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

I'm Mr. Moss.

I love spellings, 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 would be great.

And having someone to talk to you or something to talk to would also be brilliant.

Let's get into today's lesson, then.

In today's spelling lesson, we're going to practise and apply spelling words with the suffixes F-U-L or -ful and L-E-S-S or -less.

The outcome will be, I can spell words using either suffix, <v ->full or -less.

</v> Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

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

And please keep an eye on an ear out for them today, 'cause they're gonna be really, really key to the learning.

Suffix, root word, adjective, noun.

So let's have a think about what these words 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.

I remember today we are adding the F-U-L and the L-E-S-S suffix.

Adjectives describe nouns and nouns are PPTs, persons, places or things.

So today, we are gonna take some root words and we are gonna add the suffix -less or -ful to them to create adjectives.

Adjectives, remember, describe nouns.

So here's the outline for today.

We're gonna look at some rules and review what we know already about what happens when we add F-U-L or L-E-S-S to root words, then we're gonna have a look at some strategies to practise, and finally, we're gonna apply the spellings that we've looked at within a sentence.

Let's get on with looking at some rules for adding these suffixes, then.

Remember that a suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word that creates a new word.

Here I have my root word play, and I'm adding the -ed suffix.

Here, it changes the tense of that original root word to create the word played.

Here, I've got the same root word play, but a different suffix, I-N-G.

It creates the word playing.

And here I have the L-Y suffix and I'm adding it to my root word slow.

This changes that root word's word class and creates a new word, slowly, which is an adverb.

So here we have E-D, I-N-G, and L-Y, and these are just three examples of suffixes.

Today, remember, we are looking at the F-U-L and the L-E-S-S suffixes added to the ends of words.

There are lots of different types of suffix, and depending on which ones you're using and how you're using them, there are different rules as to how the root word will change when we add them.

So there are two rules for using each of our F-U-L and L-E-S-S suffixes, we either just add F-U-L or remove a Y and add I-F-U-L, or we just add L-E-S-S or remove the Y and add I-L-E-S-S.

Let's look at this in action.

Here, when I'm just adding -ful, like the word careful, here, I'm also removing the Y and adding I-F-U-L.

If my root word is beauty, which has two syllables and ends in a Y, I remove that Y and add I-F-U-L.

There are examples where I can also just add L-E-S-S, like cheer becoming cheerless, so without cheer.

And finally, mercy becomes merciless.

Again, mercy, two syllables, remove the Y, add an I-L-E-S-S to create merciless.

So most root words, we just add F-U-L or L-E-S-S.

But if our root word has more than one syllable, two syllables and ends in the consonant Y, we remove that Y and then add I-F-U-L or I-L-E-S-S.

Take a snapshot of those rules now, 'cause they're gonna be really important in today's learning.

(imitates camera clicking) I've got it in my mind.

So the suffix, -ful means full of or having the qualities of.

For example, hopeful means to be full of hope, My root word, hope, I've taken that now and I'm gonna change it into an adjective by adding my suffix -ful.

And it means now full of that thing, hope.

The suffix -less means without or lacking.

So it often creates opposites.

Here I have hopeless.

I've taken the root word hope and I've added the suffix -less to it, and now it means without hope, the opposite of hopeful.

So joyful means full of joy.

Careless means without care.

Some root words can have both the -ful and the -less suffix added to them.

Thought can become thoughtful.

Thought can also become thoughtless.

Power can become powerful and power can become powerless.

These words are opposites of one another.

If you are thoughtful, you are full of thought, you're full of ideas.

If you are thoughtless, you have no ideas.

If you're powerful, you have lots of power.

If you're powerless, you have no power.

So -ful and -less here, act as opposites when added to the same root word.

The suffixes -less and -ful start with a consonant.

This means that most of the time when we add them to a root word, that root word won't change.

So hope becomes hopeful.

Speech becomes speechless, without words.

Use becomes useful.

Joy becomes joyless.

So remember, the suffix -ful only has one L, not two Ls, but the suffix -less has two Ss.

So watch out for that.

Obviously, the word -ful is spelled F-U-L-L, but our suffix to say something is full of that root word, we just use one L, F-U-L.

So what will the spelling of these words be when the suffix -ful is added? Care, colour thought.

How am I going to spell the words careful, colourful, thoughtful? Do you think those root words are going to change at all? Pause the video and have a go at spelling them now, Good job, team! So care becomes careful.

There's no need to change that root word.

Remember, it has that consonant, doesn't it? Colourful becomes colourful.

No need to change the root word colour.

And thought becomes thoughtful; again, no need to change that root word.

Looking at the spelling of our root word helps us to spell the new adjective that we are creating.

And our rule here is just add -ful.

Do you think anything's going to happen to these root words when we add the suffix L-E-S-S? Thought, hope, taste.

How am I going to spell thoughtless, hopeless, tasteless, without taste? Pause the video now.

Good job.

It's quite straightforward, isn't it? It's the same as when we added the -ful to the previous root words.

Our root words aren't going to change.

Thoughtless, hopeless, tasteless.

We just add L-E-S-S.

Remembering, of course, know or looking at our root word is going to inform us as how to spell our new adjective.

And our rule here, just as before, we just add L-E-S-S.

However, we did look at a couple of other rules as well, didn't we, when adding our -ful or -less suffixes.

If the root word ends in more than one syllable, so more than one beat where there are vowels, and ends in the consonant Y, we have to (imitates whooshing) remove that Y and add I before adding our suffix.

F-U-L or L-E-S-S.

So beauty, two syllables, ends in a Y.

I want to make the word beautiful, because there is no word beautyless.

Beautiful, I remove the Y, I add I-F-U-L.

Remember, one L.

Mercy.

I want to create the word merciless, to show no mercy.

Mercy.

Two syllables.

Remove the Y, add I-L-E-S-S, merciless.

And fancy to create the word fanciful.

Fancy, two syllables.

Remove the Y, add I-F-U-L, fanciful.

So what will the spellings of these words be when we add the suffixes -ful or -less? Look carefully then consider the root word.

Think about the rule we've just looked at.

So I have mercy.

I want to make merciful, the opposite of merciless.

Pity, I want to make pitiful, the opposite of pitiless.

And merciless, which is our opposite of merciful up above.

Think about these root words.

How am I going to spell merciful, pitiful, merciless? Pause the video and have a think now.

Great.

I could see people clapping out syllables there.

Absolutely.

So, merciful.

Mercy, my root word.

Two syllables, ending in a Y.

(imitates whooshing) Remove the Y, add I-F-U-L.

Same for pity.

Pity, two syllables, pitiful.

Remove the Y, add I-F-U-L.

And merciless, opposite of merciful.

Mercy, root word.

Two syllables, ending in a Y.

(imitates whooshing) Remove it.

I-S, sorry, I-L-E-S-S.

Remember, looking at the spelling of our root word here is going to help us to spell our new adjectives.

Remove the Y and add I-F-U-L or I-L-E-S-S.

So I'm gonna show you some words now.

We have four children here representing the four rules that we've looked at.

Remember, some of the words might be able to use more than one of the rules, 'cause they might be able to have <v ->ful or -less added to them.

</v> Some of them might not be.

So have a go at adding -ful or -less to the end of the words and say it out loud and see if it sounds right.

So the first word is hope.

Which rules could I use here to create either hopeful or hopeless? Pause the video and select them now.

Great, yep, I can create hopeful to be full of hope or hopeless, to lack hope, to have no hope.

They're opposites.

And this time, here, we are just adding F-U-L or L-E-S-S.

The next word, beauty.

Be careful with this one.

I think we can only add one of our suffixes here.

Which rule is it going to use? Pause the video and select the correct answer.

Good job, team.

Beautiful.

There's no such word as beautyless, so the -ful suffix is anyone I can use here.

Beauty, my root word, two syllables, (imitates whooshing) chop off the Y, add I-F-U-L.

So B was our correct one there.

The next word, pity.

Pause the video and select the correct one here.

Go! Great, yeah, it could be pitiful, to be full of pity, or pitiless, to have no pity, to have no care or thought for someone else.

So let's think about this: pitiful, pitiless.

Pity, two syllables.

So it's either B and D.

We're gonna remove the Y and add our F-U-L or L-E-S-S suffix.

So with those rules in mind, I'm gonna read some sentences to you now and I want you to select the correct spellings for each sentence.

The pitiless zookeeper ignored the crying monkeys.

This tool is so useful.

Look at that beautiful sunset.

Without power, the remote control was useless.

Useful and useless, here, are opposites.

Remember, think about the spelling of the root word and how it it changes or if it doesn't need to change.

Pause the video and select the correct spellings now.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

Pity is our root word for the first one.

Pity ends in a y.

Pity, two syllables, remove the Y, add our suffix.

Use is the word here.

Useful.

Remember, our -ful suffix only has one L.

Beautiful.

Beauty, two syllables, ends in a Y.

Remove the y, add I-F-U-L.

And useless.

Okay, -less.

You know our -less suffix has two Ss at the end.

Useless, L-E-S-S.

Great.

So I'm gonna give you some words now and I'd like you to add the -ful or the -less suffix to them.

Consider the root word, think carefully.

Remember to sound it out.

Think of our spelling rules that we've looked at and then also to read and check the words to see if you think it makes sense.

So just listen to me now and I'll say the words I'd like you to write for me.

Tasteful, helpless, pitiless, careful.

He wore a tasteful outfit.

The prey was helpless when attacked by the predator.

He looked at me with cold pitiless eyes.

Showing no pity.

I was careful to place the object down.

Tasteful, helpless, pitiless, careful.

Pause the video and have a go at writing those now.

Great job, team.

Let's see how you've done them.

The first one was tasteful.

Tasteful.

Our root word there is taste; -ful, our suffix, has one L.

The spelling of our root word isn't going to change there, is it? I know taste is T-A-S-T-E.

So the correct spelling is this one here.

The next word was helpless.

Helpless.

Our -less suffix is L-E-S-S.

Our root word isn't going to change.

This is our correct spelling.

And the next word is pitiless, to show no pity.

To be without pity.

Pity, two syllables, that root word ends in a Y.

Remove the y, add an I, and then our -less suffix, two Ss.

And finally, careful.

Our root word there is care.

Remember our -ful suffix only has one L.

So the correct spelling is this one here.

Pause the video now and make any corrections if you need to.

Onto our next learning cycle, then.

Strategies to practise.

Let's have a read of the following word.

My turn, your turn.

Famous.

Famous.

If someone is famous, they are well-known.

Have a look at this spelling for me.

Famous.

What's strange about the way it's spelled compared to how it sounds? Pause the video and have a think.

Great.

For me, it's this O-U-S at the end here.

Famous.

It looks like it should be fa-mouse.

That O-U together usually makes an ow sound, doesn't it? So it has that suffix O-U-S at the end, famous.

This is a common spelling pattern found in words like dangerous, nervous.

They make that us sound, don't they? And they're spelled O-U-S.

Saying "O-U superstar" can help us to remember the letters.

Someone who's famous is a superstar, they're well-known.

O-U superstar is a useful mnemonic device there to help us remember that O-U-S spelling at the end, Famous.

O-U superstar.

Have a go saying that with us now: O-U superstar.

So we notice that O-U-S spelling in that order at the end of the words famous, dangerous, and nervous.

So what's the correct spelling of the word famous here? Pause the video and point to it now.

Great.

Absolutely, it is C, O-U superstar, O-U-S.

Remember, that O-U-S spelling there.

So spelling rules can help us to know how to spell words, and so we've generated some rules when we've been adding our suffixes today.

But there really is no replacement for good, old practise as well.

When we practise, it helps us to remember the words more easily, we look at them more carefully, and we become more confident in how to spell them in our writing.

There are loads of different strategies we can use.

And today, we're gonna use a strategy called the look, cover, write, check strategy.

So the look, cover, write, check strategy can help us in several ways.

First of all, we get to visualise, 'cause we look at the word carefully, paying attention to any tricky parts and how it's spelled.

Then we get to test our memory by covering it up.

We then have to see if we can remember how it's spelled.

Then we practise writing it and we can do this in our best handwriting to really help to work on that muscle memory as well.

And finally, there's self-correction.

We check, we take responsibility for our own learning, and look back at how the word should be spelled and check it against how we spelled it.

And we repeat this and do this repetitively until we really embed that spelling in our long-term memory.

So look, cover, write, check.

Have a look here for me.

I've got the strategy, but it's all muddled up! Can you help me put it into the correct order? Pause the video and number these one to four in the correct order.

Off you go.

Great.

The first thing we always do when we are coming across a spelling, any strategy we do is look.

You always want to look.

We then test our memory by covering it up, we try and memorise it, we then write it in our neatest handwriting, and finally, we uncover and check and compare and see how we spelled it and make any corrections.

So we look, cover, write, check.

So I'd like you to have a go using the look, cover, write, check strategy now with these words: famous, thoughtful, beautiful.

The first thing we do is we look.

So I look carefully at famous, how's it spelled, and what tricky parts are there to it.

Remember that O-U superstar.

I then cover it up.

I'm gonna test my memory.

Famous.

Okay, I've got it.

I'm gonna have a go at writing it and then I check back.

And I don't just do this once.

I do this more than once.

So I really embed that spelling into my long-term memory.

So I'd like you to pause the video now and have a go using this strategy to practise spelling famous, thoughtful, beautiful.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

How did you do? Have a look here.

I've got famous, thoughtful, and beautiful written out a number of times and I've used that strategy.

Did you manage to spell them correctly? Do you have any corrections that you need to make? Pause the video and make those corrections now.

Is there anything else that helps you with these spellings? Earlier on, we considered with famous, this O-U superstar to help us remember it.

Did you notice anything else in the words thoughtful or beautiful? Here are a couple of things that I've noticed too that might help me In thoughtful, we have the O-U-G-H, O-U grumpy hippo.

I can use that mnemonic device to help me remember to spell that O-U-G-H, which is quite a difficult spelling for that ou sound, isn't it? Thoughtful.

In beautiful, I know I can say B-E-A-U-tiful.

That helps me how to remember it so I get those letters in the correct order On to our final learning cycle, then.

We're going to apply spellings within a sentence.

So right now we're gonna have a go at writing a sentence containing some of our focus spellings, those suffixes that we've been looking at.

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

So let's make sure we're in a good space to do this, perhaps even have a brain break before we try this task, because we're gonna need to remember the whole sentence.

We're gonna need to sound out each word.

Think of the spelling rules that we've generated for adding those suffixes.

Look out for any common exception and curriculum words.

Think about the words that we've looked at today.

And we need to remember our sentence punctuation.

So just listen to me say the sentence, first of all.

The famous artist created a beautiful painting full of colourful and thoughtful details.

The famous artist created a beautiful painting full of colourful and thoughtful details.

So we're gonna have a go now using some strategies to help us remember this sentence.

So the first one we're going to do is march it out, the famous artist created a beautiful painting full of colourful and thoughtful details.

Pause the video and have a go at marching it out now.

Great.

The next one is saying the sentence in a silly voice.

You can use your silliest voice and try and make me laugh.

I'll have a go first.

The famous artist created a beautiful painting full of colourful and thoughtful details.

Pause the video and say it in your silliest voice now and try and make me laugh.

(laughs) Great, very funny.

And finally, we can whisper it.

(whispers) The famous artist created a beautiful painting full of colourful and thoughtful details.

Pause the video and whisper that to yourself or to someone around you now.

Brilliant, you said that so quietly.

So we're gonna have a go at writing the sentence now.

Remember to sound out each word, think about any of those common exceptional curriculum words, and remember sentence punctuation, capital letters, full stops, and any other punctuation.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

The famous artist created a beautiful painting full of colourful and thoughtful details.

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

Great job, team.

Some really good application of adding our suffixes there and really careful consideration to that word famous, which is our curriculum word, and some great punctuating.

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

The "the" obviously needs to have a capital letter, famous, O-U superstar, O-U-S spelling at the end there, artist created a beautiful, B-E-A-U-tiful, and it's beauty is our root word, beauty, two syllables, ending in a Y, (imitates whooshing) chop off the Y, add I-F-U-L, painting full, F-U-L-L there, be careful, of colourful, oh, now we have F-U-L but just one L this time, 'cause it's our suffix, and our root word hasn't changed, colour, to create the word colourful and thoughtful, O-U-G-H, O-U grumpy hippo, O-U-G-H-T, thought is our root word, we just add F-U-L, our suffix there, details and, of course, a full stop.

So how did you do with the words famous, beautiful, colourful, and thoughtful, our key spellings there and the rest of them? Do you have any magical mistakes? Do you have any corrections to make? What successes have you had? Share your learning and make any corrections now Great spelling today, team.

Today we've been looking at the -ful and -less suffixes.

Remember, a suffix is a letter or group of letters at the end of a word which creates another word.

The -less and -ful suffixes start with a consonant, so most of the time, the root word doesn't change when we add them.

But if the root word has more than one syllable and ends in the consonant Y, we chop off that Y and we add I before adding our -ful or our -less suffix.

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