♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat music) - Teeth from the mouth, oh my, ew!

Ew!

3rd grade, I am reading a hilarious book.

This one's called "Rotten Teeth" and I am telling you right now, rotten teeth from real mouths, ew!

You know what, if you are looking for an awesome book to read, here is one that I highly recommend, and look who's the illustrator!

My favorite illustrator, David Catrow.

So such funny, silly pictures in here.

I just adore it, and I highly recommend it.

How can you check out books like this and others?

You can go online or go visit your local county library, your school library, or go online and visit our Sora app here in Fresno Unified and check out out through there.

Now, if you've been checking out your books through Sora, then you may be well aware of what we've been tracking this last week.

We've been looking at the number of minutes students have been reading their books and adding them all together and figuring out which schools have the highest number of minutes all combined.

And we've just been looking at our elementary schools, and do you want to know, we've counted down the top five schools in our school district, so let's look and see who is in 4th place this week.

So if we look up here on our chart, in 4th place for the highest number of minutes read is Turner Elementary, so great job Turner, we are so proud of you, of all the minutes that you and your friends have been reading, that's awesome.

So speaking of books and things to do, here's another great activity that you can do.

We have activity books down here at PBS, super easy to get.

You're gonna an address pop up at the bottom of our screen.

You can send me a note here to the PBS studio and I will pop one of these in the mail for you for free, and then you can do all sorts of games and puzzles.

It's super easy to do.

Like I said, all you need to do is let me know that you're interested in receiving it.

Maybe you want to tell me a book that you've been reading and that you recommend to your other 3rd grade friends.

I'd love to share it here on the air.

All right, are we ready to start today?

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

We're gonna talk about prefixes today, we're gonna talk about related words, and we're gonna finish up with a little comprehension around root words.

You ready to start?

Okay.

Let's get those brains up and warmed up this morning.

We've got our high frequency words, we're gonna read through those, we're gonna use them in a couple of sentences.

You ready to start?

Okay, big and loud, you're gonna read it at home, I'm gonna read it here in the studio, let's go.

Always, about, am, after, again, an, all, and, another, also.

Great job, 3rd grade.

So we've got two of them we're gonna focus on today.

We have am, which is A M, and after, A F T E R. Let's use them in a couple of sentences here.

You read those sentences big and loud at home.

Here we go.

I, mm, so excited that spring is here!

Hmm.

And, let's have dessert, mm, dinner tonight.

Great job, okay.

So I after so excited?

Hmm, that doesn't make sense.

Let's try it with am.

I am so excited that spring is here!

Are you excited spring is here?

I know I am.

Let's have desert after dinner tonight.

Did you know that this words dessert, I want to just talk about it real fast, it looks just like desert.

Desert has one S, but I want to tell you, I always remember dessert, my 3rd grade teacher said it has two esses for two scoops, that's how we remember.

So I always like to share those little bits of tidbits.

Hopefully that helps you remember the difference between dessert and desert.

Okay, let's start.

We're gonna work on prefixes.

Now, prefixes are those little clumps of letters, little grouping of letters at the beginning of a word that can change the whole meaning of our word.

So I put up several of our prefixes that we're focusing on this week.

We have five different prefixes, so I put up five base words that we can practice manipulating their meanings.

So base words are words that can stand on their own.

They independent, they don't need anything.

So let's read our base words first just so that we can kind of get an idea of what words we're working with today, so read them big and loud at home, here we go.

Tied, count, view, sell, and lead.

Okay, you did a great job reading those.

Let's go through and let's add a prefix and change the meanings of them.

So when I look here, if I've got tied and I think about my shoes are tied, if I add the prefix un, which means not, what is my new word gonna say, and what is my new word gonna mean?

Let's talk about it.

Here's my new word, read it together.

Untied.

What does untied mean?

Well it just simply means my shoes are not tied.

Great.

So how about dis?

Dis means not.

So we've got count, so I'm gonna count everything, right?

And if I, say, add dis at the beginning, now it's my new word, discount.

Discount means that I'm not counting a piece of it, there's, maybe something went on sale, it's been discounted.

There's been some piece of the money that's been removed, right?

And we're not gonna count it.

I have pre, which means before, so if I'm viewing something, I'm looking at something, if I add pre, let's put it together, what's our new word?

Preview, that means I'm viewing it before.

Maybe I need to preview the movie as a teacher before I show it to students, it means I'm gonna watch it first.

How about re?

Re means again.

Let's talk about sell.

Well, I'm gonna sell something, that means someone's gonna come over and buy it.

Now, what if I resell something?

That means that I'm selling it again.

And then lead, okay, if I'm the leader of the line, maybe I'm taking you somewhere, but look here, what if I put mis, which means wrong, and I mislead the group?

Oh my goodness, that would be a mess, right?

That wouldn't be good.

Okay, so those are our prefixes for this week, and then the 2nd piece that we're working on are related words.

Now, words that share a common root or base word, those are called related words.

So we're training our brains to find those little chunks.

It's important that we can identify the prefixes and the suffixes, and it's also important that we can find our base words, and using related words can help us do that.

So let's look at these three words.

We have viewer, viewing, and preview.

What do they all have in common?

Well, what's our base word that we see in all three of them?

Do you see view, view, and view?

So what do they, how are they all related?

Well, they all have to do with something that we're seeing.

We're talking about the viewer, the person who is watching, maybe this is the action word because it's got the I N G, they are viewing it, and then preview.

Remember, we talked about that you're seeing it before.

Great job.

So what might some of that look like if we were to practice our prefixes and related words in a worksheet?

Well, up at the top I have all of my prefixes that we've been practicing written up here, so if I get stuck I can come up and I can look to see, you know, what does un and dis or pre, what do they mean?

So we can refer back to those.

In here in the middle, it's gonna give me some instructions, and it says, draw a line from each word to the correct meaning, so let's try some, see what we can come up with.

Let's look at our first one.

We have prepaid.

What's our prefix that we see here?

We see pre.

What does pre mean again?

I can look up here.

Pre means before, so it's paid before.

Let's look and see if we find something that talks about paying before.

Not lucky, to lead wrongly, no, to not like, no, paid before.

Do you see it?

There it is.

So let's draw a line right here, because paid before goes with prepaid.

How about this one?

Resell.

Okay, training our brains.

Do we see that prefix?

Right there at the beginning, we've got re.

What's our base word?

Sell.

What does re mean again?

Oh, that's funny, I said what does it mean again, and let's look up here, what does it mean?

It means again, so we're gonna sell it again.

Let's look and see, do we see to sell again?

(gasps) You guys are so good, there it is, to sell again.

So I'm gonna draw a connecting line, excellent.

Let's do one more.

Unlucky.

What's our prefix?

Un.

And what does on un mean?

This is one I'm pretty familiar with, and I know it means it's not, so unlucky means that it's not lucky.

Do we see it?

Yeah, right there, good job.

Okay, let's jump down and let's look at the bottom.

So we're gonna tak a little bit about those related words.

Remember, those common roots and base words, and see how they're related.

Okay, so it says for each pair of related words, choose a word from the box that is the common root or the base word for each pair of words, and we're gonna write that on the line.

So looking here, we have, what's our first word?

Unhappy and happiness.

What word did we hear in both of them?

Did we see fold, view, like, kind, or happy?

Unhappy, happiness.

Oh, 3rd grade, you're so smart.

Yes, we saw happy in both of those words.

How about review and preview?

Oh, that was like what we just practiced earlier.

That's an easy one, right?

It's got view in both of those, so they are related.

How about number three?

Folding and unfold.

Perfect, what do we see?

The both have the word fold right there.

Unfold, folding, so they both have the word fold.

They have to do with folding of some sort.

Excellent, let's finish up today just talking a little bit about those root words.

We've talked about prefixes, related words, let's talk about root words, because we want to pull those prefixes and suffixes off, because that's gonna help us understand what the words are.

Let's look at our sentence.

Our sentence is, they saw literacy as a means of empowerment and social advancement.

Oh my goodness, there's so much here.

Let's start with this word empowerment.

Now, empowerment, let's find that root word.

We take off that suffix ment, which means that it's...

I forget what it even means.

It means it's a condition.

Perfect.

Thank you, 3rd grade.

So a condition of being given power, 'cause empower means to give power.

So it's a condition of being given power.

Let's look here, excitement?

No.

It means to give power, and then we have our suffix, a condition of giving power.

So literacy, reading, can really make you be able to have power over your social advancement, how you do in life, right?

So that's why we're here, 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 listen, ask questions, and share your ideas, because together we can do so much more.

I can't wait to see you back here tomorrow at PBS so that we can practice prefixes, related words, root words.

We're gonna do it.

I'll see you then.

Have a great afternoon.

Take care, bye bye.

(upbeat 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 ♪