Lesson video

Hello and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

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

With you today, 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 someone to talk to would be great as well.

Let's crack straight on into today's lesson.

So today, we're gonna be looking at new or spellings, including or spelled O-R-E, or spelled O-U-G-H, and also, or spelled with an A.

So we're looking at those less common, those rarer spellings for that or sound.

The outcome for today's lesson will be I can use three new spellings for the or phoneme, O-R-E, O-U-G-H, and A.

Here are the key words for today's lesson.

My turn, your turn, and I need to hear you say these back to me.

Digraph.

Brilliant.

Trigraph.

Verb.

Past tense.

Let's have a quick chat about what these mean then, because they're gonna be really important.

I'd like you to keep an eye for them in today's learning.

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

A trigraph then is a three-letter representation of a sound.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

If you do it where you are it, then the word is a verb.

And past tense words are words that show something that has happened already, okay? That has happened before now that has happened in the past.

We quite often talk about past tense verbs showing that something has happened, okay? Something that's been done has been done in the past.

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Here is the structure for today's lesson outline.

We're looking at new or spellings.

We're gonna be spelling some common exception words first of all, and then we're gonna look at three new or spellings.

Those less common, those rarer spellings for that or sound.

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

So here are three words.

We're gonna read these words.

These are all common exception words.

And by common exception words, I mean words that don't follow are usual or regular phonics patterns.

You may have heard them referred to as sort of harder to read or trickier to read words.

Let's call them common exception rules.

There are exceptions in that they don't follow phonics rules or patterns.

Let's read these words.

My turn, your turn.

Water.

Walk.

Talk.

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I love hearing you say this back to me.

So what I'd like you to do is take some time now to pause the video and think, reread these words, what makes them common exception words? What makes them more difficult to spell? What letters aren't behaving like you'd expect them to behave? Pause the video.

Have a think now.

Absolutely brilliant.

I had some excellent conversations going on there.

Yeah, so in each of these words is something that's not behaving quite right.

Let's have a look at it.

In the word water, that A there you'd expect to make an A sound, wouldn't you? Or at least an A sound, either a long or short vowel, but it's not waiter, and it's not water, it's water.

That A is making an or sound.

So it's that irregular rare spelling that A spelling for that or sound.

And it's the same with walk and talk, isn't it? It looks like it should be walk and talk, okay? But it's that A-L is making an or sound.

Walk, talk.

So here, we have the A and the A-L both making an or sound.

I'd like you to find the correct spelling of the common exception words that we've just looked at.

Could you please pause the video and point to the correct spelling of water? Now, go.

Amazing.

Absolutely, it's water here, isn't it? It looks like water, but we know it's water, okay? We know it's making that or sound, but spelt with an A.

The others may well make sense phonetically, but they're not the correct spellings 'cause remember, we're looking at common exception words.

Could you please pause the video and point to the correct spelling of the word walk for me? Off you go.

Incredible.

Absolutely.

Remember, it's walk spelled walk.

This one here, W-A-L-K, that A-L is making that or sound.

And similar to this one, point now to the correct spelling of the word talk for me.

Amazing.

Absolutely.

Following that same pattern as walk.

Okay, it's that A-L.

Sorry A-L representing that or sounds so talk there.

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And so because these are common exception words, they're just words that we really have to learn off by heart.

Okay, I'm gonna imprint 'em into our memories.

So the reader's strategy for doing this is the look, cover, write, check strategy.

And the way this works is by looking at a word, so I'm gonna look at the word water here, okay? I'm then gonna cover it up so I can't see it anymore.

I've got it here.

Yep, I'm gonna then write it down and then I look back and check.

Now don't just do this once, I'd do this a number of times to really embed that spelling into my memory.

It's a really good practise.

Repetitive allows you to be independent.

So I'd like you to pause the video now and I'd like you to have a go at writing other words water, walk, and talk, these three common except words using this strategy a number of times.

Pause the video, off you go.

Exceptional work, everybody.

So you should have something that's a little bit like this where you've written out your words over and over again.

Hopefully looking, covering, writing, and then checking each time, did you spell 'em correctly? If you've made any mistakes, I'd like you to pause the video and make any corrections now.

Excellent.

Onto our next learning cycle.

Next learning cycle is the three new or spellings.

O-R-E, O-U-G-H, and an A.

There are many ways the or sounds can be represented.

I'm wondering if you can remember any of the other ways the or sound can be represented.

Hmm.

Pause the video and have a think now.

Absolutely wonderful.

Has some excellent conversations going on there.

Had some children saying some words that had some other representations of that or sound as well.

Not just the new ones we're looking at.

So here are a number of other ways, four other ways, that the or sound is more commonly represented.

We have our O-R spelling.

Okay, or digraph, we have our trigraph O-O-R which loves to come to the end of a word.

Okay, we have our A-U digraph as in autumn, August, and sauce.

And then we have our A-W as well, which we can see here, saw, draw, and straw, which we know most commonly like to come to the end sometimes in the middle.

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The or sounds can also be spelled using O-R-E.

Okay, this trigraph.

So we have here the words.

My turn, your turn.

More.

Snore.

Explore.

Core.

Score.

Before.

So you can see here, so our trigraph O-R-E making that or sound.

What do you notice about the spelling? Is there anything you notice about where it likes to come in a word where it's consistently found? Pause the video.

Just have a look at the words that I've got in this table here.

And have a think.

Do you notice anything? Pause the video now.

Wonderful.

Again, some excellent conversations being had there.

Some brilliant thinking going on as well.

So I can see here that my O-R-E spelling for or that trigraph, it is usually found at the end of a word.

Okay, I can see in all of these here the words more, snore, explore, score, before, and ignore.

All at the end, okay? So that's perhaps a pattern that we've noticed there.

Our O-R-E spelling likes to come at the end.

So where is the or spelling usually found in a whole word? I'd like you to pause the video and select the correct answer now.

Is it the beginning, the middle, the end, anywhere in the word? Pause the video.

Point or select the correct answer now.

Wonderful.

Absolutely.

It is consistently found at the end, okay? And we can see here in our example is more, snore, explore, and score.

It's consistently at the end.

The or can also be represented using this O-U-G-H.

And this is not particularly common.

It's quite rare in fact, but it is in a number of words that you may have seen or used.

The words bought, thought, fought, and brought.

Have a look here.

My turn, your turn.

Bought.

And that's as in I'm going to buy something, okay? Thought.

Fought, with an F.

Be careful between a TH of thought and the F of fought.

Fought, okay, past tense of fighting.

And brought, which means you bringing something somewhere.

Be careful between bought and brought.

Bought past tense of to buy something from a shop.

Brought, okay, is you bringing something with you.

Past tense of that.

So our O-U-G-H spelling then, you may have noticed that these words are all verbs and they're in the past tense, they're all doing words.

Okay, and they're all in the past tense.

So that is the pattern now.

O-U-G-H spelling is commonly found in past tense verbs and it tends to come in the middle of a sentence.

I bought a new toy from the shop.

Past tense.

I thought about what I learned yesterday.

Past tense.

The sisters fought over the last sweet in the jar.

Past tense.

He brought his favourite book to school.

Past tense.

So our O-U-G-H spelling, past tense verbs, and it seems to me to be coming in the middle of that word as well, often followed by a T.

The O-U-G-H letter string can be hard to remember, okay? Because it is a very strange spelling for that or sound.

This phrase can help us, okay? Oh, you grumpy hippo.

Almost like a pneumonic device here.

So you can see here O for that O spelling.

U for that U spelling.

G, grumpy.

H, hippo.

Oh, you grumpy hippo.

I'm gonna check now.

What's the phrase to help remember O-U-G-H? Pause the video.

Can you remember it? What's that pneumonic phrase we can use? O-U-G-H.

Pause the video.

Tell someone.

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Amazing.

I think some of you may have even come up with your own ones there.

Remember, this is a really useful device to help us remember this O-U-G-H spelling.

Oh, you grumpy hippo.

Absolutely.

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The or sound can also be represented with an A, which is very strange, but we sort of saw this earlier with that word water, that common exception word that we've looked at in this lesson.

So in the words ball, small.

My turn, your turn.

Stall, okay, like maybe a stall, a standard, a sort of winter fair or a summer fair that you might go and try and win prizes from.

Or a car might stall, it might not be able to move forward.

Always, also.

You can see here in these words that A comes before an L or a double L, so an L sound.

There you go.

In ball, before a double L.

In small, before a double L.

In stall, before a double L.

And then before and a single L but it's at the beginning of the word in always and also.

So I've got some words here, okay? And I'd like you to sort these words into the correct columns.

I've got an O-R-E for or and O-U-G-H for ough that oh, you grumpy hippo.

And that A for or.

Let's read the words below and then you're gonna sort them for me into the correct columns.

My turn, your turn.

More, also, thought, brought, snore, ball, ignore.

So not to give anyone any attention.

Fought, and that fought is in past tense of fighting and small.

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

Go.

Absolutely exceptional work, everyone.

So I'm hoping you should have some columns that look like this.

There you go.

So more, snore, and ignore are all that trigraph O-R-E.

Now remember, it likes to come at the end.

O-U-G-H or oh, you grumpy hippo in the middle, past tense verbs there, followed by a T.

And then we know A for or, okay? Likes to either be followed by an L or a double L.

So we have also ball and small.

Can you please match the spelling to where it's most commonly found in a word? Pause the video, match the spelling to the left to where they're most commonly found in a word now.

Off you go.

Brilliant work, everyone.

Could see lots of children drawing lines in the air with their fingers matching those words.

Excellent, so while A spelling for or likes to go before an L or a double L.

Our trigraph O-R-E spelling there, okay, likes to go at the end of a word.

And our O-U-G-H, oh, you grumpy hippo, okay? That very strange spelling for an or sound.

Likes to go in the middle, and remember, in those past tense verbs, what we're gonna do now is we're gonna have a go at spelling some words that contain some or sounds.

Take your time with this.

Consider where do you hear the or sound in the word? Is it followed by any particular letters? Think about the rules that we've generated today.

You've worked so hard.

Make sure you stretch those words.

Make sure you sound them out.

Count the sounds, write it, and also look and check back and think, "Hmm, does this look correct?" So here are, okay, the three words.

Let's do my turn, your turn first.

Explore.

Explore, that's number one.

Number two, also.

Also.

Number three, fought.

The two dear, in this picture you can see here, fought over the patch of land.

Okay, so one more time.

Let's go through these words.

Explore.

So explore, also, and fought.

Let's have a go stretching out the first one.

Explore, explore, explore, explore, explore, explore, explore, explore.

Okay, so I'd like you now to pause the video and write these three words.

I'll say them one more time.

Explore, also, fought.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Fantastic work, everyone.

I saw some brilliant application of the rules that we've generated today.

Saw some excellent handwriting and I saw people really taking their time.

Let's have a look.

I've seen explore written in these ways.

Explore, could make sense.

The second, explore, nice.

Definitely.

And explore as well.

Now, let's think about this.

Explore.

Don't think my last spelling's gonna work here.

I know that that O-U-G-H, oh, you grumpy hippo likes to come in the middle of a word and it's a past tense verbs, isn't it? So you can discount that one.

And if I look at my next two, the first and second ones, they do make phonetic sense, but I don't think, okay, my first one looks right.

And we know our O-R-E spelling likes to come in the end of words, so I'm gonna say this one.

This is the correct spelling of explore.

Have a little check now.

The second one that we're looking at is also, okay? Also.

Now remember, we said if it is at the start of the word, okay, remember there are A spelling for or like to come either before an L or a double L.

So I think we can discount the first one.

It's not gonna be also, like that.

Although that would make phonetic sense when we're looking at our less regular rarer spellings for this all sound today.

So it's gonna be an A, isn't it? So we need to look here.

Now, it sounds like it has the word all in it, and We know all is spelled A-L-L, but it is that A-L spelling.

It's this one here, okay? Brilliant.

It'll be that double L if it was then at the end of the word.

And the final one we're looking at is the word fought.

Let's have a look.

Now it's Fa-fa not Fe-fe, so it's an F spelling.

So great.

They all have that right.

Remember, what's that mnemonic device we can use here that if you hear it in that past tense verb is O-U-G-H, oh, you grumpy hippo.

So it's this spelling here.

The final one, F-O-R-T, actually is a word.

It's a homophone of this word.

Remember homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

And this is something that you can build.

It's a kind of military building that you might build and protect, a fort.

But I was looking for the verb fought, that past tense verb.

Okay, they fought over the land.

Brilliant.

You guys have worked so hard today.

Give yourselves a big pat on the back.

Today, we've looked at less common spellings of the or sound, and these include or spell O-R-E.

This is usually found at the end of a word, words like more, snort, and ignore exemplify this.

We looked at that O-U-G-H spelling, which is usually found in past tense verbs such as bought and fought.

And we thought about that pneumonic device oh, you grumpy hippo, so that can help us remember that.

And we've also looked at this very strange A spelling for that or sound, which usually comes for an L or a double L as in the words always, or all, and small.

And we kind of said perhaps if it was at the end of the word, it was that double L.

And if it was at the beginning of that word like always, and also, it was a single L.

Amazing work, everyone.