Lesson video

Hello, my name is Ms Morgan.

And I'm an Oak teacher.

Today, we are going to be practising and applying our knowledge of suffixes to plurals.

I can't wait to get started.

Let's go.

In today's lesson, we are going to revise the rules for plurals.

Then we're going to practise and apply those rules with some new spelling words.

Then we are going to learn a new strategy for practising.

This bit's really cool, I'm really looking forward to explaining it to you.

And then finally, we're going to have the spelling test.

As before, three important things that you need.

Can I hear you say them? Exercise book or paper, pencil! And of course, your brain.

Have you switched it on? Yeah, I bet you have.

Let's go.

Our key vocabulary for the day.

My turn, your turn.

Suffix.

Noun.

Singular.

Oh, can I hear? Plural.

Can you wave at me, if you remember any of these words' meanings.

Oh, I can see someone waving at me there.

Can you smile at me if you know them? Brilliant.

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

Do you remember the clue? Fix, it fixes, a group of letters to the end of a word.

Now, a person, place, or thing, a PPT.

Singular, one thing.

You might remember my dragon from before.

One dragon.

Singular.

And plural, more than one thing.

Many dragons.

Now, what is a plural? Fingers on noses if can remember.

Can you pause the video? And can you go and have a quick look around the room and see how many objects, or people, or places, or things you can name as plurals? Off you go.

How many did you get? Well, today I can see dinosaurs, mugs, plates, taps, shoes.

You get any of those? So here is one leaf.

The plural of leaf is? Leaves.

Well done.

Have a look at what happens to the spelling.

Anyone spotted that we got a f at the end of leaf? So we know that we'd replaced the f with the v and we add es.

Here's the word, match.

Your turn, match.

As in you light a match, to start a fire.

The plural of match is, matches.

Well done.

And here, we spelt matches just by adding an es to the end.

So, here are the rules for when we are making a singular noun into a plural noun.

The first rule and the one we usually use is we just add S.

we also just add S if it is a word with a vowel and then Y while after it.

For example, trey, or boy.

The next rule is we just add, es.

And that's, if it ends in a sh, ch, ss or x is a really good clue to remember.

Another rule, is that we change an f into a v and we add es, as we just saw with leaf and leaves.

And then finally we could change a y into an I, then we add es.

That could be something like parties, stories.

Now we're going to have a go and practise and apply these rules.

Here's the word lady.

Look at the rules.

The plural of lady would be, ladies.

How would you spell lady? How would you spell ladies? That's right.

We can just change a y into an I, then we add es to the end.

You can see here that I've made that I into blue so you can see the change.

The next word is, rainforest.

The plural of rainforest is rainforests.

How would you spell that? You can just add s.

That's our usual rule.

There's no other clues there.

The next word is, porch.

Your turn, porch.

The plural of porch is, porches.

A porch is something that you have an entrance to a house or a building.

How would you spell porches? Point to the one that you think it could be.

Here's a clue.

Listen to the last sound.

Porch.

Did that help you? That's right.

We just es because it had been a ch sound.

Well done.

Now you try.

In a minute, you're going to pause the video and I want you to write the plural of calf and glitch.

A calf, is a baby cow.

And a glitch is when something goes wrong.

We often talk about glitch or glitches, when we talk about computers.

I've put the rules up there to help you.

I'd like you to have a go writing these words, in plural.

Off you go.

Let's see how you got on.

Here's the word calf.

The plural of calf should be calves.

Calfs, calves.

Oh, I'm not sure.

I've written two examples down here.

Number one, I just added s, our normal rule.

And number two, I've changed the f into a v and added es.

And I can see, looking at my rules, that's the rule that we use when we spell that.

Here's the word glitch.

The plural of glitch is? Glitches.

Well done.

How would you spell, glitches? You could have just added a s on the end like number two, glitchs.

It sounds right.

Or you could have added es.

And I can see that glitch ends in ch, so I know that it is going to be es.

Well done.

These are your spellings from last lesson.

In a minute we're going to practise a new strategy.

One I really love on how to practise them.

Remember, you don't have to do the test, this lesson.

You could always do it tomorrow or later on today.

Well, these are some spelling structures, we've looked at that already.

Remember from last time I said that you might have your own strategies that work really well for you, but it's really cool, to have lots of different strategies under your belt.

In fact, it's a really fun and effective way, to help you learn.

Today, we're going to be focusing on pyramid words.

This is one of my favourite ways to practise spelling.

Okay, we're going to practise writing the word, knives.

knives is a little bit tricky, 'cause it's got a strange kn with n sound at the beginning.

So it's really good to practise with a strategy like this because then it'd allow you to take care of the letters that you write.

Now, a pyramid strategy, we write the letters one by one, underneath each other until we get a whole word written.

Now I'm showing you on the computer where I can only type.

But it's really important that you practise this strategy, with joined up handwriting, because it creates a muscle memory with your fingers when you're practising , writing the word.

So the first line, we write K.

The next line you write K-N.

And below that you write, K-N-I.

Can you notice that I'm saying the letter names out? Let's practise again.

Can you say with me? K.

K-N K-N-I.

K-N-I-V.

K-N-I-V-E.

K-N-I-V-E-S.

K-N-I-V-E-S, spells, knives.

Well done.

Did anyone spot that you can also spell knives down the side like this? If you want to, you can get a ruler and draw a neat pyramid around your spellings.

And why is this a useful strategy? Number one, you're practising , copying out again and again.

I said about that, that muscle memory between your hand and your brain.

It's really important when you're practising spellings particularly tricky spellings.

Applying a letter at a time.

So if you've got a tricky spelling, it can really be important to slow down and focus on each letter.

Number three, it allows you to identify, any tricky word strings.

Okay, I would like you, to choose four words from your spelling list and have a go at using the pyramid spelling strategy.

You can see I've done a joined up version here for you to have a look of me doing it earlier.

It's really important to make sure you start on a new line each time and you can see my joined up handwriting.

Pause the video and have a practise now.

Now it's time for your spelling test.

You can do this now or you can decide to do some more practise and come back to it either later on today or on another day.

On a piece of paper, can you write down the numbers one to 10? Pause the video to do this.

In a minute, I'm going to read your spelling's out for you.

I'll read all 10 spellings and then we'll go through them at the end.

Now remember, if you're not sure of a spelling, why don't you try the best bet strategy? You could write down the different versions and which one you think could be correct.

And remember, be kind to yourself.

If you get something wrong, it's okay.

It's how you learn.

Right, should we get started? Spelling number one.

Watches.

Watches.

All the watches were broken in the shop.

Pause if you need to.

Number two.

Sandwiches.

Sandwiches She ate all the sandwiches.

Number three.

Dishes.

Dishes.

He broke most of the dishes when he was doing the washing up.

Number four.

Wishes.

Wishes.

His wishes were about to come true.

Number five.

Kisses.

Kisses.

He put kisses at the end of his letter.

Number six.

Glasses.

Glasses.

Auntie now had lost her glasses.

Number seven.

Boxes.

Boxes.

The boxes were not big enough.

Number eight.

Foxes.

Foxes.

The foxes we're living at back of the garden.

Number nine.

Leaves.

Leaves.

The leaves fell to the ground, gracefully.

Number 10.

Lives.

Lives.

They fought like their lives depended on it.

I'll go through them again.

Number one, watches.

Number two, sandwiches.

Number three, dishes.

Number four, wishes.

Number five, kisses.

Number six, glasses.

Number seven, boxes.

Number eight, foxes, number nine, leaves.

Number 10 lives.

Right, should we have a go, and mark them? If you get something correct, you can give it a tick, and if you didn't you can change it, to the correct spelling.

Remember to pause if you need more time.

And remember to be kind to yourself.

In fact, it's a really good thing, if you get things wrong sometimes.

It shows that you need to start learning! Right, should we get marking? Give yourself a tick if you've got it right and change it, if you didn't.

And remember to be kind to yourself.

Mistakes help us.

They help us learn.

Number one, watches.

W-A-T-C-H-E-S.

Tick if correct, change if not.

Number two, sandwiches.

S-A-N-D-W-I-C-H-E-S.

Did anyone else spot, the word within a word there, the sand in sandwiches? Number three, dishes.

D-I-S-H-E-S.

Number four, wishes.

W-I-S-H-E-S.

Number five, kisses.

K-I-S-S-E-S.

Number six, glasses.

G-L-A-S-S-E-S.

Number seven, boxes.

B-O-X-E-S.

Number eight, foxes.

F-O-X-E-S.

Number nine, knives.

K-N-I-V-E-S.

Number 10, lives.

L-I-V-E-S.

Well done! You should be really proud of yourself.

Remember, if there are any spellings that you didn't get correct this time, write them down.

I often like to write them, on a piece of paper and put them on the wall to help me remember them.

So, today, we've got a busy lesson.

We've revised the rules, we've practised and we've applied the rules, we've learnt another spelling strategy, the pyramid spelling strategy, and then we've had our spelling test at the end.

Well done.

Congratulations.

Make sure you keep practising your spellings.

I'll see you next time.