Lesson video

Hi there.

My name's Mr Byrne-Smith.

And today I'm going to be teaching you spelling.

I'm really looking forward to it.

We're going to have lots of fun together.

Today we're looking at the -ity and the -ness suffixes.

In particular we are going to be practising and applying our knowledge.

If you haven't yet watched lesson two of 10, I really recommend that you go and do that now before today's lesson.

Come along and join me, let's have some fun.

Here's the agenda for today's lesson.

First we'll look at some key vocabulary.

Then we're going to recap the rules.

After that we'll learn a new spelling strategy before finally having a go at our test.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and last of all, your brain.

If you need to run up and get any of these things, pause the video and do that now.

Okay, great.

Let's look at some key vocabulary.

The first word we'll look at is, suffix.

My turn,.

your turn.

Suffix.

A suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that change its meaning and sometimes class.

Adjective.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

It tells you what it's like.

Noun.

A noun is a person, place or thing.

Root word.

A root word is the most basic version of a word.

It has no prefixes or suffixes.

Let's look at nouns in a bit more detail.

There are three types of nouns.

Firstly, proper nouns.

These are used for names of people and places, and they are capitalised, which means they have a capital letter at the beginning.

Next, we have common nouns.

These are nouns with which you can interact physically.

Things that you can pick up and see and touch.

Finally, we have abstract nouns.

These are things with which you can't contract physically.

You can't see or touch them, but they do exist.

Lets have a practise.

Your first challenge is to tell me which of these three is an abstract noun.

Hope, Zaid and pavement.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, great.

The abstract noun is, hope.

Hope is not something that you can touch or see, but it is a thing.

Zaid is a name.

You can tell that because it's been capitalised and pavement is a common noun.

It's a noun with which you could interact physically.

Lets have another go.

Three new words, desk, silence and Europe.

Which is the abstract noun? Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

The abstract noun is, silence.

Desk is a common noun.

You can touch it, you can see it.

Silence on the other hand is not something you can touch or see.

Europe is a proper noun, is a name of a place.

That's why it's been capitalised.

Let's recap the spelling rules to these suffixes.

We're looking at the -ity and -ness suffixes.

These suffixes turn words into abstract nouns.

Here the -ity suffix has turned the word visible into the abstract noun visibility.

Here, the -ness suffix has turned the word lazy into the abstract noun laziness.

Challenge number two.

I've given you a word.

Your job is to tell me which of these two suffixes, it makes use of? The word is silly.

I'd like you to work out which suffix it uses, and also have a go at spelling it.

So for this, you'll need a pencil and paper.

Pause the video and have a go now.

Okay.

The word silly makes use of the suffix ness and it becomes silliness.

If you look carefully, the 'y' at the end of silly has been replaced with an 'i' before adding -ness suffix.

Let's have another go.

Here the word is responsible.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

Responsible becomes responsibility and it makes use of the -ity suffix.

Let's have another go.

Here the word is, similar.

Which of these two suffixes do the word similar Make use of? Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

Similar becomes similarity and it makes use of the -ity suffix.

You can see here that the root word hasn't had to change at all.

We've been able to just add the suffix on the end similarity.

The new word is aware.

Which of these two suffixes does aware make use of? Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

Great.

Aware makes use of -ness and it becomes awareness.

Here we have three words, all of which make use of the -itty suffix, secure, stupid, curious.

Your job is to apply the -ity suffix and then think about whether or not the root word had to change in order to do so.

Pause the video now and have a go.

Okay, great.

Secure when I apply the -ity suffix becomes security but does the root word change? Let's have a look.

Yes it does.

You have to remove the 'e' before adding -ity.

Stupid becomes stupidity, but does the root word change? No, it doesn't.

You can just add the -ity suffix on the end.

Curious becomes curiosity, but does the root word change? Yes.

It does.

If you look very carefully, the 'u' in curious has to be removed before adding the -ity suffix.

It's interesting because that sounds like a tricky rule, but actually you can hear it.

Cu-ri-o-sity rather than cu-ri-o-si-ty.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the difference.

Let's have a go with these words.

These will make use of the -ness suffix.

Ill, quiet, nasty.

Pause the video now and have a go.

Okay.

Let's see whether or not these root words change when we applied the nest suffix.

Ill becomes illness, but does the root word change? No, we can just pop it straight in the end.

Quiet becomes quietness.

But does the root word change? No.

Again, we can just put it straight on the end.

Nasty becomes nastiness, but does the root word change? Yes.

In this instance it does.

The 'y' has been replaced with an 'i' before we've added the N-E-S-S.

This is quite common.

Let's learn a new spelling strategy.

The strategy we are looking at today it's called look, cover, write, check.

We're you going to use the word ability to try it out.

The first thing you do is write out the word correctly, and then you look at it very carefully for between five and 10 seconds.

Next you cover it up.

I often do this with my hand but you can use anything.

There it goes.

The next task is to write.

Try your best to write out the word as accurately as you can.

Then of course, you can check by removing your hand or whatever was covering up the word.

You can check the correct spelling.

The question is why on earth is this a useful strategy? First things first, it forces you to interact with the word quite carefully.

You're giving yourself five to 10 seconds to look at the word and therefore you get to take it all in.

Also, there's an element of test about this, which kind of puts the pressure on, but I don't think in a bad way.

Sometimes raising the stakes slightly means that you perform slightly better.

So as long as you're in a safe, comfortable environment.

Finally, it forces you to slow down.

Whenever you slow down when learning, you tend to take more information in.

That's why this is such a useful strategy.

Let's use our new strategy on some of this weeks spelling words.

I've given you four options here, visibility, generosity, loneliness, darkness.

But you can pick any four that you'd like.

Pause the video now and have a go.

Okay, great time for our test.

We need the numbers one to 10.

I'm going to read each of the 10 words out and put them in a sentence.

Your job is to write down the correct spellings.

I only ask that you do your very best, and if you make mistakes, that's not a problem that's just a point at which we can learn even better.

Question number one.

Ability.

She had the ability to see through walls.

Ability.

Two, activity.

Activity.

The amount of activity in the market made her head spin.

Three, equality.

Equality.

Equality between all people is very important.

Four, visibility.

Visibility.

When the fog came in, visibility got much worse.

Five, generosity.

Generosity.

His generosity made everyone like him.

Six, happiness.

Happiness.

Everything she did was for the happiness of other people.

Seven, darkness.

Darkness.

As darkness fell, the city came alive.

Eight, kindness.

Kindness.

I look for kindness in people I want to be my friend.

Nine, loneliness.

Loneliness.

Spending lots of time alone can cause feelings of loneliness.

10, fitness.

Fitness.

His level of fitness had really improved since he started running to school.

Okay.

Fantastic job.

It's time for us to look at the correct spellings.

If there are any that you haven't got right, I'd like you to write out the correct spelling next to them.

It's really good practise to do this.

It helps us learn and it goes to show that it doesn't really matter if there's one or two or three that we get wrong.

These are the correct spelling from this week's spelling test.

Feel free to pause the video and check your words against these.

Remember, write out any correct spellings next to mistakes.

And congratulations.

Well done.

You've done really well.

That's a tricky unit with some tricky spellings.

So I'm very impressed.

Today.

We've looked at key vocabulary, recap rules.

We've learned a brand new strategy and we've done our spelling test.

And that's the end of the lesson.

So well done for all of your hard work.