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Hi there, and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss, I love spelling, and I'm really looking forward to teaching you.

With you today, you need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains.

As well as that, something to write with and write on and someone or something to talk to would be great as well.

Let's get right into today's spelling lesson then.

In today's lesson, we're going to practise and apply spelling adjectives using the suffix Y.

The outcome will be, "I can spell adjectives using the suffix Y." Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you saying these back to me.

Suffix, root word, noun, adjective, consonant.

Please keep an eye and an ear out for these in today's learning.

So let's have a little chat about what these mean then.

A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.

A root word is the base word from which other words are formed, often by adding prefixes or suffixes.

A noun is a naming word for people, places, or things.

An adjectives describes a noun.

It tells you what it's like.

And a consonant is a sound that is made by blocking air in the mouth with the teeth, tongue, lips, or palate.

So today we are going to be taking most often as our root words nouns.

We're going to be adding that Y suffix to the end of these nouns to form adjectives.

Now, sometimes those root words will change, and this might often be because of the consonant at the end.

So here's the outline for today.

We're gonna practise and apply spelling adjectives using the suffix Y.

We're gonna look and review and remind ourselves of the rules for adding the suffix Y.

Then we're going to look at some strategies to practise.

And finally, we're gonna apply the spellings that we've been looking at within a sentence.

Let's get on then with looking at our rules for adding the suffix Y.

Remember, a suffix is a letter or group of letters that we can add to the end of a word, which creates a new word with a new meaning.

For instance, here I have my root word play, and I add ing to the end of that word.

It becomes playing.

I have a new word with a new meaning.

Here I have the root word help, and I, again, add my ing suffix to create the new word helping.

Notice in both of these instances, the spelling of my root word has not changed, but this might not always be the case.

Here I have the root word shine, and I'm adding that Y suffix, that Y letter to the end of the word to create a new word.

In fact, it's become an adjective.

Now have the word shiny.

Notice here how the spelling of my root word has changed.

I've removed an E before adding my Y.

Some suffixes will require you to change the spelling of that root word.

Others will not.

So there are lots of different types of suffix.

This is just two examples here, ing and Y.

And there are different rules for how the root word changes when we add different types of suffix.

So there are three rules when adding the suffix Y to the end of adjectives, to the end of words, to create adjectives, sorry.

The first one is just adding a Y.

The next one is removing the E and adding the Y.

And finally, doubling the consonant when we have a short vowel sound, A, E, I, O, U, and then adding our Y.

Let's look at these in action then, just adding a Y.

I can see here thirst and wind.

So in some instances, we just add a Y.

You can see here with the words shine and noise.

To turn them into adjectives by adding our Y suffix, we must remove the E and then add our Y.

And finally, you can see with the words fun and chat that we doubled our consonant at the end there, 'cause we have a short vowel sound, A, A, or U, U, in those instances.

And then we've doubled the T and the N and then added our Y.

These are our three main rules.

Just add a Y, remove the E, and add a Y, and double the consonant and add a Y.

So for most words, the root word does not change when the suffix Y is added.

Here we have the word mood.

It becomes moody.

Here we have the word cheek, that noun.

We then add our Y, and it becomes cheeky, an adjective.

And here we have smell, which has a double consonant at the end.

We then add a Y to make smelly, oh.

So this usually happens when the root word ends in a two consonant letters or a vowel digraph and a consonant.

And we can see that in our double O, D.

We have a vowel digraph there, and our single consonant.

And then our double E in cheek, a vowel digraph, and then our K making that one sound.

Brilliant.

What will the spelling of these words be then when we add our Y suffix to the end? Let's have a look at the words I'm gonna ask you to have a good at spelling.

We have mist, thirst, storm.

So look carefully at these words.

Consider the rules that we've looked at.

Is our root word going to change here at all? I want you to have a go at spelling the words misty, thirsty, and stormy for me.

Pause the video, off you go.

Good job, team.

So misty, just gonna add a Y.

Thirsty, again just add a Y.

And stormy, just add a Y here.

So the reason being, mist and thirst both end in two constant letters.

And in storm we have that vowel digraph, and then our single constant at the end there.

So we're just adding a Y.

Remember, the spelling of the root word can help us to spell our new adjective.

This rule then, just adding a Y.

When the root word ends in an E, the E is removed, and our suffix Y is added.

Let's look at this in action.

So juice becomes the adjective juicy, grease becomes the adjective greasy, and shine becomes the adjective shiny.

Notice here, each of these words end in an E, we, whoosh, got rid of that E, and added our Y suffix to create our adjective.

And we do this because otherwise, the word might look a little bit funny with that E-Y at the end.

We get rid of that E, just so we have our Y making that sound at the end of the word, juicy.

Remember, it's our Y spelling here that's making that E sound, isn't it? So remember, the word ends in an E.

Remove the E, add a Y to create your adjective.

How will these words that end in an E then change when we add our Y suffix? Let's have a look at the words first.

I have slime, stone, noise.

I'd like you to have a go at thinking about how you would spell the words slimy, stony, and noisy.

Look at the root words.

Remember, that's gonna inform you as to how the new word is going to be spelled.

Pause the video and have a go at adding Y to the end of these words now.

Good job, team.

So absolutely, we're gonna remove the E and add our Y, slimy.

Remove the E and add our Y, stony, and remove the E and add our Y, noisy.

Remember, looking at the spelling of that root word can help us to spell the new adjective that we are creating by adding our Y suffix.

And our rule here is remove the E and add a Y.

So so far, we've looked at two rules.

Just add a Y or remove the E and add a Y.

Let's look at our final rule here then.

When the root word has a short vowel, the consonant then at the end of the word is doubled before adding our suffix Y, and remember, our short vowels are A, E, I, O, and U.

So we have fog, becomes foggy, fun becomes funny, mud becomes muddy.

And I have O and U as my short vowels in these words here, and you'll notice the consonants at the end of the words, the G, the N, and the D has then been doubled before adding my Y.

So how will these words with short vowels then change when our suffix Y is added? Let's have a look at first, our root words.

Our root words are sun, slip, knot.

Hmm, I'd like you to pause the video.

How am I gonna spell sunny, slippy, and knotty? Off you go.

Good job, team.

So sunny, U, U, short vowel.

I'm gonna double my consonant and add a Y.

Slippy, double that consonant and add a Y, because I've got I, I, short vowel.

And then knotty as in the knot you might tie.

Remember, that O sound has a naughty silent letter at the beginning, that K.

I'm gonna double the T and add a Y like knotty hair that's all tangled.

So think about this one.

O, O, short vowel sound, double my T consonant, add a Y.

So spelling of the root word, remember, with that short vowel sound there, and that single consonant is gonna inform you as to how to spell the new adjective when we're adding that suffix Y.

And our rule here is double the consonant, then add a Y.

So we've got our three rules, A, B, C.

A is just add a Y, B is remove the E, and add a Y.

And C is double that consonant and add a Y.

I'm gonna show you some root words and I want you to tell me how these new words will be spelled when we add the suffix Y, our new adjectives.

First word is slip.

Pause the video.

Is it gonna be rule A, B, or C? Off you go.

Good job, team.

Absolutely, S, L, I, I, short vowel sound.

And then a single consonant.

I'm gonna double that consonant and add a Y.

So the rule is C, double the consonant, then add a Y.

The next word, mood.

Pause the video.

Is it gonna be rule A, B, or C? Off you go.

Good job.

So the word is gonna be moody as an adjective.

Now let's think about this.

Mood.

Oh, I've got a vowel digraph and then my constant at the end there, so I'm just gonna add a Y for this one, so it's rule A.

And finally, we add the word stone.

Is that gonna use rule A, B, or C? Pause the video and select the correct answer now.

So let's look carefully.

Stone, it ends in an E.

I'm gonna remove the E and then I'm gonna add a Y.

So the correct rule is B.

Great.

So have a look here for me, another little check for you to see if you've been paying attention and you understand our three rules when we add that Y suffix.

Choose the correct spelling for each sentence.

I'll read the sentences to you first.

"It was a very cloudy day." "The muddy shoes were outside the door." "The shiny pencil case was his favourite." "I do not like standing in the smoky room." Consider the spelling of the root word.

That's gonna inform you as to how our new adjectives are spelled by adding that Y suffix.

Pause the video and select the correct spelling for each sentence now, off you go.

Great job, team.

Let's see how you've done then.

It was a very cloudy day.

Now my word there, my root word is cloud.

Doesn't end it in E, it just end in a D.

And now I'm just gonna add a Y.

So I've got my vowel digraph and my consonant, so I add a Y.

Muddy, mud.

Mud is spelled M-U-D, but it's an U, U, short vowel, isn't it? So I'm gonna double that consonant and add a Y.

Shiny.

My root word shine ends in an E.

What's our rule? Chop off the E and add a Y.

And smoke is the same, isn't it? Smoke.

"I did not like standing in the smoky room." Smoke ends in an E.

Remove the E and then add your Y.

How did you do there? Pause the video and see how you did.

So onto then our practise task.

I'm gonna say four words to you and I'd like you to have a go at spelling them.

Think about how the root word for this new adjective is spelt before we added the Y suffix to them.

So first word is foggy.

It was a foggy day, foggy.

And my root word there is fog.

I think I can hear a short vowel there.

The next word is thirsty.

So thirst is our root word.

I was feeling thirsty, which means you need a drink of water.

The next one is shiny.

Our root word there is shine ending in an E, shiny.

The shiny piece of jewellery.

And finally, noisy.

Please turn that music down, it's very noisy.

And our root word there is noise.

So I'd like you to have a go at spelling those four words for me.

You ready? Foggy, thirsty, shiny, noisy.

Remember too to sound out each of the words.

Think of our spelling rules and to read the word and to check carefully as well.

Pause the video, off you go.

Great job, team.

Let's see how you've done then.

So the first word that we were looking at was foggy.

So let's think about this, foggy.

F-O-G is my root word there, fog.

O, O, short vowel.

So I'm gonna double my consonant and add a Y.

So my correct spelling is this one.

The next one was thirsty.

Thirst is my root word there.

So S-T, double consonant, two consonant letters at the end there, so I'm just gonna add a Y.

So my correct one is thirsty, not firsty, not the first as in number one, but thirst.

Th, th, T-H.

Next one was shiny.

The root word is shine.

I remove the E at the end of shine and then add a Y.

So shiny here, and noise becomes noisy.

So I remove my E here and then add my Y.

So my correct spelling is this one here.

Might sound a bit like a Z sound, but it's an S spelling.

So our root word is noise with an S-E.

Remove the E and then add our Y.

Well done, everyone.

So what successes did you have there? Have you made any magical mistakes? Do you need to make any corrections? Pause the video, make those now.

Onto our next learning cycle then, which is gonna be strategies to practise.

So let's read the following word.

My turn, your turn.

Heart, heart.

What do you notice about this spelling? What do you notice about the way it sounds compared to how it's spelt? Pause the video and have a think.

Okay, well for me, it's the fact that this E-A-R here, which you might expect to make an ear sound like the ears we hear with, almost a word in a word there, actually sounds like an ar sound, doesn't it? R, R, R.

So the ar sound is represented by our E-A-R spelling here.

This is a curriculum word.

It's gonna be really helpful for us to know.

It's gonna appear a lot in our reading and writing.

So everyone take a snapshot of it now.

Heart, E-A-R spells ar, heart.

So with that in mind, which of these words is the correct spelling of the word heart, A, B, or C? Pause the video and select the correct answer now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

So remember, heart has ear in it.

That's that E-A-R spelling for that R sound.

The others might make phonetic sense, although I'm not sure A does, but I know B definitely would make sense.

But H-E-A to R-T spells heart.

So spelling rules can help us to know how to spell words.

And we've looked at those three rules today, haven't we, for adding that Y suffix to create adjectives, but really there's no replacement for good old practise as well.

So when we practise, we remember words more easily and we get better at noticing different bits about the spelling, what's difficult about them.

And so we can memorise them more readily.

There are many different strategies that we can use when we're practising spellings.

And there's a few that you may have used already.

The one we're gonna use today is a really great strategy.

It's called big letters.

Say that for me, big letters.

So let's see how the big letter strategy works then.

The big letter strategy can help us in several different ways.

The first way is by visualisation.

What that means is is by seeing that word in your mind's eye.

We have to look really carefully at the word and we pay really close attention to the bits that are really tricky about it and spotting where those tricky bits are in those words.

Then we use repeat copying.

The repetitive nature of that is really gonna ingrain that spelling into our long-term memory, which is what this is all about, isn't it? And then finally, our handwriting.

If we use our cursive handwriting, it will help us with our motor memory.

The link between that cursive scripts and your brain, really know how to spell it.

And so let's see how this strategy works then.

I'm gonna use that curriculum word that we looked at heart.

So I look at it first of all, and I have a go at then visualising it, thinking carefully about it, and I copy it out small first of all.

So have a go at copying out the small, and then I'm gonna copy it out a number of times, getting larger each time.

So I then get bigger, even bigger, and then my largest there.

So I'm going from small to big.

So my big letter strategy, remember.

So what order do these go in for this strategy? Use A, B, C, and D to put them into the correct order.

Which one's going to go first? We've got write biggest look, write small, write bigger.

Remember, what do we always have to do when we first come across the spelling? Pause the video and put these into the correct order now.

Well done, everyone.

So the first thing we're always gonna do is we're gonna look at spelling.

So our first thing to do is A, look at the spelling, visualise it, see what's tricky about it.

Have a think about the word.

Then we look at it and copy it.

We write small and then we write bigger, and then we write the biggest, our superlative there, the biggest.

Remember, we should always look carefully at the spelling before we practise them.

So we make sure we're copying it out correctly.

So the order is look and visualise, write small, write bigger, write biggest.

With that in mind, I'd like us to now have a go at using this strategy for our practise task.

I'd like to choose three words to practise using the big letters.

Choose the words that you found most difficult from the lesson so far.

The words that I'm going to do are heart, noisy, and greasy.

Those words that the root word would end in E, and I remove the E and then add the Y.

So heart is also our curriculum word, which has that E-A-R spelling for that R sound, doesn't it? So I'm gonna have a go.

Let me model to you how I expect you to do this.

I look and visualise heart.

So have a look at it carefully, snapshot in my mind.

Perfect.

I then cover it up and I have a good at writing it out.

Yep, I've managed to spell that correctly, I think.

H-E-A-R-T.

I write small, check it, brilliant.

Yep, I spelled that correctly.

Excellent.

Now I'm gonna copy out heart a number of times, getting bigger each time.

So I go my small, cover it up again and visualise.

I'm now gonna write it bigger.

Brilliant.

Check back.

Yep, it's spelt the same as my first one, which was right.

And now bigger again, and then my biggest.

So we're going from small to big.

Remember, our big letters.

Brilliant.

So I'd like you to pause the video now.

You could pick the three words that I've done, heart, noisy, and greasy.

But really I'd love you to take some responsibility for your own learning and you can have some independence here.

Choose the three words from the learning that we've done so far that you have found most difficult.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Really great job, everyone.

Some brilliant use of the strategy there.

I hope you had fun doing that as well.

So remember, we're working on visualising and then copying and working on our memory, aren't we? Great job.

So you can see here that I've written out the words heart, noisy, and greasy using the big letters strategy.

Did you manage to spell your words correctly? Should make any corrections now.

But more importantly, why don't you share your favourite one that you've written out.

Did you have fun doing it? Pause the video, make your corrections now.

Onto our final learning cycle then, which is going to be applying spelling within a sentence.

So we're gonna write a sentence containing some of our focus spellings now.

When we write the whole sentence, we need to do several things at once.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to sound out each word.

We need to think of the spelling rules that we've been looking at to consider those three rules that we've generated when adding the suffix Y.

And we also need to look out for those common exception and curriculum words.

As well as this, remembering our sentence punctuation is going to be very important.

Capital letters, full stops, and any other punctuation that might be in the sentence too.

So I'd like you to just listen to me say the sentence first of all.

Her heart felt sunny and light on the misty morning walk along the stony street.

Her heart felt sunny and light on the misty morning walk along the stony street.

So we're gonna use some strategies to help us to remember this sentence.

The first one is tapping it out.

Her heart felt sunny and light on the misty morning walk along the stony street.

You have a good at tapping that out now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

The next one is saying in a silly voice, it's one of my favourite ones to help us remember the sentence.

Her heart felt sunny and light on the misty morning walk along the stony street.

Pause the video and say it in your silliest voice and see if you can make me laugh.

Great job.

Some really silly voices there.

And finally, we're gonna count the words on our fingers.

Her heart felt sunny and light on the misty morning walk along the stony street.

Quite long.

Her heart felt sunny and light on the misty morning walk along the stony street.

Pause the video and say that sentence and count each word on your fingers so you make sure you don't miss any.

Off you go.

Well done.

So remember, sound out each word, look out for those common exceptional curriculum words.

And also don't forget your sentence punctuation, capital letter and full stops.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

Her heart felt sunny and light on the misty morning walk along the stony street.

Pause the video and have a go at writing that sentence now.

Great job, team.

So let's check our work and make any corrections as we go along.

Her needs to have a capital letter, heart.

That was that curriculum word.

It's that ar sound, but that E-A-R spelling.

Felt, sunny.

The root word there is sun, S-U-N, short vowel sound, double the N, and add your Y to make the adjective sunny.

And light, add on the misty.

Mist there is our root word, ends in two consonant letters.

So we'd add just a Y.

Morning walk along the stony street.

Now stony, the root word there is stone.

So that now we're gonna change it to an adjective.

We remove the E and add a Y.

And of course we need to have a full stop at the end of our sentence as well.

How did you do? What did you learn? Did you make any magical mistakes? What successes have you had? Do you need to make any corrections? Pause the video, share your successes, mistakes, and make any corrections now, off you go.

Really great job today, everyone.

Today we practised and applied spellings using that adjective, spelling adjectives, using that suffix Y.

A suffix, remember, is a letter or group of letters added to the end of word, which creates a new word.

And today we've been adding that Y suffix, which can be used to create adjectives.

When using the Y suffix, there are three rules to remember.

Sometimes we just add a Y.

Other times we have to remove the E and add a Y.

And at other times, we have to double the final consonant after short vowels.

And then add our Y.

Keep up the great spelling and practise, everyone, and I'll see you again soon.