♪ 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 ♪ (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.

Today is Tuesday, how exciting is that?

And here's what I'm curious about.

What are you reading?

Is it something fun, something enjoyable?

Did you go down to the county library?

Did you check a book out from your school library?

Did you check out a book on Sora?

Hey, speaking of Sora, we love to celebrate our students here in Fresno Unified that are checking out their books using Sora.

And we've got a countdown that we've been selecting the top five schools with the most books.

Are you curious to see who's in that fourth place today?

I am too, let's go and check it out.

So come over here, and in fourth place, we have Ewing Elementary, great job Ewing, we are so excited to be able to announce and celebrate all of your accomplishments of reading, reading, reading.

Now, if you've been reading a ton of books, and you're ready to take a little bit of a break, I have a great activity workbook that's right here for you to be able to get for free.

All you need to do, is send me a note.

Do you see that address that's popping up down below?

You can send me a note, you can send me an email, but don't forget to include your address, and I'll put a fun activity book for you in the mail and you'll have it for all summer long.

There's coloring pages, there are word searches, all sorts of fun activities.

All right, are you ready third grade to get started for today?

I have three things that we're gonna go through.

We're gonna talk about R controlled vowel team syllables, we're gonna talk about suffixes, and then we're gonna finish off today with context clues.

All right, so, let's get started, let's warm up our brains, let's look at these high-frequency words those words that we see often in our reading and writing, and let's read them together.

If you come across something that you look at and say, hmm, you know, I'm not sure if I can write that on my own.

Guess what?

Be responsible for your learning success.

Jot it down and practice it by Friday, I know you'll have it.

Okay, let's do these together.

You read them with me, here we go.

It's, jump, Keep, just, know, kind, light, laugh, long, and live.

All right, let's go through, I've got two words we're gonna focus on today.

Keep, K E E P, and just, J U S T. All right, help me use these in a couple of sentences.

Read them with me, please, your hands to yourself.

And I, need two more minutes to finish.

All right, what do you think?

Please, just your hands to yourself?

Oh, that doesn't make any sense.

How about please keep your hands to yourself?

Does your mom ever say that?

Oh, my mom used to tell me that when I was young.

How about this one?

I, need two more minutes to finish.

I just I need two more minutes to finish.

Excellent job third grade.

Okay, let's get into those R controlled vowel team syllables.

Now, to remind us what those vowel teams look like, those R controlled vowel teams.

I've got them up here on our chart.

So, we've got A R, E R, I R, O R, U R. And they all have that kind of a unique sound.

You've got ar and er, ir, or, and U R, I can say ur.

Okay, so let's look at some words here and we're gonna divide them into syllables.

But first, we've got to look for those R controlled vowels.

So, when I'm moving looking here, do I see one in my word?

Let me see.

Right here I've got I R, so I know that that's a vowel team.

I'm not gonna split that in my syllable, it sticks together.

Do I have any other vowel sounds?

I do, I have a vowel sound right here.

I've got the U in the middle there, so I know I'm gonna have how many syllables two because every vowel sound, there's one vowel sound per syllable.

So where do I divide this?

If I've got my vowel sound here, and my vowel sound here, I've got a consonant and a consonant, I always know that I must split between my two consonants that are together.

So what's my word?

Cir cus, circus, excellent job.

Okay, so let's look over here.

We've got, I see it right here, here is that R controlled vowel I've got A R, so there's my vowel, and I've got an I, that's my second vowel.

So how many syllables am I gonna have?

Two syllables.

Now, where do I split it?

I've got my consonant here, consonant here, remember we split between our two consonant.

So what is our word?

Ar tist, I did that totally, yes I did.

Oh, third grade, it's okay.

Well this one is one of those words that doesn't follow our rules.

So I'm gonna fix it right here.

The word is art, art, art, ist, and the only reason that I know that is because when I went to do my I sound, I knew it's a short vowel sound in order to make it be a short vowel sound, I needed to have it be a closed syllable there, so that is incorrect, so art ist.

Hey, it's all good, right?

We all make mistakes and it's okay.

Even Mrs. Nix makes them.

That's good, all right, let's go on.

Okay, we're gonna talk about some suffixes.

So to warm us up, I wanna practice some of the suffixes that we've done before.

So we have ous, you say them at home, less good, full, ness, you're beating me, good job.

How about ly, good.

And we're back to ous.

Okay, we're training our brains to be able to see these parts, these small groups of letters that are at the end of words, they change the meaning.

I have two syllables that are two suffixes that we're gonna practice this week.

They are able or able, which simply means that you're able to, and ment which is an active doing something.

So let me show you an example here.

If we have the base word, remember for these words stand on their own.

If I have the base word move, and I wanna put the suffix able, so now I've got moveable, and I almost kind of pronounce it a little bit differently, right?

Moveable, It just simply means that it's able to move.

And how about enjoy, if I wanna put it with ment which is the act of doing something enjoyment is the act of enjoying something.

Excellent job, there you go.

Let's go through and practice some of these R controlled vowel syllables, as well as some suffixes.

Okay, help me out here.

Now, we're gonna read each sentence and circle the R controlled vowel syllable that's in the underlined word.

So here we go, read it with me.

It is so cold this winter.

Can you find the R controlled vowel syllable?

Okay, so here's the R controlled vowel, so the syllable is actually T E R, good job.

Did you see the doctor today?

Where do we see the, there you go, you've got the O R, excellent.

So what's the syllable?

It's gonna be the T O R, excellent.

We polished the silver spoons.

You see it right there, it's got the E R at the end, so we know we're gonna do V E R, is that final syllable?

I got to meet the famous actor.

Ooh, there's an O R, so T O R is our final syllable.

Last one, I'm gonna let you do on your own at home, but let's read it, my report on frogs is due today.

Do you see that R controlled syllable?

You got it.

Okay, let's go down here, we're practicing those two suffixes.

We've got able, which means that you're able to do something and ment which means the act of doing something.

Now it says right here, read each word and circle the suffix, then write the root word on the line.

Okay, so help me, if I'm looking at this word comfortable, comfortable, where's my suffix.

That's right, able is my, or able is my suffix and I think we were supposed to circle it.

Yep, let me fix that.

So what's my base word?

Comfort, so I'm gonna write that on the line just so we can see it, comfort is my base word.

Let's look here because this one can be a little bit tricky.

We've got likable, do you see the suffix?

You are so smart?

Yes, able is the suffix, now, is lik, is that spelled correctly?

No, what do I need to add?

You got it, I had to add the E. So sometimes we drop that final E when we're adding our suffix.

How about movement?

Do you see the suffix?

Yes, ment is our suffix we're working on, so what's our base word?

Move, that was an easy one, right, good job.

Okay, let's finish out today with a little bit of context clues.

All right, what are contexts clues?

Do you remember?

We've talked about them.

Yeah, that's right.

There are those things, those clues that authors give us to help us figure out what a word might mean in a sentence.

And there's lots of ways that an author can do this to help us understand.

Let's look at an example today.

Now there is a concern for bees.

Concern, I wonder what concern means.

People are worried, the number of bees is going down.

So, if people are concerned, what do you think that means?

Well, the author gave us a context clue.

The author actually defined for us in the following sentence, what concern means?

Let's look, see if we can spot it.

Now there is a concern for bees.

People are worried, worried.

Yes, and so I'm gonna take my little line here, and I'm gonna underline it, 'cause that's like my, I'm finding my text evidence, right?

And the number of bees is going down.

So let me look, do I have this as one of my choices?

I had happiness, does concern mean happiness?

Does it mean curiosity or does it mean to worry?

That's right, when you're concerned about something or someone you tend to worry about them.

All right, and people are worried about the bees.

We wanna make sure that we're taking care of our bees.

All right, third grade, fantastic job today, We have done three different things.

We went over those R controlled vowel teams.

I wanna see if you can find some of those today while you are reading, jot them down, practice them.

The other would be we went through and we practice those suffixes.

Did you jot some of them down so you can find them in your words as you're reading today?

I figured you did, you're so smart, I love it.

And then finally our context clues and I know that you're doing that.

So keep it up, so, remember your responsible for your learning success.

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

Now have a fantastic day, have a great afternoon.

I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow at PBS so we can do it all again, take care, bye-bye.

(upbeat 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 ♪ (upbeat music)