Lesson video

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to today's lesson.

My name is Mrs. Richards.

And in today's lesson, we are going to practise and apply all of that brilliant knowledge that we have about prefixes.

Let's get started.

In the lesson, we're going to begin by recapping what we'd learned about prefixes.

We're going to learn a spelling practise strategy, and then we've got a.

In this lesson, you will need exercise book or paper, a pencil, and definitely your brain.

If you need to go and get anything, do that now.

Let's recap our learning on prefixes.

Do you remember the meaning of each of these terms? Prefix and root.

My turn, your turn.

Prefix.

Root.

Pause the video and say aloud to the screen the definition of each of these terms. Well done.

Let's see.

A prefix is a group of letters at the beginning of a word that change its meaning.

And a root? A word onto which the prefix is attached.

Well done.

Remember, there's that handy clue within the word prefix.

Prefix has got a 'prefix' inside it.

The prefix pre- which means before.

A prefix is something which we attach before at the beginning of the word.

Your first challenge.

On the board, I have four prefixes that we've been learning.

I also have four definitions although some of them are missing.

I've given you one to get you started.

One of these prefixes means wrongly.

But I don't remember what the other prefixes could mean.

In a moment, I'm going to ask you to pause the video, and I want you to say aloud to the screen, the meaning of each of these prefixes.

Which one means wrongly? And what do the others mean? Go.

Okay.

How did you do? Did you spot my trick? Mis meant wrongly, but the other prefixes all meant tho' not.

How do we choose between these prefixes we're misspelling? We discussed that when we had to choose between them, the important thing was to test the prefix aloud in front of the word and listen to which prefix sounded right.

And the more reading that we do, the better we have a sense of which word might sound right.

Let's try that together here.

On the board, we have four root words.

Pleasant, spell, stop, and trust.

We're going to explore which prefix could be attached to each of these root words.

Remember, you need to say them out loud and listen to which one sounds right.

Let's do one together before you start.

Pleasant.

To say not pleasant, would I need unpleasant, non pleasant, dis pleasant? Pause the video now and have a go.

Use the root words pleasant, spell, stop, and trust.

Off you go.

Well done.

If you practise saying those words aloud and testing which prefix should go in front of each one.

Shall we have a look? Pleasant will become unpleasant.

I had an unpleasant afternoon in the rain.

Spell would become misspell.

To spell something wrongly.

Watch out for that double 's' in misspell.

Stop would become nonstop.

My day has been nonstop.

Trust would become distrust.

I distrust someone who tells lies.

Let's try again.

This time it's slightly harder.

I've removed the colour coding.

Here again, you have four root words.

My turn, your turn.

Certain, existent, lead, and appoint.

I want you to practise putting each of the prefixes in front of your root word and listen to which one sounds right.

Off you go.

Well done if you said those words aloud.

Excellent.

You're really developing a good understanding of what sounds right.

Let's have a look at the answers.

Certain becomes uncertain.

I was uncertain if I had spelt this word correctly.

Existent becomes non-existent.

An animal which is extinct is non-existent.

Lead becomes mislead.

You might mislead someone if you give them the wrong information, or you don't tell them the whole truth.

Disappoint.

I would be disappointed if I spelt this word wrongly.

I'm going to teach you a spelling practise strategy that's going to help you to learn our words.

It's a bit of a funny one.

It's good.

Say it as it looks.

What we're going to do is to mispronounce the word.

Did you notice the mis? Mispronounce? We're going to mispronounce the word emphasising the tricky letters, especially when these are making an unusual sound in the word.

Sometimes when we're learning these spellings, the hard bit isn't the spelling of the prefix.

The challenging bit might come a bit later on in the word.

You have to decide for yourself, which letters you find hard to spell in each of our words.

For me, looking at this word on the board, unfriendly, there's always a letter which I forget; the 'i'.

It's because I can't hear it when I'm saying the word out loud.

So, instead of saying unfriendly to myself when I'm writing, I'm going to say unfri.

i, i, unfriendly.

Unfriendly.

That's going to help me remember to put that letter 'i' in.

I do exactly the same strategy when I spell the word Wednesday.

I always say in my head, Wed-nes-day.

The same for February.

I always say in my head, Feb-ru-ary.

Nobody has to know that you're saying this.

You're doing it in your head, but it's a really useful spelling strategy.

Have a look at this one.

Miscalculate.

I sometimes see children spell this wrongly.

And the error often happens in the third syllable.

Cut the syllables with me.

Mis-cal-cu-late.

Well done.

Mis-cal-cu-late.

Here.

This sound /cu/ that's spelled 'c' 'u' can be difficult to remember.

So instead, when I'm writing this word, I'm going to say to myself, mis-cal-cu-late; /uh/ to help me remember that sound.

This is a useful strategy because it forces us to interact with these words.

We have to look at them closely.

The strategy highlights the tricky letters, and it helps us to remember the correct spelling.

I want you to have a go.

Have a look at our spelling words.

Do any of these words contain challenging letters which you often misspell? If so, can you have a go at mispronouncing the word, emphasising those tricky letters? Pause the video, and have a go now.

Well done if you gave that a try.

Two words I want to draw your attention to.

I often see mistakes with the word disappear.

You need to remember that double 'p'.

So to mispronounce that word, you might say dis-a-p-p-ear.

That's going to help you remember.

Dishonest is another one.

I wonder which letter children often forget.

Yeah, the letter 'h', because we can't hear it.

Instead of saying dishonest, when I'm writing, I'm going to say to myself, dis-honest to help me remember to include that letter.

Now you can have as much spelling practise time as you need.

Remember, the more practise, the better.

However, if you're ready for your spelling test, then let's get started.

Here are some strategies to help us when we're approaching our spelling test.

Pause, take a deep breath, and take as much time as you need.

If you're unsure about the spelling of a word, try writing the word more than once.

Which spelling looks right? Which spelling would you recognise from your reading? Try writing the word more than once if you're unsure and now sound out the different spellings.

Which spelling sounds right? For your test, you need a blank piece of paper.

And either in the margin or down the side of the page, you need to write the numbers one to 10.

Make sure you can't see your list of spelling words anywhere.

Pause now and get ready.

Here are our words.

Number one.

Nonsense.

Nonsense.

The baby was talking nonsense.

Number two.

Non-fiction.

I love reading non-fiction texts.

Non-fiction.

Pause the video whenever you need to.

If you need more time to write them down and try some of those strategies, then just pause.

Number three.

Unfriendly.

My neighbor's dog is very unfriendly.

Unfriendly.

Number four.

Unusual.

Unusual.

I have had a very unusual day.

Number five.

Unpleasant.

Unpleasant.

My afternoon was unpleasant because it wouldn't stop raining.

Pause the video whenever you need to and give yourself more time.

You're doing really, really well.

Number six.

Disappear.

Disappear.

I wish that ghost would disappear.

Number seven.

Disagree.

Disagree.

I sometimes disagree with other people's opinions.

Number eight.

Dishonest.

Dishonest.

If you tell lies, you might be considered dishonest.

Pause whenever you need to.

You're doing really well.

Spelling number nine.

Misbehave.

Misbehave.

Try not to misbehave at school.

Number 10.

Miscalculate.

Miscalculate.

It can be easy to miscalculate the answer.

Pause the video now if you need more time or if you want to go back and reflect on some of your spellings.

Take as much time as you need.

Here are our answers.

Word number one.

Nonsense.

N o n s e n s e.

Correct your word now.

If you've made any errors, don't worry.

The important thing is that you now write the word out correctly.

Number two.

Non-fiction.

N o n dash/hyphen f i c t i o n.

Number three.

Unfriendly.

U n f r i e n d l y.

Pause the video whenever you need to and give yourself more time.

Number four.

Unusual.

U n u s u a l.

Spelling number five.

Unpleasant.

U n p l e a s a n t.

Pause the video if you need to.

Give yourself as much time as you need to check your spelling and make any corrections.

Remember, if you've made a mistake, don't worry.

That's how we learn.

The important thing is to now write that spelling out correctly.

Number six.

Disappear.

D i s a p p e a r.

Number seven.

Disagree.

D i s a g r e e.

Pause if you need to.

Number eight.

Dishonest.

D i s h o n e s t.

Well done.

You're doing brilliantly.

Two more spellings to go.

Number nine.

Misbehave.

M i s b e h a v e.

Number 10.

Miscalculate.

M i s c a l c u l a t e.

Pause if you need some more time.

Go back, check really carefully.

Correct any errors.

Well done.

You've done brilliantly.

A few things to think about.

Number one.

You should be really proud of how much you practised.

Did you practise every day for 10 minutes? Number two.

Be proud of the number of practise strategies that you used.

Did you try mispronouncing any words? Number three.

Be proud of how you're now paying close attention to words in your reading and writing.

I wonder if you've seen any of our spelling words around you this week? Number four.

In misspelt words, look at how many letters you spelt correctly, as well as the letters which were wrong.

Often I hear children at school saying, "I can't spell this word." And it's not true.

You can often spell the first few letters in a word or the last few, or maybe some letters in the middle.

There's no such thing as a good speller or a bad speller.

We're all learning.

And we're all getting better all the time.

Remember, learning comes from mistakes.

You might not be able to spell the word yet, but keep practising.

Well done.

Congratulations.

You completed your lesson.

I'm so proud of how brilliantly you've done today.

I hope you're really proud of yourselves too.

I look forward to seeing you next time.

Bye.