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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 me your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains, as well as something to write with and write on, and someone or something to talk to you will be brilliant as well.

Let's get on with today's learning.

So in today's lesson, we're gonna be looking at different L spellings, and we're gonna be concentrating on in particular the IL and the AL spellings, that 'l' sound, that L sound.

The outcome is I can spell words containing representations of the 'l' phoneme, the L phoneme, IL and AL.

Here are the keywords for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Noun.

Adjective.

Syllable.

Polysyllabic.

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

It's a naming word.

Can even be a naming word for an abstract idea like love.

An adjective is a describing word.

It describes a noun.

It can tell you what it's like.

Happy, big, or blue are examples of adjectives.

A syllable is a single beat or sound in a word that contains a vowel sound.

The word cat.

Cat contains one syllable.

It can help to clap out syllables.

Polysyllabic then is a word that contains more than one beat.

It has that word syllable in and the word poly, which means more than one or many.

So a polysyllabic word for instance, could be the word handle.

It contains two beats, two syllables.

Please keep an ear in and out for these words in our learning today.

They're gonna be very important.

Here is the lesson outline.

We are looking at 'l' spellings, including IL and AL, making that 'l' sound, that 'l' phoneme.

First of all, we're gonna be spelling some common exception words.

Then we're gonna look at the two L spellings in particular, IL and AL.

And then we're gonna be applying spellings within a sentence.

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

Common exception words are those words that do not follow our regular phonics rules, and are therefore a little trickier or harder to read or spell.

Let's read the following words.

Father.

The father was very proud of his children.

Clothes.

I am wearing clothes.

Have a look at both of these spellings and consider what might make them tricky or difficult.

Pause the video and have a think now.

Brilliant, some lovely conversations going on there.

So for me in father, it's this a.

You might expect the a to make a long A or a short 'a' sound, but here it makes an 'ar' sound, but there's no 'ar' there.

So it doesn't say father or father.

It makes a father.

So be careful for that A.

In clothes, we can see here our O is making that long O sound as opposed to making a short 'oa' sound.

It looks like it has the word cloth in it, and it does in a way.

So it's talking about the material those clothes are made out of.

And then we have this ES at the end.

Don't forget that E, clothes.

And it almost sounds like a 'z' at the end too.

So definitely watch out for this word.

Here we can see in father that A making an 'ar' sound.

And here we can see that O, that spelling O is making an 'oa' sound, and the ES is making that plural suffix.

So watch out.

So which of these common exception words that we've just looked at are spelled correctly.

Point to the correct spelling of the word father now.

Pause the video.

Fantastic.

Absolutely, if you pointed to this one, you would be correct.

Watch out that a spelling is making an 'ar' sound.

Point now to the correct spelling of the word clothes, as in the I'm wearing clothes.

Pause the video and point to it.

Brilliant, absolutely.

Correct spelling is this one here.

That O spelling is making a long O sound, and we have our ES 'cause it's that plural suffix there.

So watch out for that.

So because these are common exception words, we really need to embed them into our memory.

We can't apply our phonics to help work them out.

So a really good strategy for doing this is a look, cover, write, check strategy.

And this works by looking at spelling.

So look at the spelling of father.

Covering it up.

So you're having to work on that memory.

Writing it obviously in your neatest handwriting, and then checking back.

And doing this multiple times is repetitive to really embed that spelling into your memory.

I'd like you to pause the video and have a go at writing out the words father and clothes using this strategy a number of times.

Pause the video, off you go.

Really great job.

So I'm hoping that you've got father and clothes written out a number of times like this in your best handwriting.

Did you manage to spell them correctly? Pause the video now to make any corrections.

Onto the next learning cycle then.

We are gonna be looking at today in particular at two spellings of that 'l', that L phoneme, IL and AL.

So let's have a read of some words that contain different L sounds.

I can see here that I've got representations for the L sounds with that L spelling, the double L spelling, that LE spelling at the end, and that that EL spelling at the end as well.

Now remember our LE and our EL spelling like to be found in polysyllabic words, as opposed to our double L spelling, which is often found in single syllable words and with short vowel sounds.

Bill, tell, well, and spell.

I'd like us to concentrate on the final two columns here that we can see with the question marks.

Let's have a go at reading some of these words and consider it, and let's consider which graphemes here are representing that 'l', that L phoneme.

My turn, your turn.

Pencil.

Like the pencil you might write with.

Fossil.

Fossils are the ancient remains of animals.

Nostril.

Devil, devil.

Your nostril, you have two of them here.

The nostrils, okay? Metal.

Pedal, like the pedal that you might pedal on a bike.

Hospital and animal.

Brilliant.

I'd like you to say these words again in these final two columns and consider where you are hearing that 'l' sound, and which letters are representing that 'l' sound.

Pause the video and do that now.

Really good job, great hearing you say those words and great hearing the conversations around where that 'l' sound is coming.

So I can see here that my 'l' sound could be represented with an L, a double L, an LE, and an EL.

And we are looking at two new spellings for that 'l' sound today.

The first one is the IL spelling, and we can see it here in pencil, fossil, nostril, and devil.

Remember, your nostrils here are in your nose.

You've got two of them.

The other spelling here is the AL spelling in metal, petal, hospital, animal.

So our IL and AL are rarer spellings of that 'l', that L sound.

It means they're less common.

So have a look here.

We're gonna read some words, and you are gonna have a go at sorting them into the correct columns here.

I've got an IL 'l' column and an AL 'l' column.

Let's have a go at reading these words.

My turn, your turn.

Evil.

Capital, like a capital city.

Pupil.

Equal.

Tonsil.

Now your tonsils are things that you have in your throat here.

Local.

Something that's local is nearby to you.

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

Brilliant.

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

We can see the words evil, pupil, and tonsil all have that IL spelling there.

And then we have capital, equal, and local are AL spellings in those words there.

Again that 'l' sound is coming at the end of a word.

And this time we're looking at IL and an AL representation of that sound.

So our IL is a rare representation of the 'l' sound, and it's often found in polysyllabic words.

That keyword polysyllabic is there.

So words that contain more than one syllable, more than one beat.

Evil, that's two syllables.

Pupil, two syllables.

Pencil, two syllables.

Fossil, two syllables.

Nostril, two syllables.

Our AL spelling is also found at the end of polysyllabic words.

Metal.

Clap along with me.

Pedal.

Coastal.

Coastal is an adjective that describes something that's near the coast, near to the sea, where the sea in the land meet.

Equal, loyal.

Someone who is loyal would never betray you.

My friends are loyal to me.

You may notice as well that AL is a spelling that's often found in adjectives.

These three words, coastal, equal, and loyal, are all adjectives.

The coastal village.

Village is our noun there.

It's our thing.

And our co-locate, the word that's going with it, that's paired with it is coastal.

It describes that village.

Can you make an equal equation? Equation there will be our noun.

Equal would be our adjective.

And my loyal friend.

Friend, our noun.

Loyal, our adjective.

So that AL spelling is often found in adjectives.

Have a look at these words for me here.

Can you select the correct spelling? The words are, my turn, your turn.

Capital.

Fossil.

Hospital.

Pause the video now and select the correct spelling for each one.

Great work.

Let's go through and see how you did then.

So for a, the word was capital.

We are today looking at the IL and the AL representations, aren't we? It's a AL here.

Capital, polysyllabic.

And it's coming at the end.

It's our AL spelling.

B, fossil.

Fossil, polysyllabic again.

And it's our IL spelling here.

That is a noun.

And C, hospital.

Hospital, polysyllabic.

It's our AL spelling in hospital.

Check and see how you did.

Did you select the correct spellings? Pause the video.

Great job.

So we're gonna have a go at spelling some words now.

We really need to take our time doing this.

Stretch each word, sound each word out, write it, and then look and check as well.

So here are the words that we're gonna be looking at.

My turn, your turn.

Pencil.

I wrote with a pencil.

Loyal.

The dog was loyal to its owner.

Evil.

The battle between good and evil.

And coastal.

Coastal.

The coastal village was situated next to the sea.

Okay, I'm gonna say those words one more time, and then you are gonna have a go at writing them, stretching them, sounding them out, and then checking.

Pencil, loyal, evil, coastal.

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

Fantastic job, everyone.

So the first word that we looked at was pencil, and I've seen it written in these ways.

Pensil, pencal, pencil.

We know our AL and our IL can all make that 'l' sound.

Now let's think about which of them is going to be then.

Now, pencil, I think it's my soft C that makes it, so I can disregard the first one.

And the correct spelling is my IL spelling, pencil.

Pencil.

It's a polysyllabic word.

Two was loyal.

Loyal.

We have here, so let's think about which one's the correct spelling of loyal then.

Loyal, could be that first one, couldn't it? It's making that oi, oi.

They all have that, don't they? And we know LE, IL, and AL can all make that 'l' sound at the end of the word.

The correct spelling is my AL spelling.

And this word here is an adjective, and we set our AL spelling, not always, but often it's found in adjectives.

The next spelling was evil.

The first one doesn't look right to me.

I know it's making an E sound, but I think it's just the E spelling.

That's evil or eval.

Hmm, I think it's going to be my IL spelling here, evil.

That's the correct one there.

Sometimes it helps to just look at the words and consider which one looks right.

And evil here looks correct to me.

E-V-A-L does not look correct.

And finally we had the adjective coastal.

Coastal.

Now, we said Al quite likes to come after adjectives.

So you think it might be the second or the third one.

And it's not a K making that 'k' 'k' sound at the start.

It's just a C in coast.

The root word here is coast, which you may have seen before.

Coast being where the land meets the sea.

So it's this one here, coastal.

Fantastic.

Check, see how you did.

Make any corrections now.

Pause the video.

Onto our final learning cycle then, which is gonna be applying our spellings that we've been looking at within a sentence.

We are going to write a sentence containing some of our focus spellings and common exception words.

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

So we should really take our time with this.

Perhaps have a brain break if you need to.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to form our letters correctly.

We need to sound out each word.

Look out for those common exception words that don't follow our regular phonics patterns.

And obviously remember our sentence punctuation, capital letters and full stops.

I'd like you to just listen to me say the sentence, first of all.

His father found a fossil in the coastal town.

So we are gonna use some strategies that help us remember the sentence here.

We are gonna tap it out first on your head, your shoulders, on your desk, on the floor.

His father found a fossil in the coastal town.

This really helps to then find those syllables in the words.

His father found a fossil in the coastal town.

You pause the video and have a go at tapping it out now.

Hopefully when you're tapping you found those single syllable and those polysyllabic words.

The next strategy is shouting it out.

His father found a fossil in the coastal town.

Pause the video and shout it out at me now.

Brilliant, could really hear you shouting at me.

And finally counting the words on our fingers so we make sure we don't miss any words out.

His father found a fossil in the coastal town.

Make that nine.

Pause the video, count each of those words in the sentence on your finger now and say it.

Good job.

So you're gonna have a chance now to write the sentence.

I'd like to make sure you sound each of the words out.

Look out for those common exception words, and don't forget your sentence, punctuation, capital letters, and full stops.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

His father found a fossil in the coastal town.

Pause the video and write it.

Brilliant job, everyone.

Some wonderful handwriting.

Some great application of the spelling rules that you've generated.

Really careful consideration also to stretching each of those words and thinking about those common exception words.

So check your work and make any corrections now.

His obviously needs to have a capital letter.

Father, ooh, that was one of our common exception words.

It's that A spelling that makes that 'ar' sound.

Found a fossil.

Ooh, think about this word.

It's that IL spelling at the end of a word.

Fossil, polysyllabic word.

In the coastal, adjective there.

So it's our AL spelling, Coastal.

Town.

Fantastic.

And of course we need to have a full stop at the end of our sentence.

Brilliant.

How did you do? What did you learn? If you've made any major mistakes, not to worry, just make some corrections now.

Share your learning with those around you.

Pause the video, make any corrections.

Brilliant learning today, everyone.

Today we've looked at that L phoneme, which can be spelled in different ways, that 'l' sound, IL and AL.

IL is usually found at the end of a polysyllabic word and is very rare.

Words like pencil, nostril, and pupil, and those words all happen to be nouns.

AL is usually at the end of a polysyllabic word and it's often found in adjectives.

Here we have the words loyal, equal, and coastal that are all examples of adjectives.

Really great spelling today, everyone.

Keep it up, and I'll see you again soon.

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