Lesson video

Hello, and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss.

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

For today's lesson, you need to bring with you 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 brilliant as well.

Let's get on with today's learning.

In today's lesson, we'll be spelling the eh phoneme with E-A, and we'll be looking at the ch phoneme using T-C-H.

Here's the outcome.

I can spell words like head, bread, catch, and pitch.

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure you're saying these along with me.

Short vowel, long vowel, digraph, trigraph.

A short vowel is a vowel sound that sounds short when spoken.

A, e, i, o, u are our short vowel sounds.

A long vowel sound is a vowel sound that sounds long when spoken, and sounds the same as its name.

A, E, I, O, U.

A digraph is a two-letter representation of a sound.

Today, we're gonna be looking at that E-A digraph as a representation of that eh sound.

And a trigraph is a three-letter representation of a sound.

Today, we're gonna be looking at T-C-H as a representation of the ch sound.

Please keep an eye and ear out for these key words in our learning today because they're gonna be really important.

So here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're spelling the eh phoneme with E-A and that ch phoneme with T-C-H.

We're gonna look at some common exception words to begin with, and then concentrate on that eh phoneme and that ch phoneme.

Let's get on with looking at some common exception words then.

Common exception words are those words that don't follow our usual phonics patterns.

As a result, they can often be trickier to read and to spell.

Let's read some words.

My turn, your turn.

Any, many.

Have a go at saying those words again.

Pause the video and think, what is difficult about those spellings? Pause the video now.

Great, some lovely conversations going on there.

The A in any is making an eh sound.

The A in many is making an eh sound.

When you might expect it to sound like Amy or Annie, we don't usually hear that A sound making an eh sound.

Also, the Y in both is making an long E sound.

Any, so it's an E sound at the end of the words.

Remember, these are common exception words, so they don't follow our regular phonics patterns.

So I'm gonna show you some words now.

I'd like you to select which are the correct spellings of the common exception words that we've just looked at.

Pause the video and point now to the correct spelling of the word any.

Brilliant, absolutely, it's this one here, isn't it? It's that A spelling that's making that eh sound and that Y spelling at the end that's making that E sound.

Some of the others may have been phonetically plausible, but this is our spelling.

Remember, it's a common exception word.

Pause the video and point to the correct spelling of the word many now.

Fantastic, absolutely, it's this spelling here.

And you can actually see that many contains any.

And they sound the same, don't they? Again, that A is making an eh sound and that Y is making an E sound there, many.

Brilliant.

So because these are common exception words, we just need to practise their spelling.

And a really good strategy for doing this to really embed them into our memories is the look, cover, write, check strategy.

And this works like this.

I look here carefully at the spelling, so any.

And it's really good to really carefully look at the spelling as well and always give consideration to what's tricky about it, just like we have done.

I then cover it up, oh, I can't see it now.

I then memorised it.

I have a go at writing it my neatest handwriting, of course, and then I check back and see how I did.

And I don't just do this once, I do this many times to really, really make some links between muscle memory there, my hand and my brain.

Really, really gets that spelling into your long-term memory.

I'd like you to pause the video now and have a go at practising writing the words any and many using this strategy a number of times.

Pause the video and do this for me.

Brilliant work, everyone.

So I'm hoping now that you've written out the words any and many a bit like this.

Did you spell them correctly? Pause the video, make any corrections if you need to now.

Onto our next learning cycle then.

We are going to be looking at that eh phoneme, that eh sound spelled E-A.

We're gonna read these words that have the short, okay, E vowel here, that eh, eh, eh sound.

So let's have a go at reading these words and think what representations, what spellings can represent that sound.

My turn, your turn.

Bed.

Set.

Led.

And this is led as in I was led by the hand somewhere.

So someone led you somewhere.

And fled.

Fled is the past tense of flee, which means to run away.

Head.

Bread.

Lead.

And this is lead as in the material here.

Notice how lead can be spelt in a couple of different ways.

So here we can see some homophones.

And finally spread, like I spreaded butter onto my toast.

So we can see here that E and E-A can both make this short vowel, eh sound.

The word red can also be pronounced with both a long and a short E sound.

So you have to be careful with that word.

The E-A grapheme then can also make the short E sound, that eh, eh sound.

Have a look here at these words.

Which words contain the short E and which words contain that long E sound? Let's have a read of them first.

My turn, your turn.

Head.

Meat.

And this is the meat that you would eat.

Tee.

Feather.

Like a bird's feather.

Thread.

Like the thread you might use to stitch something together.

And bean.

Pause the video, say these words again and put them into the correct columns.

Whether they have that long E sound or that short E sound, eh, eh.

Pause the video and do that now.

Fantastic.

So I'm hoping you've sorted these words like this.

I can see here, I've got the word head, spread and thread.

And that's that E-A spelling making that short eh, eh sound there.

Then if I look at the words tea, that you might drink, meat and bean, there, the E-A spelling there is making that long E sound.

So remember, short E sound is eh, eh.

Long E sound is that E, E.

So we're gonna have a go now at spelling some words that contain this eh, eh sound, the short E sound with this E-A spelling.

When we do this, we really want to take our time.

So let's make sure we stretch each of these words, sound them out, write it and then look and check as well.

Consider also the spelling rules that we've been looking at today.

So the first word that we're looking at today is head.

My turn, your turn, head.

I hurt my head.

The next word is bread.

I like to eat bread.

The next word is instead, which means alternatively or rather than.

So I could say, I was going to walk to school today, but I got the bus instead.

And finally, the word spread.

Number four is spread.

Spread the butter on the bread.

So again, we've got the words head, bread, instead and spread.

Let's have a go at stretching one of these, bread.

Let's sound it out, b, r, e, d.

Then you write it and then you look and check.

And remember, we've been looking at that short vowel, that eh, eh sound today, spelled with an E-A.

So we've got the words head, bread, instead, spread.

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

Excellent work, everyone.

So some really, really careful spelling there.

So let's then have a look at the correct spellings of these words.

Head, I've seen written like this.

Now I know that my E spelling, just an E on its own, can make that eh, eh sound, but let's consider this.

We've been looking today at that E-A spelling, we've been making that short vowel S, haven't we? And that H-E-D does not look right to me.

So the correct spelling of head, as in you've got here, is H-E-A-D.

Bread was the next word we looked at.

And again, E-D is not going to be my spelling there.

It's going to be my E-A-D.

So the correct one was this one.

Instead, again, it's that eh, eh spelling with an E and an A.

And finally, spread.

Again, E-A as the spelling for that short vowel.

Eh, eh sound.

So this one's our correct one.

Make any corrections to your spellings now.

Pause the video.

So onto our final learning cycle then, which is going to be looking at that ch phoneme, that ch sound spell with the trigraph T-C-H.

So let's have a read of some of the words that we have here.

They all contain that ch sound.

Let's think about the representations, the spellings, the graphemes here that we can see making that ch sound.

My turn, your turn.

Search, search.

Church, crunch.

Lunch.

Let's look at the next column.

Switch, stretch.

Witch, and this is the type of witch that might ride on a broomstick.

And hatch, like the baby chicken hatched out of the egg.

Pause the video now.

So have a go at saying these words again.

Which spellings are making that ch sound in these words? Off you go.

Lovely, some brilliant conversations going on there.

So I can see my C-H and T-C-H making that ch sound in these words.

C-H is a digraph, a two-letter representation of that sound.

T-C-H is a trigraph, a three-letter representation of that sound.

You might notice that they both come at the end of words as well.

The T-C-H is another way of spelling that ch sound.

It's a bit less common than our C-H.

C-H spelling tends to come after a consonant or a long vowel sound, A-E-I-O-U.

It is also a digraph, a two-letter representation of a sound.

Let's have a look.

Search, oh, it's coming after the consonant R.

Remember, a consonant is a sound made by blocking air in the mouth by using your lips or teeth.

So we've got search, an R there being the consonant.

Church, and again, we have R there.

We have approach, don't we? Approach, that's that long vowel sound.

Beach, again, a long vowel sound.

Crunch, N there is a consonant, N.

And lunch, again, N is a consonant.

So let's have a look here at the word church, ch-ur-ch, church.

Interestingly, I've got ch at both the beginning and at the end here.

And look, it's coming after that consonant R.

In approach and beach here, it's coming after a long vowel sound, O and E.

And here in crunch and lunch, we can see it's following that rule.

It's coming after our consonant, and our consonant here is the letter N.

So in which two places is the C-H spelling of the ch phoneme usually found? Have a look, A, B, C, and D.

You need to select two from these four.

Pause the video and make the correct selections now.

Good job.

So let's have a look at the first two.

Is it coming after a short vowel or a long vowel? It comes after a long vowel, words like approach.

Is it before a consonant or after a consonant? Well, let's think about this.

It's coming at the end of verbose commonly, isn't it? So it's going to be after a consonant.

Think about the words like lunch.

And these words here show this.

Search, after the R.

Crunch and lunch, after the consonant N.

And approach, after that long vowel sound.

The T-C-H spelling then for this ch sound.

Let's have a go at saying some of these words.

Switch, like a switch you might flip.

Stretch, hatch, which, fetch, which means to go and get something that's been put somewhere.

And the word clutch.

Clutch means to grab on something.

You might clutch at something.

So we can see here that our T-C-H spelling is coming at the end as well.

The T-C-H commonly follows a short vowel sound.

And it's a trigraph, three letters that represent one sound, that ch sound.

Let's see if it's following those short vowels.

Switch, ih, ih, stretch, eh, eh, hatch, ah, ah, which, ih, ih, fetch, eh, eh, clutch, uh, uh.

Yeah, it is following those short vowel sounds, isn't it? So let's have a look at the example.

Switch here, sw-it-ch, switch.

Yep, it's a short ih, ih sound, isn't it? In which two places then is the T-C-H spelling usually found in a word? Is it A, after a short vowel? B, after a long vowel? C, at the end of a word? Or D, at the start of a word? You need to select two places where the T-C-H spelling for the ch sound is commonly found.

Pause the video now.

Good job.

So it is after a short vowel, isn't it? (vocalising vowels) And it is at the end of a word.

We never see the T-C-H spelling regularly at the beginning of a word.

These words prove this, don't they? Switch, stretch, hatch, which all have T-C-H at the end, and they're all short vowels.

Ih, eh, ah, and then ih.

Brilliant.

So there are some exceptions to the rules we've generated there.

And this is very common in spelling, okay? We try to generate these rules to help inform us as to how words are likely to be spelled.

But there are often in English exceptions.

So let's have a look at some of these exceptions.

Look at these words.

Rich, which, as in which one? Much, as in how much? And such, as in I'm having such a good time.

If we listen here to these words, they're short vowels, aren't they? Ih and ah.

But they're not followed by the T-C-H, they're followed by the C-H.

So all of these words contain a short vowel, and that short vowel is coming before the C-H spelling.

So there are exceptions to our rule that short vowels are always followed by T-C-H.

There are some exceptions.

Have a look here for me.

Which column should these words go into? We're gonna read the words.

And remember, the C-H spelling is commonly found after a consonant or a different vowel sound, not a short vowel, but often a longer vowel sound.

So which of these words are our exceptions to the rule? Which is the common spelling of that C-H spelling, which are the exceptions that don't follow our normal rules.

Let's read the words.

Beach, such, much, witch, torch, and lunch.

Stop the video and put these words into the correct columns now.

So I'm hoping that you sorted them like this.

Beach, torch, and lunch are, okay, are more common spellings using that C-H for that ch sound, okay? So we can see here, beach is that long vowel.

Torch has a consonant, and it's a different vowel sound.

And lunch has a consonant as well there, that N.

The exceptions here are such, much, and witch.

You might expect that to be the trigraph T-C-H because it's their short vowels coming before the C-H, that ch sound, but it's not.

It's C-H, so they are exceptions.

Watch out for exceptions whenever generating any spelling rules.

So onto our practise task.

You're gonna use the rules that we've generated today to add the correct endings and write out these spellings.

You're either gonna add the C-H spelling or the T-C-H spelling for that ch phoneme to the end of the beginnings of the words I've got here.

I'll have a go at doing one first.

So if I look at the word, the sw, ih, switch, I'm trying to write the word switch.

Hmm, that's a short vowel, isn't it? So I would expect that to be a T-C-H spelling.

So I'm gonna add that T-C-H ending and then I'm gonna write it out here, switch.

That looks right to me.

So I'd like you, please, to add either a C-H or a T-C-H to the end of the words, the beginnings of the words that you can see on the left-hand side here.

Pause the video and do that for me now.

So let's see how you got on then.

So switch would have had that T-C-H.

Lunch would have had that C-H because it's got that N, that consonant coming before it.

Approach is that long sound, isn't it? A different vowel sound there, so it's C-H.

Hatch is a short vowel, isn't it? So we're going to just have that as a T-C-H.

Stretch, eh, eh, is a short vowel, so it's T-C-H.

And crunch has that N, that consonant coming before it.

So it's that C-H spelling there.

Really well done.

Check and see how you did now.

Make any corrections.

Pause the video.

Great work today, everybody.

So today, we've been looking at spelling words like head, bread, catch, and pitch.

That T-C-H makes a ch phoneme, that ch sound, and is usually found after short vowel sounds at the end of a word, like the words catch, pitch, and switch.

Our E-A spelling there can make that short E sound, that eh sound, like head, bread, and dead.

Really great work.

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