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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 your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains, as well as something to write with and also maybe someone to talk to.

Let's get on with today's learning.

In today's lesson, we're gonna be looking at some new "oo" spellings, including spelt "ue," spelt "ui," and spelt "ou." Here's the outcome for today's learning.

"I know three new spellings for the 'oo' phoneme: 'ue,' 'ui,' and 'ou.

'" Notice they're all digraphs.

Here are today's key words.

Please keep an eye for these.

My turn, your turn.

Digraph.

Oh, I don't think I heard all of you saying to me.

Let's try that again.

Digraph.

Pronunciation.

Pronunciation.

Rare.

Rare.

Let's have a little chat about what these words mean then.

A digraph is a two-letter representation of a sound.

We're gonna be looking at three sets of digraphs today.

Pronunciation is how a word or language is spoken, and this might vary dependent upon region or accent.

For example, some people might say grass, as in the grass is green.

Others might say grass.

They're pronouncing that word and the sounds and the letters in different ways.

And finally, rare.

Rare spellings or words are those which do not appear with great regularity in our written or spoken language.

And the spellings for the "oo" sound that we are looking at today are the rare spellings for that sound.

You may be aware of the common spellings already.

Here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're looking at new "oo" spellings, including "ue," "ui," and "ou." We're gonna start off by spelling some common exception words and then we're going to look at the three new "oo" spellings, "ue," "ui," and "ou." Let's get looking at some of those common section words then.

Common except words are those words which don't follow our regular phonics patterns.

Let's read the following words together.

My turn, your turn.

Many.

Many After.

After.

Brilliant.

Pause the video.

Have a think.

What makes these common exception words? In what way are they not following our regular phonics patterns? Brilliant, I heard some great conversations going on there.

Here's what I've noticed about them.

In the word "many," that "a" is not behaving like I'd expect it to.

If I came across that word normally, I think that "a" must be an "ah" sound.

It'll be "mah-ny." But we don't pronounce it like that.

It's pronounced "m-e-n-y." That "a" is actually making an "eh" sound.

Now "after" is an interesting one.

The way I pronounce it that "a" isn't making an "ah" sound, it's making an "ar" sound.

But some people might pronounce this word "after," which wouldn't be wrong at all.

It's dependent upon the region or pronunciation that you use or your accent.

So that is actually only a common exception word for some people.

So remember "many," that "a" actually sounds like an "eh," "many." But it's spelt with an "a".

And "after," for some people sounds like "ar-f-t-er," but for others it's spelt with an "ah," "after." I'd like you to find the correct spelling of the common exception words that we've just read.

I'm gonna put a list up now.

Point to the correct one for me now.

Point to the correct spelling of "many." Go.

Fantastic work.

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

Remember, it's making an "eh," "m-e-n-y." but it's spelled with "a." Point to the correct spelling of the word "after." Go.

Fantastic, remember, for some people, that "a" at the beginning, it's actually making an "ar" sound and then it's our "er" spelling at the end, "after." This one here, brilliant.

So given that these are common exception section words, we just need to sort of learn them by sight.

Then we can't, for some people, apply our phonics rules to them.

So here's a really good strategy we can use, the "look, cover, write, check" strategy.

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

The way this works is by looking at the spelling.

So I look at the spelling "many." Everyone look at it now.

We then cover it up.

Oh, it's disappeared.

Have you got it in your memory? And then I try writing it and then I check back.

Oh, I spelled it correctly.

I'm not just gonna do that once, I'm gonna do it many times.

So really, really embed that spelling.

And also it's a really good way to practise your excellent, beautiful handwriting.

I'd like you to pause the video now and have a go using this strategy to write out the words "many" and "after" a number of times.

Pause video.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Hopefully you've got some work that looks like this.

Did you make any mistakes? Don't worry if you did.

Mistakes are golden in spelling.

Check your work now.

Make any corrections if you need to.

Brilliant, onto the next learning cycle, the three new "oo" spellings, "ue," "ui," and "ou." Notice that they're all digraphs.

I'd like you to listen to the short, silly story that I'm about to read.

Which words contain the "oo" sound? Just listen at first.

"In a June breeze, a silly group of children gathered in the park with plates glued to the bright, blue picnic blanket.

The wind blew creating quite the issue as they tried to chew their way through sandwiches and fruits, leaving a chaotic mess of food and spilled juice." Wow, I heard loads of "oo" sounds there.

I even recognised some of the "oo" spellings from maybe my previous learning.

I'm going to stop for a moment and have a think.

I'm going to remember to only listen for our "oo" sound and stretch the word once you have heard it.

This can help.

For instance here, if I look at my words here, "g-l-ue-d," oh yeah, it's that "ue" that's making that.

But if I look here at this word, "ch-a-o-t-i-c," "chaotic" hmm, there's no "oh" sound there, but there is the letter O.

So this is the sort of sound that I'm looking for, that "oo", sound.

Be careful.

I'm gonna read you the story one more time.

Listen out this time.

Perhaps jot any of those "oo" spellings that you noticed down.

"In a June breeze, a silly group of children gathered in the park with plates glued to the bright, blue picnic blanket.

The wind blew creating quite the issue as they tried to chew their way through sandwiches and fruit, leaving a chaotic mess of food and spilled juice." Sounds like quite the mess.

Quite a silly story.

There are some words with the new spellings of the "oo" sound.

We are going to look at these more closely.

I've gone through and in this green colour, I've coloured the words that I'm making this "oo" sound.

I've got "June," "group," "glued," "blue," two spellings of "blue" there.

Better watch out for those, might be homophones.

"Issue," "two," "fruit," and "juice." So have a look here for me please.

I can see that that I have some of my "oo" spellings that I already know, "oo," "ew," and our split digraph "u-e," in the words "soon," "chew," blew," "June," and "rude." I want you to have a read of the final three columns and I want you to see if you can tell which spellings are making our "oo" sound here.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Excellent.

In that fourth column here, it's that "ue" that's making that "oo" sound in the words "glued," blue," and "issue." In our next column, it's that "ui" digraph that's making that "oo" sound, "juice" and "fruit." And the last one, it's that "ou" digraph that's making that "oo" sound, "group" and "soup." There we go.

Spot them now.

So we are learning three new digraphs today that make that "oo" sound.

So the spellings "ue," "ui," and "ou" can also make the "oo" sound.

And we would say that these are rarer spellings.

Remember that word "rarer" is one of our, or "rare," was one of our key words for today.

Means they appear less often than our common spellings for that "oo" sound, "oo," "ew," and our "u-e." I'd like now to sort the words below into the correct columns.

Let's read the words first.

My turn, your turn.

"True," "mood," "bruise." Bruise is something you might get if you knock your leg.

"Wound," "wound." A wound is an injury that you might sustain to your skin.

It's synonymous with a cut.

But be careful with this word as well 'cause that "ow" spelling can also make an "ow" sound, but we are looking for it here to make an "oo" sound.

"Rule," "shrewd." Someone who is shrewd makes very good decisions.

And "cruise." I went on a cruise ship.

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

Which spellings for the "oo" sound do they have in them? Off you go.

Brilliant work, everyone.

Let's see how you've gotten along then.

Excellent.

So I can see here "mood" has my "oo" spelling, which likes to often be found in the middle.

I have the word "shrewd" here, which is an exception to my "ew" rule, which it usually comes at the end.

I then have my "u-e" in "rule." And then here, I can see the word "true" has that "ue" at the end.

I have "bruise" and "cruise." Hmm, both that "ui" spelling coming in the middle and both followed by an "se." I wonder if that's going to be a rule.

And then we have the word "wound," which is, again, coming in the middle for that "ou" spelling.

Brilliant work, everyone.

So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna look more closely at our "ue," "ui," and "ou" spellings.

I want us to think, do we notice any particular patterns or anything unique about where they like to come in a word.

Consider are they in the beginning, the middle, or the end? Or does it change? And do they like any particular letters to follow them? I wonder.

Pause the video.

Have a think now.

Amazing, I heard some great conversations and some great spelling thinking going on there.

I'm really, really impressed everyone.

Let's concentrate first on our "ue" spelling.

It like to come at the end of a word.

"Blue" and blew," as you can see here, are homophones.

"Blue" spelt B-L-U-E, the spelling we're looking at today, is as in the colour.

"Blew," which you may have looked at before, "ew" at the end for that "oo" sound, is as in if you are blowing something else.

I blew on my soup to cool it down.

The "ui" spelling is very rare and it's found most commonly in the middle of a word.

It's often followed by a "t," a "ce," or an "se." If we look here carefully, we've got the words "juice," "fruit," "bruise," and "cruise." It really likes a "t" in particular.

Our "ou" spelling is also very rare and is also found in the middle of a word.

In particular, it likes a "p" to follow it.

If you look for the words "group" and "soup." Where can these rarer "oo" spellings generally be found in word then? Let's have a think.

The "ue" is generally found at the end of a word.

The "ou" is generally found in the middle.

Remember, it quite likes a "p." And our "ui" spelling is generally found in the middle followed by a "t," a "ce," or an "se." Really likes that "t." So what I'd like us to do now is I'd like us to match the rarer spelling of the "oo" sound to where they are most commonly found in a word.

Spellings are on the left and where they found is on the right.

Match them up now.

Perhaps draw a line with your fingers in the air from the spelling to where they like to go.

Off you go.

Incredible work, everyone.

Let's see how you did.

Our "ue" spelling of that "oo" sound at the end.

Words like "blue" and "glue." Our "ou" spelling in the middle, "group" and "soup." And our "ui" spelling of that "oo" sound in the middle too, but really likes to be followed by a "t," a "ce," or "se." Fantastic work, everyone.

What we're gonna do now is we're gonna have a go at spelling some words that have some "oo" sounds in them.

I'd really like you to take your time whilst we do this.

Remember to stretch the word, sound it out, count those sounds, write it, and look and check.

Also think, where is this "oo" sound coming in the word? Maybe that'll help you choose the correct "oo" grapheme or spelling.

So word number one.

My turn, your turn.

"Blue" as in the colour blue.

You can see the rectangle here is blue.

Number two, "fruit," "fruit." There's a basket of fruit in the picture there.

Number three, "soup." Tomato soup is my favourite type of soup.

Number four, "tissue." I need to blow my nose so I used a tissue.

Okay, I'm gonna say the words one more time then you are gonna pause the video and write them.

"Blue," "fruit," "soup," "tissue." Pause the video.

Have a go at writing these now.

Absolutely fantastic work, everyone.

So let's go through.

I've seen the word "blue" spelled in these different ways.

"Bloo," hmm.

Could be the first one, but I don't think so.

I know that my "oo" spelling for that "oo" sound likes to come in the middle of a word, doesn't it? Very rarely at the end.

B-L-U-E.

Hmm, that looks good.

B-L-E-W.

Hmm, they're both words, aren't they? What do we call them? Homophones.

I'm looking for the colour blue, which is this one here.

Blew, B-L-E-W, is a homophone that would be to do blowing, not the colour.

So number two, "fruit." "F-r-ui-t," first one works.

"F-r-oo-t," could be.

"F-r-ue-t," could be.

I think we can rule out the last one, right? Our "ue" spelling likes to go at the end of a word or the end of a root word.

This spelling's coming in the middle of the word, isn't it? It's a noun, "fruit." Let's have a look at the other two then, the first and second.

"F-r-ui-t," well I know my "ui" and my "oo" spelling like to go in the middle of words.

Let's think about which one is correct.

I also know that my "ui" spelling loves to be followed by a "t," so the correct one is this one.

Well done.

The next word is "soup." I've seen it written in these ways.

"S-oo-p," "soop," could be.

"S-u-pe," "supe," could be.

"S-ou-p," "soup." They all make phonetic sense, don't they? Hmm, I think we need to think about which one's correct here.

Our "oo" spelling could come in the middle and our "ou" spelling could come in the middle as well.

Our "supe" with "u-e" in the middle there is the last but one.

I think it sounds like it's in the middle.

So it's gonna be the first or the second.

I think the one that looks correct here to me is this one here, that rare "ou" spelling as in "soup" or "group." And finally, we have "tissue." I've seen it written in these ways.

"T-i-sh-ue," hmm, could be.

Okay, "tishue." "T-i-ss-ew," "tissew." "T-i-ss-ue," "tissue." Hmm, well I know it's gonna be one that comes at the end 'cause that's where the "oo" sound is coming.

I also knows that tricky bit about tissue where's that "ss" making that "sh" sound, isn't it? So I think it's the second or the third.

This one is the correct spelling.

It's that "ue," that rarer "ue" spelling for the "oo" sound at the end.

Brilliant.

If you made any mistakes, don't worry.

Make some corrections now.

Making mistakes is a massive part of learning and spelling and it's gonna help us improve.

Make any corrections now.

Fantastic work today, everyone.

Today, we've been looking at the rarer spellings for the "oo" sound.

And these include the digraphs "ue," "ui," and "ou." "Ue" is often found at the end of a word, as in "blue," "tissue," or "virtue." "Ui" is often valued in the middle of a word followed by "t" and "se" or a "ce." "Fruit," "juice," and "cruise" are examples of these words.

And our "ou" for the "oo" sound is often found in the middle of a word too.

Words like "soup," "group," and "wound." Our "ui" and our "ou" spellings are particularly rare.

Excellent work today, everyone.

Keep up the great spelling.