Lesson video

Hello, and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss, and I'm really looking forward to teaching you.

For today's lesson, you need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, your thinking brains, and as well as this, something to write on, write with, and someone to talk to you would be excellent.

Let's get straight into our lesson.

Today, we're going to be looking at new IGH spellings, including IGH spelled IE, IGH spelled with a Y, and IGH spelled with the letter I.

The outcome for today's lesson is I know three new spellings for the IGH phoneme: IE, Y, and I.

Here are today's keywords.

I need to hear you say these back to me.

Common, common.

Rare, rare.

Homophone, homophone.

Past tense, past tense.

I'd really like you to keep an eye out for these words today in our learning.

Let's have a little chat about what they mean.

A common spelling or a common spelling rule is something which appears with great regularity or most often in our written language.

A rare spelling or a rare word are words which appear less often.

It's the opposite of common.

They don't appear very much.

A homophone is a group of words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have a different meaning.

Past tense refers to a verb which has already occurred.

It has occurred in the past.

For instance, the verb cry if it's occurred in the past, I would change that to cried.

Brilliant.

Remember to keep an ear out or an eye out for these keywords in our learning today.

Here's our lesson outline.

We're going to be looking at new IGH spellings today, including IE, Y, and I.

We're going to be spelling common exception words in the first part of the lesson, and then we're going to look at these three new IGH spellings, the rarer spellings for that IGH phoneme.

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

You may have heard common exception words referred to as trickier to spell, or harder to spell, or trickier to read, or harder to read words.

And they are words that don't follow our usual phonics patterns.

So let's have a read of some following words and then think about what makes them trickier to spell or common exception words.

My turn, your turn.

What.

What.

When.

When.

Eye.

Eye.

I'd like you to pause the video for me, and I'd like you to think what makes these common exception words, words which appear regularly in our written language, but don't follow our phonics patterns, what makes them perhaps trickier to spell? Pause the video.

Have a look at each of the words now.

Excellent conversations going on there.

Brilliant.

Here's what I think makes them common exception words.

In the word what, we have an H and an A.

We don't pronounce that H do we? It's almost like a silent letter.

And our A, we're not saying wat, are we? Our A there makes an odd O sound.

What.

So that makes it trickier.

The word when.

I can see there that it has another H in the same way that what does.

I don't say wehen, do I? I say when.

That H ends up being silent.

My W and my H there are effectively a digraph making just one sound, a W sound, when.

And the word eye, as in my eye here, could very easily be confused with just the letter I, which is a word, as in I'm teaching you, I am teaching you, I.

This is as in an eye here though.

They're in fact homophones.

Remember that keyword? Words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

So I'm gonna show you some words, and I'd like you to pick which of them are spelled correctly.

Which of these is the correct spelling of the word eye? Point to it for me right now.

Excellent.

It's this one here.

My eye.

However, there is another spelling for the word I as we briefly spoke about a moment ago.

This word here, I, as in when talking about oneself.

This is a homophone.

A word which sounds the same but is spelled differently and has a different meaning.

Okay, I'm gonna put some more words up now, and I'd like you to point to the correct spelling for me.

Which of these is the correct spelling of the word what? Point to the correct spelling now.

Excellent work, everyone.

I can see some children pointing there.

Remember, it's not spelled in the way you'd expect it to be spelled phonetically.

The correct spelling is this one here.

Remember, with that silent H and that A for the O.

Which of these is the correct spelling of when? Point to the correct one now.

Incredible work.

Absolutely, it is this one here.

And what makes that tricky, again? Shout it at me now.

Absolutely, it's that silent H.

It almost looks like we would say wehen, but we don't.

We say when.

I can see a word in a word there, but that H, we don't pronounce.

That W and that H acts as a digraph just making a W sound.

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

And here is a really good strategy we can use to practise these words.

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

And I like to use this strategy because it's repetitive, it allows you to practise your handwriting, and it's a really good independent strategy.

So the way this works is I look at the word here.

I'm gonna look at the word what.

I look at it.

I then cover the word up.

I can't see it now.

I have to memorise it.

So it's practising that working memory.

I then have a go writing it in my neatest handwriting, and then I check back and see how I did.

Oh, I got it correct.

And I keep practising that over and over again to really embed that spelling in my memory.

What I'd like you to do now is I'd like you to pause the video and have a go at writing out the spellings what, when, and I as they're spelled here a number of times using this strategy.

Off you go.

Incredible work everybody.

So have a look.

How did you do? Do you need to make any corrections? Do you need to continue practising this strategy in the future? Have a look now.

Make any corrections.

Well done everyone.

Onto the next learning cycle.

We are now going to look at the three new IGH spellings, IE, Y, and I.

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

I want you to listen out and think which words contain the IGH sound.

This could be maybe some IGH spellings that you already know or it could be the rarer spellings that we are looking at today.

Keep an eye for them.

Here is our story.

As I'm reading the story, I'd like you to remember to listen for the IGH sound.

Sounding out the word can help with this.

Look here.

C-R-IE-D.

Cried.

Oh, I can see there my IE is making an IGH sound, but if I look here, the word, this next one underneath, let's double check.

C-A-RR-IE-D.

Carried.

Oh, my IE spelling there is not making an I sound.

It's making an E sound.

So be careful.

Remember, not all Is in a word, the letter I, will make an I sound.

This one is what we're looking out for.

Any word that makes a long IGH sound.

Can you make that sound for me now? IGH.

Amazing.

So listen to the story.

I cried when I saw the final slice of pie disappear on a hot July day.

Just as I was about to take a bite, a spider crawled up the ice cream container and into my mouth.

I quickly grabbed a pipe to blow it out, and in my panic, I accidentally blew a bubble so big it carried me away on a wild flight through the summer sky.

Amazing.

I'm gonna read it one more time, and I'd like you to listen out for any words which have IGH.

Perhaps jot them down even when you hear them come up.

Listening carefully.

I cried when I saw the final slice of pie disappear on a hot July day.

Just as I was about to take a bite, a spider crawled up the ice cream container and into my mouth.

I quickly grabbed a pipe to blow it out, and in my panic, I accidentally blew a bubble so big it carried me away on a wild flight through the summer sky.

A very silly story, but I can hear lots of IGH sounds there.

I wonder which ones you found? So there are some words with the new spellings of the IGH sound here, and we are going to look really closely at these.

Let's have a look which words I can see.

I, cried, final, slice, pie, July, bite, spider, ice, my, wild, flight, and sky.

Lots there.

And look, they're all spelled in many different ways.

So what are the new IGH spellings we are looking at today? Let's have a look.

We've obviously got our IGH, I-G-H spelling, which we should all know.

And our I split E split digraph spelling, such as pipe, bite, slice and ice.

What are our new IGH spellings that we're looking at? Pause the video.

Have a look at the words.

See if you can work it out.

Incredible.

Absolutely, we are looking at IGH spelled IE, as in cried and pie.

We are looking at IGH spelled with a Y, as in my, July, and sky.

And we're also looking at IGH spelled with an I, the letter I, as in I, spider, wild, and final.

So the spellings IE, Y, and I also make the IGH sound as well as our I-G-H and our I split E.

There they are.

What I'd like us to do now is I'd like you to sort the words out underneath into the correct columns.

We're gonna read the words and then we are going to sort them into the columns.

My turn, your turn.

Tie, as in you might tie a knot or you might put on a tie.

Dry.

Tried.

Tiny.

Cycle.

Item.

Pause the video now.

Sort these words into the correct columns.

Off you go.

Incredible work, everybody.

Let's have a look and see how you got on.

Absolutely, the words tie and tried both contain our IE spelling of the IGH sound.

The words dry and cycle both contain the Y spelling of that IGH sound.

And the words tiny and item contain the I spelling of the IGH sound.

What I'd like you to do now is I'd like you to take some time to look at this table.

Look at the IE, Y, and I spellings.

Do you notice any patterns or anything interesting? Pause the video.

Have a conversation with someone around you.

Excellent.

Something you may have been thinking about was where the spellings tend to appear in the word.

Are they in the beginning, the middle, or the end, or perhaps in various places in the word? Let's concentrate on looking at our IE spelling of the IGH sound.

The IE spelling seems to go in the middle or at the end of a word.

When the IE spelling is in the middle of a word, it tends to be a past tense word with the suffix D added onto the end.

For instance, cried and tried.

Cried is the past tense of the word cry.

Tried is the past tense of the word try.

We've got our IE spelling then with a D.

Here are some other examples.

Lied, dried, tied, fried, as in you might fry an egg in a pan.

Yesterday, I fried an egg.

Let's look now at the Y spellings.

The Y spelling seems to go at the end of a word.

However, this isn't always the case.

There are some exceptions to the rule here.

It most often appears at the end, as in my, sky, and dry.

Have a look at these words for me.

They are exceptions to our rule with our Y spelling.

Y likes to come at the end most of the time.

We can see in the words cycle, cyclone, and tycoon that it is not coming at the end.

It's actually coming after the first letter.

A cyclone is a large storm.

A tycoon is a wealthy or powerful person in a business.

This is a rare, rare way of seeing the Y spelling for the IGH sound.

And finally our IGH spelling just with an I.

The I spelling seems to go at the beginning or the middle of a word if we look at our words here, I, spider, tiny, item.

Don't forget the words I and that common exception word we looked at earlier, eye, as in your eyes that you look with, are homophones.

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

So where can the IGH spellings generally be found in a word? Our IGH spelling spelled IE is generally in the middle or at the end.

And when it is in the middle, it is found in past tense words.

Our Y spelling is generally at the end, and there are a few exceptions where it's not at the end.

And our I spelling is generally at the beginning or in the middle of a word.

I'd like you to match the spellings to where they are most commonly found in a word.

Pause the video and do this now.

Amazing work, everybody.

I could see lots of pointing, and showing which letter or spelling joined up with where it went in the word.

So our I spelling for our IGH sound is found in the beginning or middle.

Our Y spelling is generally found at the end, and our IE spelling is found in the middle or the end.

And remember when it's found in the middle, it's usually with past tense words.

What we're gonna have a chance to do now is one of my favourite things in spelling.

We're actually gonna get a chance to practise spelling some words.

What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say four words to you, and I'd like you to make sure that you stretch the word.

Sound it out, count the sounds, write it, and look and check as well.

So here are the four words that we're going to look at.

First one.

My turn, your turn.

July.

July, as in the month of July.

My birthday is in July.

Spider.

Spider.

The spider trapped the fly.

Number three, cried.

Cried.

The baby cried.

And number four, you can see our "Shhh!" sign here.

Silent.

Silent.

I need you to be silent so I can finish my work.

Silent.

So I'll say these words one more time, and then you are gonna pause the video and have a go at writing them down.

Remember, where do our rare IGH spellings that we've been looking at in today's lesson likely to come in a word? Think about where, when you stretch that word, you hear that IGH sound.

July, spider, cried, silent.

Pause the video and write the words down now.

Fantastic work, everybody.

I have seen some excellent handwriting, some excellent application of the rules that we've generated today, and I'm really impressed with everyone's effort.

So I've seen July written in these four ways.

I think they're all phonetically plausible, but only one of them is correct.

From the learning that we've done today, we know that our IGH sound, if it's at the end of a word, tends to be a Y.

Also, July is a proper noun, isn't it, so it needs to have a capital letter.

So which one must it be? Point for me now.

Absolutely, it's this one here with our Y spelling for our IGH sound at the end of the word.

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

All months do.

Spider is our next word.

And I've seen it written down in these three ways.

Let's stretch it.

SP-I-DER S-P-I-DER.

Spider.

Well, it sounds like our IGH spelling's coming in the middle there.

I think we can discount our Y spelling there, the first one, because we know that likes to come at the end most of the time.

Our IE spelling there.

Well, we know that likes come at the end or in past tense verbs, and spider's not a verb, so it has to be this spelling here.

Well done.

Cried was our next word.

And I've seen it written down in these ways.

Again, I think they're all phonetically plausible.

We need to figure out which one we think is correct though.

Now, I don't think the first one looks right.

Obviously a K can make that sound, K, K, kried, but it doesn't look right to me.

I think the word cry, C-R-Y, our root word here.

So I think we can discount that one.

Also cried is a verb, isn't it? And what have we said? Which spelling likes to be in past tense verbs? Absolutely, it's our IE spelling, so this is the correct one.

And finally the word silent.

Silent.

Oh, sounds like that IGH spelling is coming in the middle there.

Which one do we know likes to either come in the middle or at the beginning? Absolutely, it's this one here.

And it's not silant, it's silent, and it's that ugh there, which makes it a little bit trickier.

But it's an E-N-T spelling, silent.

Incredible work everybody.

Make any corrections now.

Mistakes are golden in spelling.

Remember that.

It's absolutely fine to make them.

Just make a correction and think what you need to remember for next time.

Excellent work.

So in today's lesson, we've looked at the less common spellings of the IGH sound, the rarer spellings.

The ones we've looked at are IE, Y, and I.

IE is often found in the middle or at the end of a word.

And remember if it's found in the middle, it's often a past tense verb.

The Y spelling can be found at the end of a word.

My, by, and sky are examples of this.

And our IGH spelling just spelled with an I is often found at the beginning or the middle of a word.

Item, spider, or I.

These spellings are more rare than our I-G-H trigraph, and our IE split digraph.

Excellent work.