Lesson video

Hello, it's Ms. Morgan here again for your spelling lesson.

Today, we're going to focus on practising and applying the rules when we add er and est.

We'll also be learning a new strategy for practising the spellings and we'll end up with a spelling test.

Remember, when we're looking at the suffixes er and est, we're describing things and we're turning the root words into adjectives.

For example, I might be talking about the water in this bottle.

The water is cold.

Maybe you have some water that is colder than my water, but I think maybe that person over there, they've got the coldest water.

Those are comparative and superlative adjectives, right? Let's get started.

In today's lesson, we're going to revise some of the rules and see if you can remember them.

Then we're going to practise and apply those rules and then I'm going to teach you a really cool, new spelling strategy, one we call a colour blocking.

It's pretty cool.

And then we're on to the spelling test.

Let's go.

Three things we need, yell them at me.

A book or something to write in, pencil, and finally your brain.

Have you got it switched on? Pause the video now and go and click those things.

Well done.

You've got them all.

Here is our key vocabulary for today.

Ah, Ms, Morgan, we know these words.

Fantastic.

My turn, your turn.

Suffix, root word, adjective.

Can you put your finger on your forehead if you think you know what these words mean? So many fingers on the foreheads, brilliant.

Suffix is a group of letters at the end of the word that changes its meaning.

That's really important, that changing the meaning.

And the root word is the most basic, let me say that again.

The most basic version of a word, no prefixes and suffixes.

And finally an adjective is? They describe the noun.

That's absolutely right.

So let's see what you remember.

The ostrich is fast.

The horse is faster.

The cheetah is the fastest.

Here, we've got the root word of fast and then we've added the suffixes er and est to make them into adjectives.

Fast becomes faster.

Fast becomes fastest.

Fast is the root word and the suffixes are? Well done.

Er and est.

Now here are those new phrases, comparative adjective.

Can you spot the word compare in comparative.

That means we're comparing how fast the animals are.

And the superlative adjective we're deciding what is the most, the fastest animal here.

What happens to the root word when we add the suffixes er and est? Strange is the root word.

Stranger, strangest, they become adjectives.

So here if you could say, my expression is stranger than yours.

Then you might say, oh no, I've got the strangest expression of them all.

Be really careful here, we have turned them into adjectives, but sometimes there are words that can have the same spelling but different meanings because we know that a stranger, if it is a noun, it is an actual, it's a person, somebody you do not know.

But when we're using stranger in this context, it is an adjective.

These are the rules when we add the suffixes er and est.

The most simplest, we just add the suffix as we just saw with the words fast, faster, fastest.

We also know the other rule is that we remove an E and we just add the suffixes like we did with strange, stranger, strangest.

And there's our mind map to remind us.

Here is a sentence then that sums up our learning.

We've got three missing words.

Say them with me, suffixes, adjective, root word.

I'll read the sentence then with you.

Point along with your finger.

Er and est are types of.

When we add er and est to the end of a, it becomes an.

I would like you to work out which words go where and I want you to say the sentence out loud.

Pause the video, off you go.

How did you get on? Er and est are types of, suffixes, well done.

When we add er and est to the end of a, root word, it becomes an adjective.

Brilliant.

Now we are going to practise and apply the rules.

Here's the word rich, can you add suffix er and est to rich? Pause the video, say it out loud.

Off you go.

Well done.

Rich becomes richer and richest.

What rule have we done here? We just added the suffixes.

Well done.

The next word is late.

Can you add the suffixes er and est to late? Take care with the spelling here.

Maybe you might want to write it down or you can just say it out loud.

Pause the video, add the suffixes, pause the video add the suffixes er and est.

Off you go.

Well done.

Late becomes later.

Late becomes latest.

Ooh, did you spot that late has an E on the end.

So we remove the E and we just add the suffix.

Here's the word simple.

Add the suffixes er and est to simple, pause the video.

Say it out loud or write it down.

Simple becomes simpler or simplest.

And again, did you spot, we remove E and we add the suffix.

Well done.

Now you have a go.

Here's two more root words, great, wide.

Can you add the suffixes er and est? This time I want you to write them down for me.

Off you go.

Great becomes greater.

Great becomes greatest.

Yes, we can just add both suffixes here.

Wide, this time I'm just going to add the suffix er.

Wide, wideer and wider.

Wideer? Ooh.

Can anyone spot what I've done wrong there? That's right.

I did not remove the E.

So number two is our correct spelling here.

Now add the suffix est to wide.

I've got two examples here, widest, wideest.

Ooh, Ooh.

This doesn't look right.

I've done it again.

I forgot to remove the E and so this time number two is correct.

I hope you spotted that.

Silly Ms. Morgan.

Now we're going to learn a new spelling strategy, one I said you're really going to like.

This strategy is called a colour block strategy.

Colour blocking.

Here's the word safer that we're going to practise.

And when you're colour blocking the words you are looking for strings of letters that stand out to you, that are going to help you practise your word for spelling.

For example, you might see the S A belong together because they're the same size.

So I'm going to colour that in green.

And then the F is a taller word so I'm going to colour that in orange and then the ER, they're both the same size again, but I'm going to choose a different colour.

That's one way to colour block the word safer.

You could also spot the word safe and colour block that in green.

And then the final letter R in a different colour.

Or, you could split it up into two words.

Sa fer.

Sa fer.

Or the other way around, saf er, saf er.

And here, we're just almost breaking it down into chunks of words that you can see within the word.

Let's have another go with the word largest.

Pause the video now, just to see, can you see, are there any words that you think you might put together or you might block in a single colour on your own? If you'd like, you can go and get some colour pencils now and have a go.

Here, I've put the L on its own because it's a tall letter.

The A and the R together because they're shorter letters.

The G on its own because it's a longer letter below the line.

ES together and T on its own because it's another tall letter.

This time I had to go with the word sweeter.

Can you see the different ways that I blocked this time? Why is this a useful strategy? Number one, we're interacting with the word.

We're looking at it, we're seeing what it's made up of.

How do the letters go.

Number two, we're looking at the shape and that allows you to build a visual memory of what the word looks like.

That can also help you with reading.

And finally colour.

Colour can also stick in your head when it can help you for spelling.

You're going to have a go now.

Choose four of the words that we're practising this week, and I want you to practise with the colour blocking strategy.

If you don't have any colours, that's absolutely fine.

You can just block the parts of the word using your pen or using your pencil, that's absolutely fine.

Pause the video, practise four of these words now.

Did you enjoy it? I always enjoy this strategy.

Now we're moving on to our spelling test.

Make sure you got a clean bit of paper.

Can you number one to 10 with a new number on each line, and then we'll get ready to go.

Pause the video now, get your spelling paper ready.

Now I want to talk a little bit about spelling test strategies.

I don't know if you're like me, but sometimes I can get a bit nervous.

So my top tip is to pause and take a deep breath.

And remember, I always tell you, you can take as much time as you need.

You can always pause in between the spellings.

Number two, my special spelling strategy, try writing the word more than once, which spelling looks right to you.

We often call that the best bet strategy.

And the third strategy is, you can write the spelling or the word more than once.

Now, then you can sound up the spelling which spellings sound right.

So remember pause, deep breath, take as much time as you need and enjoy it.

Spelling can be fun.

Spelling is fun.

Spelling number one, sweeter.

Sweeter.

My tomatoes are sweeter than yours.

Number two, sweetest.

Sweetest.

I have the sweetest pineapple.

Number three, weaker.

Weaker.

My muscles are weaker than yours.

Number four, weakest.

Weakest.

No, I've got the weakest muscles.

Number five, stronger.

Stronger.

Who has the stronger chilli, you or me? Strongest.

I got the strongest Chilli to put on my pizza.

Number seven, larger.

Larger.

I've made the larger pizza.

Number eight, no, Ms. Burch's is the largest pizza.

Number nine, safer.

Safer.

Who is safer with the utensils.

Number 10, safest.

Safest.

I was the safest person using the knives to cut my ingredients.

Pause the video, check through your spellings if you need it.

Well done.

Remember you tick if correct and you change if not.

And it doesn't matter if you get a spelling wrong, shows that you're learning.

Number one, sweeter.

S-W-E-E-T-E-R.

Number two, sweetest, S-W-E-E-T-E-S-T.

Number three, weaker, W-E-A-K-E-R.

Number four, weakest, W-E-A-K-E-S-T.

Number five, stronger.

S-T-R-O-N-G-E-R.

Number six, strongest, S-T-R-O-N-G-E-S-T.

Number seven, larger, L-A-R-G-E-R.

Did you remember to remove the E here and just add suffix? You did, well done.

Number eight, largest, L-A-R-G-E-S-T.

Number nine, safer, S-A-F-E-R.

Number 10, safest, S-A-F-E-S-T.

Remember, any spellings that you didn't get right.

Make sure you copy out the correct spelling and carry on practising.

Wow, another jam packed lesson.

We've revised rules.

We've practised and applied those rules.

I've taught you the coolest strategy with colour blocking and you've done a spelling test.

Woo hoo.

Give yourself a pat on the back.

Well done and I'll see you next time.