♪ 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 ♪ (whistling) (upbeat music) (whistling) - Good morning, third grade.

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

This morning, I was looking at one of my favorite books.

It's about a very famous baseball player, Jackie Robinson.

Jackie Robinson was extremely brave, not only just with baseball, but a great story as being a dad this one's called, "Testing the ice".

And if you wanna find more about Jackie Robinson and how he was brave, then I recommend checking out this book.

Now there's a couple of different ways that you can do that.

You can visit your local County library, or check it out on Sora.

It's an app that we use here in Fresno unified and we love to celebrate our schools that are checking out books using, the Sora app.

In fact, we count down those top five and in third place this week is Wilson Elementary.

So great job Wilson.

It's super easy.

All you need to do to get your school's name up on our shout-out board, is to simply check out books on Sora and then encourage a friend or two.

Okay, the second thing that I wanna make sure that I remind everybody about are our activity books.

So, you're gonna see an address, it's gonna pop up on the screen down below and you simply need to send me an email or send me a note and don't forget to include your return address and then I will make sure that one of these activity books, gets put in the mail for you, and remember, did I say?

It's free, right?

So why would you not do it?

Alright, today I have the three things that we're gonna go through and talk about, we have our common roots, closed syllables and context clues.

Let's warm up those brains, by looking at those high frequency words, those words that we come across often in our reading and writing and in third grade, we really wanna make sure that we're using them appropriately.

Okay we're gonna talk about that one especially today, we have a little homophone action that's gonna happen.

So let's go through let's read them.

Here we go, should, would, yellow, years, you're, your, write, right, laugh and does.

Okay, so our two words right here are you're and your they sound the same.

So I've got Y-O-U-R, and then the contraction, Y-O-U apostrophe R-E. Do you remember what this one, this contraction stands for?

That's right.

It stands for two words, what are those two words?

You, yes are, you are.

Okay, if you know that little trick, in the back of your mind, I know you're gonna figure out which your goes with which sentence.

Okay, help me out, let's go through, you forgot your lunch at home.

I can say your, you're gonna help me with the spelling right?

You forgot your lunch at home and she will ask you when you're ready.

Okay, so you said this contraction is short for you are let's try reading it with both words.

You forgot you are lunch at home?

Oh, that doesn't make any sense.

So it's not gonna be the contraction, it's just gonna be Y-O-U-R, your lunch and she will ask you when you are ready, if we break it apart.

Nice job.

That's a great strategy, when you are doing any sort of little assessment.

It's a great way to do a little checking for understanding, so great job.

Let's look at some of those common roots.

Now, remember common roots are or a root word is just the smallest, most simplest form of a word, and sometimes it's just a part of a word and it has meaning but it doesn't usually stand necessarily on its own.

So here's an example, N-U-M is not really a word, but it means number and so you can use N-U-M to build words like numeral and number and renumber.

So when ever you see that root, you know that these words are all related and they all are gonna have to do something with numbers, right?

Okay, we can look at it another way too.

So ped, P-E-D means foot.

So anytime that you see this P-E-D, this root in different words you're gonna know it has to do something with your foot.

So here's one, pedestrian.

Do you see the P-E-D?

Pedestrian, just simply means someone who's walking on their feet and pedal, what part of your body do you use when you're pedaling?

That's right, your foot.

Okay, great thinking today.

Let's go through, I'm gonna switch up our gears just a little bit and talk about syllables.

Now, the beginning of the year we talked about six different syllable types.

Today, we're looking at this closed syllable.

We know a closed syllable it's gonna have a short vowel sound, it's either gonna have that consonant, vowel, consonant or you're gonna see some vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel and I'm gonna talk to you about what that looks like right here.

All right.

So, I've got some words down here that we're gonna do this with.

How many vowels sounds are in a syllable.

That's right just one there's one in each syllable.

So the first thing that we wanna do is we wanna look for vowels and we're just gonna mark 'em.

So in this word right here, how many vowels do you see?

Oh, well, what's a vowel?

A, E, I, O and U good okay.

So O is a vowel so I'm gonna underline it cause I see two of them right here, right?

Okay and to remember that they're vowels I'm gonna put V for vowel over the top.

Now in between, if they're not vowels what kind of letter are they?

They're consonants so I'm gonna put C for consonant.

So anytime I have a vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel I'm gonna be able to divide my word between my two consonants and my vowels are going to be short.

So I've got fol low, follow, good, let's do it again.

A, E, I, O, U oh, yep I see there is an E, there is an E so those are my vowels, I'm gonna mark them with Vs and these two letters in between are consonants and I'm gonna split my two consonants and then I've got short vowels cause they're closed syllables vel vet, velvet.

Last one, we've got right here are you starting to see the pattern?

Good, A, E, I, O, U.

We're looking for those vowels I've got two of them I'm gonna say vowel, vowel, these are two consonants, split the consonants, what's our word kit ten, two syllables.

Great job.

What does that look like when we go through and we wanna practice it?

So this is something that you could be asked to do in some sort of an assessment or maybe your teacher's checking your understanding and so right here we're looking it says, circle the words that have two closed syllables.

Okay, then divide the word into those two syllable parts using just a line, okay.

So let's look right here so we're kind of looking for that pattern.

How many vowels?

Can we divide our two consonants together, so does this have two closed syllables?

Let's look, you know what I'm gonna do blue instead of black oops 'cause it's already in black, so let me put vowel, vowel, consonant, consonant and I can split it right there, basket.

Do I get that same thing over here?

R-E, okay, so here's my vowel, here's my vowel, I have vowel, vowel and I only have one F so I have vowel, consonant, vowel.

So I don't, this would be a, this would be a short vowel or I mean a long vowel because it is a, an open syllable.

So this is not what we're looking for we're looking for ones that have closed.

So again, finding those vowels splitting when there's two consonants in between kinda makes it a little on the easier side.

Robot, doesn't have the two consonants between the vowels, do you see it?

All right.

Then, let's do one last one.

I've got tiny.

Hmm, no, I don't see and I've just have the one vowel right there how about in problem?

Yeah, I've got an O and an E So I've got my two vowels, I've got my two consonants right there, I can split them, I've got problem right there, two closed syllables.

Okay, let's look down below, we're gonna jump down and start talking about some of those related words.

So right here it says, related words have a common root or base word read each set of words and circle the related words.

So we're looking for those common things.

I love that this one is gonna use the word we just practiced so it has pedal, scouting and pedestrian.

What was our root word we just talked about?

Do you remember?

That's right, ped.

So pedal and pedestrian both have ped, that's our common root word.

Okay, let's look down here, geology, geography and graceful.

Now they all start with the letter G but that's not enough.

What do we see?

We see geo and geo, so these two words are related.

They're not related to graceful, awesome.

Last one matter, magnify and magnificent.

Did you see something that's the same?

Yes, they both have this n and it's actually M-A-G-N to have to do with being the size, it's large.

Okay, let's finish off today by talking about some context clues.

Now, authors often times when they're going through and they're, doing some writing they're giving you some words that you may not know.

So let's look and see if we can figure out using the context, the words that are around it if they can help us out, all right.

People who lost their homes and everything they owned after a hurricane, were the victims most affected by the storm.

So what does the word victims, does it mean scientists or people suffering?

So think about it.

What happened to these victims.

That's right.

They are people who lost their homes.

Okay, they lost everything so I don't think that they were necessarily scientists, they were people who were suffering, right?

Excellent job.

Okay, third grade, we went through today three different things we talked about our common roots, we talked about closed syllables and we finished off with those context clues.

I know as you are practicing your reading tonight, you can start practicing and finding context clues to help you out.

All right, 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.

I can't wait to see you back here tomorrow.

Have a good one.

Take care bye bye.

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