, so it's really important that we do a lot of reading, the more reading you do the more your brain is gonna be trained on which of these spellings you're gonna use for each of these words.

Alright, let's look at them together.

So we have, oo, says, u, like in spoon and noodles, good job.

How about this one?

ew says, u, like in chew and cashew, cashew, do you know what a cashew is?

It's like a nut.

Alright, u-_e says, u, like in tube and include.

Nice.

ue says, u, like in due remember your library book that's due.

How about this word?

Statue.

Statue, oh, good job.

And u just by itself says, u like in future and rumor, good, ui says, u, like in fruitful and juicy, and ou says, u, like soup and coupon.

Now, I also have with me my book, spelling card, and just like we talked about at the beginning of the week, maybe if you're pushing on your bally or as much as I would say, like getting punched in the belly but I don't want anybody getting punched don't punch yourself 'cause they don't want you to get hurt.

but kind of has that o o sound.

Okay, so let's look at some words that have that o sound.

oo, can say, o, like in hook and football and ou can say o like in could and should.

Alright, so let's look at some... Switch gears a little bit and look at some related words, these are words that share that same root or base word.

So here are some right here, creator, creative, recreate.

And if we look real close we're gonna see that this word, create, is found in all of these words that are right here.

So, create, is actually the word, the base word that brings them all together.

Okay, how do we practice this in some of our stuff?

So let's look over here, we're gonna practice sorting some variant vowels and we're gonna practice our related words.

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

We're gonna do a little bit of a sorting activity and I know we've done these before, so just help me out, we're goon sort them.

We've got oo as in moon, ue as is due, ew as in chew, oo in book, o-_e.

as in rude and ou as in could.

So we've got our o sounds down here below.

Okay, help me sort them.

So what's our first word right here, what's this word?

You got it, true.

So, true, and it's got the ue at the end is gonna go down here with these words 'cause it's got the ue.

How about shook, shook?

This has o sound, so I know it's gonna be one of these and I've got oo, so that's gonna go right here, good.

And then would has the o, and it's the ou o, would, booth has u, with the two o's, so it's gonna go here, u as in tube, u-_e and I'm gonna skip ahead right over here.

How about this one?

Grew with ew, grew and flew, both have the ew, so I'm gonna stick I'm right there.

Okay, excellent, I'm gonna move ahead just a little bit 'cause I wanna make sure we've got enough time to go through and look at our things.

So we're looking at related words and it says they have a common root or base and read each set of words and circle all the related words.

So, if we have metal, then what word would it be?

Metallic or melted.

Ooh, this is hard, right?

'Cause we can...

Sometimes our brains are gonna wanna look over here and see that these are the same letters but we have metal and look right here, this has the word metal, If I cover up that, i-c-e, look metal and metallic.

So these are our related words.

Okay, how about company, counting, and companion?

Do you see it?

That company and companion have the same.

So companion and I'm just gonna circle company again too just so that they're circled, and then how about one last one?

Abel, action and actor.

Ah, we've been practicing that one before too, these have that act at the beginning.

Great job.

Okay, let's finish off today.

I want us to talk about and practice putting those root words together with our prefixes and so that they make sense in a sentence.

So we've got to put our thinking caps on.

Now, there is something that I just wanna remind us, when we're looking at a root word, it doesn't have prefixes or suffixes that are with it.

So right here, let's look at our sentence and put a word with it.

I will mmmh the oven before baking the pie.

Okay, so what are we gonna do?

Are we in a perfect, possible, heat, sense, bearable or sure.

Ah, you got it, we're gonna heat that oven, but there's a prefix that we have to put with that because we're not gonna just heat it up, we're gonna have to do something before.

So help me out, let's look up here, What means, before?

Perfect, we've got this, pre, not only are we gonna heat it, but we're actually gonna preheat the oven before baking that pie.

Does that make sense?

Great, so this is something that you would be able to practice at home as you're looking through and seeing these words, making them make sense.

Alright, boys and girls, I just wanna say thanks for hanging out with me this morning 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 afternoon, I can't wait to see you back here on PBS tomorrow.

Have a great one, good night.

Bye bye (instrumental 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 ♪