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

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

This morning, I was looking at this secret code trying to figure it out.

Do you like doing secret codes?

Oh, then you know what?

You're gonna want one of these activity books and it's super easy to get one.

See that address that's popping up on the screen down below?

There you go.

You just need to send me a little note or there's an email at the very bottom.

So send me an email 'cause that's even easier, right?

Let me know something that you're learning either here at PBS, something you're learning at home.

A favorite story maybe that you're reading you let me know, and I'll be sure to include one of these activity books for free in the mail for you.

Just don't forget to include that return address.

All right, so speaking of things that we like to do in our free time I love to read books and one of my favorite places to get them, well, all right, honestly, I have two.

I either check out my books through the county library or I go online and I check it out with Sora.

And here in Fresno Unified we love to celebrate our schools that are checking out their books using the Sora app.

In fact, we have a countdown of the top five schools every week that are checking out books, and in fourth place this week, it's Addams Elementary.

So great job Addams!

You guys are doing a wonderful job.

If you wanna see your school up here on our big shout-out of top checkout schools, it's really easy.

Just go online and check out your books through Sora.

You can tell a friend or a classmate, and then the more that you're checking out, the more your odds are to be on our top checkout poster.

All right, boys and girls, are we ready to start today?

Excellent.

I've got three things that we're gonna go through today.

We're gonna talk about compound words, syllables, and then finish off a little work with root words.

Okay, let's warm up that super smart muscle that we have inside our heads, our brains.

Let's get them going.

We're gonna look at these high-frequency words and we're gonna be thinking to ourselves especially as third grade, do I know how to spell each of these words?

I want to know that you're able to not only read them but write them, especially in third grade.

We're getting to the end of the year so be responsible for your learning success.

I know you can do this.

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

Was, warm, wash, walk, water, way went, well, were, and where.

Excellent job.

Today, we have two words we're gonna focus on, wash and walk.

Wash is W-A-S-H and walk is W-A-L-K.

Okay, let's use them in a sentence.

So it's please mm your hands before dinner and want to take a mm in the park?

Okay, I think it would probably sound pretty funny to say want to take a wash in the park.

That would be kind of silly, right?

We would probably rather take a walk in the park which means what are we doing before dinner?

You got it.

You need to wash your hands before dinner.

Great job third grade.

Okay, let's come down and we're gonna talk about compound words.

Now these are our review.

We were learning them in first grade.

We've learned them in second grade.

Now, we're in third grade and really what I want us to focus on is that thinking part.

Making sure that we understand what these words when you put them together, what they really mean.

Here are some examples.

So the first word here is sunset.

What are the two words that we have that make up the word sunset?

Okay, so let's split it apart.

Sun is that big ball of fire that's in the sky, right?

That we have everyday, rises and sets.

All right, so we know what the sun is.

And do we know what set means?

If I were to say set down your backpack that means that you're putting it down, right?

You're releasing it.

So sun set simply means that it's when the sun is going down.

Ah, okay.

So we really are thinking about it today.

Good job third grade.

All right, let's think about this word, notebook.

Okay, let's break it apart.

What do we have?

Note.

Well, that's like a little message that you're gonna be writing to someone, right?

So a little message.

And then book is something that you open and close.

So what if we put notebook, what does that really mean?

Well, it's pages of papers that are bound together so that you can write.

Maybe you have like a spiral notebook.

It's a bunch of blank pages.

Great, how about this one?

Backpack, all right.

We all know what our back is.

And what does it mean to have a pack?

A bag, a satchel, something that we're gonna carry, right?

But because we have the word back with it, backpack, we know that it belongs on our back.

Great job today.

All right, the second thing that I want us to go through today are syllables.

So we're gonna talk about when a word ends with a consonant followed by /le/ or le.

The consonant and the le usually form the last syllable of the word.

Okay, now what's a consonant?

What's a vowel?

Okay, let's just do vowels 'cause they're a little bit easier.

We've got a, e, i, o and u, correct?

Okay, so let's look at our words.

When we look at this first word candle, do I have a, e, i, o and u?

Nope.

I've got... That means I've got a consonant.

So that consonant plus the le makes it be the last syllable.

So I have two syllables in the word candle.

Okay, let's do it again.

Now, I also put down here that the le can.

That /le/ sound at the end can be spelled E-L, A-L, and I-L.

So I have el, il, and al words so we can look at them.

So, cancel.

See that we have that -el.

We're gonna include that final consonant in that syllable so it actually has two syllables here.

Can/cel, okay.

Now this one can look a little bit tricky.

So we've got, this is our final consonant, -ril, but there's several consonants.

There's actually three consonants right here.

And so when you think about the word nostril, nostril, that tr is really a consonant blend and so nos is gonna go together and -tril is our second syllable.

So, nostril, okay.

Last one, we've got global.

You've got the al.

Here's our final consonant.

So consonant al makes the last syllable.

So put it together we've got global, two syllables.

Excellent job.

Okay, let's do a little bit of practice.

So over here, we have some words.

These are some compound words.

We want to break them apart and tell me what are the two words that make up that compound word.

So let's look at the word.

We've got daytime.

What are our two words?

Oh, excellent job third grade.

Day and time.

Ooh, yes.

Okay, we did this one yesterday.

What was it?

Birthday.

Birthday.

So what would be our first word?

Birth.

Excellent.

That's when we're born.

And day.

It means a specific day, right?

That we were born.

Excellent.

How about this next one?

Sunset.

That's what we were practicing a little bit early, right?

We had sun and set, great.

All right, do you see this one?

What are the two words?

Yes, I can hear you all the way down here.

We have some and time.

All right.

And our last one right there is doghouse.

Good.

So what's our first word, dog and house.

So it's a house for a dog.

Excellent job.

Okay, we're gonna switch gears a little bit.

We're gonna look for those words that have that final le or /le/ syllable with them.

So it says, read each sentence, circle the word that has a consonant plus the le, el, al, or il as their final syllable.

Okay, so let's look here.

Read it with me.

I fed the little puppy.

Do you hear that /le/ at the end of the word?

Which word has that?

Yes, little does.

Okay, so little has that final syllable right there, T-L-E.

Excellent job.

Okay, how about this one?

She drew an oval on the paper.

Any of those words have the /le/ sound at the end?

Yes, oval does.

And what would be that final consonant or the final syllable?

Remember, we want to have that consonant V-A-L, good, right there.

And I'm gonna circle the whole word for us.

Excellent.

Okay, let's go through and look at this next one.

Do you have an extra pencil?

Ooh, I see it right here.

We've got the il so the final syllable would be C-I-L.

So that is our word that has that /le/ as the final syllable.

Last one.

A bug bit my left ankle.

Do you see it?

Ooh, yes, here's the le.

Don't forget that final consonant.

So K-L-E, -kle is the final syllable.

Ankle, excellent job.

Okay, third grade, we're gonna finish off today by looking at, spinning around, root words.

So, what's a root word?

Well, a root word is the simplest form of a word.

It simply means that it's a word to which no prefixes, suffixes, or inflectional endings have been added.

I kind of put a little cheat sheet for us up here.

We're gonna be looking for in our word.

We're gonna look for prefixes.

Those are the words, those are the parts that are added to the beginning such as un-, re-, and dis-.

We're gonna look for suffixes, which are found at the end, like -ful, -ness, -able.

And inflectional endings such as -ing, -ed at the end, okay.

The reason we want to do this, we want to find that smallest piece of our word so it can make sense.

Let's read it together.

I thought my new shoes might hurt my feet but instead they were quite comfortable.

Okay, if I've known what my root word is, I'm gonna know what comfortable means.

So let's look.

Are there any prefixes in comfortable?

No.

Are there any suffixes?

Ooh, yes.

I see able, so I'm gonna take that off.

What's my root word?

Comfort.

Ooh, do I know that word?

I do.

I do know what comfort is.

Comfort means that it doesn't hurt.

It doesn't bother me to have it on.

So, -able, means that it's able to provide comfort.

So when I think about my shoes being comfortable they're able to provide comfort.

So knowing that root word really helped out.

All right.

So, thanks so much for hanging out with me today as you're getting ready for school.

Remember, you are responsible for your learning success.

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

I had a great time.

We went through, we looked at our compound words.

Those words that have that final syllable with an le and our root words.

And I can't wait to do that again back here tomorrow.

You have a wonderful afternoon.

Read those books, and I'll see you then.

Take care, bye-bye!

(guitar 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 ♪ (guitar music)