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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 for today's lesson, 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 will be excellent as well, as well as having something or someone to talk to.

Right then, let's get right into today's spelling lesson.

In today's spelling lesson, we're gonna see spelling words with the suffix -al.

The outcome will be, I can spell words using the suffix -al, and write them in sentences.

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Noun, adjective, root word, suffix.

Brilliant! Thank you for saying those back to me.

Let's have a discussion around what these words mean then.

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

An adjective describes a noun, it tells you what it's like.

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

And a suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning and create a new word.

So today we are going to be taking nouns as our root words and adding the suffix -al, which in many instances will change the word class of that word from a noun to an adjective.

So spelling words with the suffix -al, here is our lesson outline.

We're going to first of all look at the rules around adding that suffix -al, then we're going to spell some curriculum words.

And finally we're going to have a go at applying some of the spellings that we've looked at today within a sentence, which I'm really looking forward to.

Let's get on then with adding the suffix -al.

Remember that a suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add onto the end of a word.

Unlike prefixes, which come at the beginning of a word, suffixes often changed the words tense or word class.

Let's have a look at some of these in action.

I have my root word here kind, and I have the suffix +ness.

If I combine them, it creates the word kindness.

Here I have the word joy, and I'm adding that suffix -full to it to create joyful.

Here we have the word deep and I have my -en suffix to create the word deepen.

The word class there, the word deep has changed when it became deepen, so there are lots of different types of suffix, and these are just three examples of those types of suffixes.

Today we are going to be looking at adding that suffix -al remember.

Some words with suffixes have clear and obvious root words that we can recognise will help us with the spelling, however, some don't.

So suffixes which create adjectives, so those words that describe nouns include, -er, -est, <v ->ous, and -al, that suffix that we are looking at today.

</v> Let's look at some of these in action then.

The greener apples are the sweetest, so we have our comparative and superlative suffixes there that create adjectives.

He is a professional and famous actor, <v ->al, added to the end of profession</v> and -ous added to the end of fame to create famous and professional, which are both adjectives.

Suffixes, which create verbs, so being or doing words, if you do it or you are it, and the word is a verb, include -en, -ate, -ify and -ise.

When you thicken the soup, it will intensify the flavour.

Please clarify the instructions before we finalise the plan.

And finally, suffixes which create nouns include -tion, <v ->ity, and -ness.

</v> Let's look at some of these in action.

The celebration brought happiness to the community.

So we today are focusing on that -al suffix, which creates adjectives often.

The charity we're grateful for the large donation.

<v ->ity and -tion, both nouns here,</v> donation and charity.

Remember, we are focusing today though, on that -al, which creates adjectives.

So before we move into that, I want us to match the words to the word classes, the suffixes here are going to help you.

Look carefully, we have an -ous suffix, we have -tion, an -al, and a -en.

Remember, a noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing.

A verb is a doing, being or having word.

And an adjective describes a noun.

Is famous, a noun, verbal adjective.

What is education? What is natural and what is flatten? Remember to look carefully at the suffixes.

Pause the video, match them to the correct word class now.

Off you go.

Brilliant! So famous, -ous is an adjective.

We've taken the root word fame there, remove the united -ous to make famous an adjective, the famous actor.

Actor, there's my noun, famous is a word that is used to describe that noun.

Education is a noun, -tion often turns words into nouns, Natural, nature, here we've removed the 'e' and added -al is an adjective, and flatten, flat becomes flatten.

It's a verb, a doing, being or having word.

Remember to look carefully at those suffixes that help inform you as to which word class the words are.

Let's read some through some words then that use our suffix, my turn, your turn.

Educational, you may recognise some of the root words here.

Natural, vocal, professional, seasonal, environmental.

So we have our -al suffix here, making that 'al' sound at the end of the words.

They all contain this suffix.

Can you recognise any of the root words? Pause the video and have a think now.

Great! So a root word of seasonal is season.

The root word for vocal isn't so clear, but it actually comes from the Latin 'vocalis,' meaning sonorous or speaking.

The suffix -al often turns nouns into adjectives, so PPTs into adjectives, words that describe nouns.

What is your profession? Profession here is a noun, it's an abstract noun.

A noun, remember is a naming word for a person, place, or thing.

In this instance, it's a person's job.

"I would like to be a professional footballer one day." In this instance, professional with that -al suffix, now added onto profession is an adjective.

It's describing the footballer, which is a noun here.

So profession is a noun, professional with the -al suffix is now an adjective.

With that in mind, read these two sentences.

What word class are season and seasonal? Pause the video and see if you can figure it out.

Great! Which season comes after spring? Season here is a thing, an idea, it is a noun.

We should eat seasonal vegetables when we can.

Seasonal, here is an adjective, it's describing the vegetables.

It's an adjective.

So season our root word here was a noun, we added our -al suffix and it became seasonal.

Picking the right time of year to eat particular things an adjective.

The suffix -al follows some familiar spelling rules when adding the suffixes to root words.

The root word, if it ends in a consonant, we just add the suffix.

So nation here becomes national.

Notice, there's a slight difference then in the way it's pronounced.

We've gone from nation to national.

If the root word ends in an 'e', we remove that 'e', and then we add the suffix.

So here we have the root word globe, it becomes global.

Our adjective, we've removed the 'e' before adding -al.

So try and remember these rules when adding that suffix.

I have some root words down below.

They are my turn, your turn, globe, culture, profession, nation, arrive and emotion.

I'd like to put the root words into the correct column to show what will happen when we add our -al suffix.

Are you just going to add the suffix or do you need to remove the 'e', and then add the suffix.

Pause the video, put 'em in a correct column, have a go at creating those new words now, off you go.

Brilliant! So hoping you've got something that's like this.

We had the words, profession, nation, and emotion, all ending in a consonant, so we just had to add -al to create professional, national, emotional.

The words globe, culture, and arrive all ended in 'e', so we had to remove the 'e', before adding our -al suffix to create the words global, cultural and arrival.

With those rules in mind as well, let's do a little check.

Can you choose the correct spelling of the highlighted word for me? Let's look at A first, the company had global distribution.

B, is Be thoughtful of your environmental impact and C, is I felt very emotional that day.

Remember, do you recognise any root words? Do you know how the root words are spelt? Do they end in a consonant or a vow? Pause the video and select the correct spellings of the words global, environmental, and emotional now, off here.

Fantastic! So the company had global distribution, they could send things around the world.

It's an adjective here, isn't it? It's being used to describe that noun distribution.

So global distribution, my root word is globe, I remove the 'e' and add -al.

Have to remove that 'e', global.

Be thoughtful of your environmental impact.

While we're looking at that -al suffix to create adjectives, environment is my root word ending in a consonant, t, I just add -al.

Le is another 'l' spelling, but we're looking at -al today.

I felt very emotional that day.

Now emotion is my root words with that -tion, so just add -al.

Really well done team.

So I'm gonna say some words to you now, and I'd like you to have a go at spelling these words that use that suffix -al.

Do you know the root word? Can you remember any of our spelling rules? Does the root word end in an 'e' or a consonant? What is that going to change about the word? And then read the word and check as well.

So just listen to me say the words first of all.

The first word is cultural.

The next word is environmental.

Number three is national, and number four is emotional.

So cultural, environmental, national, emotional.

Pause the video and have a go right from those words now.

Off you go.

Brilliant job team! Really impressed there, some great application and spelling rules we've been looking at and great consideration for how you would add that suffix -al.

So cultural, our root word here is culture, which ends in an 'e'.

Cultural, something is of significant cultural importance.

It means it's very important to that group of people and that culture, cultural.

Environmental, is the next one.

Environment, -ent, -al, end of the consonant, -al.

And national is the next one, national.

Nation here is our root word ending in an 'n'.

It's -tion, nation, so it's -al, we add on to the end.

And finally, emotional, very similar to national.

Root word ending in -tional, we add -al emotional.

My root word is E-M-O-T-I-O-N, add -al.

Great! How did you do that? Do you have any corrections to make? Remember those rules when adding suffixes, ending in a consonant just outta -al.

Ending in an 'e', remove the 'e', add -al.

Pause the video, make any corrections now.

Onto then our next learning cycle, which is spelling curriculum words.

Curriculum words are those words, which you're going to appear a lot in our reading and writing.

So it's really important we now to spell them.

Let's read some words.

My turn, your turn.

Disappear, disappear, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps you are right.

Experience, experience, I have lots of experience teaching spelling.

What do you notice about these spellings? I've noticed some slightly tricky parts about them that might not follow how you'd expect 'em to be spelled.

Have a go at saying those words again and also have a think about how this felt compared to how they sound.

There's only difficult bits about them.

Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant! some lovely conversations going on there.

Here are some things that I've noticed, in disappear there is that prefix dis- before the word appear, and it has a double 'p', and way I remember this is the fact that within disappear or within a -pear as well, there's a pair in it.

P-E-A-R, pear, there's a pear and disappear or a pear and appear.

D-I-S, dis- has a double 'p' ear.

You might even see an ear there perhaps, there's an ear in a pear or an ear in disappear.

Remember that double 'p' though.

In 'perhaps,' there's two syllables perhaps, but that 'er' spelling just after that p isn't often heard very clearly, perhaps doesn't necessarily, you don't say perhaps, we say perhaps very quickly.

So remember it's that P-E-R-H-A-P-S.

And finally in experience, it has that 'ence' at the end like in the words 'difference' and it starts with the same letters as 'experiment.

' That's how I might remember it, begins with that 'ex,' and it has that 'enc,' like the word difference, experience.

Let's make a snapshot, a mental snapshot of these words one more time, and think about what's difficult about them.

We have disappear, perhaps and experience.

Take a snapshot, they're in your brains now.

Ah, I'm so glad they're in your brains because I'm gonna give you a little test on them right now.

I'm gonna put up some words.

I want you to point to the correct spellings for me.

Which is the correct spelling of disappear? What's tricky about it? Point to it now.

Great! Dis-ap-pear.

Oh there's an "ear' or a 'pear' there isn't there? There's double 'p' and there's that prefix 'dis', dis-ap-pear, brilliant! Dis-app-ear.

Point to the correct value perhaps go Brilliant! Now perhaps two syllables, remember? And it's that 'per', we don't say purhaps, you could over pronounce it perhaps in spelling it, if you want to have you remember perhaps and stretch it, but we just say perhaps, but it's P-E-R-H-A-P-S.

And finally, point to the correct spelling of experience go! Brilliant! So it is the 'ex' at the beginning, isn't there? 'x', and then 'per', and then it's that 'ence', isn't it? Like indifference, experience that one.

Brilliant! So because these are curriculum words and they're gonna appear so much in our reading and writing, it's so important that we know how to spell them confidently and they have some tricky elements about them, that they don't quite follow all of our phonic patterns, do they? So we are gonna use a strategy now called the look, cover, write, check strategy to practise them.

This is where you look carefully at a word and think about what's difficult about it and memorise it.

So dis-ap-pear, and remember there's an 'ear' or a 'pear' in disappear, and the double 'p' and that prefix dis-, ah brilliant! I then cover it up so I can't see it, and then write it disappear from memory and then I check back and see how I did.

And I do this more than once to really embed that spelling into my long term memory.

So I want you to use the look cover, write, check strategy now to write out these three words, disappear, perhaps, and experience, a number of times.

Off you go.

Fantastic job team! So I'm hoping you've got disappear, perhaps and experience written out like this a number of times.

If you need to make any corrections, pause the video and make those corrections now.

Off you go.

Excellent! Onto our final learning cycle then, which is applying spellings that we've been looking at so far in this lesson within a sentence.

So we are going to write a sentence containing some of our focus spelling, so using that -al suffix.

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

So let's make sure we're in a good head space to do this, maybe even have a brain break before we attempt this.

We're gonna have to remember the whole sentence, we're gonna have to sound out each word carefully.

We're gonna have to think about our spelling rules for adding that -al suffix.

Look out for those common exception and curriculum words, think about those words we've looked at just a moment ago.

And then also remember sentence punctuation, not only capitals and full stops, but any other punctuation in the sentence as well.

So I'd like to just listen to me say the sentence first of all, use your heard-well hearing.

Don't say it, just listen to me, say it a number of times.

Really immerse yourself in this sentence.

I hope to experience the natural beauty of the tropical island on my holiday there.

I hope to experience the natural beauty of the tropical island on my holiday there.

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

The first is to repeat the sentence several times out loud.

"I hope to experience the natural beauty of the tropical island on my holiday there." Repeat that sentence a number of times.

Brilliant! The next one is to picture what is happening in your head as I say the sentence or as you say it.

"I hope to experience the natural beauty of the tropical island on my holiday there." I'm imagining some crystal blue ocean seas, some lovely sandy beaches, some coconut trees.

Hmm, gosh, I wish I was there.

And the final one is to count how many words there are in that sentence.

"I hope to experience the natural beauty of the tropical island on my holiday there." Pause the video, count those words now, off you go.

So we're gonna need to sound out each word, look out for those common exception and curriculum words.

Check our sentence, punctuation as well, and also remember the rules that we've looked at for adding that suffix -al today.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

"I hope to experience the natural beauty of the tropical island on my holiday there." Pause the video and write that sentence now.

Fantastic job team! Some amazing handwriting, some great punctuating, some brilliant application of the spellings we've been looking at.

I love to see children stretching and sounding these words out, and also reading and two finger checking their work back, great job team.

So check your work now and make any corrections as we go along.

"I hope to experience the natural beauty of the tropical island on my holiday there." I hope to experience that curriculum well we looked at with that 'ex' at the beginning and that 'ence' at the end like they were difference.

The natural, nature here is our root word, 'ch' remove the 'e' and it becomes natural, -al.

Beauty, so natural, there's an adjective being used to describe the beauty of the tropical.

Tropic there is our root word end in the consonant we just added -al.

Island, islands are noun, tropical is our adjective.

That -al there is turned our tropic into tropical and adjective on my holiday there, full stop.

"I hope to experience the natural beauty of the tropical island on my holiday there." How did you do? Have you made any magical mistakes? What have you learned here? Pause the video, make any corrections and share your learning now, off you go.

Great spelling today, everyone! Today we've been looking at adding that suffix -al.

The suffix -al remember, often turns nouns into adjectives and an adjective describes it noun, and it tells you what it's like.

When the root word ends in a consonant, we just add the suffix, when the root word ends in an 'e', we remove the 'e' and add the suffix.

Keep an eye out for some of these words in your reading and writing.

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