Lesson video

- Hi, it's Ms. Morgan here for your spelling lesson.

Today, we're going to further explore compound words, and we're going to have a spelling test at the end.

Do you remember? Compound words are words that are made up of two or more.

pre-existing words.

Got two examples to show you.

One example is a necklace.

And the two words are neck and lace.

You might remember, it was on a lace, and it goes around your neck.

So it's necklace.

A linked word is shoelace.

Can you see it's both got the word lace in it.

Shoelace.

And shoelace is a compound word as well.

I bet you've spotted loads since our last lesson.

Let's get started.

On our agenda today, we're going to revise compound words.

I'm going to teach you a new strategy, and we're gonna look at some of those spelling words in more detail.

And then finally, we'll have your spelling test.

In this lesson, you're going to need those important things, something to write on, something to write with, and finally, you've got your brain switched on and ready to learn.

Have you got a quiet place to work? Pause the video now and get ready.

What is a compound word? Does anyone remember? I gave you some examples in the introduction.

Necklace.

Remember, it is a word made up of two or more pre-existing words.

For example, honeycomb.

Honeycomb.

It's a tricky word, honeycomb.

Tastes delicious though.

Honeycomb is produced by bees.

This will help you in your bee writing unit.

Honeycomb is a compound word.

Can you wave at me if you know the two words that you use to make up honeycomb? Honey, that's right.

And comb.

Actually, the word to comb your hair, it's more to describe the structure of the honeycomb.

So our key vocab for today, compound word and noun.

A compound word is a word made up of two or more pre-existing words.

Remember, honey, comb.

Together they are honeycomb.

And a noun is a person, place or thing, a PPT.

So honeycomb is actually a noun.

Honey is a noun, and comb is a noun.

They are all nouns because they are all things.

Revise.

Can you spot the compound words in these sentences? Leo needed to find his hairbrush.

Leo needed to find his hairbrush.

The car park was packed.

The car park was packed.

All of the swings were broken at the playground.

All of the swings were broken at the playground.

Did you find them? The first one was hairbrush.

Hair, brush.

Together, hairbrush.

The next one was car park.

And you might say, Ms. Morgan, they're actually apart.

There are some compound words that can be apart.

They have a gap between them or they can be together.

Car park is one of those words.

They could be together or a little bit part.

It's still a compound word.

And playground.

That's right.

That's one of our spelling words.

Now on to one of my favourite activities.

Spot the odd one out.

Which of these words is not a compound word? Beehive, football, table.

Beehive, football, table.

Point to which one isn't on your screen.

That's right.

It's table.

Beehive is bee, hive, together, beehive.

Football, foot, ball, together, football.

And table is just on its own.

Just a noun on its own.

Remember, a compound word is a word made up of two or more pre-existing words.

Let's have another go.

Which of these is not a compound word? Habitat, beeswax, shoebox.

Just to confirm a habitat is, describes where something lives.

Beeswax is wax that is produced by bees.

Shoebox is a box that you put shoes in.

Or a box that you get your shoes in when you buy them new.

Which one is not a compound word? Point to the screen.

That's right, it's habitat.

You can see, we can separate beeswax into bees and wax.

And they are both pre-existing words.

And the same for shoebox.

Shoe, box, they are both pre-existing words.

Together that's shoebox.

Remember, a compound word is a word made up of two or more pre-existing words.

Well done.

Which is the correct definition of a compound word? I'll read you both options out and see if you can work out which one is the correct definition.

Option one, a person, place or thing.

Option two, a word made up of two or more pre-existing words.

Pause the video, point to the right answer.

That's right.

It's option two.

That is a compound word.

Two or more pre-existing words.

Bonus point.

What is a person, place or thing? A PPT? It's a noun.

Well done.

Let's go over our spelling words.

And then we're going to learn a new strategy.

And these were your 10 spelling words from last week.

There was some trickier spellings within it.

And I pointed those out in your last lesson.

Hopefully you've been practising little and often.

We're going to learn a new strategy.

The strategy is called Spot the Syllable.

Our first word we're going to look at is playground.

The word is playground.

You need to say the word in full.

Playground, playground.

Well done.

Then I want you to say the word in syllables, that's to do with the number of beats in the words.

I'll clap at first, then you can clap at home.

Play, ground.

Your turn.

Play, ground.

Hold up how many beats you can hear.

Two.

Well done.

Play, ground.

The first beat is play, the second is ground.

This is a great spelling strategy.

Then you write the word out, split into those syllables, and that is a secret spelling strategy that will help you.

So you first write the first beat, the first syllable.

You write play, then you write the second beat, the second syllable, ground.

For example, here is the word playground.

Be careful with that /ou/ sound in ground.

It's made up of two words, play, ground.

When you're writing it with the syllable strategy, you write the word play first, and then you write the word ground next.

If it was me, I'd probably try and sound it out.

So play, I'd go, /p/, /l/, /ay/.

Play.

And ground, I'd go /g/, /r/, /ou/, /n/, /d/.

Ground.

And together, they make playground.

Let's try this with another word.

This word is beehive.

Let's clap it first of all.

Bee, hive.

How many syllables? Two.

So the first part of the word you're going to write is bee.

Well done.

That's the first part you're going to write.

B, double E.

And the second part is hive.

/H/, ive.

Sort of I with E there.

And together, they make beehive.

So remember, you are clapping the syllables, and then you are using that as a strategy to help you spell.

The third word is beekeeper.

This is what we call someone who looks after the bees.

Can you clap it with me? Bee, keep, er.

Ooh, we've got three syllables.

Let's do it again.

Bee, keep, er.

Three syllables.

And actually, this is much easier to help us write the word.

The first syllable is bee.

That's the first word you're going to write.

The next syllable, keep.

And finally, er.

So you have broken the word down into syllables to help you to spell it.

Now I want you to have a go.

I want you to choose four spelling words and practise the Spot the Syllable strategy.

Remember, you are clapping at the beats and using it to break the word into parts to help you to spell it.

Pause the video, do this now.

Now I'll run through your spelling test.

Remember, you can pause the video now, and can do more practise, or you can carry on and do the spelling test with us now.

Get yourself a clean piece of paper.

And I want you to write the numbers one to 10 in a list.

Pause the video, do this now.

Ready? I'll read out the spellings.

I'll say the spelling twice.

And I'll put it in a sentence so you understand the meaning.

Remember, you can pause the video in between each time if you need more time.

One of our key spelling strategies we've been talking about is that, it's the pause.

Take a deep breath.

You can take as much time as you want.

The other strategy I want you to do, which we've talked about today, is you write the word down and then you sound out the spellings.

Which spelling sounds right to you? And then my final strategy, we call it the Best Bet Spelling, try writing the word down more than once in different versions if you're not sure.

Which spelling looks right to you? Remember just to try your hardest.

Spelling number one.

Spelling number one.

The beehive was ready to be emptied of its honey.

Number two, anywhere.

Anywhere.

The treasure could be anywhere.

Number three, cupboard.

Cupboard.

I put the plates away in the cupboard.

Number four, somewhere.

Somewhere.

I think it's somewhere over there.

Number five, dustbin.

Dustbin.

The dustbin is full.

Number six, beekeeper.

Beekeeper.

The beekeeper is very busy today with the hives.

Number seven, windmill.

Windmill.

The miller was busy at the windmill, grinding the flour.

Number eight, nowhere.

Nowhere.

They were nowhere to be seen.

Number nine, playground.

Playground.

The playground was open.

Number 10, honeycomb.

Honeycomb.

The honeycomb tasted delicious.

Those are all your spellings.

Pause, take a chance to check through.

Do they look right? When you're ready, we'll get onto marking.

Number one, beehive.

Beehive.

B-E-E-H-I-V-E.

Remember you tick if correct and you change if not.

Make sure you copy down the right version.

Pause if you need to.

Number two, anywhere.

Anywhere.

A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E.

Any can be a tricky one.

Number three, cupboard.

Cupboard.

C-U-P-B-O-A-R-D.

Did the O-A-R get you in the middle? No.

Well done.

Number four, somewhere.

Somewhere.

S-O-M-E-W-H-E-R-E.

Number five, dustbin.

Dustbin.

D-U-S-T-B-I-N.

Number six, beekeeper.

B-E-E-K-E-E-P-E-R.

Number seven, windmill.

W-I-N-D-M-I-L-L.

Number eight, nowhere.

N-O-W-H-E-R-E.

Number nine, playground.

P-L-A-Y-G-R-O-U-N-D.

Number 10, honeycomb.

H-O-N-E-Y-C-O-M-B.

Did you get that naughty M-B on the end of comb? Those are all your spellings.

Remember, if you got something wrong, that's absolutely fine, but make sure you write it down and remember my top tip, write it down and put it around the house to remind you.

That really helps with me.

Another busy lesson.

We've revised our compound words, we learned a new strategy.

Remember, the Spot the Syllable.

So when you're clapping out the syllables in a word, really helpful with compound words.

And then you did your spelling test.

Well done.

Make sure you keep on practising your spelling words.

Bye.