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 that thing to write with and write on and someone or something to talk to will be brilliant as well.

Let's get on with today's learning.

So in today's lesson, we're going to be using and spelling suffixes and we're going to be concentrating on this L-E-S-S, the -less suffix.

The outcome will be I can spell words using the suffix -less or L-E-S-S.

Here are the key words for today.

My turn.

Your turn.

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

Suffix, adjective, noun.

A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a root word that creates a new word.

Suffixes often changed the word class of a word.

Word class includes adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs.

And we're gonna be looking at two of these word classes in particular today.

Adjectives and nouns.

Adjectives are words that describe nouns.

They add description and detail to them.

Nouns are PPTs, people, or persons, places and things or abstract ideas.

Here's the lesson outlines today.

We're going to be using and spelling suffixes, and particularly looking at that -less suffix.

We'll begin by using it, and then we're going to apply some spellings that contain this suffix and also look at some common exception words, and we're gonna apply them within a sentence.

Let's get on with using this suffix L-E-S-S or -less.

A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word, which creates another word.

So, we can see here we've got the word play and we've added that -ed to create the word played.

That's changed the tense of that verb.

We could also then add -ing, create playing.

We could also add -er to create player.

And here, we have that -ed to create played.

There are lots of different types of suffix and the suffix that we are concentrating on today is that L-E-S-S suffix.

So, let's read some words that contain this suffix.

My turn, your turn.

Careless.

This suffix -less means to not have or be without.

So if I was to describe someone as careless, it would mean they'll be doing something without taking care.

They will not be being careful.

<v ->less is the opposite of that -ful suffix.

</v> Fearless means to have no fear, to be without fear.

Hopeless.

It was a hopeless situation.

It means there was no hope in that situation.

Hairless, to be without hair.

Harmless, the animal was harmless.

It could give you no harm, is not dangerous.

Endless means to be without ending, to go on forever and ever.

And pitiless and pitiless would mean to show no compassion or care for others.

What do you notice about all of these words then? What do they all contain? Pause the video.

Have a go at saying them and see what you spot.

Good job.

I've noticed that they all contain this L-E-S-S suffix, which means to be without or to not have.

Any of the root word that comes before it, they all end in that suffix L-E-S-S.

These words are adjectives.

So, they're words that we can use to describe nouns, and they show the absence of a particular quality.

So careless means to have no care.

Fearless means to have no fear.

Words containing this suffix, L-E-S-S, are usually adjectives.

Adjectives are words, remember, that describe nouns.

The girl was careless on the stairs.

The word careless here describes the girl.

The girl is a noun, a person, and careless, the co-locate with that noun is an adjective.

The harmless spider sat on the window sill.

The word harmless here describes the spider.

Spider is our noun.

Harmless is its word pair.

It's co-locate and it means it can give you no harm.

And in this instance, it's an adjective too.

So, what word class are task and endless in this sentence? It's the same sentence each time.

Just listen to me read it.

The washing up seemed like an endless task.

I want us to really concentrate here on the words endless and task.

What word class are they? Are they nouns? Are they adjectives? Pause the video and think now.

Good job using some great thinking going on there.

So, the word task is a noun.

It's a thing.

So, it's a noun.

It's a thing you are doing.

Endless is an adjective.

It's describing that noun.

It's describing that task.

The endless task means the job that will go on, and on, and on and never end.

So, task was a noun.

Endless was an adjective.

The L-E-S-S, the -less suffix starts with a consonant, the L.

This means that the root word usually doesn't change when we add that suffix.

Let's have a look.

Care, -less becomes careless.

Hope, -less.

You have a go now at writing the word hopeless.

Is that root word going change? Pause the video and write it now.

Brilliant.

Absolutely not, because we've got our consonant L there.

The root word's not going to change.

Hopeless, to be without hope.

Fear, -less, same again, fearless.

Harm, harmless.

So, most of the time when we add this L-E-S-S suffix, the root word is not changing at all.

If the root word has more than one syllable, so remember the syllables are those beats in a word where there's a vowel sound and ends in the consonant Y, then the Y is replaced by an I before that L-E-S-S suffix.

This is a less common spelling.

This is the same rule as the full suffix.

So, the opposite of this L-E-S-S, it's the same rule.

So, let's have a look at these words here.

We have the word pity, pitiless and pitiful.

Here what I've done is I've gotten rid of that Y.

And remember, pity more than one syllable.

Two syllables there.

I've gotten rid of the Y and I've added I before then adding both my L-E-S-S suffix and my F-U-L, -ful suffix.

These words are opposites, pitiless and pitiful.

If you are pitiless, you show no compassion or care to others.

If you are pitiful, you do share care and compassion for others.

So, have a look here at these root words for me.

My turn, your turn.

Harm, mercy, care.

I'd like you to put these root words in the correct column.

Do we just add L-E-S-S suffix, or is there more than one syllable? Do we have to remove the Y and then add I-L-E-S-S as our suffix? Pause the video and put these words in the correct column now.

So, I'm hoping you've managed to sort them into these columns.

Harm, we just add L-E-S-S.

The root word doesn't change.

Care, again, just adding that L-E-S-S suffix, it's not going to change.

But the word mercy, mercy had more than one syllable and it ended in the consonant Y.

So, we had to remove that consonant Y, add I, and then our L-E-S-S suffix.

Merciless.

If you are merciless, it means you do not show mercy.

And mercy is synonym for pitiless.

It means to show no care or forgiveness to others.

It is the opposite of the word merciful, which would also follow this rule of getting rid of the Y, and then adding our I, and then an F-U-L.

Great job, everyone.

See, how you did.

Pause the video.

So if the root word has more than one syllable, remember, and ends in a consonant Y, we remove that Y, add an I, and then add -r suffix.

In this instance L-E-S-S.

We now gonna have a go at turning some words into adjectives by adding the suffix L-E-S-S.

Let's read the words we're going to turn into adjectives, care, harm, fear, hope.

Pause the video now.

Add the suffix, turn these words into adjectives.

Off you go.

Great job all.

Saw some excellent handwriting, some brilliant application of the spelling world that we've been looking at today as well, which is adding this suffix.

Let's have a look at the word care, turning it into careless.

Careless.

So, let's think about this.

That L-E-S-S is how we're spelling the suffix.

So, the second one can't be right -less spelled L-E-S-S.

The root word isn't going to change either 'cause we are just adding that suffix and we have that consonant L there already.

So, the correct spelling is that this one here, careless.

Harmless was the next one.

Again, our root word isn't going to change is it? And our suffix is always spelled L-E-S-S.

Remember, it's not like our full suffix, which is just one L, unlike the word -ful, this is actually spelled like the word -less, L-E-S-S.

So, the correct spelling is harmless, L-E-S-S.

Here you go.

Fearless.

Again, our root word isn't going to change and it should have a double S.

So, the correct spelling is this one here.

And finally, hopeless.

Again, root word not going to change.

The middle one doesn't work here 'cause it's not hope, it's hop.

And we're not saying hopless, we're saying hopeless.

And it's that double S.

So, the correct one is this one here.

Notice how these all followed our rule, which was the most common rule when adding this -less, which is the root word doesn't change.

And that's because they all had a single syllable and they, none of them had more than one syllable and none of them ended in a Y consonant.

So, we didn't have to replace that Y with an I tool here.

Just added L-E-S-S to all of these words.

Great job.

See how you did? Pause the video.

Make any corrections now.

Now, so onto our final learning cycle then, which is applying some spellings within a sentence.

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

So keep an eye on an ear out for them.

Remember, common exception words are those words that don't adhere to our regular phonics rules.

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

So, let's really take our time.

Perhaps take a brain break if you need to before we do this task.

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 need to remember our sentence punctuation, capital letters, and full stops.

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

The fearless cat chased a harmless mouse around the room in an endless game.

Can you hear lots of words that have our L-E-S-S suffix there.

I'll say it one more time.

The fearless cat chased the harmless mouse around the room in an endless game.

So, we're gonna say this sentence a number of times, using a number of different strategies to really, really make sure we know exactly what we're writing.

It also helps us to hear the sounds and the words as well.

The first strategy is marching out and I find it really good to do a march for each syllable that you hear.

So, make sure you get all of those sounds in each of the words.

The fearless cat chased the harmless mouse around the room in an endless game.

You pause the video and march that sentence out now.

Brilliant.

The next one is shouting out.

The fearless cat chase the harmless mouse around the room in an endless game.

Pause the video and shout it out now.

Make sure you're shouting at me.

I need to hear you.

Wow, so loud.

And finally, counting the words on our fingers.

The fearless cat chase the harmless mouse around the room in an endless game.

The fearless cat chase the harmless mouse around the room in an endless game.

I make that 14.

So quite a long sentence.

Pause the video, say the sentence, and count each word on your finger now.

Great job.

So, we're gonna have a good writing the sentence now.

Remember to sound out each word.

Think about any common exception words and make sure you get, think about your punctuation for your sentence, capitalise and full stops.

I'll say it one more time.

The fearless cat chase the harmless mouse around the room in an endless game.

Pause the video and write that sentence now.

Fantastic job, everyone.

Such a good work.

I can see the great handwriting application of adding our -less suffix as well.

Let's check your work now and make any corrections as we go along.

The obviously needs to have a capital letter.

Fearless, oh, there we go.

We've got our root word fear, and we just add our suffix L-E-S-S onto that one, Cat chased.

Be careful with that as our E-D, the harmless, again, just adding our L-E-S-S suffix onto the end.

The most common way we add it.

Mouse, M-O-U-S-E, there.

It's that S-E for that sound at the end of the word around the room in and endless.

And again, that's that word end and then our L-E-S-S.

So, a game would not end game, full stop.

Obviously needing a full stop to finish our sentence there.

Have a look back.

What did you learn? What successes did you have? What magical mistakes did you make? Make any corrections now and share your learning with those around you.

Pause the video.

Great work today, everyone.

So today, we've been looking at that L-E-S-S suffix.

A suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word, which creates another word.

The L-E-S-S or -less suffix starts with a consonant.

This means the root word that we add it to doesn't usually change.

If the consonant has more than one syllable, more than one beat, and it ends in a consonant Y, then we get rid of the Y, we replace it with an I, and then add our L-E-S-S suffix.

Great work today, everyone.

Keep up the amazing spelling and I'll see you again soon.