Lesson video

Hello and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Masters.

It's my pleasure to teach you today.

Today you're going to need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains, as well as this.

Something to write on and something to write with and someone to talk to you will be excellent.

In today's lesson, we're going to be looking at new ay spellings for that ay sound, including ay spelled A, ay spelled E-I-G-H, and A spelled E-Y.

Let's get straight into today's lesson.

So the outcomes for today's lesson will be I can know three new ay phonemes, a, eigh, and ey.

Here are today's keywords.

I'd like you to say them after I say them.

The first keyword is common.

I need to hear you saying these, common.

Excellent.

The next keyword is rare.

Rare.

Homophone and proper noun.

The word common refers to spellings which appear very often or frequently in our spoken and written language.

As well as this, we'll be thinking about where each of the phonemes we're looking at today is most often found in a word.

This is gonna help us when it come to applying these spellings.

Rare, on the other hand, are spelling patterns that appear less frequently.

And the three spelling patterns we're looking at today are less common, less frequent.

They are more rare ways of spelling that ay sound.

Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.

For example, the words oh, like, oh dear, or owe as in you owe me some money, they both sound the same, but they are spelled differently and have different meanings.

And finally, a proper noun.

Proper nouns are naming words.

As we know, a noun is a PPT, a person, a place, or a thing.

But these are nouns that need capitalization because they are actual places, actual people.

Please be sure to keep an eye for these keywords as we go through the lesson.

So onto today's lesson outline.

We're looking at new ay spellings, including A, E-I-G-H, and ay spelled E-Y.

We're gonna start this lesson by spelling some common exception words, some harder-to-read or trickier-to-spell words.

And then we're gonna look at these three new ay spellings.

So, onto looking at some common exception words.

Let's have a look at reading the following words.

Oh.

Hold.

Told.

What do you notice about these spellings? Pause the video and have a think.

Yeah, the reason that they are common exception words is because they don't follow our regular phonics teaching patterns.

So if we look at the word oh, for instance, it has the naughty letter H after the O, doesn't it? It's not something we can phonetically work out.

If we look at hold and hold, they obviously have that old in them, don't they? So we're making that sort of longer sound with the O as opposed to a short vowel, O, O.

We don't go, "Hold or told." Make a longer old sound, don't we? Hold, told.

So, well done if you spotted that.

Of the words that we've just looked at, which of these are spelled correctly? Point to the right word now.

Excellent, it's absolutely this one.

Like, oh, as in, oh dear, or, oh, I didn't know you were coming today.

There is one other way of spelling O though that I've saved to put up now, O-W-E.

Ow and owe are two homophones.

This form of O, O-W-E, means as in to owe someone money.

You need to pay them back.

So oh and owe here are homophones, words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

It's very important we watch out for these in our spelling lessons.

Okay, onto the next words.

Which of these is spelled correctly? Point to the word now.

Looking for the word hold, as in I'm going to hold something up.

Well done if you pointed at this one.

Some of you may also have noticed that there's another homophone here, though, this word here, as in you're putting a hole, a round circle, a hole, into something, hole something out.

So again, another homophone that we have to watch out and be careful for.

And final words, point to the correct spelling of told for me, our common exception word told.

Point now.

Absolutely, it's this one here.

Well done if you pointed to it.

The other words are not words at all.

When learning common exception words, it's very important we just learn them by sight.

They're not words that adhere to our phonics rules that we've learnt.

And there are a number of strategies that we can use to help us with this learning.

A particular favourite of mine is a strategy that I'm going to show you now, the look, cover, write, check strategy.

This is a particularly useful strategy for a number of reasons.

It allows you to practise your excellent handwriting, and in doing so, it imprints the spelling into your memory.

It also allows you to be quite independent and to spot any errors that you make and self-correct them.

The repetitive nature of it is also very helpful.

I'm gonna show you how this strategy works now.

First of all, you want to look at the word.

So let's take the word oh, for instance, like oh dear or oh my gosh.

And we look at it.

So look at the spelling now.

We then cover it up.

We then have a go at writing it, and then we check back.

And we can do this a number of times to see if we're consistently embedding the spelling into our memory.

I would like you to pause the video now and to have a go at writing out the spellings oh, hold, and told using this strategy a number of times.

Pause the video and off you go.

Incredible work, everybody.

I can see some excellent handwriting.

Spelling is a brilliant opportunity to continue practising your best cursive script, so ensure that you're using your best handwriting.

I can also see some children there that have made some of those errors, but they've managed to self-correct and self-edit their work.

And I'm sure they're going to embed these spellings into their memories going forward.

So really, really well done.

Check to see if you spelled them correctly now.

Make any corrections if you need to.

Onto the next part of today's lesson.

We're gonna be looking at three new ay spellings, ay spelled A, ay spelled E-I-G-H, and ay spelled E-Y.

I'm gonna read you a short, silly story.

Which words contain the ay sound? I want you to be listening out and seeing if you can spot any of the words that contain the ay sound.

Maybe they're using our spellings we're looking at today.

Maybe they're using some other ay spellings that you already know, some more common ay spellings.

"There was a man called Mr. Grey.

He had eight horses, who lived in a stable.

One rainy day in April, he saw a snake.

He scared the snake away to keep his horses safe.

Then, he shared some raisins and grapes to celebrate." Lots of ay sounds I could hear there.

Remember to listen for the ay sound.

And when I'm reading this, stretching can help me.

If I look here, I have stable.

That's got the ay sound there spelled with an A.

But if I look at the one below, shared, hm, that's got an are sound.

So not every single ay in a word will make that ay sound.

So be careful.

I'm gonna read this to you one more time, and I want you to think where can you hear the different ay sounds.

"There was a man called Mr. Grey.

He had eight horses, who lived in a stable.

One rainy day in April, he saw a snake.

He scared the snake away to keep his horses safe.

Then, he shared some raisins and grapes to celebrate." I'm sure you're saying, "I can hear the ay sound there.

I can see it spelled like this.

I can see it here.

I can see it here." Well done.

There are some words with new spellings of the ay sound, the three new spellings we're looking at today.

We are going to look at these more closely.

So let's have a look here.

You can see grey, G-R-E-Y.

That ay sound is spelled E-Y.

Eight, E-I-G-H for our ay sound there.

So it's spelled E-I-G-H.

In stable, it's just an A making that ay sound.

Rainy, that's our A-I.

That's a more common spelling of that ay sound.

Day, we can see here A-Y.

That's again at the end of the word.

It's in one of our more common spellings of the ay.

April, hm, notice how it has a capital letter because it's a proper noun.

That's the A spelling there just at the beginning of the word.

A split E there in snake.

Snake again.

Away, A-Y at the end of the word.

Safe, A split E again.

That's one of our more common ay spellings.

Raisins, A-I.

Grapes and celebrate.

In the story, Grey is capitalised here.

It's a proper noun.

Excellent if you spotted that.

That was one of our keywords.

It's the man's name, Mr. Grey.

But grey can also be an adjective of colour, and then it would not need to be capitalised.

So what are the new ay spellings that we're looking at? Our more common ay spellings are ay spelled A-Y, ay spell A-I, and ay spelled A split E, our split digraph.

Have a read of these words now, my turn, your turn.

Stable.

April.

Eight.

Grey.

Which graphemes there, which spellings, are making are ay phoneme? Stop the video.

Have a think.

Incredible thinking.

Absolutely.

We have here A, just the letter A on its own making that ay sound.

We have E-I-G-H making that ay sound.

And we have E-Y making that ay sound.

The spellings, A, E-I-G-H, and EY also make the ay sound, and they're the ones we're concentrating on today.

Let's read the words below, and I want you to think which column should they go into.

First word, my turn, your turn.

Table.

They.

Eighty.

Acorn.

Eighteen.

Prey.

Stop the video now and decide which column they should go into.

Which spelling for the ay sound do they contain? Amazing work, everyone.

I can see people pointing and saying, "Oh, it must go into that column," or "It must go there." Excellent.

Let's see how you got on.

Absolutely.

Table and acorn both contain the ay sound spelled just with an A.

Eight, eighty, and eighteen all contain the ay sound spelled E-I-G-H.

And grey, they, and prey all contain the ay sound spelled E-Y.

Incredible work.

So, let's look more closely at these spellings now and see if we can come up with some patterns, see if we can notice where they like to come because that will help us when we come to applying these words in our writing.

Look at the A, E-I-G-H, and E-Y spellings.

Do you notice any patterns or anything interesting? Stop.

Have a think.

Have a conversation with someone around you.

Excellent thinking.

What we want to concentrate on now is do the spellings go at the beginning, the middle, or the end of the word? Or does it sometimes change? This, as I said, is gonna help us when it comes to applying these spellings in our writing.

Let's look first at the ay sound spelled just with an A, the words stable, April, table, and acorn.

The A spelling seems to go at the start and middle of a word.

If we look at April and acorn, it can go at the beginning.

If we look at table and stable, it's going in the middle.

Let's then look at the E-I-G-H spelling.

The eigh spelling seems to go at the start of a word from the words that we've looked at.

However, this is not always the case.

Let's look at these words, weigh, weight, sleigh.

It can go anywhere in a word.

Did you notice all of these words have eight in them as well? Eight, eighty, eighteen.

These words are connected in meaning.

They're part of a word family.

Words in word families often have similar meanings.

And of course, each of these words has something to do with that number eight.

And finally, let's look at our E-Y.

I'm sure you're saying, "It likes to go here in the word." Absolutely.

We can see that the E-Y spelling of ay likes to go at the end of a word in the words grey, they, and prey.

Where can the ay spellings generally be found in a word? Ay spelled A likes to be found at the beginning generally, okay, sometimes in the middle.

E-I-G-H, we just spoke about this, it can be found anywhere, at the beginning, in the middle, towards the end as well.

And our E-Y, yeah, generally at the end.

Can you match the spelling to where they are most commonly found in a word? Pause the video.

Match them now.

Excellent.

I could see people drawing lines with their fingers.

I could see people writing it out.

Amazing work.

Yeah, our E-I-G-H can be found anywhere in a word.

Our E-Y loves the end.

And our A spelling, mostly at the beginning, sometimes in the middle.

For our practise task, we're going to have a go at applying these new ay spellings.

You're gonna spell some words for me.

I'm gonna say the words to you, and I'd like you to have a go at writing them down.

It's really important that you remember to stretch, sound out, count those sounds, write it, and then look and check.

And think back to the rules that we've just looked at.

Where does ay spelled just with an A like to come in the word? Where does ay spell E-I-G-H like to come in the word? And where does ay spell E-Y often appear in words? So I'm gonna say the words to you now.

I'd like to stretch them, sound 'em out, write 'em down.

I'm gonna say four words to you, and then I'm gonna give you time to write them down.

The first word is April.

In the month of April, I will go on holiday.

April.

The next word is eighty eighty, as in the number 80.

The next word is prey.

Now be careful with this one.

I'm gonna give you the context.

The mouse was the cat's prey.

And finally, table.

We sit at tables in our classroom.

Table.

I'll say these four words one more time for you, and then I'd like you to pause the video and have a go at writing them.

April, eighty, prey, table.

Stop the video now.

Have a go at writing these.

We're now gonna go through some of the incredible spellings that I've seen.

I could see people applying their knowledge of these rules.

I can see a few magic mistakes, but that's no bother.

It's all part of our learning process.

Let's go through the word April first.

I've seen April spelled in these four different ways whilst looking around.

Let's have a look at them.

Let's have a look at the first one, Aprul.

Yeah, well, it's got a capital letter, which I know it needs to have because April is a? That's it, a proper noun.

But Aprul that says.

I think it's April, isn't it? I'm not so sure about that.

Let's have a look here.

Aypril, the second one, Aypril.

We have an A-A, A-Y.

Well, I'm pretty sure that likes to come at the end of words, not in the beginning or the middle like this one.

So I think we can get rid of that one.

We then have april.

Spelling looks good to me with that ay sound spelt with an A at the beginning, but it does not have a capital letter.

And then our final one, April, with a capital A, making that ay sound.

Absolutely, it's this one.

And as it's a month, it's a proper noun, so it needs to have a capital letter.

Onto eighty.

I've seen eighty spelled in these three different ways, aity.

We have the Y at the end of two of them there.

A-A spelled A-I, I'm quite sure that likes to go in the middle of words, so I think we can discount the first one.

Let's look at the next two.

Yes, we have our ay with our E-I-G-H spelling.

We know our root word is eight.

We know how eight is spelt.

When we are making it eighty, we add a Y onto the end.

Okay, that makes that E sound, eighty.

Onto prey.

Prey.

Let's look at the first one, P-R-A-I.

Well, we know our A-I likes to come in the middle of a word, so we can discount that one.

Praye with an A split E of a Y in the middle.

I don't think that's something we've looked at in great detail.

Prey, P-R-E-Y.

We've been looking in this lesson at the E-Y ay spelling coming at the end of the word.

And pray, P-R-A-Y, that's also a word.

It is this one that I'm looking for, but we have to be very careful because these two words, prey spelled P-R-E-Y and pray spelled P-R-A-Y, are two homophones.

They sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

The prey I was looking for was as in something that might be hunted and eaten by another animal.

And the pray here, A-Y spelling, is as in to go to a place of worship and to pray as you might do at a church or a mosque.

And finally, table, got four spellings here.

Taybell, hm, sounds like it could make sense, but I'm quite sure our A-A, A-Y spelling likes to come at the end of a word, not in the middle.

Taibl, well, I do know that our ay A-I spelling of the ay sound does come in the middle of a word.

Let's look at the next two, table, T-A-B-L-E.

Hm, well, we've been looking at the ay sound spelled with an A in this lesson, haven't we? And tabel, hm.

Often words tend to end in an L-E as it comes afterwards.

It is this one here.

I'm sure you guys all did very well there.

If you have made any magical mistakes, make some corrections now.

Think about what you're going to do next time.

Think about where do the different ay spellings like to come in words and make any corrections now.

Amazing work, everybody.

So in today's lesson, we have looked at the less common, the more rare spellings of ay sound.

And these include ay spelled just with an A, ay spelled E-I-G-H, and ay spelled E-Y.

A is often found at the beginning and sometimes in the middle of a word when it's just spelt with an A as in April, acorn, and table.

E-I-G-H words can be found anywhere.

Eight, weight, and weigh prove this.

And our E-Y is often found at the end of a word, they, prey, and grey.

These spellings are more rare than ay spelled A-Y, A-I, and A-E.

And today, you've applied these spellings in some words as well, so very well done.

Brilliant.

I look forward to seeing you in our next lesson.

Excellent work, everybody.

Goodbye.