Lesson video

Hi there and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss.

I love spelling and I'm really looking forward to teaching you.

For today's lesson, you need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains.

As well as that, something to write with and write on will be excellent as well, as well as having something or someone to talk to.

Right then, let's get right into today's spelling lesson.

In today's lesson, we're going to be adding the suffix AL.

The outcome will be, I can spell words using the suffix AL.

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you saying these back to me.

Noun.

Adjective.

Root word.

Suffix.

Brilliant.

So let's have a chat about what these words mean then.

A noun is a naming word for people, places, or things.

An adjective describes a noun, tells you what it's like.

A root word is the base word from which other words are formed, often by adding prefixes or suffixes.

A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.

Remember, today we're adding that suffix AL to the ends of root words.

So here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're gonna look first of all at adding the suffix AL, and then we're going to look at all of the l spellings, and then we're gonna finish off today's lesson by spelling some curriculum words.

Let's begin then by adding the suffix AL.

Remember that a suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add to the end of a word, which creates another word, a new word.

Unlike prefixes, which come at the beginning of words, suffixes often changed the word's tense or word class.

Let's have a look at this in action.

Kind is my root word here, and I've got NESS as a suffix.

It creates the new word kindness.

Here I have the word joy and I've attached to that my suffix ful to create the word joyful.

Here we have deep, and I've added the suffix EN to create deepen, changing its word class.

These are just three examples of suffixes, and there are many others.

Some words with suffixes have root words we recognise and some don't.

And depending upon those root words, often this has an impact as to how the new word is spelt.

So let's have a read of some words that contain the suffix that we are going to be looking at today.

My turn, your turn.

Global.

Natural.

Capital, like a capital city.

Personal.

National.

So across a whole country or a nation.

Emotional.

So you can see here all of these words have that AL at the end of them, and this is the suffix that we are adding today.

They all contain the suffix AL, which makes an l sound.

Can you recognise any of the root words? Pause the video.

The spelling might be a bit different.

It may have changed because of the suffix, but do you recognise any root words for these words? Pause the video and have a think now.

Brilliant, some wonderful thinking going on there, team.

I've noticed the root word of emotional is emotion.

I also know that the root word for capital is coming from Latin, caput meaning head.

And it kind of makes sense, doesn't it? A capital letter or a capital of a country is the most important.

The head is obviously a very important part of the body.

So if you think about capital letter being very important, the beginning, the head of the sentence, and also the capital city being often the largest or the one of the most important cities in that country.

So the suffix AL often turns nouns into adjectives.

Remember, a noun is a PPT, a person, place, or thing, and an adjective describes a noun.

So when we add it to the root word, that AL, we're turning nouns often into adjectives, whereas it describe those nouns, which is really fascinating.

Who is that person? The word person here is a noun.

It's a naming word for a person, place, or thing.

The personal message helps me to feel at ease.

The word personal here is an adjective.

It's being used to describe the message that you were given.

It's describing that noun.

So here we have the word person, which is a noun.

We've added a AL suffix to create personal, and we now have a new word class.

We have the word personal, which is an adjective.

So have a look at these two sentences for me at the words globe and global.

Which word class are they? Read the sentences carefully and think about it, pause the video.

Brilliant, some great reading there and some great consideration of world class.

So the child gazed at the fascinating globe.

Globe here is a thing.

It's a thing the child is looking at.

So it's a PPT, a noun.

A global citizen cares about making the world better.

So we've taken our root word globe here.

We've removed something.

We've added our AR suffix to create, you've got it, an adjective.

The word global is describing the citizen here, the noun.

And remember, adjectives describe nouns.

So we adding our suffix AL turns nouns into adjectives often.

So the suffix AL follows some familiar spelling rules when adding the suffix to the root word.

I'm sure you already know from the work you would've looked at when adding suffixes.

The root word, if it ends in a consonant, we just have to add the suffix.

So here we have person.

N is a consonant, one of those letters that's made by sound blocking the air with teeth, tongues, or palate, not a vowel.

N is a consonant.

So we just add AL to make personal.

If our root we ends in an E, we, whoosh, remove that E and then add our suffix.

So if we look here, nature, I want to create the word natural.

I don't want to have EAL.

I remove the E and then add AL to create the adjective natural from the root word nature.

So have a look for me, I've got a little check activity for us to do.

Put the root words that you can see below into the correct column to show what will happen when you add the AL suffix.

Perhaps even have a go at spelling the new word.

So are you just going to add the suffix 'cause it ends in a consonant, or do you need to remove an E from that root word before then adding your AL suffix? The words below that we have are arrive, culture, tropic, accident, nature, and season.

Pause the video now, put them in the correct columns and have a go at spelling the new words with that AL suffix.

Off you go.

Brilliant job, team.

So I'm hoping you managed to sort 'em.

So they look like this.

We had tropic, accident, and season all ending in consonants.

So we just had to add AL to create tropical, accidental, seasonal.

We then had arrive, culture, and nature, which all ended in E.

Following our rules, we removed the E and add our AR suffix to create arrival, cultural, natural.

for our practise task right now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you some words to write for me that end in our suffix AL.

Remember, think about the root word.

Do you know how to spell it? That's going to inform you as to how to spell the new word.

Do you remember any spelling rules that we've looked at? Hmm.

Does it end in a consonant? Does it end in E? And then read the word and check.

So just listen to me say the words first and then we'll have a go at writing them.

The first one, number one, is natural.

The first word is natural.

The second one is personal.

The third word is capital.

And number four is arrival.

So we have natural, personal, capital, arrival, all of our AL suffix.

Pause the video and have a go at writing those words now.

Fantastic job.

So let's go through and see how you've done them.

So I've seen these words which, in a number of ways, done a really good job there.

So natural, our root word here is nature ending in an E.

So we remove the E and add AL, and it's N-A-T-U-R-A-L, natural.

Be careful with that one.

Personal is the next one.

A root word here is person.

That would be our noun that we turn into an adjective by adding AL, End in a consonant so I add AL onto the end of person, personal.

Capital is our next one.

Now remember there's no clear and obvious root word here, but our root word from Latin, caput, meaning head, does end in a T, so it's a consonant, so I just add AL.

And finally, arrival.

Arrive is our root word here, ending in VE.

So ending in E, I remove the E, and add AL to change it to arrival.

How did you do that? Do you have any corrections to make? Pause the video and make them now.

Brilliant, onto our next learning cycle then.

We're gonna look at all of our l spellings.

So there are many ways to represent the l sound.

What representations are we looking at? So have a look carefully here for me.

We have just an L, we have double L, we have LE, EL, IL, and then the sound that we are looking at today or the spelling for that l sound that we're looking at today, AL.

so L, LL, LE, EL, IL, and AL.

And it can be very easy to get confused with which one you're going to use, particularly at the ends of words where it sounds very similar.

So what can you remember about where each representation is found? Pause the video now.

Have a look at these words in the tables.

Do you remember any particular rules around where these different l sounds like to come? Have a think now? Brilliant.

So L or l just with an L is the most common representation of that l sound, and it's the most likely representation at the start of a word.

It can also be found anywhere in a word though.

But if it's at the beginning of the word, it's going to most likely just be L on its own, like laugh, ladder, lemon, hole, and then milk.

So it can be found anywhere in the word.

Double L is usually found after a short vowel in single syllable words.

So just one-beat words.

Drill, eh, eh, short vowel sound.

Mill, single syllable and a short vowel.

Spell, single syllable and a short vowel.

Filled is a little bit different, but it's still at the end of our root word here which is fill and full, single syllable, so at the end of single syllable, short vowel words.

So mill.

Mm, eh, il, mill.

Eh, eh, short vowel.

Mill, single syllable.

And we can see here the double L is at the end of our root word, which is fill here, and we've added our ED suffix.

So still at the end of the roots word.

The LE spelling is commonly found at the end of polysyllabic words.

Now these are words with more than one syllable, so more than one vowel beat.

It often follows a double consonant.

So handle, two beats.

Bottle, two beats and a double T, so double consonant.

Juggle, two beats and a double G, so double consonant.

Little, two beats and a double T.

Settle, two beats and a double T.

So, h, a, n, d, l.

Handle, two beats.

The EL spelling is also found in polysyllabic words, but is a far less common spelling, so we see it far less often.

Tunnel, model, jewel, rebel, towel.

So polysyllabic again, more than one vowel beat.

Let's have a look at it in action.

M, o, d, l, model.

So match the spellings of the l sound here to where they are most commonly found in a word.

We have LL, double L, LE, and EL.

Is it after a short vowel and single syllable words or at the end of polysyllabic words? Pause the video, match these spellings now.

Brilliant.

Our double L is after a short vowel in single-syllable words, things like mill, fill, full.

And our LE and our EL are at the end of polysyllabic words.

Let's have a look at some examples.

Handle.

Model.

Brilliant.

IL is a rare representation, so we don't see it very often of the l sound, and it is often found, again, in polysyllabic words, evil, pupil, pencil, fossil, nostril, at the end of all of these words here.

The AL is usually found at the end of polysyllabic words, and this is the suffix that we've been looking at in detail today, haven't we? Metal, pedal, coastal, natural, seasonal.

Remember that in many of the cases it is turning a noun into an adjective.

Not in all cases, but in some cases.

So the AL suffix is often found at the end of adjectives where we turn nouns into adjectives by adding that suffix.

Coastal, natural, and seasonal are all examples of this.

Metal and peal happens to be nouns themselves already.

So match the spellings of the l sound to where they're most commonly found.

We have our AL and our IL.

Is it at the end of polysyllabic words and often an adjective or at just the end of polysyllabic words? Match those now.

Great.

AL is at the end of polysyllabic words that are often an adjective, and IL is also found at the end of polysyllabic words.

So we have personal and global, which are two adjectives there, and then fossil and pencil both happen to be nouns with that IL spelling.

So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna give us some words using the l spelling, a variety of different l spellings.

Think about how they'll be spelt.

Think of any root words you recognise.

Remember any of the spelling rules that we've just reviewed and looked at and check the word and read it out loud.

So just listen carefully to me say the words first of all, then you're gonna have a go at writing them.

The first word is bottle.

I drank from the bottle.

Number two is seasonal.

Number three is spell.

I put a spell on you.

And number four is tropical.

There was a large tropical storm.

So say this one more time.

Bottle, seasonal, spell, tropical.

Pause the video, have a go at writing those now.

Off you go.

Brilliant job, team.

Done a really good job there.

So I have seen bottle written in these ways.

Now think about this word bottle, polysyllabic.

And which of our spellings like to come at the end of polysyllabic words and often be proceeded by a double consonant? It was LE.

B-O-T-T-L-E.

The next word was seasonal.

Our root word here is season.

We're gonna add just our AL, seasonal, to create that adjective.

The next one was spell, single syllable, spell, short vowel sound, eh, eh, and at the end, so it's our double L.

And finally, tropical.

Our root word here is tropic, ending in a consonant.

Tropical.

Tropical.

Oh, it's becoming an adjective, AL, a tropical storm.

Tropical there is being used to describe the storm.

AL is our correct spelling there.

Tropical.

How did you do? Do you have any corrections to make? Pause the video, share any matching mistakes, and make any corrections now.

Off you go.

And onto our final learning cycle then, which is going to be spelling curriculum words.

Let's have a read of some words.

My turn, your turn.

Possible.

Difficult.

Therefore.

What do you notice about these spellings? These are curriculum words which are going to appear a lot in our reading and writing.

So it's really important we know how to read and spell them.

But there's some elements in there I think are a little bit tricky.

Have a say of the words again.

look at the spellings compared to how they sound.

Is there anything that you think might be difficult about them? Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant, some lovely conversations going on there, team.

So I've noticed couple of things.

Impossible, there's a double S, and there's an LE at the end.

So remember it's that LE spelling, possible, double S, LE.

In difficult, there's a double F, and it can also be difficult to hear that U.

Difficult.

You don't hear it very clearly.

I don't say difficult, do I? I can remember that there is the word cult in difficult as well.

Remember that spotting a word in a word can also help you.

And finally, therefore has two syllables.

Therefore.

And the word there is spelled T-H-E-R-E in this instance.

And the ore spelling of ore, so it's O-R-E, not just O-R at the end.

So remember that E at the end.

So with that in mind and with those words in mind, which of these are spelled correctly? Possible.

It is possible for you to achieve the correct result.

Possible.

Point to the correct spelling now.

Brilliant.

Double S and LE, isn't it? This one here, possible.

Difficult.

I know there's another double letter in there somewhere.

Pause the video and point to the correct spelling of difficult now.

You're superstars.

It wasn't that difficult for you, was it? It is this one here.

D-I-F-F-I-C-U-L-T.

There's a cult in difficult.

And therefore.

Pause the video and point to it now.

Brilliant.

Therefore it's this one.

There's the word there in it, and then fore, and it's that O-R-E spelling for that ore sound.

Therefore.

Great job.

Bear these are mind for a little bit later.

So right now we're going to have a go at writing our three curriculum words that we've just looked at, using the look, cover, write, check strategy.

This is really great because it's gonna help us to memorise these words, which we're going to need to use a lot in our writing and it will appear a lot in our reading.

So we have the words possible, therefore, and difficult.

The first part of this strategy is to look carefully at the word.

So if I look at the word possible, I know it's a double S and an LE at the end.

Possible.

I then cover the word up, having memorised it, and have a go at writing it, my neatest handwriting, and then I uncover it and check back to see how I did.

And I do this a number of times to really embed this spelling into my long-term memory.

So I want you to pause the video now, have a go at using our look, cover, write, check strategy to practise these curriculum words, possible, therefore, and difficult.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

So I'm hoping you have something just like this.

How did you do? Do you have any corrections to make? Remember, always think and look carefully at the spelling and think what's difficult about it.

Pause the video, make those corrections now.

Excellent spelling lesson today.

We've been looking at that suffix AL today for that l sound.

It often turns nouns into adjectives.

When the root word ends in a consonant, we can just add the suffix.

When the root word ends in an E, we can remove the E and add the suffix.

And remember, there are loads of different ways to represent this l sound in a word, including L, double L, LE, IL, EL, and AL.

Try and remember some of those rules when you are using that spelling.

Keep up the great spelling, everyone and I'll see you again soon.