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

As well as that, something to write with and someone to talk to would be great as well.

Let's crack straight on into today's lesson.

So in today's lesson we're going to be looking at some new, "Er", spellings, including, "Er", spelled, "O-R", and, "ER", spelled, "E-A-R".

These are far less common, rarer spellings of that, "Er", sound.

You may remember some of the previous, "Er", sounds that you've looked at in the past as well.

So our outcomes today is I can use two new spellings for the, "Er", phoneme, for that, "Er", sound.

They are, "O-R", and, "E-A-R".

Keywords for today, only two of them, but do keep an eye out for them.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure you say these back to me.

Digraph.

One more time, digraph.

And trigraph.

One more time, trigraph.

Thank you so much, I loved hearing you say those back to me.

So a digraph is a two letter written representation of a sound and a trigraph, then tri meaning three, is a three letter representation or written representation of a sound.

So we are looking at both a digraph and a trigraph today.

So here you can see the digraph we're going to be looking at is that, "O-R", and the trigraph we're going to be looking at is that, "E-A-R".

And here's the structure of today's lesson, we're looking at those new, "Er", spellings and we're going to start by looking at some new common exception words.

And then we're going to look in more detail at these two, "Er", spellings, "O-R", and, "E-A-R".

Okay, so onto looking at some common exception words.

Common exception words are those words that don't follow our usual phonics rules or patterns, which makes them sort of maybe trickier or harder to read.

You may have heard them referred to (indistinct), but I like to call them common exception words.

So let's have a read of some following words.

My turn, your turn.

Said.

Brilliant.

And were.

Excellent.

So if we were to sort of stop and have a think about what we notice about these spellings, I would say that within said, it looks like that, "A-I", would usually make sort of an A sound, wouldn't it? Okay.

Sort of like the word snail or rain.

But in this instance it doesn't, the, "A-I", there makes a, "E", sound, doesn't it? It sounds like, "S-E-D", said, said.

But it's spelled, "A-I".

So that's what makes this a common exception word, it's not following our regular phonics patterns.

And with that word were, okay.

Again, "E-R-E", you might expect to sort of make an, "E" sound.

It's quite strange, isn't it? But it makes like an, "Er", sound, like the, "Er", sounds we're looking at today.

So it's a sort of trigraph there that's then makes that, "Er", sound.

So be careful with that.

I would also say about were, I think it can really easily get confused with the word where, okay? Because where has that H in it and then the "E-R-E".

But this is were in this instance.

So do watch out for these common exception words.

So let's look at some sentences with these common exception words in, which of these spellings are correct in the sentence? So we're going to read the sentences to you and then you are going to figure out which is the correct spelling.

"They were happy to arrive home." "She said.

'Hello!'." "After being out in the cold, they were cold." So I want you to pause the video now and reread those sentences and decide which is the correct spelling of were, said and were in each sentence.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic.

Excellent.

You're working so hard.

So, "They were happy to arrive home", is this spelling here.

The other spelling there is that word where, which I told you to watch out for with were.

Very similar, aren't they? But they sound completely different.

One is were the other is where.

But they have that, "E-R-E", spelling in.

One's making an, "Air", sound, isn't it? And one's making an, "Er", sound and we are looking at that were.

So B, "She said, 'Hello!'".

It sounds like it should be the second one.

But we know it's common exception word and it's going to be our, "S-A-I-D".

Okay? Said spells said.

That's how I remember that one.

And C, "After being out in the cold, they were cold".

Okay it's that, "E-R-E", that strange spelling there.

Okay.

Although the first one looks phonetically correct, it is the second one, 'cause they're common exception words.

Brilliant job everyone.

So because these are common exception words, we need to use a strategy to help us memorise them.

And I love this strategy, it's look, cover, write, check strategy, very useful for just practising writing out these common exception words.

It's repetitive, it really embeds that spelling in your memory.

So the way this works is, is you look at the word.

So I'm going to look at the word said.

I then cover it up.

Got it memorised.

I then write it.

I then check back.

And I can do this a number of times repetitively to really embed that spelling.

So I want you now to stop and write the word said and were out a number of times using this strategy.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

So I'm hoping that you've got a page that looks like this now, with your spellings written out a number of times.

You can see I've got said and were.

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

Brilliant.

So onto our next learning cycle, the two new, "Er", spellings, spelled, "O-R", and, "E-A-R".

Remember, "O-R", is here, our digraph, our two letter representation of that, "Er", sound.

And our, "E-A-R", is that trigraph, that three letter representation of that sound.

So I'm going to read to you a short, silly story.

It's very silly, it doesn't really make much sense, but it's going to contain lots of words that have the, "Er", sound in them.

And I want you to really listen out for these, "Er", sounds.

Okay? So, "In a far off corner of the world, a young girl named Amal found a strange letter.

It spoke of a magical bird that could heal anyone who was hurt.

Amal decided to search for this special bird, hoping to earn its trust and use it to help people on Earth".

Now I can see and hear lots of, "Er", spellings here, some digraphs, some trigraphs.

Remember to only listen out for that, "Er", sounds.

We're stretching the words as well, once you've heard it can help.

So if I look here, for instance these two words here, one does contain an, "Er", sound, one does not.

And they could be easily confused.

So let's have a look.

"C-or-n-er", corner, stretch it, corner.

Yeah, it's got that, "Er", sound at the end, my, "E-R", spelling.

And then the next word.

"H-EA-L", heal.

Oh, that's an, "E", sound not an, "Er", sound.

So I need to be very careful there.

So that's the type of sound I'm looking for, this, "Er," sound.

I'm going to read the story to you one more time, and I'd like to listen out, see if you can spot any "Er", sounds.

And what spellings of those also being used for that, "Er", sound.

"In a far off corner of the world, a young girl named Amal found a strange letter.

It spoke of a magical bird that could heal anyone who was hurt.

Amal decided to search for the special bird, hoping to earn its trust and use it to help the people on Earth." Brilliant.

So there are some words with new spellings of the, "Er", sound.

And we're going to be looking at these more closely.

And here are some of the words that contain some, "Er", spellings.

Some of them you might recognise already from previous learning.

Some of them might be a little bit new and they're going to be the ones we're looking at today.

So the words that I can see that had the, "Er", sound in are, corner, world, girl, letter, bird, hurt, search, bird again, earn and Earth, like the planet Earth.

Notice how that has a capital letter, 'cause it's a proper noun.

And we'll be talking about some of these, "Er", spellings today.

So what are the new, "Er", spellings that we are looking at? Here you can see, "Er", spellings you may have learned previously.

"E-R", "I-R", "U-R", in the words corner, letter, girl, bird and hurt.

Could you look at these words for me? Could you read these words? Let's say them after me.

World.

Hmm? World, "W-OR-L-D", world.

What letters are making our, "Er", sound there? And then search, "S-EAR-CH", search.

Earn, "EAR-N", earn.

That's as in to earn money.

Earth, Earth.

Oh, and I wonder what spelling's making the, "Er", sound there? Could you pause the video and work out what spellings are making our, "Er", sounds in these two columns? Amazing thinking everybody.

Absolutely.

In this column here, it's our "O-R", spelling for that, "Er", sound, world.

You can hear that, "Er", there in it and it's an, "O-R", spelling.

And in these words, search, earn and Earth, it's an, "E-A-R", a trigraph that's making that, "Er", sound there.

So have a look.

There you go.

These are the spellings for the, "Er", sound we are concentrating on today, "O-R", and, "E-A-R".

The spellings, "O-R", and, "E-A-R", also make that, "Er", sound.

But these are much rarer, they're far less common than our, "Er", spelled "E-R", "Er", spelled, "I-R", and, "Er", spelled, "U-R", spellings.

But it's very important that we recognise and know them.

So I would like you to have a look at these words below and I'm going to read them, okay? And you are going to read them as well.

And then you're going to sort them into the correct columns for me for which, "Er", spelling they have, which "Er", sound spelling they have.

So let's read the words first.

Word.

Learn.

Work.

Nurse.

Supper.

Worm.

Birth.

Brilliant.

So I'd like you now to pause the video and sort these words into the correct columns.

Off you go.

Amazing.

Excellent work.

So I'm hoping that you've got a table that looks something like this.

And we can see here supper has our, "E-R", at the end, which we know is commonly where it likes to come.

We have birth, okay, like the birth of a baby or the birth of a child, with our, "I-R", spelling for, "Er", in the middle of the word.

And then we have our "Er", spelling in the word nurse.

And then look at these words, our new spellings we're looking at, "O-R", world, word, there okay? Like a written word.

Work, like the work we're doing now.

Worm.

Okay like a wiggly worm that you might find in soil.

And then our, "E-A-R", spellings, we have learn in addition to search, earn and Earth.

Brilliant.

So we're going to look at the, "O-R", and, "E-A-R", spellings.

I want you to have a quick look at them.

Do you notice any patterns or anything interesting? Do you notice maybe they follow a particular letter, maybe they come at a certain point in a word? Just pause the video for a moment and have a think, what do you notice? Off you go.

Exceptional thinking.

Could see and hear so many conversations happening there.

Brilliant.

The, "O-R", spelling, it looks like it likes to go in the middle of the word.

So if you look here, okay, "W-O-R-L-D", world; "W-O-R-D", word; "W-O-R-K", work; "W-O-R-M", worm.

It likes to go in the middle of the word.

And I've noticed as well that it really commonly tends to come after a W.

Look, world, word, work, worm, you can really hear that, "W", that W each time, can't you? So that's perhaps a pattern, in the middle and it likes to come after a W.

Remember that.

For our, "E-A-R", spelling, okay our trigraph here, it can be found at the beginning, in words like earn and earn is sort of, if you gain something, you earn it through work.

Okay? Like you might earn money in a job.

And the planet Earth, which here has a capital letter because it's a proper noun.

So it can come at the beginning.

And then we see in the word search and learn that it is at in the middle.

So again notice, Earth has a capital letter because it's a proper noun, it's the planet that we are on in our solar system.

So our trigraph, "E-A-R", spelling for that, "Er", sound, at the beginning or in the middle.

Where can these rarer, "Er", spellings generally be found then? What do you remember from what I've just told you? Oh let's have a look.

So our, "Or", spelling, generally in the middle and after a W.

And our, "E-A-R", spelling, generally the beginning or the middle of a word.

Match the rarer spelling of the, "Er", sound to where they're most commonly found in a word.

Spellings are on the left, "O-R", "Er", "E-A-R", "Er", and where they come in the word on the right.

Match them now.

Pause the video, off you go.

Incredible.

So our "O-R", spelling, absolutely.

Okay.

Likes to come in the middle and after a W.

Words like work, world, worm.

And our, "E-A-R", trigraph, at the beginning or in the middle.

Excellent work everyone.

So we are going to have a go now at writing some spellings that contain these different, "Er", sounds.

I'm going to say them to you and then you're going to have a go at writing them.

I'd really like you to take your time with this.

You need to make sure you stretch the words, sound it out, count those sounds, write it and then look and check.

So let's go through these words.

The first word is worm.

The worm wriggled through the soil.

Worm.

The second word is search.

He searched through the binoculars for what he was looking for.

Search.

The next word is world.

World.

Earth is our world.

World.

And finally learn.

You can learn a lot from books.

Learn.

So I'm going to model to you now how I'd like you to really take each of these words.

I'm going to take our time doing this.

So the word worm, I'm going to stretch it.

Worm, I'm going to sound it out.

"W-OR-M".

I'm going to count those sounds, "W-OR-M".

And then I'm going to write it and then look and check and see, have I used my correct, "Er", spelling there? Consider the rules that we've looked at in this lesson.

Consider which spellings when you write them and look correct as well.

So I'm going to give you those four words one more time and then you are going to pause the video and write them.

Worm, search, world, learn.

Pause the video, have a go at writing them now.

Exceptional work there.

I've seen some brilliant application of the rules that we've been generating, some beautiful handwriting and children really stretching and sounding those words out and not missing any of the sounds.

Brilliant.

Let's go through these then.

I've seen the word worm written in these three ways.

"W-UR-M", hmm.

"W-OR-M", hmm.

"W-ER-M".

I think they're all phonetically plausible, but only one of them looks right here to me.

Now we've looked today at a particular spelling which likes to come after a W, haven't we? For that, "Er", sound.

And that's this one here, it's our, "O-R", spelling for that, "Er", sound.

Okay? The others are phonetically plausible, but they're not the correct spelling of the word worm.

So, "W-O-R-M", worm.

Number two, search.

I've seen it written in these ways.

"S-ER-CH", hmm.

"S-IR-CH", hmm.

"S-EAR-CH", hmm.

Now let's think, we've been looking at the, "E-A-R", spelling today, haven't we? And when we briefly looked at our, "E-R", and our, "I-R", spellings too and it could potentially be those.

I think my, "Er" spelling tends to come at the end of a word, so I think we can discount that one.

I know my, "Er", spelling does sometimes come in the middle of a word as well, but it doesn't look right to me there.

I think it has to be our, "E-A-R", spelling, which we know likes to come in the middle of a word.

Brilliant.

And then the next one was world.

"W-ER-L-D", hmm.

"W-ELD", hmm, not the second one, right? That's missing our, "R", sound to make that, "Er", sound.

And, "W-OR-L-D", world.

Well again, we've been looking at words today, haven't we, when they have a W, they're often followed by an, "O-R", for that, "Er", sound.

So the correct one is this one here.

And remember our, "E-R", spelling is most commonly found at the end of a word as well, so the first one wouldn't necessarily work here.

So our correct spelling is, "W-O-R-L-D", world.

Brilliant.

And the last one, learn.

Let's have a look.

"L-ER-N", learn.

Hmm.

Again, that "E-R", I know that, "Er", "Er", for, "E-R", spelling likes to come at the end of words most of the time.

So I'm not so sure about that one.

"L-EAR-N", learn.

Our trigraph, our, "E-A-R", spelling for that earn, Yeah likes to come in the middle.

Definitely could be that one.

And "L-UR-N", learn.

That doesn't look right to me.

I definitely think that it's going to be this one here.

Okay.

One of the ones we've been looking at today, our, "E-A-R", spelling for that, "Er", sound.

Brilliant.

So take the time now to make any corrections if you've got any magical mistakes.

Remember mistakes are golden in spelling, it's how we can learn, improve and make sure we memorise the correct ways of spelling words and spotting any patterns.

So pause the video now, make any corrections.

Fantastic work today everyone.

Today we've been looking at rare spellings of the, "Er", sound.

Okay? And we said those less common, those rare spellings of the, "Er", sound include "Er", spelled, "O-R", and, "Er", spelled, "E-A-R".

The, "O-R", spelling for, "Er", is often found in the middle of a word and after a W, as in the word, word, back work and world.

And our, "E-A-R", spelling is often found either at the beginning or the middle of a word.

And remember it's less common, so we just need to learn those words that contain it.

Words like early, learn and earn.

Fantastic spelling today everyone.

Keep up the amazing spelling work.

See you again soon.