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.

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 and someone to talk to would be great.

Let's get on with today's lesson then.

In today's lesson we're going to be spelling more homophones and near homophones.

The outcome will be I can spell more common homophones and understand their meaning.

Here are the keywords for today's lesson.

My turn, your turn.

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

Homophone.

Homophone.

Near-homophone.

Silent letter.

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have very different meanings.

A near-homophone is a word that sounds very similar to another word but with slightly different spellings and a different meaning.

Silent letters are those letters that are not pronounced when a word is spoken.

For instance, in the word thumb, I don't pronounce the B.

The M and the B work together as a digraph to make an M sound and I don't pronounce it.

Please keep an eye and an ear out for these words in our learning today because they're going to be very important.

Here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're spelling more homophones and near-homophones and we're going to be looking at different pairs and different sets of homophones.

We're going to be looking at spelling the homophones here, night, quite or quiet, and by.

Let's get on then at looking at spelling the homophones hear and here.

Let's read these sentences.

I can hear the birds singing.

Come over here.

What words in these sentences then are homophones, words that sound the same but are spelt differently? I'll read them one more time.

I can hear the birds singing.

Come over here.

Pause the video and see if you can spot the homophones in these sentences.

Good job.

Absolutely, homophone alert, we have the word hear and the word here.

They sound the same, but they're spelt differently and have very different meanings.

Our first one here is H-E-A-R.

It has that word ear in it, doesn't it? It's to do with your hearing, you can hear those birds.

And then our H-E-R-E is that come over here, it's that direction that you're giving to someone.

These are homophones.

Remember, homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings and we can only know which homophone we're using when they're put into the correct context.

The word hear, H-E-A-R, is a verb that refers to the action of hearing with your ears.

I can hear the sound of the waves.

Did you hear the news? A way to remember this spelling is that it has that word ear in it, E-A-R, which is obviously we're using our ears to hear.

The word here spelt H-E-R-E refers to a specific location or place, so that locational language.

Come here and sit next to me.

You're directing someone to come to you.

Here is the book you are looking for.

You're handing that to someone, you're saying here it is.

So, have a look at these two sentences.

I'm going to read them to you and I want you to think about the context and think about which will be the correct spelling of here to use in them.

Place that here.

I could hear the storm in the distance.

Pause the video and select the correct homophone now.

Well done team.

So, place that here, that's my H-E-R-E, that directional, locational spelling there.

And then I could hear, that's our hear with our ear in it, it's that verb, I could hear the storm in the distance.

Pause the video and see how you did.

Onto our first practise task then.

So we've looked at these homophones for here, we've considered the different contexts in which they would be used.

I'd like you to have a look at these sentences now and add in the correct spelling of here.

Wait here whilst I go and get your work.

Do you hear that? Pause the video and add the correct spellings of here now.

Well done everyone.

So, let's see.

Wait here, that's that, again, that direction, that location whilst I go and get your work.

Do you hear that? Each of these spellings would only work in these sentences.

I couldn't say wait hear whilst I go and get your work, that wouldn't make sense.

I wouldn't say, do you here that? This is why we have to be really careful with homophones because each specific spelling only works in the given context.

So keep an ear and an eye out for these in your learning because they can sometimes trip us up.

Pause the video and see how you did with the here homophones.

Onto our next homophones then, we're going to be looking at the homophones night and knight.

Let's read these words in a sentence.

We saw many stars in the night sky.

The brave knight protected the kingdom.

I'm gonna read those sentences one more time.

I want you to think about which word in these sentences sounds the same but is spelt differently.

We saw many stars in the night sky.

The brave knight protected the kingdom.

Pause the video, can you spot our homophone? Good job.

Absolutely, homophone alert here, we've got the same sounds, it's night and knight.

Now, be careful with this second knight here, with that K, that is one of our star words, one of our keywords, it has a silent letter in it.

We don't pronounce the K when we say that word, our K and our N work as a digraph to make just that one sound, that N sound, knight.

So they sound the same but are spelt differently, they are homophones.

The word night refers to a period of time from sunset to sunrise.

The night was silent and peaceful.

I enjoy taking walks through the city at night.

It contains the I-G-H trigraph, making that igh sound.

A knight is a person who wears armour and defends something, most often in fictional stories.

The brave knight fought the dragon.

She was a knight and she wore silver armour.

The K is a silent letter, so be careful.

We don't pronounce it when we say the word.

That K and that N are creating a digraph, just making that one sound, that N sound.

We don't say k-night, we just say knight.

And it also contains that I-G-H trigraph as well.

So we've looked at two contexts for our word night.

Let's have a look at two sentences and see if you can figure out which would be the correct spelling.

Nocturnal predators hunt at night.

The knight defended the castle.

Pause the video and select the correct spelling of night now.

Good job.

The first one, nocturnal predators are those animals, or nocturnal, are those animals that come out at night and so I mean when it's dark, so it's our N-I-G-H-T.

Okay, that time between sunset and sunrise.

And the knight defended the castle.

That's that person who defends something, often from a fictional story, knight, there you go, with our silent K, watch out for that spelling, knight.

Pause the video and see how you did.

So, we've looked at our homophones for night in some different contexts.

I want you to apply them to complete these sentences now.

The moon shone in the night sky.

The knight rode into battle atop a horse.

Which spelling would be used for each one? Be careful and watch out for that silent letter as well.

Pause the video and add the correct spelling now.

Well done team.

So, the moon shone in the night sky, that's that time between sunset and sunrise when we can see the moon at certain times of the month.

The knight rode into battle, okay.

That's our silent letter there, be careful, it's not k-night, it's knight.

Well done.

Pause the video and see how you did with your homophones now.

Onto then our next learning cycle which is looking at some homophones and near-homophones, quiet or quite.

Let's have a read of these sentences.

The library was very quiet.

The movie was quite entertaining.

The movie was quite entertaining.

I'm gonna read these one more time.

These aren't full homophones, these are almost like our near-homophones, they sound fairly similar, but are spelt differently and have different meanings as well.

The library was quiet.

The movie was quite entertaining.

Depending on how you pronounce these, they may not be homophones, but they may be, dependent on your accent.

So our homophones here are quiet and quite.

These are near-homophones.

Near-homophones are words that sound similar to one another with different spellings and meanings.

They don't sound exactly the same dependent upon your accent or how you pronounce them.

So we're looking at the words quiet and quite here and they have different meanings, don't they? The word quiet most commonly means the absence of noise.

Please be quiet.

The night was calm and quiet, so you couldn't hear anything.

This word has two syllables.

(clapping) Quiet.

(clapping) Quiet.

And it can help to clap the syllables.

Remember, syllables are those beats or sounds where we have the vowels in a word.

(clapping) Quiet.

The word quite is an adverb meaning fairly or very.

Let's look at this in action.

She was quite happy with the test results.

So it's an adverb, a word there that's describing that verb.

She was quite happy with her test results.

Finishing the race was quite a challenge.

So it's paired here with our verb was.

It was quite a challenge.

This word only has one syllable when pronounced.

(clapping) Quite.

(clapping) Quite.

As opposed to quiet, which has two.

(clapping) Quiet.

(clapping) Quite.

(clapping) Quiet.

So, let's have a look at the words quite and quiet in some different contexts and see if you can work out which spelling it should be.

The film was quite enjoyable.

He spoke in a quiet voice.

Pause the video and select the correct spellings now.

Off you go.

Good job team.

So, the film was quite enjoyable.

It's our adverb here, it was quite enjoyable, fairly enjoyable.

He spoke in a quite voice or quiet voice? It's gonna be our two syllable, (clapping) quiet.

It wouldn't make sense if it was quite voice.

A quiet voice.

Brilliant.

Check, see how you did.

So, we've had a look at quiet and quite and I'd like you now to see if you can add the correct spelling of these near-homophones into these sentences.

Think about the context.

I need some peace and quiet.

You're quite right.

Pause the video and see if you can put in the correct homophone now.

Off you go.

Well done.

I need some peace and quiet.

So it's gonna be our two syllable quiet, I need some peace and quiet.

It makes sense in that context, doesn't it, when things are peaceful they often are calm and quiet.

You're, and look here, we have you are there, our contracted form, you're, you are, you're.

You're quite right.

It's our quite spelling, our adverb.

Brilliant, pause the video to see how you did with those near-homophones.

Onto then our final learning cycle which is looking at homophones for the word by.

So let's read some sentences.

She waved goodbye.

I walked by the post office.

I want to buy a new book.

I'm gonna read these sentences one more time.

Can you hear the homophones, those words that sound the same but are spelt differently? She waved goodbye.

I walked by the post office.

I wanted to buy a new book.

Pause the video.

Can you spot the homophone in each of these sentences? Some lovely conversations going on there.

Absolutely, I think you spotted it, it's in our pink colour here.

Homophone alert, words that sound the same but are spelt different.

Buy, by, and bye.

All spelt differently here.

Some of them have got strange spellings as well.

So these are homophones, words that are all pronounced or sound the same and have different spellings and very different meanings as well.

So let's have a look at these spelling in their context and understand what each one means.

The word buy, B-U-Y, refers to the act of purchasing something, so going to the shop and buying it with money.

I'll buy the red dress.

Can I buy a biscuit? The word by, B-Y, can show a nearness in position or a way of achieving something.

He walked by the park, so that's someone near that park, that's that position, that's that nearness to it.

By using a map, they found their way.

So this is showing that use of the map meant that they achieved finding their way.

And the word bye, B-Y-E is the shortened form, the less formal form of the word goodbye.

He waved bye to his friends.

Time to say bye now.

And watch out, this word has an E at the end of it.

So, let's read some sentences and see if you can figure out from the context which is gonna be our correct spelling of by.

I walked by the market on the way home.

I would not buy it for that much money.

As he said bye, he waved.

Pause the video, select the correct spelling of by for each of these sentences now.

Off you go.

Okay, I walked by the market on the way home.

That's our positional by, isn't it, that closeness, that nearness, B-Y.

I would not buy it for that much money, that context of the money there helps us select the correct spelling, it's our B-U-Y spelling, it's that act of buying something.

And as he said bye, he waved.

That's our shortened form of goodbye, B-Y, don't forget that E at the end, B-Y-E.

Pause the video and see how you did.

So, we've looked at these homophones for by in some different contexts.

Hopefully you have an understanding of which word works dependent on which context.

We're now going to add the correct spelling to these sentences.

Before leaving on the trip, she said bye.

The parcel was delivered by the postal worker.

They decided to buy a gift for their friend.

Which spelling of by would we use in each sentence? Pause the video and see if you can figure it out now, off you go.

Great job team.

So, before leaving on the trip, she said bye.

That's gonna be our shortened form of goodbye, isn't it, so it's our B-Y-E spelling, don't forget that naughty E at the end.

The parcel was delivered by the postal worker, that's our B-Y spelling there.

That has been achieved by the delivery of the postal worker, that package being there, that parcel, so it's our B-Y.

And then they decided to buy a gift for their friend, that's that act of going and buying something from a shop using money, B-U-Y, buy.

Pause the video and see how you did with these homophones.

Well done today everyone, some great spelling.

Homophones can be really tricky.

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

Putting homophones into context sentences can help us recognise them.

Examples of homophones include here, night, and by and an example of a near-homophone is quiet or quite dependent on how you pronounce it.

Excellent spelling today everyone.

Keep an eye and an ear out for these homophones in your work.

See you again soon.