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.

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 someone or something to talk to would be great as well.

Let's get into today's learning then.

Spelling Compound Words.

Here's the outcome.

"I can spell compound words." Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you saying them back to me.

Compound words.

Syllable.

Polysyllabic.

Compound words are words that are formed when two or more words are joined together.

They create new words with new meanings.

A syllable is a single sound or beat in a word that contains a vowel sound.

Can sometimes help to clap the syllables in a word.

The word "hop," for instance, contains one syllable.

"Hopping" contains two.

A polysyllabic word is a word that contains more than one beat or sound.

To go back to our initial word "hop," that's a single-syllable word.

"Hopping" contains two syllables.

It is polysyllabic.

Please keep an eye and an ear out for these key words as they're going to be very important in today's learning.

Here's the outline for today's lesson.

We are going to be spelling compound words.

We're first of all going to look at compound words, and then we're going to have a go at applying some of these spellings within sentences.

Let's get on with looking at compound words and detail them.

Compound words are formed when two words are added together to create a new longer word.

So we take two words, we join them together, and we create a new word with a new meaning and it's a longer word.

Here we have two words, "butter" and "fly." If we put them together, we create the word "butterfly." As you can see, it's a little bit like thinking about it as jigsaw pieces.

So we can see here we have our piece "butter," and then we have our jigsaw piece "fly," and we've joined them together to create one whole new piece, "butterfly." Here we have the words "foot" and "ball." If we put those together, we get the compound word, the new word, "football." There are many examples of compound words.

The spelling of the original words stays the same.

And this is really noticeable, isn't it? If I look here, my words, "butter" and "fly," I put them together to create my new word, and neither of the spellings of those original words has changed.

The words "foot" and "ball" placed together to create my compound word, "football." Neither of the words, foot or ball, have changed spelling.

So, true or false? The spellings of the two words that make up the compound word change in the new word.

Have a think.

Select the correct answer now.

True or false? Pause the video.

Well done.

Absolutely, that is false.

The spellings of the two words that make up the compound words stay the same in that new word.

They do not change.

Think about the examples we've just looked at.

"Foot" and "ball" become "football," "butter" and "fly" become "butterfly." So let's have a read of some words.

My turn, your turn.

Butterfly.

Armchair, like the chair that you might sit in, that has arms on it for you to rest your arms. Afternoon.

So the time in the day that is after 12:00 PM, afternoon.

Football.

The game that you might play.

Bathroom, a room with a bath in it.

Rainbow.

Blackberry.

So a berry that is black that you might eat.

They are all made up of two words.

So they are all compound words.

Remember, compound words are those words that are made up of two or more words.

The spelling of each part of the compound word has not changed.

They could become words in their own right if we were to separate them back out.

"Butter" and "fly" could be two words, "arm" and "chair," but they would mean different things on their own, wouldn't they? When combined they create a new word with a new definition.

Here we have "sometimes." So, this is a compound word that's been created by adding together the words "some" and "times." So, something that happens not all the time, but sometimes.

Notebook.

So again, a book that you'll write notes in.

We've combined that idea of a note and a book together to create the compound word "notebook." And here we have "inside." And our word "inside" shows that something's happening on the inner part of something.

I combine the words "in" and "side." Compound words will always be polysyllabic.

Remember that word polysyllabic means, have more than one beat in it.

And let's think about why this is.

It's because each of the words that are joined together already contain at least one syllable, don't they? "After" contains two syllables, "noon" contains one.

So if we combine them and create "afternoon," we now have a word that has three syllables.

"Foot" contains one syllable.

"Ball" contains one syllable.

We now have a word, "football," that contains two syllables.

"Butter" already contains two syllables.

"Fly" contains one.

"Butterfly," three syllables.

So notice compound words will always be polysyllabic.

They will always have more than one beat in them.

Clapping out the syllables can really help us as it helps you to hear them when you say the word.

Let's have a go now.

Afternoon.

You have a go.

Football.

You have a go.

Butterfly.

You have a go.

So, select the compound word in each sentence.

Think about what our definition of a compound word is.

Read through the sentences carefully and select the compound words.

I'll read them first.

"I picked up the blackberry and ate it." "After the rain, I saw a beautiful rainbow." And, "I played football after school." Pause the video and select the compound words in each of these sentences now.

Off you go.

Good job, team.

Let's see how you did then.

In our first sentence, "I picked up the blackberry and ate it." So compound word, the words "black" and "berry" have been put together to create a new word.

That item that you might eat, very tasty.

"After the rain, I saw a beautiful rainbow." Our compound word there is "rainbow." Okay, it's those words "rain" and "bow" put together to create that new word, that thing you might see when it rains, that beautiful colourful thing in the sky.

And "I played football after school." "Football" here is our compound word.

The words "foot" and "ball" are both words in their own right, and we put them together, "football," to create our polysyllabic compound word.

So, our compound words here were blackberry, rainbow, and football.

Pause the video and see how you did.

Now interestingly, some combinations of words sound like compound words, but they're not.

They're actually phrases.

They're two separate words that are said together.

"Play time," for instance, would not be two words that we would combine together to create a compound word.

Ice cream.

Again, you might think that, because they come straight after one another, they might be together, but they're not.

"Car park" and "bus stop." Yeah, we would never have two S's together like that.

So that one's quite obviously going to be two separate words.

These words are not compound words, because they do not create a new single word.

They remain separate and retain their individual meanings as opposed to coming together to create a new word with a new meaning.

This is quite difficult though, isn't it? Because it sounds like they might easily come together.

"Play time," for instance, or "ice cream" or "car park" certainly sound like they might be put together.

And so it's important that we just keep an eye out for any compound words that we do see in English.

So, true or false, the word "bathroom" is a compound word.

Look carefully at the way it's written.

Think about the words we've looked at so far.

True or false? Pause the video.

Well done, team.

So, "bathroom." "I need to go to the bathroom." It is a compound word, and the reason it is, is because, as you can see, the way it's written here, the words are together, aren't they? The words "bath" and "room" have been joined together to create a new word "bathroom" that's polysyllabic and has a new meaning.

They're not two separate words or a phrase that we say one after the other.

They have come together to create a compound word.

So have a look here for me.

I've got words on either side.

I'd like you to join them together to make a new compound word.

Think about which ones would make sense to go together.

So I've got the words "after," "bath," "arm" and "butter." And then I've got the words "fly," "room," "noon" and "chair." Pause the video and match together or join together the words that could be joined together to create compound words.

Off you go.

Well done, team.

Let's see how you've done then.

"After noon" will come together.

That time, afternoon.

"Bath room" would come together.

So we get the word "bathroom." "Armchair" that you might sit in comes together to give us the compound word "armchair." And "butterfly." That might fly around in the sunshine, butterfly.

There's a compound word.

Pause the video and see how you did.

Great.

So, for our practise task, you're going to use each word once here to complete the sentences and create compound words.

"Please, may I use the mm room?" "I'm playing foot mm at the weekend." "I saw a beautiful rain mm after the rain." "This mm noon I will go for a walk." So you can use each of the four words below once and add them to the other half of the compound word that's there.

Make sure that you write them together, because remember, they're compound words.

They're two words that have been joined together.

Pause the video and complete the sentences by adding in the missing words now.

Great job, team.

Let's see how you've done then.

"Please, may I use the bathroom?" And notice how "bath" and "room" are connected.

They're joined together 'cause it's a new word, a compound word.

"I'm playing football at the weekend." "I saw a beautiful rainbow after the rain." "This afternoon I will go for a walk." Make sure that you have not left a space in order to make them compound words.

Otherwise they would just be a phrase, wouldn't they? And these are all compound words that are joined together to create a new word.

Pause the video and check and see how you did now.

Onto our final learning cycle then.

We're gonna have a go at applying some of the compound word spellings that we've been looking at within sentences.

We are going to write a sentence containing some of our focus spellings, and there might be some common exception or curriculum words in there as well.

When we write the whole sentence, we need to do several things at once.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to form letters correctly.

We need to sound out each word, look out for any common exception words, so those words that don't follow our regular phonics patterns, might be a bit trickier.

And of course we need to remember our sentence punctuation, capital letters, full stops and any other punctuation that might be in the sentences.

So I'd like you to just listen to me say the sentence, first of all.

"Sometimes I like to write stories inside my notebook.

Sometimes I like to write stories inside my notebook." So we're gonna use some strategies to help us remember this.

The first one is marching it out.

And I like to do this for each syllable.

"Sometimes I like to write stories inside my notebook." Pause the video now and march that sentence out.

Good marching, all.

The next one is shouting out.

"Sometimes I like to write stories inside my notebook!" I actually just knocked my notebook there.

You have a go at shouting it out now.

And finally, counting the words on our fingers.

"Sometimes I like to write stories inside my notebook." Pause the video and count the words for that sentence out on your fingers now.

Good job.

So, when you write the sentence, make sure you sound out each word.

Think about any common exception words, and don't forget any punctuation in that sentence.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

"Sometimes I like to write stories inside my notebook." Pause the video and write that now.

Well done, team, really good job.

Some excellent handwriting there.

So some really great considerations to the words that were compound words, those words we've been looking at, two or more words join together there to create a new word.

So let's check our work and make any corrections as we go along now.

"Sometimes" needs to have a capital letter.

Also here it has a comma because it's a fronted adverbial.

So, "sometimes," notice how this also is a compound word.

"I like to write." Be careful with the word "write," has a silent W there.

Our W and R work together to create a digraph that makes that "RR" sound.

"Stories inside." The words "in" and "side" put together to create a compound word "inside." "My," careful that Y spelling there for the end.

That's that Y spelling, making that I sound, "notebook." Again, "note" and "book," two separate words on their own, but put together here to make a compound word.

And of course you need to have a full stop.

What did you learn here? What success did you have? Did you make any magic mistakes? Make any corrections now.

Pause the video.

We're gonna look at another sentence now.

Again, I'd like you to listen to me first.

"In the afternoon a butterfly flew around the garden that had a rainbow above it." So, "In the afternoon a butterfly flew around the garden that had a rainbow above it." Again, we're gonna use some strategies to help us remember this.

The first one is tapping it out.

You can do this on your shoulders.

You can do this on your shoulders, your head, on a table, on the floor, it doesn't matter.

I like to do it on my head.

"In the afternoon "a butterfly flew around the garden that had a rainbow above it." "In the afternoon, "a butterfly flew around the garden that had a rainbow above it." Pause the video and tap out that sentence now.

Well done.

Next one is whispering it out.

"In the afternoon, a butterfly flew around a garden that had a rainbow above it." "In the afternoon, a butterfly flew around the garden that had a rainbow above it." Pause the video and whisper that now.

Good job, I could see your lips moving there.

They were hidden there, really well done.

And finally, counting the words and saying the sentence again.

"In the afternoon, "a butterfly flew around the garden that had a rainbow above it." Pause the video and count out the words in that sentence on your fingers now as you say it.

Off you go.

Well done.

So remember, sound out each word.

Think about any common exception words.

Think about any words that might be compound words that we've been looking at today.

And also remember to check sentence punctuation, capital letters, full stops, perhaps any commas that are in there as well.

I'm gonna say the sentence one more time.

"In the afternoon, a butterfly flew around the garden that had a rainbow above it." Pause the video and write that sentence now.

Well done, team.

Let's go through them.

Check your work and make any corrections as we go along.

"In," needs to have a capital letter.

"The afternoon." Look here, "after" and "noon," they've been put together to make a compound word.

"Afternoon." We need to have a comma here, 'cause again, we have a fronted adverbial phrase.

So, "In the afternoon, a butterfly." Oh, that was one of those compound words we looked at today, "butter" and "fly" joined together to create that new word, "butterfly." "Flew around the garden that had a rainbow." And there, another, compound word, "rainbow," joined together to create that new word.

"Above." Be careful with that spelling of "above" there.

It's that O-V-E spelling for that "ah ah" sound.

"It." And of course we need to have a full stop.

What did you learn? Did you make any magic mistakes? What successes have you had? Do you need to make any corrections? Pause the video, share your learning, and make any corrections now.

Off you go.

Really great work today, everyone.

Today we've been spelling compound words.

Compound words are two words joined together.

Examples of compound words include football, playground, farmyard, bedroom, and blackberry.

Each part of the word is spelt as if it would be if the word were on its own.

Keep up the great spelling, everyone, and I'll see you again soon.