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♪ (lighthearted piano music) (upbeat 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.

I was just re-reading one of my favorite books.

This one is pink and say by, Patricia Polacco.

She happens to be one of my favorite authors.

And do you have a favorite author?

You do?

I would love to hear about it, and a great way for you to be able to share that, is by sending, sending me a note to the address that's going to pop up on the screen.

And if you do that and tell me about an author that you love, I'll make sure to put a free activity book in the mail for you.

Just don't forget to include your address.

You can send me @viamail or email and I'll get this out to you.

It's full of mazes and puzzles and all kinds of fun things to do.

But back to those books, if you're interested in finding a book to read, it's really easy to do.

You can do that by visiting your local County library, or by going on and visiting an app here in Fresno Unified, called Sora.

and they got hundreds and hundreds of books to choose from.

Now in Fresno, we love to celebrate those schools that are, kind of the top checkout schools in our district.

And we always do a countdown of the top five.

So let's find out who's in third place.

This last week, it was Wilson elementary.

So great job, Wilson.

We're so excited to see you staying up here on the board.

I think that we've even had Turner and Wilson were here last week.

So you guys are doing a great job.

Now, how do you get your school up on the board?

Super easy.

All you do visit that Sora app.

Check out a book, and then invite a friend or two from class to do the same.

The more kids that are checking out, the more books, then you get your little shout out on our board.

Okay, third grade are you ready to start?

Great, let's go through.

I've got three things we're going to do today.

We're going to talk about inflectional endings, suffixes and root words.

Okay, let's warm up our brains.

I know that it's Wednesday and we're starting to get a little foggy.

So let's do this.

Now remember we're gonna start by looking at our high frequency words.

High frequency words are just that, words that we come across often in reading and writing.

So we wanna make sure can we read them and write them.

If you need to practice them during the week, that's okay.

You're responsible for your learning success.

So practice them.

And I know by Friday you'll have them down.

Let's go through and warm up.

Here we go.

Big, because, Been, black, blue, before, both, best, bring and better.

Okay, I've got two words.

We're gonna to look at today.

Blue, B-L-U-E and before, B-E-F-O-R-E.

Okay, help me use these in a couple of sentences.

Remember to brush your teeth hm bed.

And what makes the sky look hm?

Okay, I'm gonna think about this one for a second.

I've got some context clues here.

What makes the sky look Ooh?

Is it talking about before?

No, it's talking about a color, right?

What makes the sky look blue?

Does the sky look blue to you too?

It sure does.

And remember to brush your teeth, before you go to bed, right?

We wanna make sure we get all those germs off before we get into bed.

Okay, let's get through.

Let's get started.

We're gonna look at those inflectional endings.

Now inflectional endings just are, it's a fancy way of saying we're gonna add S or E-D or I-N-G.

Okay, there is a time and a place where we need to be able to spell those words correctly.

And so that's what we're going to look at today.

We're going to talk about when do you change that?

Y to I, when do we change the spellings?

So let's talk about that.

Let's start by just looking at the inflectional endings.

S and E-D.

Sometimes it's an E-S.

So I kind of put all three.

So S, E-S or E-D, when do we add, what do we do when we add those?

Well, if our word has a vowel followed by a Y, there is no spelling changes.

So I've got two of them right here.

I've got Valley, which has an E-Y and employ which has an O-Y.

So anytime you've got this vowel which is followed by a Y, remember, there's no change.

So let's just make this be valleys.

No change simply means we're gonna just add the S. Employ, if I wanna change it to employed, adding that E-D, no spelling changes.

Just add the E-D. OK, Nothing happens to our base word.

Let's look over here though, because this one says anytime we have a consonant plus a Y, we change the Y to an I before adding our ending.

So we've got puppy has a consonant, and a Y and supply, which has an L-Y.

Okay, so when I want to add S two puppy, and make it be puppies, here's, what's gonna happen.

I've got to change that Y to an I.

And when I do that, I'm gonna add E-S so it becomes puppies.

Same is true with the word supply, because it has that consonant and then a Y.

And I want to make it be supplied, because there's a consonant there.

I have to change my Y to an I before I add my E-D.

So supplied, perfect.

Now, here is a great one.

Super easy.

Whenever we're adding I-N-G to a word that ends with Y, look right here, no spelling changes.

So it doesn't matter if it has a vowel or not vowel.

So let's look at this first one, if I said employ, and I wanna say I'm employing very many people, a whole bunch of people.

I just simply take my base word and I just add it to I-N-G, :employing".

How about supply, and I wanna make it be supplying?

Again, super easy, no spelling changes.

Leave that Y alone and just add I-N-G, excellent.

Okay, let's go over and look at some suffixes.

Now, we've been practicing prefixes, base words and suffixes in the past.

Remember, prefixes are added to the beginning of a word, suffixes are added to the end of the word, and they change the meaning of the word.

The base word, they just stand on their own.

They don't, they have meaning all by themselves.

So when we think of the words like joy, use and add, well, we know that those words just stand alone.

But I can add some suffixes to change the meaning.

So let's talk about what those suffixes mean, because in third grade, we wanna be able to know those multiple, multi-syllabic words when we're adding those suffixes on.

How does it change the meaning of the words?

So, whenever I see less on my, on the end of my word, I'm gonna know that it means "without".

So joyless means what?

That's right, it means it's without joy.

It's a joyless job to take the trash out, right?

It's pretty hard to have been full of joy if you're having to take the trash out.

Okay, how about ful?

Well, ful simply means that it's "full of".

So, here's the word use and I can put ful next to it.

It's full of use.

It's very useful, useful.

So a pencil is very useful when you're trying to take a test.

And how about odd?

And if I want to put "ness", which is the state or condition of, we're in the state of oddness, right?

So someone who is very, very odd.

we could say that they're in a state of oddness.

Okay, let's look at what some of this can look like when we go to practice it.

Okay, it says circle the verb that ends with an S, E-S, E-D or I-N-G. And write the root word on the line.

Okay, have you studied for the spelling test?

Okay, so here's the one that's added the E-D.

So I'm gonna circle it, Now, think how do we spell the word study?

Do we leave it with a Y or with an I?

NO we put the Y back in there.

So study, we're just going backwards today, right?

Okay, mom hurries to the market after work.

Do you see that verb that's got that I-E-S right there?

So how do we spell hurry?

H-U-R-R-I-R Y. I or Y?

You got it.

Do it with a Y, good job.

And how about this one right here?

The wet towels are drying on the fence.

Remember whenever we add I-N-G to a word, it doesn't change its spelling.

So that one's a super easy one, right?

We're just gonna have it dry.

All right.

Then this last one, I really hope we get it.

She replied, how do we spell reply?

Okay, good, R-E-P-L-Y, and we don't put an I, We put the Y back.

Great.

Now here's a little activity that you very easily could do.

As you're reading a book.

Now here, I've got a whole bunch of them.

They're just available for us to sort, but as you're reading a story, if you come across words that end with these suffixes, you could write them down in your own notebook just for practice.

So when I look at worthless, does it go under -ful, -less or -ness?

Well, it's gonna go under -less.

Cause I've got less at the end.

We're just training our brains to see it.

How about loveliness?

You got it.

It's gonna go over here with the -ness.

Countless, where does it go?

Right here with -less.

Nervousness.

Good, are you starting to spot it?

Flavorless.

Good, it's gonna go with the -less.

Delightful, goes with -ful.

Careful, good, Right here.

Politeness, you see the -ness.

Good.

Quietness, Good.

Unsuccessful.

Ooh.

These are some long words that they've got all these prefixes and suffixes, we've been working on.

Doubtless.

Put it right there.

And forgetful.

Excellent job!

Lots of practice.

Let's finish up looking for a root word.

Now that we've done that prefix and suffix work.

Now we're going to find our root word.

So read this sentence with me.

He was unable to complete his work because he was sick.

Okay, can we find the root word?

"unable" Hmm.

Well, if I take away un- what does able mean?

Well, it means that he was somewhat able or not able.

Well able means he was able to do it, Right?

But when I put un- with it, un- means not.

Do you see why we're practicing all of those prefixes and suffixes?

So if he's unable, it means that he was not able to do it.

And I'm just going to flip this one around so we don't see it, right?

So he's not able to do his work because he was so sick.

Awesome job today, third grade.

So thanks for hanging out with me this morning.

As you're getting ready for school, we went through, we practiced our inflectional endings, our suffixes and our root words, and you did a fantastic job.

Remember, you are responsible for your learning success.

So as you come across words with these, go through and practice them, make a list.

You can do it.

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

I hope you have a fantastic day learning.

And I can't wait to see you back here at PBS.

Ready to learn again tomorrow, have a fantastic evening.

Stay safe.

I'll see you here tomorrow.

Bye-bye.

(lighthearted piano 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 ♪ (lighthearted piano music)