♪ 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 strumming) (bright music) (whistling) - Good morning 3rd graders.

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

It's Friday, and I am so excited to be able to go through and finish up what we've been working all week long on, and that's been that writing process.

We've been talking about writing a book review.

Now I'm gonna kinda just do a little duck walk for a second, because if you're thinking about writing a book review, what do you need to do?

Read a book.

That's right, absolutely.

So if you need a book to read there are some great places to do that.

You can do it with your local County Library, your school library, or you can go online.

And if you're here in Fresno Unified, check out a book using the Sora app, okay.

So today we're gonna do a couple of things.

We're gonna warm up our brains looking at those high-frequency words.

We're gonna talk about some grammar with the pronouns and then we're gonna finish up and do the final publishing piece with our book review that we've been working on all week.

You ready to start?

Okay, let's get started.

So let's start by warming up that brain looking at those high frequency words and remember, all of these words are all the words that we have been practicing the last five weeks.

There are 50 words, we've been doing 10 of them a day, and you guys are amazing.

Now, is it okay if there's a word or two on here that maybe you need a little more practice?

Because remember in 3rd grade we need to not only be able to read them, but write them.

Absolutely, just make sure you jot it down and practice it.

You're responsible for your own learning success and I know you can do it.

All right, let's go through, let's warm it up.

You read them big and loud at home and I'm gonna read 'em here in the studio.

Ready, let's go.

Full, from, funny, gave, get, give, goes, go, good, going.

Nicely done 3rd grade.

Okay, let's talk about some of that grammar that we're gonna practice today.

We've been talking about pronouns.

Now pronouns take the place of a noun.

And so things like, we, she, him, those are all pronouns.

If we always said Mrs. Nix likes school, Mrs. Nix teaches class, Mrs. Nix, Mrs.

Okay, it just becomes so boring to listen to all the time, right?

We don't wanna say Mrs. Nix all the time.

That's where a pronoun comes in and helps us out.

We can substitute that pronoun for the noun.

There's some rules though in 3rd grade that we wanna talk about and be aware of as we're writing.

Now today, we wanna talk about, don't confuse those possessive pronouns with contractions.

Oh my goodness, how could we mix those up?

Well, let's talk about it.

The words it's with an apostrophe S, you're with an apostrophe, R, E, and they're with an apostrophe, R, E. Those are contractions.

They have an apostrophe that stands for letters that are left out.

But the words its, your and their are possessive pronouns.

They do not have apostrophes.

So pay attention when you're spelling a contract.

Make sure the apostrophe is in the correct place.

So here we go.

We wanna go through and we wanna write a C if it is a contraction, if the underlined word is a contraction, and we wanna write a P, if it's a possessive pronoun.

So looking at this very first one, read it with me.

I hope it's not too late to enter the science fair.

My rule of thumb, something I always like to do is, when I see that contraction, I always try and put in both words.

So I hope it is not too late to enter the science fair.

Yes, that is a contraction.

Also it has an apostrophe.

that's kind of an easy way to see it, right?

All right, let's do the next one.

Lin and Gary showed me their science project.

Ooh, it's their science project.

That is a possessive pronoun.

So I'm gonna put a P. How of this one?

I want to ask if they're finished with it.

Just like I said before, when you see that apostrophe, let's put in the words they are.

I want to ask if they are finished with it.

Yep, it's a contraction.

That is an easy to check.

Okay, how about this one down below?

It says complete each sentence with the correct contraction or possessive pronoun in the parentheses.

So we know that the word you're, is gonna go into the sentence, but which one?

The contraction or the possessive pronoun.

I like your new backpack.

Ooh, that shows possession, right?

It belongs to you, so it's your.

We don't wanna have a contraction there.

How about, they're going to pick us up at noon.

Here's that trick.

If you use it where you use both words in the contraction they are, they are going to pick us up at noon.

Does that make sense, it sure does.

So then I know this has to be the contraction they're.

Okay, I don't think it's going to rain today.

Again, practice breaking that contraction apart.

I don't think it is going to rain today.

So, it's with the contraction, apostrophe S. Make sure you're paying attention, where does that apostrophe go?

We don't want this one it doesn't go at the end.

Excellent job 3rd grade.

It's Friday, let's do this.

Okay, so today we're gonna finish up talking about that book review.

So I wanna talk about our poster that talks about all the pieces that we're looking for in a book review.

What is a book review?

Well, it states the writer's opinion about a book.

It provides a short summary about a book.

It gives clear reasons that support the writer's opinion, and it often ends with a recommendation to readers.

So these are the components that are found within a book review.

Now, (clears throat) I'm gonna pull this back over.

We've talked about our writing process all week.

We started out at the beginning of the week, we talked about planning, writing a rough draft, revising.

Yesterday we edited, and now we're finally finished and we get to publish.

So what are the pieces that go into publishing?

I wanna talk about what yours is gonna look like.

I'm gonna do a little bit backwards from yesterday but I wanna talk about what you're going to include.

And then we're gonna look at the final draft of our model.

Okay, so when we publish, that simply means that we're looking for a clean, neat, final copy.

You can type it if you want or just use nice handwriting.

You wanna make sure that there's no scribble marks on it, that it looks nice and clean.

You might choose to include a little bit of multimedia.

Maybe you want some illustrations or some photos, a video, something to make it interesting, it's yours.

How are you gonna showcase it?

And then when you go to publish it, there's a couple of different ways.

You can do it by print or you can do it digitally.

So let's talk about some options for print.

So, maybe you wanna do it as a book talk or you're gonna do it in a class magazine.

So something where you are typing it up and putting it together.

Digitally, simply means kinda like what we've been doing all year.

We've been on the computer online, right?

So you could do an online review blog or you could even do a video presentation where you record yourself reading it.

Then it becomes to the time to be able to present.

Now, this is that part where you prepare and rehearse.

Just like what I'm doing here in PBS is, I'm always practicing and thinking about what it is I wanna say to my friends in 3rd grade about how to do things.

So you would wanna practice just with yourself at home.

And then you may also wanna include, why you chose the topic or why you chose the book that you're gonna do the review on.

Maybe you really enjoyed it, or maybe you really did not enjoy it.

And then after you've done all of these things, now it's time to really reflect and think about how you did.

So you might wanna evaluate yourself.

We've got some rubrics, I'm gonna show you those today and how you can use that.

And then reflect, how did you do.

So where have you shown improvement, and what are some areas that you can show some further improvements some areas where you might need to do a little bit of work because remember, you are responsible for your learning success.

So in 3rd grade, we wanna make sure that you are doing your best all the time.

Okay, that final draft, let's take a look at it.

Do you remember what it looked like before all scribbly and a mess?

Now, it's nice and clean.

And all of the errors that we went through and we marked up on our paper are gone.

So let's go through, we're gonna read a little bit of it and finish up our day.

All right, "Antarctica, Life in the Cold."

I just finished reading "Antarctica, Life in the Cold", a book about wildlife in the Antarctic.

I usually enjoy learning new things but I did not like reading this book.

While its writer discussed many interesting animals, he did not go into much detail about many of them.

In some places, the writing is very repetitive and boring.

Do we know how the writer felt?

Yes, clearly they didn't care much for this book.

Let's find out some of the summary and some of the reasons, here we go.

First, the writer talks about penguins.

He tells how penguins keep warm by huddling together and because of the soft feathers on their skin.

Then, the writer mentions that penguins survive in the cold by catching fish.

For example, he does not provide enough information about the penguins.

He does not tell how the penguins can swim, how they can catch fish or, about the dangers that they face.

I knew more about penguins from writing a research report last year.

Next, the writer talks about seals.

In this section, the writer provides a good amount of details about the lives of seals in the Arctic.

He goes into much greater detail than he did with the penguins.

But, the writing is repetitive and boring.

The writer begins several sentences in a row with the word, the.

Finally, the writer talks about whales.

He tells about how they keep warm, how they breathe, and what they eat.

Instead of trying to make the section interesting, the writer really just writes a list of facts.

I would not recommend "Antarctica, Life in the Cold" because the writing is weak and there is not a whole lot of information about wildlife in Antarctica.

Many other books are available about these animals and you can find more interesting information on the web.

So 3rd grade, did this writer enjoy the book, no.

However, did they enjoy learning about Arctic animals, yes.

So, it's not your opinion about what the book is about, it's really to focus on how did the author do in presenting the information to you as a reader.

Okay, your book report can go lots of different ways.

You can like how the author is presenting things, or you can disagree.

But you have to support with those reasons.

Now, a great thing to do is to be reflective and to think about using a rubric, how did you do.

So looking on here, did our writing share an opinion about a book that supports the opinion with reasons, yes.

Did it provide a summary of the book, yep.

How about a strong conclusion that offers a detailed recommendation?

Yep, that was there too.

All right, so as you look through, we've got things like linking words, bits and pieces that we had talked about that all come together to make a book review just that much more powerful.

It's Friday guys, and I am so excited that I got to hang with you all week long and talk about book reviews.

I'm so excited to see what your book review is going to look and sound like.

And if you wanna share it to me, there's gonna be an address that's gonna pop up at the bottom of the screen and you are more than welcome to send it to me, I'd love to see it.

You guys have a great weekend, I will see you back here next week.

Take care, bye-bye.

(guitar strumming) ♪ 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 strumming)