Lesson video

Hello and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss.

I love spelling and I'm really looking forward to teaching you.

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

Let's get on with today's learning.

In today's lesson, we are going to be adding ES to nouns ending in Y.

We're going to be considering adding this suffix ES.

The outcome will be, I can turn nouns that end in Y into plurals by adding S or ES to the end of the word as a suffix.

Here are our keywords for today.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure you are saying these.

Singular, singular, plural, noun, suffix.

Singular is like the word single.

It means one of something.

So only one of it.

Plural means more than one.

A noun is a naming word, it can be used to name a person, a place, or a thing, or even an abstract idea.

And a suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add to the end of a word to create a new word.

We add them to a root word.

Keep an eye and ear out for these words in today's learning, 'cause they're gonna be really important.

Here's the outline to today's lesson.

We're adding that ES to to nouns ending in Y.

We're gonna begin by looking at that, and then we're gonna have a go at applying some spellings within a sentence.

Let's get on with creating some plurals.

Common nouns name people, places, and things.

Remember, they don't need a capital letter.

They're not proper nouns unless they come at the beginning of a sentence.

Common nouns can be singular or plural.

Remember, singular meaning single or one, plural meaning more than one.

So both single and singular mean one only.

If a noun is plural, it means that there is more than one.

True or false? Plural means there is only one.

Pause the video and select the correct answer now.

Good job.

So plural, that doesn't mean one.

Singular or single means one, doesn't it? Plural means more than one.

So this statement is false.

So the spelling of a noun changes though if it's plural, if there's more than one of it.

We add a suffix to the end of the word.

Sometimes we can just add that letter S at the end of it to make it a plural.

For instance, a pot here, like pots and pans, a pot that you might cook in.

If I need three pots to cook this meal, instead of just one pot, to make it plural, I just add an S.

Tree.

There are many trees in the forest, the plural is trees.

Again, I just add an S.

And here book.

There are many books in the library.

Books is our plural.

So we add an S to that there.

Which is the correct plural spelling for book? Pause the video and select the correct one from a, b, and c now.

Okay, so let's have a look.

We are making it plural.

So we want to add our S suffix, don't we? And here, I think I just need to add an S.

So the correct spelling is books, B-O-O-K-S.

So the suffix is S and ES can both be used to show plurals.

Here I've got my root word dog.

Okay, my singular.

And I've made it a plural by adding just an S.

I don't need to add an ES there.

But sometimes we need to add an ES.

So hen with that word, I just add an S and it becomes hens.

Here we can see the word dress, like the dress that you might wear.

This one needs an ES added to it.

So it looks like this when we add that plural suffix.

Baby, interestingly, I would add ES, but interesting because it ends in that Y consonant, I need to get rid of that y, add an I, and then add my ES to make the plural babies.

Many babies were born.

So we can add S, ES, and then sometimes even change the root word by adding an I and then an ES when we are making plurals and adding suffixes.

There are many different ways to show a plural noun.

Let's have a read of some words.

Baby, babies.

Cherry, like a cherry you might eat, cherries.

Family, families.

Puppy puppies.

Story, stories.

What do you notice about these spellings? What's happening to the root word when we turn these words into plurals by adding the suffix? Pause the video and see if you can spot the pattern now.

Great, some wonderful conversations going on there.

Absolutely, each of our root words here, baby, cherry, family, puppy, story, ends in that Y consonant, doesn't it? They, all of the plurals here, have that ES at the end as their suffix, don't they? But something's happening to our root word here, isn't it? We will change that Y to an I before adding that plural suffix, our ES.

So we can see here with baby, we get rid of the Y, we add the I, and then the ES, and it becomes babies.

Which of these common nouns has been made plural? Pause the video and make the correct selection now.

Good job.

So let's have a look at these.

We've got a, that says, baby, hold on a minute.

That singular, isn't it? We are looking for plural, more than one.

Then I've got babies.

Oh, the root, where baby there has that Y consonant.

I would get rid of that Y, add an I and then an ES.

So I think that's the correct one.

And the last one that says bus, that's not the same noun that we've made, plural, is it? It's not a plural noun.

Bus is a singular bus.

It would be buses if I was making it plural.

So the correct spelling is babies here.

That's a plural there.

So have a look here for me.

Select the correct spelling of each plural noun.

Remember, noun is a PPT, a person, a place, or a thing, and a plural means more than one of that thing.

Let's read the sentences first.

a, there were many babies in the park.

b, the puppies were barking loudly.

c, please, can we read two stories today? So select the correct plural nouns now.

Pause the video.

Great job.

I could see loads of children pointing to the correct answers there.

So there were many babies.

Yeah, remember, baby, that root word ends in a Y.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna get rid of that consonant y, add an I and then our ES.

It's the same with puppies.

Puppy is the singular with that Y at the end.

Puppies then, we get rid of that Y, add I and then our ES.

And it's the same with story as well.

So stories, plural is IES.

Check and see how you did now.

Great job everyone.

So we are now gonna have the chance to turn some words into plurals by adding our ES suffix.

Remember when that word ends in a Y, that singular word, think about what we have to do.

Our words are my turn, your turn, baby, family, cherry, story.

I'd like you to turn these words plural by adding our ES suffix.

Pause the video and do this for me now.

Great work everybody.

So let's see how you did.

I've seen babies written like this.

Now remember when that root word ends in that Y, we are going to get rid of the Y, replace it with an I and add ES.

So our correct plural spelling of babies is this one here.

Families, again, remember that root word ends in a Y, get rid of it, add an I and then our ES.

I Don't just add an ES to the end of the Y.

So the correct spelling is this one.

Cherries, that lovely fruit, very tasty, has a stone in the middle.

Again, IES should be my correct spelling.

And stories I've seen written in these ways.

Stories, storys, and storyes.

Now remember that root word ends in a Y.

We've got our root word there.

Gonna get rid of that Y, add an I and then an ES.

So our correct spelling is this one here.

Check and see how you did at turning those root words into plurals now.

Off you go.

Pause the video.

Onto then our next learning cycle.

We're gonna have a go at applying some of the spellings that we've looked at today, as well as some common exception words.

Common exception words are those words, remember, that are trickier to spell.

They're trickier to spell because they don't follow our regular phonics patterns.

My turn, your turn.

Their.

The word their, spelled T-H-E-I-R, can be hard to spell.

Let's say that word one more time, their.

There are a couple of things that can help us to spell this word.

The thing that's really tricky about it really is this EIR that's making that air sound at the end.

It's a strange spelling for that sound, isn't it? What's difficult also about this word is the fact that it's a homophone, which means that other words sound the same as it, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

This type of their is the possessive their, as in belonging to someone or a group of people, it's theirs.

This shows something belonging.

And the EIR is hard to remember.

So you just have to remember that the possessive spelling for their is EIR.

Choose the correct spelling of our common exception word that shows belonging, possession.

The word I'm looking for is their.

Pause the video and select the correct spelling now.

Brilliant.

Absolutely.

It is E-I-R, E-I-R for possession, their.

That is theirs.

That is their pencil.

That pencil belongs to that person.

It's possessive.

The other two are not spellings of their, they're not even homophones, they're not spellings at all.

So we are going to write a sentence containing some of our focus spellings and common exception words.

So keep an ear out for them.

Really take our time with this, because when we write the whole sentence, we have to do several things.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to form letters correctly.

We need to sound out each word.

We need to look out for common exception words.

And we also need to remember sentence punctuation, capital letters, and full stops.

Listen out to the sentence I'm going to say now.

The families went to the park and their children played with puppies and ate cherries.

And that's their as in possession.

That's their family.

The families went to the park and their children played with puppies and ate cherries.

The families went to the park and their children played with puppies and ate cherries.

The families went to the park and their children played with puppies and ate cherries.

And that's their as in possessive, it's their family.

So we're gonna use some strategies to help us remember this sentence.

The first one is clapping it out.

This helps us to make sure that we don't miss a sound in any of the words.

The families went to the park (instructor clapping hands) and their children played with puppies and ate cherries.

Pause the video and clap that sentence out now.

Good job.

We're gonna say it in a loud voice.

The families went to the park and their children played with puppies and ate cherries.

You pause the video and shout it at me now.

I really need to hear you say it.

Wow.

So loud.

And finally, counting the words.

The families went to the park and their children played with puppies and ate cherries.

Pause the video and count those words out now.

So we're gonna have a chance to write the sentence now.

Make sure you sound out each word.

Think about those common exception words.

And also remember capital letters, a full stop, any other punctuation.

I'm gonna say the sentence one more time.

The families went to the park and their children played with puppies and ate cherries.

Pause the video and write that sentence now.

Great job, everybody.

Could see some really nice application of turning some of our singular words there into plurals.

'Cause there's a number of plurals in this sentence.

And also lots of people remembered that possessive spelling for the common exception word we've been looking at.

So we're gonna check our work now.

We'll make any corrections as we go along.

The needs to have a capital T.

Families, our root word there's family that ends in a Y.

We get rid of that Y and we add IES.

That's our plural.

There's more than one family.

Went to the park.

And their, possessive, is their.

Their, their children belonging to them, so T-H-E-I-R possessive.

Played with puppies, plural of puppy.

Puppy ends in a Y.

We get rid of that Y, add I and then our ES to make it a plural.

So we have that ES suffix.

And ate cherries.

Same thing here as family and puppy.

Cherry, singular ends in a Y.

We get rid of that Y constant, and add the I and then we add our ES plural suffix.

And of course we need to have a full stop.

How did you do? What did you learn? What successes did you have? What magical mistakes did you make? Pause the video, share them with those around you and make any corrections now.

Brilliant work today, everyone.

Today we've been adding that ES suffix to nouns ending in a Y to create plurals.

Remember, a suffix is a letter or group of letters at the end of a word that create another word.

Adding S or ES to a noun can create plurals.

If our root word ends in a Y, then the Y is replaced by an I, and then we add our ES suffix to make our plural.

Great spelling today, everyone.

Keep it up and I'll see you again soon.