Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

I'm Mr. Moss, and I'm going to be teaching you some spellings today.

With you today, you're going to need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains, as well as that, something to write on and write with and someone to talk to would be great.

Let's get straight into today's learning.

Today we're going to be applying the spellings, oo, ew, and u-e in some familiar words.

And each of these spellings are common spellings of the oo sound.

The outcome for today's learning is, "I can spell words containing three representations of the oo phoneme, oo, ew, and u to the e that's split digraph." Here are the key words for today's learning.

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

Digraph.

Digraph.

Split digraph.

Brilliant.

I can hear you saying them.

Proper noun.

Exception.

So, a digraph is a two letter representation of a sound.

A split digraph is very similar to a digraph, except the two letters have a letter coming in between them.

For instance, in the word make, there's a k between the a and the e, making it an a split e digraph.

A noun is a naming word used to name a thing, a place, a person, or even an abstract idea.

A proper noun needs a capital letter.

A proper noun then is a name given to a specific person, place, or thing, for instance, London or the name John, and they must be capitalised.

Exceptions are spellings that do not follow our usual patterns or rules, which makes them a little bit trickier.

Keep an eye for some of these today.

Brilliant.

So onto today's lesson outline.

We're going to be applying the spellings double-o, ew, and our split digraph u to the e in familiar words.

In the first part of today's lesson, we're going to spell out some common exception words.

Then we're going to have a look at the three oo spellings, oo, ew, and u to the e.

And then finally, we're going to apply those spellings within a sentence.

Let's have a look at spelling some common exception words.

Let's read these words.

My turn.

Your turn.

Put.

Put.

Christmas.

Christmas.

Have a think for a moment.

What do you notice about these spellings? What might make them common exception words? Remember, common exception words are those words that might be described as harder to spell or trickier to read because they don't follow our usual phonics patterns.

Have a look at the words put and Christmas.

Think to yourself, "What makes them tricky?" Pause video now.

Excellent.

I hear some brilliant conversations going on then.

For me, it's these parts of these words.

In put, it looks like it should be an ah, ah, put.

But we don't.

You pronounce it an oo sound.

So that u spelling, that u grapheme there, doesn't make the regular sound you'd expect it to make.

Makes a slightly different one.

In Christmas, there's a couple of naughty things going on here.

We've got that h, we don't pronounce it Christmas, do we? We pronounce it Christmas.

So that Ch there is working to make a k sound.

Also, we don't say Christmas, do we? We say Christmas.

So that's t is also silent, which makes it a little bit naughty.

You might also notice that Christmas is one of those proper nouns that we looked at in our key words.

It's a specific naming word, so it has to have a capital letter.

I've also noticed that within Christmas, because it's a particular holiday celebrating Christ, it's a Christian holiday, there is the word Christ in it.

That's how I might help myself to remember how to spell it.

So I'd like you to find the correct spelling of the exception words we've just read.

I'm going to put some words up and I want you to point to the correct one for me.

Point to the correct spelling of the word put, as in, I put my hat on.

Point to the correct one now.

Brilliant.

It is this one here.

It's that strange u making that oo sound.

I'd like you now to point to the correct spelling of the word Christmas for me.

Amazing.

I can see it spelled correctly twice here, but one of them doesn't have the correct punctuation and needs to have a capital letter because it is a proper noun.

So the correct spelling is this one here.

Brilliant.

Remember, watch out.

It's got that naughty h and that naughty t in it.

So with common exception words, we really just have to learn them all by heart.

We can't use our phonics to sort of decode and work out how they might be spelled.

So I like to use this strategy.

It's called the look, cover, write, check strategy.

The way this works is is by looking at the spelling.

So I look at the spelling of put.

I then cover it up so I can't see it.

I'm going to have to memorise it, and then I have a go writing it in my neatest handwriting, and then I check back.

Oh, I got it correct.

I'm not just going to do it once.

I'm going to do it more than once.

This is a really good strategy because it is repetitive.

It allows you to be independent and it really embeds that spelling into your long-term memory.

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

Off you go.

Fantastic work, everybody.

Check now.

Did you manage to spell them correctly? Make any corrections if you need to.

Brilliant.

Again, the reason I love this strategy is because it allows you to be really independent when practising your spellings.

Great work.

Onto the next learning cycle where we're going to review what we know about the three oo spellings, oo, ew, and u split e.

The spellings oo, ew, and u split e are the common representations of the oo sound, which means they appear most regularly in our written and spoken language.

What can you remember about where the spellings are found or often found, in a word? Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant, can hear some excellent conversations going on there.

Our oo, spelled oo, is often found in the middle of a word.

For instance, in the word tooth.

Our ew spelling is often found at the end of a word.

Look here, grew.

And our u split e, as it may split digraphs, is found last but one.

Look at the word rule here.

Remember as well, our ew and our u split e can also make u sound, as well as an oo.

The oo phoneme can be pronounced in two different ways, oo and yoo.

Say that for me now.

Oo.

Yoo.

Remember to listen at that slight difference.

One has a y in it.

So let's look at some words that make the oo sound and make the yoo sound.

Say these with me.

Chew.

Soon.

Rude.

Did you hear that? In there, there was the oo sound.

Now let's look at the yoo sound.

Cube.

Few.

Fume.

Did you hear that? It wasn't an oo sound this time, it was yoo sound.

A fume is a gas that smells strong and can be dangerous to inhale.

For instance, car exhaust let out fumes.

What do you notice about these spellings? Let's have a look.

Let's read them first of all.

My turn, your turn.

Hoot.

Pool.

Boot.

Gloom.

Too.

Remember our oo spelling, spelled oo, is often found in the middle of a word.

Does this follow our rules? Yes, it appears to, doesn't it? I can see one exception here though.

This word, too.

Now watch out for this word.

This is a homophone.

There are two other ways of spelling too as well.

This is the one that has a double o at the end.

What do you notice about these spellings.

Let's say them.

Tube.

Flute.

Chute.

Cute.

Mute.

If someone is mute, or if you mute something, it means you silence it, so there's no noise.

A chute, there, isn't as in I shoot from a gun.

It's a chute that you might throw something down, a long sloping tube, for instance, a rubbish chute.

Remember our u split e likes to come last but one.

It seems to follow the rules here.

I wonder if you notice anything else about these spellings.

I think I can see a particular letter that is often found in these u split e.

Yeah, our u-e spelling is often split by a t, really likes t.

That's definitely one thing we can remember.

And finally, are ew or yoo spelled ew.

Let's have a look.

Remember this is most often found at the end.

My turn, your turn.

Few.

Chew.

Crew.

News.

Shrewd.

You might not recognise the word shrewd.

It means having good powers of judgement.

So you might make a shrewd decision, which means it's a good decision.

So I can see here most of these words are ew spellings coming at the end.

In news, here, it's at the end of our root word, which is new, isn't it? We added that s.

Shrewd is an exception to that rule.

Remember, by exception, I mean a spelling that doesn't follow our regular patterns or rules.

It has that d at the end.

So what I'd like you to do now for me is I'd like you to match the word to the spelling pattern it uses, either the oo, ew, or our split digraph u split e.

Let's read the words at the bottom first.

Broom.

Knew.

And this is as in, I knew something was wrong.

Rule.

Choose.

Pause the video.

Match the spellings of the pattern it uses now.

Brilliant work, everyone.

Let's sort these then.

The word broom absolutely uses that double o spelling.

And look, it's found in the middle of the word, so it follows our pattern.

The word knew.

Absolutely, ew coming at the end follows our pattern.

Rule, yeah, last but one, has that consonant coming between our split digraph.

And the word choose, again, double o in the middle of the word.

Excellent.

For our practise tasks, what we're going to do is you are going to read this sentence that I've written below in your head.

You're then going to whisper the sentence out loud or to your partner.

I then want you to think, "The words in green, are they spelled correctly?" And if not, why not? Do you think you could then correct them for me as well? So one more time.

Read this sentence in your head now.

Now we're going to whisper the sentence.

I'm going to have a go right now.

"The witch's cyoot cat floo on the back of the brume." And now I want us to really focus in on these words in green.

I can see three words in green.

Are they spelled correctly? If not, why not? Tell someone around you now.

Pause the video.

Excellent.

I'd now like you to have a go at correcting these spellings.

Could you write out the correct spellings for them, these three words for me? Now, go.

Brilliant.

Yeah, they definitely don't look right to me, do they? Let's have a chat about them.

So here we go.

Below I've got the sentence written out again with the correct spellings.

"The witch's cute cat flew on the back of the broom." Well, let's think about this.

Cyoot, yeah, it sounds like it could have been right.

C-Y-O-O-T.

But it didn't look right to me.

I know it's going to be my u-e split digraph.

And remember, our u-e split digraph loves a t to come between it.

Flew, yeah, it's that oo at the end of the word.

Our ee spelling loves to go at the end of the words, so that's the correct spelling below.

And broom is B-R-O-O-M.

'cause it's that oo sound coming in the middle of the word, which is where it's commonly found.

Check now.

Did you manage to correct those spellings correctly? If you haven't, make you some corrections now.

Brilliant work, everyone.

There you go.

There are correct spellings.

So onto our final learning cycle.

We're going to have a go at applying our spellings within some sentences.

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

Remember, exception words don't follow our regular phonics patterns.

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

So we're really going to take our time here.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to form letters correctly.

We need to sound out each word.

We need to look out for common exception words.

And we need to remember sentence punctuation, capital letters, full stops, and any other punctuation that the sentence might need to have in it as well.

Let's listen to our first sentence now.

Every time I chew food, my tooth hurts.

And if you look here, you can see our picture's going to help us remember that.

Every time I chew food, my tooth hurts.

When we're remembering a sentence or when we're writing it, you need to make sure you sound out each word carefully.

Think about those exception words and check your sentence for punctuation.

We are now going to use some strategies to help us remember this sentence.

The first strategy is tapping it out.

I'll go first.

Every time I chew food, my tooth hurts.

You have have a go doing that now.

Brilliant.

The next one is saying it in a silly voice.

This is my favourite one.

Every time I chew food, my tooth hurts.

You have a go at saying it in a silly voice now.

Brilliant.

And I always like to count the words on my fingers to make sure I'm not missing any words.

Every time I chew food, my tooth hurts.

One more time.

Every time I chew food, my tooth hurts.

I make that eight.

You have a go at doing that now.

Excellent.

I'd like you now to have a go writing this sentence.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

I'll say it one more time.

Every time I chew food, my tooth hurts.

Off you go.

Absolutely incredible writing everyone.

Let's go through what that sentence should be like.

I'd like to check your work and make any corrections as I go along.

Every, remember it needs to have a capital letter 'cause it's beginning of sentence.

Time I chew, ew it's got that oo sound and it's at the end, ew, ew, ew.

Food, oo, that oo sound in the middle, so it's my oo spelling.

My tooth, oo in the middle, a double o spelling.

Hurts, full stop then at the end as well.

What did you learn? Make any corrections to your sentence now.

We are going to have a go at writing one more sentence now.

I'm going to read this to you.

Our sentence is, "The huge factory released lots of fumes." I remember fumes are those gases that can be released.

Sometimes they can be dangerous.

The huge factory released lots of fumes.

Remember, we're going to stand out each word.

Look out for those common exception words, and check your sentence punctuation.

Let's use some strategies now to help us remember this sentence.

Let's clap out the words.

The huge factory released lots of fumes.

You have a go at clapping out now.

The next one, using a low voice.

The huge factory released lots of fumes.

You have a go at using your lowest voice now.

Oh my goodness gracious me.

I've never heard so many low voices in my life.

Well done.

And the final one, tapping the words on our head.

The huge factory released lots of fumes.

Let's do that one more time.

The huge factory released lots of fumes.

You have a go at tapping on your head now.

Brilliant.

I'm going to say the sentence one more time and you are going to pause the video and have a go writing it.

The huge factory released lots of fumes.

Pause the video.

Write it now.

Amazing work, everyone.

Could see some excellent handwriting, some brilliant application of the spellings we've been looking at.

Great work! We're going to check the work now, and we're going to make any corrections as we go along.

The, obviously needs to have a capital letter.

Huge, oh, that's that u-e, isn't it? It's that yoo sound for our u split e spelling.

Factory, careful with the y at the end of that one.

Released, now be careful.

It's ed, okay.

not t.

It's not releast.

Released.

Lots of fumes.

Yeah, look.

That's our u split e again, isn't it? Okay, and it's got that continent m between it this time.

Remember, fumes are a gas that can either start strong or could be dangerous to inhale.

And don't forget, of course, our full stop at the end.

What did you learn? Make any corrections now.

Outstanding learning today, everybody.

Today we've continued to look at the oo phoneme, and it can be spelled in these three ways.

Remember, they're the most common ways, oo, which is often found in the middle of a word, such as food, tooth, cool, choose, and mood.

Ew, which is most often found at the end of a word, few, crew, chew, new and knew.

Both spellings of new there.

They're homophones.

And don't forget.

Are ew and our u split e spelling can also make a yoo sound, as well as an oo sound.

And finally, our u split e split digraph, which is often found last but one in a word, words like cute, fume, huge, June, which has a capital letter 'cause it's a proper noun, and rule.

Excellent spelling today, everyone.

Keep up the great work.