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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 your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains.

As well as having something to write on and with, and someone to talk to would be excellent as well.

Let's get right into today's learning then.

In today's lesson, we'll be applying the new "oo" spellings, including U-E, U-I, and O-U, the three digraphs that make that "oo" sound.

The outcome for today's lesson is "I can apply three new spellings of the "oo" phoneme, U-E, U-I, and O-U." So we're gonna practise spelling some words that contain these today.

Here are the key words for today's lesson.

My turn, your turn.

Diagraph.

I need to hear you saying these back to me.

Long vowel sound.

Rare.

Exception.

Brilliant, let's talk about what these words mean then.

A digraph is a two letter representation of a sound.

For instance, we are looking at the digraphs U-E, U-I, and O-U, which all make that "oo" sound.

Long vowel sounds are vowel sounds that are, when spoken, are longer than their shorter counterparts.

For instance, A, E, I, O, U.

If we think about the word cake, that has a long A sound in it.

Short vowel sounds are ah, eh, ih, oh, uh.

For instance, in the word bat, the A there is ah, ah, bat.

So that's a short vowel.

We're looking at some long vowel sounds today.

Rare spellings are spellings which do not appear very often in our written or spoken language.

They are far less common than the common spellings.

And exceptions are words that do not follow our usual phonics patterns, often making them trickier to memorise, or trickier to spell.

Here's the outline for today's learning.

We are going to be applying new "oo" spellings, including U-E, U-I, and O-U, those three digraphs.

In the first part of today's lesson, we're going to be spelling common exception words.

Then, we're going to be reviewing what we know about those new "oo" spellings, and then finally, we're gonna have a chance to apply those spellings within a sentence.

Let's get onto looking at some common exception words.

Common exception words, remember that word, exception, was one of our key words, are words that do not follow our usual phonics patterns, and are therefore often referred to as trickier to read or harder to read or tricker to spell or harder to spell words.

I like to call them common exception words, because they're not following our normal patterns.

Let's read some of these words.

My turn, your turn.

Move.

Prove.

Improve.

If you improve something, you make it better.

If you prove something, you use evidence to make sure that your point is proved or understood.

I think I can notice something here.

I want you to stop the video for a moment.

What do you notice about these spellings? Do they have something similar in them? What sound can you hear? Pause the video.

Have a conversation with someone now.

Fantastic.

I heard some excellent thinking and conversations going on there.

I've noticed that this O here, this O grapheme, this O spelling, isn't behaving like you might expect it to.

They all make a long "oo" sound, don't they? That long vowel.

It's not a short vowel, oh, oh sound.

It's a long "oo" sound.

Can you make that sound for me now? "Oo." And they're just using that single O grapheme to make that sound, which is quite rare, and it's not behaving in the way you would expect that O spelling to behave.

So let say these words one more time.

Move.

Stretch them, so you can really stretch that long vowel sound.

Prove.

Improve.

Of the common exception words we have just looked at, which is the correct spelling? Point to the correct spelling of the word "move" for me, now.

Fantastic.

It's this one here, isn't it? The second one's definitely phonetically plausible, but we know it's that strange O spelling that's making that oo sound.

And the last one doesn't work, 'cause that'd be moof, and we're looking for "vuh" sound, aren't we? Vv.

Point to the correct spelling now, of the word "prove".

Fantastic.

It's this one here, isn't it? It's that O-V-E, that O for that long oo sound.

And the final one, improve.

Point to the correct spelling now.

Excellent.

The correct one is this one here.

It's not in-prove, it's im.

I-M.

We add the prefix I-M before it, and again, it's that O spelling for that long oo sound, that V-E at the end.

So, because these are common exception words, that don't follow our usual phonics patterns, they can often be a little bit trickier to spell, or to figure out, by using our phonics.

We can't actually use it.

So we just have to learn them, sort of off by heart, and embed them in our long term memory.

And a strategy I really like to use for this is the "look, cover, write, check" strategy.

It's really good, allows you to be independent, and allows you to practise your handwriting, and it's repetitive.

The way this works is, is by looking at the word.

So I'm gonna look at the word move.

And then cover that word up, so I can't see it anymore.

I memorised it, and then have a go at writing it really neatly, and then I check back and see how I did.

But don't just do this once.

I'll do this more than once, to really embed that spelling into my long-term memory.

I'd like you to pause the video now, and have a go at doing this for these three words.

Move, prove, and improve.

Off you go.

Absolutely fantastic, everyone.

Check and see how you did.

Did you spell them correctly? Make any corrections now.

Onto the next learning cycle, where we're gonna have a look at these new OO spellings in a bit more detail.

Less common spellings of the oo sound include the digraphs U-E, U-I, and O-U.

Pause the video now.

What can you remember about where these spellings are found in a word? Excellent.

Again, I heard some brilliant spelling conversations going on there.

The U-E spelling, making that oo sound.

The U-I spelling, and the O-U spelling, are what we're concentrating on today, all making that oo sound.

U-E is often found at the end of a word.

Here are two examples.

True, and virtue.

A virtue is behaviour that shows goodness, particularly goodness towards the whole of humanity.

Our U-I spelling can be found in the middle of a word.

Suit and fruit.

And you may recall from previous learning, that it particularly likes a T to come after it.

And our O-U spelling is often found in the middle of a word, too.

Words such as route and soup show this.

Does quite like a P after it as well.

Here are some of the words that we've looked at that contain our U-E, U-I, and O-U spellings, for that oo sound.

Some of these words rhyme.

Can you see which ones they are? Pause the video and think now.

Brilliant.

Loved hearing children saying the words there, and I could definitely hear lots of rhyming going on.

Rhyming is really useful, because it can help us swap patterns in our spellings.

For instance, I can see here, blue and glue both rhyme.

That L-U-E, oo sound coming at the end of the word.

I can hear as well, in tissue and issue, that S-S making a sh sound, and then again, our U-E spelling.

Suit and fruit both rhyme, don't they? U-I-T.

Perhaps that U-I spelling likes that T.

We have cruise and bruise.

Perhaps that U-I spelling also likes that S-E at the end.

Uise.

And then we have soup, recoup, group, and troupe.

If you recoup something, it means you gain it back after having lost it.

I recouped a large sum of money.

A troupe is a group of entertainers who might tour.

For example, "The dance troupe toured up and down the country, showing off their dancing skills." All of those words end in that P sound, don't they? And have that O-U spelling coming before it.

You might notice troupe has a bit of a naughty E at the end as well.

The U-E spelling can make both an oo and a yoo sound, remember.

For instance, if we look here, glue, true, and blue, are all making that oo sound.

But it can also make that yoo sound.

Can you say that for me now? Yoo.

It's another long vowel sound, isn't it? Avenue.

My turn, your turn.

Avenue.

Rescue.

Argue.

An avenue is a large road, usually found in a city or a town, that is often wide and lined by trees.

When we say each word, we can hear either the oo or the yoo sound.

Pause the video now, and have a go at saying these words.

Excellent.

Let's go through them one more time.

Let's first have a look at those oo words.

Glue.

True.

Blue.

Let's look at those yoo words.

Avenue.

Rescue.

Argue.

Watch out for this.

The U-I spelling is often followed by a T, a C-E, or an S-E.

Let's have a look.

Suit.

Fruit.

Pursuit.

All ending in that T sound.

If you pursue someone, it means you chase after them.

And then we have juice, cruise, bruise.

That's C-E, S-E.

Brilliant.

The word suitcase here is a compound word.

Two words put together, and we can see a U-I spelling in the middle of the word suit.

The O-U spelling is often followed by a P.

Let's read these words.

Soup.

Group.

Recoup.

Troupe.

Route.

Wound.

You.

The word recoup means to get something back again after having lost it.

I recouped a large sum of money, that I had previously lost.

The word troupe describes a group of entertainers who travel around.

For instance, a dance troupe might go on tour up and down the country.

Remember, we said that it's often followed by a P, but it's not always followed by P.

And it's really important that we do think, not all spelling rules that we generate always work.

There are words which will always be exceptions.

And here are some examples.

Route, wound, and you.

We see here, in you, that's actually the end of the word.

That's a high frequency word, which appears very often.

We have to be careful also with our O-U spelling, because this digraph doesn't always make an oo phoneme.

It can also make an ow sound, which would then change the meaning of this word.

This could be wound, as in damage to your skin, leaving a cut.

Or it could be wound, as in I wound something up.

What I'd like you to do for me now, is match the oo spelling to the letters they are commonly followed by.

Pause the video, match them now.

Brilliant.

So our U-I spelling is most often followed by a T, a C-E, or an S-E.

If you think about those words like fruit, or cruise, or bruise.

And our O-U is often followed by a P.

If you think about soup, group, recoup.

Here you go.

Soup and group.

Suit, juice, and cruise.

For this practise task, we're going to have a go at writing some words.

I'd really like you to stretch each of the words, sound them out, count those sounds, write them, and look and check.

And as you write as well, consider which oo spellings might be in each word.

Think about the rules you generated.

But do remember, there are some exceptions.

So, first word we're going to look at is, my turn your turn, juice.

I drank a glass of orange juice.

Number two is suit.

I wore a suit to work.

Number three is true.

That answer is true.

And number four, avenue.

Avenue.

I walked down the long avenue.

I'm gonna say these words one more time, and you're gonna stop the video and have a go at writing them.

Juice.

Suit.

True.

Avenue.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Absolutely incredible work, everyone.

Saw some brilliant handwriting, some fantastic spelling, and some great spelling thinking going on.

First word is juice.

Let's have a look.

Some of these just don't look right, do they? I know that they probably will make phonetic sense.

Let's have a look.

J-ooce, "juce".

Could be a U split E, with a C in the middle.

J-ooce, juice.

Hmm.

Could be that U-I spelling.

J-ooce.

"Joos".

Could be, but that doesn't look right to me.

I know our oo spelled O-O spelling likes to come in the middle, but that doesn't look right.

And J-ooce, "juse", there at the end there.

Hmm.

I think we've been looking and thinking today about oo, a digraph that comes in the middle of a word, that likes to be followed by a C-E.

And it's this one here.

That's the correct spelling of the word juice.

The next word we're looking at is suits.

I don't know if I said that before, but it's actually suits, not suit.

Okay? So just add an S onto the end of whatever you've written to make it a plural.

Here are some ways that I've seen this written down.

We've got suits.

S-uit-S, suits.

Could be that one.

"Sutes" with our U split E, split diagraph.

"Sewts" with a E-W? I don't think so.

I know that oo spelt E-W likes to come at the end of a word.

And then we have another word at the end there, which I also recognise.

Now this word is actually a word, but it's the word suites.

Okay? Not sweets that we would eat, but a suite as in a group of rooms, which are given over to one group of people.

For instance, a family might stay in a hotel suite, a group of rooms that are all connected together.

The correct spelling of suits that you might wear, plural, is this one here.

It's that U-I spelling, and it's in the middle of the root word, and it likes to be followed by a T, and then we've just added an S onto the end to make it plural.

We can see four people wearing suits here.

Brilliant.

The next word was true.

Let's see if they make sense.

T-R-oo.

"Troo." Could be, but hang on a minute.

Doesn't R double O spelling like to go in the middle of a word? I don't think it can be that one.

T-R-ue.

Mm.

Could be that one.

You know our U-E spelling likes to go at the end.

T-R-U.

Don't know about that one.

I do think our U grapheme can sometimes make an oo sound, but not that often.

T-R-E-W.

Hmm.

Yes.

Again, it's E-W and it likes to go at the end.

So it's between, I think, the second and the fourth one.

The correct spelling is this one here.

Our U-E spelling.

It likes to go at the end.

Remember, it rhymes with those words such as clue or blue, as in the colour.

And finally, we had the word avenue, which is that yoo sound.

Let's have a look.

Avenue.

Hmm.

Could be.

Ave-new.

Could be.

Avi-nue.

Hmm.

I pronounce it avenue.

The last one isn't right, is it? Because that would be avinue.

So it's between the first and the second one.

Both the U-E and the E-W spelling like to come at the end of the word, but I know it's this one here.

It's that U-E spelling that's making that yoo sound.

Avenue.

Brilliant! Excellent work, everyone.

Make any corrections now.

Onto our final learning cycle, applying the spellings within a sentence.

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

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

So really take your time with this.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to form letters correctly.

We need to sound out each word.

We need to look for our common exception words.

And we also need to remember our sentence punctuation.

Capital letters.

Full stops.

So the sentence we are going to be writing is, "If you hurt yourself, you might get a bruise that turns blue." And look, we can see in our picture here, we've got someone with a brew blues on their shin.

I think I just said brew blues.

I meant blue bruise.

Bit of a tongue twister.

"If you hurt yourself, you might get a blue bruise on your shin." When we're writing this sentence, we need to sound out each word.

Look out for those common exception words, and remember to check our punctuation.

We're going to use some strategies now that are gonna help us remember the sentence.

The first one is clapping it out.