Lesson video

(no audio) <v ->Hello and welcome to the today's spelling lesson.

</v> I'm Mr. Moss and I really am looking forward to teaching you today.

With you today, you need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains.

As well as, that something to write on and with, and someone to talk to you will be great.

Let's get into today's learning.

Our learning today is all about looking at some new oa spellings, which include oa spelt just with an o, and oa spelled o-e.

These are the less common or rarer spellings of that oa phoneme.

For today's lesson, our outcome is I know two spellings for the oa phoneme, spelled o and spelled o-e.

Here are our key words for today.

I need to hear you saying these back to me.

We're gonna do my, your turn.

Digraph.

Split digraph.

Homophone.

Contraction.

Digraphs are two letters that represent one sound.

So for instance, our oa spelling, o-a, is a digraph, because it's two letters that are representing that one sound.

A split digraph is very similar to a digraph, but it has a letter that comes in between the two letters of the digraph, for instance, in the word "make" there is a k that separates our a and our e.

Therefore make it an ae split digraph.

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

And contractions are two words that are squished together, often removing a letter or letters and replacing them with an apostrophe.

Keep an eye out for these words in our learning today, they're gonna be really important.

Here is the lesson outline for today.

We're looking at new oa spellings, including oa just spelled o, and o-e.

We're gonna look at spellings and common exception words.

And then we're gonna look at these two new oa spellings, those rarer spellings, those less common spellings.

Let's look at some common exception words.

Common exception words are words that do not follow our regular phonics patterns.

This makes them perhaps trickier to read or trickier to spell, but we like to call 'em common exception words 'cause they're exceptions to our phonics rules.

Let's read the following words.

Your.

One more time for me.

Your.

Here.

Here.

What do you notice about these spellings? Pause the video and think what makes them common exception words.

Off you go.

(no audio) Excellent conversations I could see happening there.

For me, in "your" is the fact that it looks like it has the word "our" in it.

but it doesn't.

It makes an o sound, so it's your.

It makes an or or sound.

And in here the E-R-E is behaving very strangely.

"Here" I usually see spelled differently.

Which of these that we just read are spelled correctly? I'd like you to point now to the correct spelling of the word "your." If you pointed to this one, you'd be correct.

This is our common exception spelling of "your." However, this is also a correct spelling of "your" and it's a homophone.

You can see here we've contracted together the words "you" and "are" to make a different version of the word "your." Please point to the correct spelling of the common exception word "here" that we've just looked at.

Pause the video and point now.

If you pointed to this one, you'd be correct.

This is as in, "I am here." However, I've almost tricked you a little bit.

This is also a homophone.

This is in to hear with your ear.

Remember, homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have a different meaning.

So let's look at "you're" first.

This is a contraction of the words "you" and "are." And what we've done is we've taken out the letter a, squeezed them together, and where we've taken that letter a out, we've replaced it with an apostrophe.

You can see here the word "hear" as well.

This is in, to hear with my ear, which is a homophone of that other spelling, that common exception spelling, "here," as in I am here.

There you go.

Have a look at these words.

Compare them.

We're gonna look at them in some sentences now.

They are homophones, words which sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.

Let's have a look at these words in some sentences then.

Please bring your backpack to school tomorrow.

This "your" is possessive.

It's talking about something which belongs to you.

You're doing a great job in this lesson.

You all are.

Look at this "you're," that's as in you are, our contraction.

Homophone alert.

Watch out for these in your reading and your writing.

I can hear the bird singing outside.

Meet me here later for the picnic.

The first "hear" we see here, h-e-a-r, actually has the word "ear" in it.

That's how I remember that.

Hear with your ear.

And the other here, h-e-r-e, is a locational word.

This word is also found in the word "there." That's how I remember that one.

Watch out for these.

Let's check and see if you can remember which homophone should be used.

Choose the correct homophone for each of these sentences.

Pause the video, read them, and select the correct homophone now.

Excellent work, everyone.

Let's have a look at A.

Check your bag before you leave.

Hmm.

That sounds like it's saying that belongs to me, possessive, so I know it's going to be this one.

The other one wouldn't work.

And a way I can practise this is, knowing that this actually is a shortened version of you are, is I could say that in the full sentence.

Check you are bag before you leave? No, that wouldn't make sense, would it? Let's have a look at the bottom one.

Here is the book you asked for.

Sounds like someone's handing something to someone, saying it's right here.

Locational.

It's not gonna be "hear is the book you asked for." So the correct spelling is this one.

Well done if you got this correct.

Check them now.

So because these are common exception words, one of the ways that we can practise this is through the look, cover, write, check strategy.

Remember, they don't adhere to our regular phonics patterns.

I love this strategy.

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

And as well as this, you get to practise your best handwriting.

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

So we're gonna look at the word "your." I then cover the word, your, up.

I then have a go at writing it and then I check it back.

And I do this a number of times.

As I said, it's repetitive.

I'd like you right now to pause the video and to have a go at using this strategy to write out the word "your" and "here" a number of times.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

(no audio) Fantastic work, everyone.

Can you check? Did you spell them correctly? Make any corrections now.

Onto the next part of today's learning, the two new oa spellings, spelled o and spelled o-e.

I'd like you to listen to the short, silly story.

Which words contain the oa sound? "Once upon a time there was a boy named Joe and his pony, Soap.

They heard about a magical piano that could create boats filled with hope.

Joe played the piano notes and, to everyone's delight, colourful boats appeared in a window's shadow.

There were no foes, only friends who joined their joyful show." It's a bit nonsense, isn't it, the story? But it's got lots of words with that oa sound in.

You might notice and recognise some of these oa spellings from your previous learning.

You might also see some of our new oa spellings.

Remember to listen for the oa sound, not just look for the grapheme "o" because o doesn't always make an o sound, that long o sound.

Let's have a look at two examples of this.

My turn, your turn.

Piano.

Joined.

Let's have a look at these words and see if the o is actually making that long o sound.

P-I-A-N-O.

Piano.

Yeah, it is, isn't it? Piano.

So that o is making that sound.

Let's look at the next one.

Joined.

Ja-oi-ned.

Ooh, that's making an oi sound.

It's created an oi digraph.

So this is the type of word that we're looking for that makes an o sound.

Be careful.

I'm gonna read the story to you one more time and I'd like you to have a look and see if you can spot any words that have that o sound in.

Maybe you jot 'em down as well.

"Once upon a time, there was a boy named Joe and his pony, Soap.

They heard about a magical piano that could create boats filled with hope.

Joe played the piano notes and, to everyone's delight, colourful boats appeared in a window's shadow.

There were no foes, only friends who joined their joyful show." I've highlighted here in a colour all the words that I've spotted that have that o spelling in.

Joe.

Pony.

Soap.

Piano.

Boats.

Hope.

Joe.

Piano notes.

Window's shadow.

No, foes, only and show.

You may recognise some of these graphemes already.

Have a look at this word here for me, soap.

Now soap's something you might usually wash yourself with.

You might be thinking, why has it got a capital letter here? That's because in this story, Soap is a proper noun.

It's the name of the pony.

But soap can also be a noun we use to clean ourselves.

So let's have a read of some of the words that were in the story and decide what the new oa spellings we're looking at are.

The three that you may have picked out in your previous learning are oa, ow, and o split e.

And we can see them in the words, soap, boats, window, hollow, show, notes and hope.

I'd like you to have a read of the final two columns' words, and then decide which graphemes are representing the oa sound in these words.

Pause the video and do that now.

Absolutely fantastic work, everyone.

Could see lots of children saying the words, which is really important in our spelling lessons.

So the oa spellings that I can see are o just spelt o, as in no, piano and pony.

And oe spelled o-e, as in Joe, the name there.

Capital letter because it's a proper name.

And foes, which is the plural of the word foe.

And a foe is an enemy.

So the spellings o and o-e also make the oa sound.

They are less common than the other ones that you may have learned.

Let's have a look at these graphemes in the words one more time.

Our o spelling there in no, piano and pony, and our o-e spelling in Joe and foes.

What I'd like you to do now for me is to have a look at the words below.

We're gonna read them out and I'd like to sort 'em into the correct columns.

Let's read the words.

Toe.

Go.

Locate.

Locates as in to find something somewhere.

It's in a specific location.

And woe.

Woe is extreme sadness.

I'm filled with woe, might mean I'm really upset.

Pause the video and sort these into the correct columns now.

Excellent work, everyone.

See how you did.

Absolutely.

Go and locate both contain our o spelling of the oa sound.

And the words "toe" and "woe" contain our o-e spelling of that oa sound.

Look at the o and o-e spellings for me.

Do you notice any patterns or anything interesting? You may want to consider do the spellings go at the beginning, in the middle or the end of a word? Or do they go in various places in a word? Pause the video and have a look at the spellings now.

Excellent conversations, everyone.

I'm beginning to see that our o-e spelling, I think, looks like it likes to go towards the end of a word.

And that o spelling just with an o looks like it's in some high-frequency words such as "no" and "go," but it also tends to be in other places in the word as well.

Let's concentrate on just that o spelling first then.

The o spelling can actually go anywhere in the word, which makes it a little bit tricky to place sometimes.

It means we just sort of really need to learn those words that have it in.

If I look at our o-e spelling, on the other hand, it tends to come at the end of a word.

The o-e spelling is most commonly found at the end of words.

Sometimes it might have an S after it here.

It's still at the end of the root word, but we've added the suffix, S, to make these words plural.

Remembering the suffix is something that we can add on to the end of a word to change perhaps its word class or its meaning.

So where can these rarer o spellings generally be found in the word? Our o just spelled o can go anywhere in a word.

Our o-e spelling, as in foe, woe and toe, are most often found at the end of a word.

I'd like you now to match the spelling to where they're most commonly found in a word.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Excellent work, everyone.

Could see some brilliant pointing a finger saying, "Oh, that one there goes to there.

That one there goes to there." Excellent.

So let's see.

Our o-e spelling at the end of words.

Absolutely.

And just our o spelling anywhere in a word.

Great job.

Let's do some spelling of some words.

So you need to have something to write with.

You need to get yourself in the zone.

Are you ready? I am.

Make sure that you stretch the words, sound it out, count the sounds, write it, and then look and check carefully as well.

I'm gonna read the words to you.

Why don't you say them back to me at first so you've got them there in your brains? Our first word is pony.

Pony.

Our next word is doe.

Doe.

A doe is a female deer.

Three is toe, like the toes on your feet.

And four, I think you may have guessed it from the image, is tomato.

Tomato.

So in a moment you're gonna pause the video and have a go at writing these words.

Think, where is my o spelling coming? Which of the spellings that I write down look correct? Don't forget to stretch.

Sound it out.

Count the sounds, write it and look and check.

I'm gonna say the words one more time.

Pony.

Doe.

Toe.

Tomato.

Pause the video and write them for me now.

Off you go.

(no audio) Some absolutely exceptional work going on there from everybody.

I'm really, really impressed.

Let's see how you've done then.

The first word we're looking at was the word "pony." And I've seen it written down these three ways.

They all make phonetic sense to me.

But let's think about which one looks correct for that oa sound.

Our o-w spelling of the oa sound I know from my previous learning, I think it likes to go at the end of the word.

So I think we can discount the last one.

I think it's gonna be our o spelling for that oa sound.

And then I think about that e spelling, don't I, at the end of the word? I think this one looks correct.

Well done if you've got that one.

The next word was doe.

Da-oe.

I've seen it written down in these ways.

Now the second one, I don't think is right, that looks like that common exception, high-frequency word, "do," which makes an oo sound.

We haven't looked at the O-U-G-H making an oa sound, but it can.

The correct spelling is this one here.

It's that o-e spelling, that rare one that likes to come at the end, as in the word "toe" or "foe" or "doe." But this is also a spelling, like cookie dough that you might use in a recipe.

This is a homophone.

The next one was toe.

Again, the first one, I recognise that word.

That looks like that common exception, high-frequency word, "to." So I don't think that's the right one.

And then we again have these two words, the second and the third one, that make phonetic sense.

Now I know that o-w spelling likes to come at the end and the o-e spelling likes to come at the end.

And in fact, they are both words.

The correct spelling for toes on your feet is this one.

But this is also a homophone.

This is as in to tow something behind you, to pull it behind you.

And then for tomato, I've seen it written like this.

Tamato.

Tomatow.

And tomato.

I think we can discount the first one 'cause that's making a ta-ah sound, isn't it? Not a tomato.

So that one's definitely not right.

And then if we look, it's a case of thinking about which one is the correct spelling for the next two.

Which one looks right? Point to the correct one for me now.

Absolutely.

It's this one.

Our o spelling, o-w, does like to come at the end of words, but remember our o spelling, just o, can come anywhere in the word, and o-w at the end of tomato doesn't look right.

So it's this spelling here.

Fantastic work, everyone.

Give yourselves a pat on the back.

Make any corrections now.

Excellent work today, everyone.

So today we've looked at the less common spellings of the oa sound, and these include o just spelled o, and o spelled o-e.

The o spelling is found anywhere in a word such as bony, no and total.

And the o-e spelling is most commonly found at the end of a word or at the end of the root word when we add a suffix such as the suffix, S, to make it plural.

These spellings are more rare than the spelling you may have looked at for the oa sound, o-a, o-w, and o split e.

Keep up your fantastic learning.

Great job.

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