♪ 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 and I am so excited to be here with you, to support you as you become amazing thinkers, readers, and writers.

This morning, I was reading one of those stories that's done by my most favorite illustrator.

Do you remember who his name is?

That's right.

David Catrow.

So this one's called "Wet Dog".

And do you remember what an illustrator does?

You got it.

They're the ones who draw all of the pictures and I love the pictures that are drawn by David Catrow.

They're so much fun.

They're so silly.

All kinds of fun, fun things that are on here.

And this one's just about a dog, the life of a dog, a day in the life of a silly dog.

And so if you're ever looking for just a fun book, maybe something to read right before you go to bed I highly recommend this particular one.

Now the author is Elise Broach.

So you can check that out.

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

You can go to your County library and check that book out.

Or you can go online and check out check out a book on Sora.

Now, speaking of Sora here in Fresno Unified we love to cheer on our students who are checking out their books.

And we even have a list that we keep for the whole week about schools who are the top checking out schools.

So in fifth place, this last week we had Mayfair Elementary.

You guys are doing a fantastic job.

So I'm gonna add you right here to our poster and we'll watch throughout the whole week as to who is going to make it onto our poster.

Now what's really fun with this, is that it's really easy to do.

All you need to do is go on Sora and check out books, right?

Maybe tell a friend, "Hey, check out some books so we can get our school name up on our poster".

All right, I have one other thing I wanna talk with you that's super fun that we do here at PBS, in our PBS classroom.

And that's a really fun activity book.

This one's full of puzzles and stickers and games.

And if you would like a really fun activity book like this, it's free.

All you need to do is send a letter to this address that's there on the screen, or send me an email but don't forget to include your address so I know where to send this.

And I know you will have so much fun, all right.

Are we ready to get started this morning?

Excellent.

Okay, so I have three things that we are gonna go through today.

We're gonna look at some variant vowels.

We're gonna look at related words and then we're gonna finish off with a little bit of comprehension which are, where we're gonna be using some root words and some prefixes and putting it all together for that comprehension.

Are you ready to start our day?

Okay, let's warm up those brains by looking at those high frequency words.

Now remember high frequency words are those words you come across often in your reading and writing.

So it's really important that you not only be able to read them but you need to be able to write them.

So if you come across a word today and you go, "Ooh, I don't know if I can spell that one all by myself".

Jot it down.

Remember, your responsible for your learning success.

So are you ready?

Let's go.

Let's read them.

Now, you read them at home, big and loud.

Ready?

Same, said, round, run, right, ride, woo, do you know this one?

It could be read or read, if you read either of those, it would be correct.

So read and red, red, put and ran, nicely done.

Let's start with these first two that are right here.

We've got same, S-A-M-E and said S-A-I-D. Now, said is one of those words that we often misspell, right?

Especially if you're not really thinking about it because it's not phonetically spelled correctly.

So think about that.

Remember it?

Maybe jot it down.

All right, helping you some in a couple of sentences.

So mom hmm we can go outside.

Hmm.

Here's the other one.

Look, we are wearing the hmm shirt.

Okay, which one do we think?

Mom same week ago outside.

That doesn't make sense.

Mom said we can go outside.

And look we're wearing the same shirt.

You know what boys and girls, I have a really funny thing.

I walked in today into our PBS Studio and the secretary at the front desk was wearing this same sweater.

It was really kinda fun to see somebody wearing the same thing.

So it happens.

It does.

Okay, let's get started today.

I've got, like I said those three things we're gonna go through, I wanna start with those variant vowels.

And really a variant vowel is just a different vowel sound that we're gonna make.

And I've got a bunch of spelling patterns that go with them.

It's a little bit of review.

You guys have seen these before, but let's get started.

So I have two sound spelling cards with me today.

I have the spoon card to remind me of the oo sound.

say oo.

Okay, now let's look at all these different ways that we can spell that oo sound.

So we have oo, that says oo like in this word here, spoon and drool.

We can have oo, like in spelled ew like in chew and grew.

How about this one?

U-e, it says ue, like in tube and plume, are you reading these at home?

Good job.

Ue can also say oo, like in this word due.

Like your library book is due and true.

And how about this?

U just by itself, /f/, future.

Future, good.

And cupid, hey cupid.

We've got Valentine's day coming up.

So that's an important word to know, right?

How about ui?

Says oo, like in fruitful and suitcase and ou can say like in soup and cougar.

Oh my goodness.

That was a lot of oo sounds right.

Okay, here's my other sound spelling card that I brought with us today.

The book card, book, oo, it's almost like I love it.

Mrs. Hammock talks about it, it's like getting a little punch in the stomach, but do we punch people in the stomach?

No, we know better than that.

But it's still, that seems sound right.

/o/, okay.

So here's a couple of spellings that go with that.

We've got oo, like hook and look and ou, like could and should, nicely done.

Okay, so the other piece that I want us to be able to go over and talk about today are related words and related words they share a common root or base word.

So what do I mean by that.

I want us to look at these words that I have written on this pink sentenced up right here.

So what do we have?

We have active, actor, action, activity, react.

Where there some, was there a little part of the word in each of these words that's the same?

So here are some root words down here.

I have act and weak, create, company and wrap.

Did you see act in all of these?

Yeah, so act actually means to do, it means something to do.

So active means that you're doing something.

If you're active and actor, is somebody who's performing.

So you can start to find a little bit of meaning.

But today what we're gonna do is we're gonna start out by practicing, finding some of those related words.

Okay, let's go back and let's look at some of those variant vowels, we'll practice with that and then we're gonna practice with our related words.

Okay, let's look.

So we're gonna read the words in each row and circle the word that has the same vowel sound as the word in bold.

And then it says the first one has been done but it hasn't been, you're gonna do it with me.

Here we go.

So let's look at it.

We've got, Oh, look, they're all the same spelling.

So do I just circle them all?

No, we have to listen.

We have to use our ears.

So what is this first word?

Gloom.

Good, gloom.

So we've got spoon and nook.

So which one has the same sound as gloom?

Spoon or nook?

You got it.

It's spoon, good.

Shook, loop and look.

Ah, you guys are so smart.

Look at that.

How about this one?

Flew, grew, is this good?

No, that's good, oo.

No, so it's not gonna be good.

It's gonna be grew has the same sound, good.

Soup, cook, group.

Yes group and soup have the same ou.

Could, would, glue.

Well, that has the ou sound.

So, would and could have the same vowel sound, nicely done.

Okay, let's look at some of those related words.

Let's see if we can find them.

So we're looking at these, we're gonna read the words in each row and place an X over the word that is not related.

Okay, so we've got starfish, starry and strong.

Did you see a word in there that kinda looks the same?

I see it's right here.

Star and star.

So strong does not belong, good.

How about writer, wrap and writing.

Did you hear a word that's use or see a word that's similar?

Yeah, wrap doesn't belong but these both have writing in there or write.

How about bicycle, backpack, backdoor.

Ah, nice.

See that back, back, back.

Bicycle doesn't have that in there.

Excellent, let's do the last one.

Parking, pouring and ballpark.

Do you see that park in both of them?

Yeah, excellent job.

Excellent job.

Okay, so as we're getting ready to finish out, I wanna show you a couple of things.

We're gonna practice them as the week continues but I have a sentence that's right here.

And I want us to put a word and we're gonna find a root word and add a prefix to it.

So here we go.

Without my coat on, I find the cold weather is, now I have some choices.

It's perfect, it's possible, heat, sense or bearable.

So watch this.

If I put bearable, am I finished?

Not really.

I'm gonna need a prefix to go with it because, it says right here, without my coat on, I find the cold weather is, do you find the cold weather bearable?

Probably not.

So look up here.

We would take a prefix "not" and we would put on bearable.

It becomes unbearable.

Excellent.

So see how easy that was to put that there.

That's gonna help us become amazing thinkers and readers.

Okay, boys and girls.

I just wanna say, thanks 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.

Have a great day.

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

Have a good one, I'll see you then.

Bye-bye.

(upbeat music) ♪ 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)