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

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

So, it's Monday, so happy Monday.

I have a couple of things I wanna to talk with you about.

Did you read a fantastic book over the weekend?

You did, I'd love to hear all about it.

And there's a really simple way that you can do that.

We're gonna pop up an address right here at the bottom of your screen, and you should start seeing it right about now.

If you jot that down and send me a note you can tell me what fantastic book you read over this weekend.

And if you do that, I will share one of these really fun activity books.

This one happens to be the Arthur one, it is full of different activities.

So, you've got word searches and puzzles and all sorts of fun activities to keep your brains busy and thinking.

Speaking of also reading books, there's a couple of different ways that you could check out your books, either your local county library, or here on Fresno Unified you can do it using our apps on our phone called Sora.

Now, we love to count down the top five schools that have been checking out books using that Sora app.

And so, let's check out who was in fifth place last week.

Here they are, oh my goodness, it's our friends over at Mayfair.

So great job Mayfair Elementary.

If you wanna see your school's name up on our great shout out poster board, it's super easy.

All you need to do is check out those books using that app, Sora.

All right, third grade I have three things that we're gonna through today.

We're gonna look at inflectional endings, suffixes and then finish off with some homographs.

Okay, so let's warm up those really smart muscles that we have, that's right.

Let's warm up our brains this morning and let's look at these high-frequency words.

Now, remember a high-frequency word is that word we come across often in our reading and writing, and as third graders it's really important that we not only be able to read them but we need to be able to write them and spell them correctly.

So if you see something up here and you think to yourself, "hmm, I might need to practice that one a little bit more."

That's okay, jot it down, put it on a post-it note, practice it while you're brushing your teeth in the morning.

It's super easy, and by the end of the week, you'll have it.

Okay, let's go through and let's read them together.

You read them big and loud at home.

I wanna hear you all the way down here.

Here we go.

Would, work, word, with, wish, will, who, why, white and which, excellent job.

Okay, let's practice these two.

So, we've got would, W-O-U-L-D and work, W-O-R-K. Help me put them in a couple of sentences.

Okay, do you think that would-_-_-_and that-_-_-_be fun.

Okay, well that work be fun doesn't make sense.

But I could say, that would be fun.

And do you think that would work?

What do you think?

Think it works.

Good job, all right.

Let's get started with some of these inflectional endings.

Now, we've been practicing inflectional endings over the last few weeks and inflectional endings are simply when we're adding an -s, -ed or an -ing.

Now, I also have in -es because I want us to remember when we're making a word plural, sometimes we can't just add the -s we need to add -es.

Do you remember when?

That's right, it's when we've got those words that end with -sh, -ch, -x double s. You remember that from few weeks ago?

Okay, good.

So I put it up here just as a little bit of a review as we go through.

Okay, so looking at the word cover, cover there's no E at the end, there's nothing there.

So that's just a single cover.

If we had, if something covers a large area, we simply just add an -s, or she puts lots of covers on at night.

That's what my husband would tell me.

Alright, then wash. We, you know, we did one wash there.

We did many washes, we would add the -es, and why are we adding that -es, that's right?

Because it ends, this word ends with -sh, okay.

So, I'm gonna practice adding an -ed and an -ing to a word, and this word right here is disappear.

And what's really interesting about the word disappear is that you're gonna notice here we have a long /E/ sound at the end.

And so, it really just ends with that consonant, but it has a long vowel sound.

So, there's nothing that we're required to do.

We can just say someone disappeared simply by adding -ed.

Now, here's that tricky part because we can look here, at submit, and we see that submit has a vowel and a consonant but this vowel right here is a short vowel sound.

And so, there's something special we do with our short vowels, do remember?

That's right.

We need to double that final consonant before we add that -ed or -ing.

So submitting, we double that final consonant and then add the -ing.

All right, we're gonna do a little bit of practice with all of that here in just a second.

I have one other thing.

I'm gonna move this out of my way.

One other thing that I do want us to talk about 'cause we've been practicing it in third grade.

It's really big, especially as we get into those multisyllabic words and we're training our brain to see chunks of words, we've been practicing those prefixes, those base words.

We're gonna review a little bit more this week with suffixes.

So the three suffixes we're gonna practice this week are less, full, and able.

Okay, so let's talk about it.

Less means without.

So, if I were to add -less to the base word power, I no longer have power, I'm without power.

I am powerless, good.

And then full simply means full of something.

So, if I have the base word care, and I wanna add the suffix -full, now I am full of care.

And my word is careful.

See how we put that together.

Now we've got the base word approach.

Now, able means that it can be done or it's a good fit or it's good for.

This one happens to be that it's, you can approach something.

Maybe the dog, you know, maybe it's barking, but you know that it's approachable because the tail is wagging.

Okay, so let's go through and let's do a little bit of practice with some of these inflectional endings and suffixes.

Okay, so when we're looking here, this is some great practice on those spelling patterns because remember in third grade, we need to be able to know when we're adding those inflectional endings, how to do the correct spelling.

So we're gonna read each sentence, circle the word with the correct -s, -ed or -ing spelling.

So, let's look right here.

We named our puppy Boots.

Okay, which way do we spell named?

Do I just add the -ed after the word name?

Or do I need to drop that E?

You got it, this is a good review for us.

We wanna make sure that we drop that E. That looks really funny, right?

Okay, how about this one?

He is hoping to win first place.

Which word says the hoping, what do we do when there's an E at the end, before we add that inflectional ending?

Yes, we have to drop that E before we add -ing.

So, it would be right here.

Now, some of you might say, "oh, but that's hoping?"

Okay, what was our rule if it was a short vowel sound?

This has a long vowel, hope.

Let's look and see what it looks like with a short vowel sound.

Someone dropped the vase and broke it.

Here's a short vowel sound.

So this would be droped.

What did we have to do to keep it with a short vowel sound?

Yes, we had to double that final consonant.

Good job, all right.

Last word, my... Oh, last sentence, my little sister races around on her tricycle.

All right, remember when it ends with -e, we're just simply adding that -s. Third grade, you're doing fantastic.

Okay, going down here, we're adding some of our suffixes to our words, and we've got tear.

If we're full of tears, what is our word?

It becomes tearful.

So, we simply add that suffix right on the end of our word.

How about wash and able?

We're able to wash it all the time.

If that shirt is washable, we put it all together and we have the word washable.

Excellent, how about help + less?

Well, we're not gonna be helpful, we're helpless.

So, we're gonna put that together, and that just means that someone is unable to be helpful.

Right, okay.

And how about this final one?

Cheer and full.

So, we're full of cheer, we would say, that girl was very cheerful today when we saw her.

Awesome job.

Okay, let's switch gears one last time.

And we're gonna talk a little bit about homographs.

Now, homo means one, graphs is talking about something that we're seeing in print.

Okay, and so this simply means that they are words that have the same spelling.

There's one spelling, but they have different meanings.

Okay, so you're thinking to yourself.

"Hmm, I need some examples."

Okay, well, let's look at this right here.

What about the word fall?

The word fall can have two different meanings.

It can mean like the season fall, where you have all the leaves that are falling down or it could mean that you fell down the steps, right?

Be careful, we don't want you to fall.

Those have two, that word has two meanings.

It is a homograph.

So, I've got a few of them up here, I want to just practice a little bit.

So, here's one, right here the word is bat.

So think inside your mind you've got the animal bat, as well as a baseball bat.

Okay, so let me show you, so we can practice what this could look like in application.

So, I have the word bear, bear, and bear.

Okay, what comes to mind when you think of that word?

Let's look at some options here.

Does it mean to carry?

Does it mean a big heavy animal with thick fur and a short tail?

Does it mean manage to accept?

Okay, third grade bear can have multiple meanings.

It's a homograph, and we don't know what they're talking about until we look at it in a sentence.

So now let's look at our sentence here.

Jesse was from the country and could not bear to see the garden as it was.

Ooh, is she talking about that animal with thick fur, she could not bear to see?

Bear to see.

Well, doesn't sound like she liked seeing her garden the way that it was.

So, I don't think that she's talking about the animal, I think she's talking about, she's having a hard time managing how to accept that, excellent job.

All right, third grade.

It was fantastic hanging out with you this morning as you're getting ready for school today.

So, remember you're responsible for your learning success.

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

Have a fantastic afternoon, and I look forward to seeing you back here at PBS, bye-bye.

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