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Hi there, and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss and I'm really, really looking forward to today's lesson.

With you today, you need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains, as well as that something to write with and someone to talk to will be excellent as well.

Let's get cracking.

Today, we're going to be applying the spellings igh, spelled I-G-H and ie, spelt I split E in some familiar words.

These are two ways of spelling the long igh phoneme.

The outcomes today is I can spell words containing the two most common representations of the igh phoneme.

I-G-H are trigraph and I split E are split digraph.

Keywords for today, my turn, your turn, and I need to hear you saying these.

Homophone.

One more time, homophone.

Long vowel sound, long vowel sound.

Split digraph, split digraph.

Trigraph, trigraph.

A homophone is a word that sounds similar to another word, but is spelt differently and has a different meaning.

I'll be looking closely at some examples of these homophones in today's lesson.

A long vowel sound is a sound that is longer than it's shorter counterpart.

For instance, in the word light, the I sound there for igh is a long I, whereas in the word kit, that I has a short eh-eh sound.

Kit.

A split digraph has a letter that comes between the two letters of a digraph.

For instance, in the word make, there's a K that comes between the A and the E, making an A split E digraph, and finally, a trigraph is a three-letter representation of a sound.

The trigraph we're looking at today is I-G-H, making that a long vowel I sound.

Here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're going to be applying the spellings, I-G-H and I split E in familiar words.

First off, we're gonna start by looking at some common exception words, those words that don't follow or adhere to our regular phonics rules and so.

And therefore, we just have to learn them by sight.

The next part we'll be looking at the two igh spellings and reviewing what we already know about them, and then we'll be applying the spellings within a sentence.

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

Let's read the following words, my turn, your turn.

(coughs) There, there.

Where, where.

Let's have a look at these words for a moment.

What do you notice about their spellings? I'd like you to pause the video, have a conversation with someone around you or have a think, off you go.

Excellent, some brilliant conversations happening there.

Something I've noticed is, is the fact that they both contain this E-R-E spelling.

In particular, this E-R-E isn't making a sound that I'd usually expect it to make.

I might expect it to make perhaps an ir sound or an err sound, but it's making an ehr sound that you wouldn't expect to be spelt that way.

That's why these are common exception words.

They don't adhere to or follow our regular phonics patterns and therefore, they're words that we just have to learn by sight.

They do rhyme as well, don't they? There and where ending in that ehr sound.

Now, one of our key words earlier was that word homophone, words that sound the same, that have different spellings and different meanings, and there are a number of homophones for the word there.

Let's read this first sentence.

My classroom is over there, pointing out the direction.

They brought their favourite toys to school.

Possessive, those toys belong to those children, they are theirs.

There're going to have a picnic this weekend.

That's the contracted form of they and are, that means a group of people or children that are going to have a picnic this weekend.

Homophone alert.

So they're all pronounced there, but they're all spelt differently and in their own context, they also mean different things as well.

Where also has a homophone.

Where did you put my pen? Again, it's that directional language of where is it? It's a questioning word.

You should wear a jacket because it's cold.

This is to be wearing an item of clothing.

So watch out, homophones can appear frequently in our reading and we have to know the meaning of each of the different spellings in order to use them correctly (laughs) in their contexts.

I'd like you please to find the correct spelling of the common exception words that we have just read.

The first word we're looking for is where.

Point to the correct one now.

The next word is there.

They are over there.

Point to the correct one now.

Excellent work, everybody.

The correct spelling of where is this one and the correct spelling of there is this one.

Remember, these are our common exception words and they also have homophones, don't forget that.

So because they're common exception words and more difficult therefore, to perhaps read and also remember their spelling, we can use a strategy called look, cover, write, check in order to help us remember them.

This is a strategy that allows you to be independent, allows you to practise your handwriting, and allows you to get them written into your memory.

The way this works is I look at the word there, I then cover the word, I memorise it, I write it, and then I check back.

Yep, that's the correct spelling of there that I'm practising , that common exception word.

I haven't written out one of those homophones, phew, fortunately.

I'd like you now to pause the video and have a go at writing these two common exception words using this strategy, off you go.

Incredible, did you spell 'em correctly? Make any corrections if you need to now.

Remember, that's a really useful, independent repetitive strategy.

Onto the next part of today's lesson.

We're going to look at the two igh spellings.

The trigraph I-G-H and the split digraph I-E and review what we know about 'em already.

The spellings igh, spelled I-G-H, and i-e, spelled I split E, are common representations of the long igh sound.

That means they appear most often in our written language.

That's why we're looking at them.

What can you remember about where the spellings can be found in words? Pause the video, have a think.

The igh trigraph I-G-H is often found in the middle of a word such as the word here, delight.

The I split E is often found last, but one, as split digraphs tend to be, as in the word invite here.

We're now gonna have a look at some of these spellings in a bit of a close detail.

We're gonna consider if there are any exceptions to the rule and also just practise reading some words that have these spellings in them.

What do you notice about the spellings? My turn, your turn.

Thigh, as in the part of your leg or you might eat chicken thighs.

Sigh, (sighs) you might sigh if you're tired or exhausted.

Midnight.

Brighter.

Highlight.

So you can see each of these words contains the trigraph I-G-H making that long vowel igh sound.

We can see here that although it most often likes to come in the middle, it can also be found at the end of certain words and so we have the exceptions here, thigh and sigh.

As well as that, we can see it here in the middle of the root word, which is bright, we've added the suffix uh onto the end, and here, we can see the compound word that has two examples of the I-G-H grapheme in high and light where you might highlight something on a piece of paper to bring your attention to it.

Igh is often followed by the letter T, so listen out for this.

Quite nice that consonant come after it.

Not always, but often it does.

Let's have a look at two examples of some homophones that contain the I-G-H trigraph.

It is dark when it is night.

The brave knight fought the dragon.

Both these words are pronounced night, but you might notice the second one has a silent letter at the beginning.

We don't pronounce it knight, we still pronounce it knight and that's a knight as in a knight in shining armour.

The night spelled N-I-G-H-T is night as in darkness.

So watch out for these homophones, especially that knight spelling, shining armour with that silent K.

Let's now have a look at some of the I split E split digraphs spellings.

You know the likes to come last, but one.

My turn, your turn.

Prize.

Bike.

Kite.

Shined.

Sunshine.

Yeah, so we can see here that it is still coming last, but one in these words.

It's last, but one in the root word shine, which then has had the D suffix added to it to make the word shined to change its tense and we can also see here another example of a compound word sunshine, the lights that shines from the sun.

I'd like you to match the words of the spelling pattern it uses.

Let's read the words first.

Ice.

Tonight.

High.

Chime.

Chime is a high pitch noise that something might make.

Pause the video now and have a go at matching these words to the correct pattern.

Either the trigraph I-G-H or our split digraph I split E.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic, so lots of pointing and organising there, brilliant job, let's sort these words then.

Ice is our I split E.

Tonight is our trigraph I-G-H.

High is H-I-G-H, and chime is I again our split digraph, the consonant M separating the I-E.

Choose the correct spelling for each sentence.

Let's read the sentences.

I ride my bike to school.

I stayed up until midnight.

I went to the park to fly a kite.

Pause the video now and choose the correct spellings for each sentences.

Excellent job, everyone.

The correct spelling for A is our split digraph I split E, which quite often does have a K to come between it.

For B, it's midnight, it's with that T, but this time of our trigraph and ending in that T, and kite, the reason I picked this one is 'cause it might be a little bit confusing.

Because we know that our trigraph likes to end in a T as well, but quite often, our split digraph also has a T coming between the digraph.

As this is the correct spelling, a kite that you might fly.

We're now going to have a go at spelling some words.

I'd like you to listen to the words that I say and then I'd like you to have a go at writing them.

Let's take our time here.

Let's make sure that we stretch the word, sound it out, count the sounds, write it, and look and check and consider applying any of the patterns that we've already spotted, the trigraph I-G-H and the split digraph I-E.

The first word that we're going to have a go writing is right.

I got the right answer, right.

B is night.

At night, we can clearly see the moon.

C, the colour white.

That box is white, and the final one, line.

Sign on the dotted line.

I'll say them one more time.

Right, night, white, and line.

I'd like you now to pause the video and have a go at writing these words, off you go.

Absolutely excellent work from everybody.

I can see some brilliant application of the spelling patterns that we are using.

I can see some brilliant use of our trigraphs and our I split E split digraph.

We also see some excellent handwriting, fantastic, everyone.

Let's go through the answers now.

I've seen these words written down in a number of ways and I wanted to sort of unpick them a little bit and think about which ones do work fanatically, which ones don't, and then show the actual spelling.

So I've seen right written these three ways.

Righte, R-I-G-H-T-E, righte, could work.

Ryte, R-Y-T-E, and right, R-I-G-H-T.

I'm looking for right as in I got the right answer.

I know that our trigraph I-G-H does quite like a T to come after it.

So it's this one here, it's this spelling, brilliant.

Night, now watch out here, watch out for those homophones that we spoke about earlier because two of these spellings of night do work, but the one I'm looking for, again, is our trigraph just with an N at the start 'cause it's night in nighttime ending at T, so it's this one here.

The other form of knight with a silent K at the beginning is a knight in shining armour, and C is white.

So right here we have W-I-T-E, does work, makes phonetic sense, then we have white (exhales) with that H, which is a bit silent, and then we have wight, W-I-G-H-T.

So this one here has that naughty letter H in it, you just need to learn and it has that I split E, which again quite often likes to be separated by a T.

Finally, we have the word line.

Line, (indistinct) yeah, I split E.

L-Y-N-E, again, our Y can sometimes make the igh sound, but it's not very common and it doesn't often find its way into the middle of a word and we have lien, lien, the I-E spelling.

The first one is the correct one there.

Excellent, that's the one, line.

Make any corrections now.

Everyone's done a fantastic job there.

Remember, if you've made any magical mistakes, double check, make the corrections, think about what you're gonna do differently next time, excellent work, everyone.

Onto the final part of today's lesson, which is applying spellings within a sentence.

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

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

We're going to need to remember the whole sentence, form letters correctly, sound out each word, look out for those common exception words, and really importantly as well, remember sentence punctuation.

So capital letters, full stops, any commas, any apostrophe that might find their way into our sentence.

So I'd like you to listen to the sentence I'm going to read to you now.

Just listen at first.

At midnight, I rode my bike through the streets where the lights shined, and this picture's here to help you.

You can see someone on a bike and it's dark, it's late at night, and they're riding through a street where the lights are shining.

I'm gonna read you the sentence again.