Lesson video

Hello, and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

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

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 someone to talk to would be excellent.

Let's get straight into the lesson.

In today's lesson, we're gonna be looking at different oh spellings, including oh spelt O-A, oh spelt O-W, and O-E, our split digraph.

These are some of the more common spellings of that oh.

Our outcome will be, "I can read and spell words containing the three most common representations of the oh phoneme," that oh sound, O-A, O-W, and O split E.

Here are the keywords for today's learning.

Please keep an eye out for these in our learning today.

My turn, your turn, phoneme, digraph, split digraph, common.

Phonemes are the smallest units of sound which make up words.

A digraph is two letters that represent one sound.

For instance, O-A is a digraph for the oh that we're looking at today.

A split digraph has a letter that comes between the letters of the digraph.

For instance, in the word make, we have between our A and our E making that A sound, ak, so that digraph is split in two.

And finally, the word common.

Common spellings or words are words which appear with great regularity or most often in our written and spoken language.

Brilliant, please remember to keep an eye out for these words in our learning today.

They're gonna be very important.

Here is the outline for today's lesson.

We're looking at oh spellings, including O-A, O-W, and O split E.

In the first part, we're going to be spelling some common exception words, and then we're going to be looking at three oh spellings.

Let's get looking at some common exception words.

Common exception words are those words that are often described as being trickier to spell or harder to spell.

They're words that don't follow our regular phonics patterns.

So let's have a go at reading some words.

My turn, your turn, who, who.

This word as well is often confused with this word here, how, 'cause it looks like it could be the O-W making an oo sound and then our H at the beginning, hoo, so be careful for that one.

Why do you think people might get confused between who and how? What do you notice about the spellings? Pause the video and have a think.

Absolutely.

If you notice, they contain the same letters, don't they? But they use it in a different order.

And when put that order, the words actually do sound differently.

W-H-O makes a hoo sound, and H-O-W makes a hou sound, so be careful and watch out for these.

Can you please find the correct spelling of the common exception words we've just read? I'd like you to pause the video, read the sentences, and select the words which are correct for each sentence.

Pause the video now.

Incredible work.

A says, "I don't know who you are." I wouldn't say, "I don't know how you are," necessarily.

In this instance, who definitely makes more sense, doesn't it? B, "I couldn't believe how nice it was." I wouldn't say, "I couldn't believe who nice it was." Well done.

We're gonna use a strategy called the look, cover, write, check strategy in order to help us remember the common exception words that we're looking at.

Now, I wouldn't say how is a common exception word necessarily, but because of its closeness to who, it's easily confused.

So we're gonna practise learning both of these words off by heart.

And the look, cover, write, check strategy is great because it's independent and repetitive, and it really embeds that spelling in your long-term memory.

And the way this works is by looking at the spelling, who, covering it up, writing it, and then checking back.

So what I'd like you to do now is I'd like you to have a go at writing in your neatest handwriting the words who and how a number of times using this strategy.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Incredible work, everybody.

So your boards or whatever you've written on should look like this.

Check your spellings now.

See if you made any mistakes, okay? And make any corrections.

Do that for me now.

On to the next learning cycle, the three oh spellings, spelt O-A, O-W, and O split E.

There are other ways of spelling the oh phoneme, that oh sound.

We are looking at these three because they are the most common.

They appear most regularly, and they are O-A, O-W, and our split digraph, O split E.

Let's read the following words.

My turn, your turn, boat, boat, goal, moat.

A moat is a deep ditch that might be dug around a castle or fortified position, sometimes filled with water.

Coast, coast, and groan.

Groan is a deep noise that you might make if you're in pain or showing despair.

You might go.

(groaning) Let's read some more words.

Show, flow.

Flow is the steady movement of something.

Like, you might say, "The river flows north." Snow, narrow, below.

The word narrow refers to something that's small in width in comparison to its length.

So, "The street was very narrow," might mean the houses are very close together.

The O-W can produce the phoneme ou or o, that O-W spelling.

When it appears at the end of the word, it makes an oh.

So if we look here, all of these words have the O-W spelling, and they're all making an oh.

Let's read some more words.

Hold, rope, home, close, stone.

So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna do some sound-buttoning.

I'm gonna have a go, and then you are gonna have a go, and sound-buttoning can really help us to focus in on where the sound and the spelling of the sound that we're concentrating on is coming in a word.

And it's gonna help us also spot some patterns.

So I'm gonna show you what to do here, b, oh, t, boat.

So you can see there, for my consonants, I've got my dots.

And then for my digraphs, I've got (air whooshing) two letters together.

g, oh, l, goal, I'm gonna put some words up now and I'm gonna let you have a go at sounding buttoning them.

You can do this with your finger, or you can write the words down really neatly and then sound-button them as well.

Here are the words.

Pause the video.

Sound-button them now.

Excellent work.

Check, see how we did, m, oh, t, moat, and remember, a moat is that large ditch that you might dig around a castle or a fortified position and sometimes fill it with water in order to protect yourselves from attack.

c, oh, s, t, coast, amazing, and the final one, g, r, oh, n, groan.

Excellent, see how you did.

So we can see that our O-A spelling of the oh is most often found in the middle of a word.

Words like boat, goal, and groan show this.

If you look here, I've added the suffix I-N-G onto groan to make it groaning.

The oh spelling is still in the middle of our root word, which is groan here.

And if you look at these two words at the bottom, oat and oath, my turn, your turn, oat, oath, we can see that these are exceptions to our rule here.

Exceptions are things that do not follow our regular patterns.

These are quite rare words that begin with our O-A spelling.

An oat is a type of cereal grain that you might eat.

You may have eaten in an oat cake.

And an oath is like a promise that you make that you shouldn't break.

They are exceptions.

Let's do some more sound-buttoning.

Here, we can see we have our O-W digraph representing our oh.

And we know already that this likes to come at the end, sh, oh, show, f, l, oh, flow.

I'm gonna put some words up now, and I'd like you to have a go at sound-buttoning them.

Off you go.

Excellent work, everyone, let's see how you did, s, n, oh, snow, n, ah, r, oh, narrow.

Notice how our double R there is also a digraph.

b, e, l, oh, below.

Excellent job, see how you did.

So our O-W spelling of the oh is often found at the end of a word as we see in all of these words here, show, flow, narrow, snow, and below.

Obviously, I could add a suffix onto the end of my word here as I have done with snowing.

But we can still see the O-W, as at the end of our root word snow.

Final round of sound-buttoning, this time we're gonna sound-button our split digraph, our O split E.

This is done a little bit differently, so be careful.

Watch what I do first, h, oh, l, hole, r, oh, p, rope.

I'm gonna put some words up, and I'd like you to have a go at sound-buttoning them.

Watch out for that split digraph.

Off you go.

Amazing, let's see how you did, h, oh, m, home, c, l, oh, s, close, s, t, oh, n, stone.

Our O-E split digraph is often the last but one in a word.

And this is like lots of the other split digraphs that we'll have looked at, for instance, A split E or I split E.

And we can see here in the words hole, rope, home, close, and stone that it is consistently coming the last but one.

What I'd like you to do now is I'd like you to match the spelling to where they are most commonly found in a word.

Pause the video.

Match them now.

Go.

Fantastic work, everyone, could see lots of pointing and drawing of imaginary lines between the spelling and where they appear most commonly in a word.

Our split digraph O-E appears most commonly last but one.

Our O-W spelling of the oh often appears at the end.

And remember, be careful not to confuse this with an ou sound, and then our O-A spelling of the oh is most commonly found in the middle.

Excellent work.

So onto our first practise task of this learning cycle, we're going to sound-button the letters that make the long oh in each of the words.

Then, you're going to write the words into the correct column.

I'll do an example for you.

I've got the word here, soak, s, oh, k, soak.

Oh, I can hear my oh in the middle there.

Oh, I'm gonna just sound-button the sound that makes the oh, or the spelling, sorry, that makes the oh.

Just going to sound-button the spelling that makes the oh.

And I'm gonna put that in my O-A, oh column.

Let's do one more.

Let's do a split digraph.

Let's have a look here at this word, phone, f, oh, n, phone.

Oh, yeah, it's there.

It's my O split E, so I put it into this column here.

I'd like you to pause the video now and sound-button the ohs or the oh spellings and add them into the correct columns.

Off you go.

Excellent work, everyone.

Hopefully, you've got columns that look like this.

Double-check and see if you have.

We're gonna look in a little bit more detail at these spellings now.

So did these spellings follow our rules? Did you notice anything else? Well, let's remind ourselves.

Our O-A spelling of the oh likes to go in the middle, and yeah, I think I can see that it does go in the middle in each of these, throat, coach, and toad.

Yep, it's in the middle of all of them.

Our O-W spelling, know, like what I know, okay, arrow, what I might shoot from a bow, and glow, yep, my O-W spelling's at the end.

And my O split E, we know our split digraphs like to go last but one.

I've got smoke, nose, and cone, and yep, it is last but one in all of them.

Great work.

What we're gonna do now is we're going to have a go spelling some words.

I'm gonna say four words, and I'd really like you to take your time.

Please be sure to stretch the word, sound it out, count the sounds even, write it, and then look and check.

So the first word that I'm going to read to you is the word boat.

My turn, your turn, boat.

I sailed a boat across the sea, boat.

Next word is snow.

I made a snowball out of the snow.

The next word is stone, stone.

And finally the last word is flow, flow.

The river flows north, flow.

I'm gonna read these words one more time, and then you're gonna pause the video and have a go at writing them.

Boat, snow, stone, flow.

Pause the video and write them now.

Excellent work, everybody.

We're gonna go through now and have a look at some of the ways in which people have spelt these words and figure out which is the correct spelling as well, some excellent effort going on.

I can see some brilliant handwriting.

I can see some brilliant application of where our different oh spellings like to come in the word as well.

First spelling we're looking at was boat.

I've seen it written in these three ways now that I think are all phonetically plausible because I can see here a variety of ohs or oh spellings for ohs.

But only one of them looks right to me.

If I look at the first one, it could be coming last but one, but it just doesn't look right to me.

The last one certainly I don't think will be right because we know our O-W spelling.

That's come at the end of a word.

So it's this one here that's the correct one.

If we look then at B, the word was snow, hmm, s, n, oh, first one could work.

s, n, o, well, I do know on very rare occasions that our oh spelling can make an oh, but I think n, ou is right.

And then if we look at the last one, we know our O-A spelling likes to come in the middle, not at the end.

So the correct spelling is this one here.

C is stone.

Let's have a look.

I don't think it can be the first one 'cause I know my O-W spelling like to go at the end.

Could be my second one.

And it could be also my third one because I do know that our O-A spelling does like to go in the middle of a word, too, but I think it doesn't look right.

I think it's this one, has to be 'cause it's a last but one, and it looks right.

And finally, flow, it's that, f, l, oh.

Oh, it's coming at the end.

I'm sure you're telling me it's this spelling, it's this spelling.

Which one is it? Point to it for me now.

Absolutely, it is the middle one here, that O-W spelling, because it's coming at the end of the word.

Fantastic work, everyone.

Should really give yourselves a pat on the back.

If you've made any mistakes, make some corrections now and think what you're going to do differently next time.

Excellent work.

So in today's lesson, we have looked at the oh phoneme, and we've looked at the three most common ways in which this oh phoneme is spelt, O-A, O-W, and O split E.

Our O-A spelling is most often found in the middle in words like boat, gold, moat, coast, and groan.

Our O-W spelling can be found at the end, as in show, flow, snow, narrow, and below.

And our O split E spelling, our split digraph, as with most split digraphs, is last but one, hole, rope, home, close, stone.

Excellent work today, everyone.

I look forward to seeing you again soon.