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Hello, and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss.

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

With you today, 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 and someone or something to talk to you would also be great.

Well, let's get straight into today's spelling lesson then.

In this spelling lesson, we're going to be adding the suffix, ery.

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

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you saying them back to me as they're going to be really important.

Noun, adjective, root word, suffix.

Brilliant.

Thank you for saying those back to me.

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

A noun is a naming word for a person, place, or thing.

An adjective describes a noun.

It 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.

And today, we're concentrating on adding a suffix, aren't we, ery? And the suffix is that letter or group of letters added to the end of a roots word, which can create a new word.

They can also sometimes change the words tense or word class.

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

We're going to be adding the suffix, ery.

First of all, we're gonna have a look at using that suffix, ery, and generating some rules for adding it and seeing what effect it has on words.

And then we're gonna have a go at spelling some curriculum words, and also writing a sentence that contain some of those curriculum words and some of the ery spellings that we're gonna look at today.

So let's get on with using the suffix, ery.

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

And there are different types of nouns.

We can have common nouns, which are physical things.

For instance, a circle, a heart, and a woman.

Library is one as well.

We can have proper nouns, which are specific name things, people or places they need to have capital letters, the earth as in the planet that we are on, February as in the month, Birmingham as in the city, and Aisha as in the name of a person.

And we can also have abstract nouns which have no physical form.

They're states or ideas that we cannot touch.

Experience is an abstract noun, knowledge, opportunity, and happiness.

You may be noticing that in some of those abstract nouns.

We have certain suffixes like ity and ness as well.

Only proper nouns need to be capitalised remember, as they're the name of specific people, places, or things.

Nouns are one type of word class that we may see in a sentence.

The other types are adjectives, adverbs, verbs.

So have a look here for me.

Consider the types of nouns that we've just looked at.

We have common, proper, and abstract.

We have some nouns on the left.

Happiness, bucket, Africa and peace.

Are these common nouns, proper nouns or abstract nouns? Pause the video and match them to the type of noun that they are now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

So happiness with that, ness suffix there.

Happiness is a abstract noun.

I can't feel or touch happiness.

It's not a thing I can see.

It's an abstract noun.

Bucket, I can fill a bucket with water.

I can hold a bucket.

It's a common noun.

Africa has a capital letter.

It's a name of a place, a continent in fact.

So it's a proper noun.

And peace, peace again is one of those things that we can wish for.

It's an idea.

It's not something I can reach out and touch and grab onto.

It's an abstract noun.

So remember, nouns are PPTs, people, places and things.

They can also be ideas and they can be specific names of people, places, or things as well.

So we can have common nouns, proper nouns, and abstract nouns.

Remember, proper nouns need to be capitalised.

So with that in mind, a suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add to a word to create another word.

We add them at the end of the word.

Unlike prefixes, which we can add at the beginning of a word.

Suffixes often change the words tense or word class.

And that word, word class is important today.

And we just thought about lots of word class, haven't we? We considered nouns and different types of nouns.

So for instance, I have here the root word, courage.

If I add ous, I can create the word courageous.

Here I have bound, if I add our ary suffix, I can create boundary, a new word.

If I have bright, I can add en to create brighten.

Notice here how the spelling of our root words has remained the same each time.

This won't always be the case dependent on the root word and the suffix that's being added.

The spending of that root word might change.

Also, the word class has changed when adding these suffixes.

There are lots of different types of suffix, and here are just three examples.

ous, en and ary.

Today we are gonna concentrate on adding the suffix ery, and seeing what that does to words.

Different suffixes can create words with different word classes.

So ary, which we just saw there, boundary, is a way of spelling the suffix, which sounds like ery or ry.

Here is it an action? Voluntary.

Voluntary.

Temporary.

Ordinary.

Necessary.

So it can be easy to confuse our ery and our ary suffixes.

Let's have a read of some words then.

Trickery.

We're looking at words now that have our ery suffix.

Pottery.

As we read these, see if you notice any root words.

Gallery.

Bravery.

Nursery.

So each time I see hearing ery, aren't we, as our ery suffix? Bakery.

Jewellery.

Slippery.

So here we can see our ery suffix.

All of these words end in it.

Ary and ery are similar word endings and often sound the same.

Using the suffix, ery, usually turns words into nouns.

Bakery, jewellery, nursery are all nouns.

Slippery is not.

It's an adjective.

So that's a bit of an odd one out there.

The ery suffix then often turns words into nouns.

And this can be a variety of nouns, it could be abstracts, or it could be common nouns.

Let's bake a cake for Nan's birthday.

Bake here is a verb, it's a doing word.

Verbs are being, doing or having words.

So the word bake is something we can do here.

It's a verb, an action.

If I add my ery suffix, it becomes bakery.

They bought a mouth watering cake from the bakery.

Bakery in this instance is a noun.

So we've added our ery suffix to the root word bake, and it's changed the word class as we know suffixes can do.

And it's changed that verb to be a noun.

So I'd like you to have a look carefully at these sentences now.

What word class are jewellery and nursery? Pause the video, read them and consider what word class they are.

Are they a noun? Are they an adjective? Are they a verb? Are they an adverb? Off you go.

Brilliant.

So let's have a look at these sentences then.

The queen wore the most exquisite piece of jewellery.

So that sounds like something she's wearing, a common noun.

So this word is a noun.

It's a thing.

That jewellery might be in a bracelet, okay, it could be a necklace.

Children in the nursery enjoy singing songs together.

The nursery is a place, isn't it? So it's a noun.

It's a people place or thing is a noun remember.

So our ery suffix here in these words indicates that they are nouns.

So the ery suffix often turns words into nouns.

It was a brave decision to make.

Brave here is describing that decision.

It's an adjective.

Here I add my ery suffix to that root word brave.

Sam showed great bravery when she broke her arm.

Bravery here is a noun.

It's a thing.

It's not something I can feel or touch.

It's an abstract noun.

So we can see here we started with the root word brave, which was an adjective.

We then added our ery suffix to create the word bravery.

And the word class and the word has changed.

We now have bravery, which is a noun.

So adding the suffix, ery usually does what? Does it a, change the tense of a word, does it b, creates an adjective, c, helps us to compare things, or d, creates a noun? Pause the video and select the correct word, noun and say the sentence.

Off you go.

Great job.

So adding the suffix, ery usually creates a noun.

It doesn't change the tense of the word as some suffixes do.

It doesn't create an adjective as some suffixes do, like the ous suffix.

And it doesn't help us to compare things like er or est suffixes.

Ery can create nouns.

It can change the word class to a noun.

We've already looked at changing verbs and adjectives into nouns by adding our ery suffix to the root word.

So it can be difficult to know whether to use the ary or the ery as they sound very similar.

Here are some words that have both ary and ery, and there's many of them.

On my left hand side, I've got words like primary and voluntary and summary and library and ordinary and necessary and temporary and dictionary.

And on my right I've got trickery, pottery, gallery, bravery, nursery, bakery, jewellery, and slippery.

What do you notice about these spellings? Have a look at the root words in particular.

Consider well what they've been changed to as well in word class.

Do you notice that one spelling is one particular word class.

Pause the video and have a consideration now.

Great.

Well, you may have noticed a few things.

All the words ending in ery tend to have an obvious root word.

If I look at trickery, I can see trick.

If I look at pottery, I know the root where there's pot.

Gallery, hmm, little bit of a trickier one there.

But bravery, brave, nursery, nurse, bakery, bake, jewel for jewellery, and in slippery, which is our adjective, and not a noun there it's slip, isn't it? So they have very clear root words, whereas our ary ones don't all tend to have clearer root words.

I've noticed as well with our ary spellings, some of the words that are ending with that ary have an obvious root word, but some of them don't.

So we can say most of our ery spellings have clearer root words and less of our ary ones do.

So we know that when the root word is not obvious, ary is often used.

So it's quite a good rule for us to consider.

Temporary for instance, anniversary, voluntary and vocabulary don't all have clear root words.

We could trace where those words have come from etymologically.

But if we're thinking about generating some rough rules here, if we don't know the root word, it's most likely going to be our ary spelling.

Temporary, no clear root word there.

Anniversary, we know we get that from the French one, anniversaire, which means birthday.

Voluntary, volunt, I think, again, based in Latin, and I can think of some words that are linked to it like volunteer but no clear root word.

And vocabulary, again, not a clear root word.

So if we don't know the clear root word, we know it's most likely our ary spelling.

So we are just adding our ary here.

When with root word is more obvious the suffix ery is often used, not always, but often.

Ery is your best bet.

It's your best guess for the spelling if there's a clear root word.

Let's think, trick becomes trickery, mock becomes mockery.

Mockery is teasing behaviour directed at someone or something.

You might make a mockery of someone or something.

So here we're just adding the ery suffix to make those words.

So adding it to our root word, trick becomes trickery, mock becomes mockery.

So a rough rule for us to remember here is, as our best bet, if we can see a clear root word, we know the clear root word, it's gonna be our ery.

If we don't know the clear root word, we are gonna have an ary spelling.

So look at how these root words change that end in e.

Nurse becomes nursery, brave becomes bravery, scene becomes scenery.

So here we can see that the e is removed before we add the suffix ery.

And that makes sense.

Doesn't do it.

We don't want have two e's following each other there.

The rule is similar here to many other suffix rules because it's a vowel suffix, it begins with an e.

So we're going to remove the vowel at the end of the root word before adding our suffix.

This follows the rules of many suffixes that I'm sure you've looked at previously.

So what will the spelling of these words ending in e be when we add our ery suffix? Bake, scene, brave.

I want to make the words bakery, scenery, bravery, or you keep the e or you remove the e, and why? Pause the video.

Have a think.

Have a good at spelling those words.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

So bake has become bakery.

We've removed the e before adding our ery.

Scene has become scenery and brave has become bravery.

Great.

So we can see here we've got nouns.

Now interestingly, we've noticed here as well that we've had to remove the e.

And let's think about why that is.

It's because our suffix is a vowel suffix, begins with e.

So we need to remove the final vowel of our root word before adding it.

So for some root words, the final consonant is doubled before the suffix is added.

Jewel becomes jewellery.

You double the l and add ery.

Pot becomes pottery.

We double the t and add ery.

That one's a bit similar, isn't it? To some other suffix rules I'm sure you've looked at where we double the consonant because there's a short vowel sound, a, e, i, o, u.

And we have oo in pottery.

So we double the t and add ery.

Slip becomes slippery, ee, we have there, don't we? Short vowel sound.

We double the p and add ery.

Interestingly, not all words that end in ery, although most of them, but not all of them are nouns.

Slippery for instance is an adjective.

So what we are gonna do now is you are gonna have a go at writing some words that contain our ery suffix.

I'd like you to really think about, is there a root word? I'd like you to think about the sounding the word out as well.

And also reading the word and checking to see how you've done.

So just listen to me say the words first of all.

Number one is mockery.

They'll make you a mockery of the situation.

That's an abstract noun.

Number two, pottery.

Pottery, a noun.

Number three, bravery.

They show great bravery in the dire situation.

Bravery is an abstract man.

And finally, we have jewellery.

They wore some beautiful jewellery.

So our words here are mockery, pottery, bravery, jewellery.

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

Remember to consider, are there any root words? Remember to sound out these words.

Remember to check and read back.

Off you go.

Brilliant job, team.

Some really great use of our ery suffix there.

I love seeing children consider and check for any root words as well.

And some brilliant handwriting.

So mockery was our first one.

Remember, mockery is teasing behaviour directed at someone or something.

So mockery, our root word here is mock, to mock something.

M-O-C-K, a short vowel o.

So we have a ck.

And we're adding our ery suffix, aren't we? Mockery? We have a clear root word here, mock.

So remember our best bet is it's ery.

So it's mockery, M-O-C-K-E-R-Y.

Here we have pottery.

Pottery, a common noun, pottery.

Our root word here is pot, P-O-T.

Ending in that consonant for short vowel, we're gonna double that consonant.

So double t ery.

There's a clear root word again, so we know it's most likely going to be our ery suffix.

The next word was bravery.

So we have here abstract noun, bravery.

Brave is our root word ending in e, brave.

I need to remove the E and then add ery.

And again, there's a clear root word.

So it's our ery suffix.

And finally jewellery.

This was one of those words again, a bit like pottery where we had to double the final consonant.

Jewel was our root word, there's a clear root word, and then add ery.

So jewel and then double the l and then add ery.

How did you do that? The great thing about all of those words was, there was a clear root word.

So we knew our best bet was our ery, not our ary.

And they've created a variety of nouns and abstract nouns as we know when adding up ery suffix.

Did you make any matching mistakes? What success have you had? Pause the video now and make any corrections.

Off you go.

So onto our final learning cycle then, which is gonna be spelling some curriculum words.

Curriculum words are those words which appear very often in our reading and writing.

And they might have elements to them that are quite tricky and don't follow our regular phonics patterns.

So it's important that we learn how to spell them.

Let's begin by reading these words.

Regular.

Regular.

Calendar.

Calendar.

Continue.

Please continue.

So we have the words, regular, calendar, continue here.

I want you now to look at them really carefully.

What do you notice about these spellings? What might be a bit tricky about them given how they're spelled compared to how they sound? Pause the video and how a think.

Great.

So I've noticed a few things, in regular and calendar, at the end here, that we have the letters ar in regular and calendar at the end.

So it's that same.

And they sound like er as in the words under and ponder.

So it is that ar representing a different sound there.

You wouldn't expect it to.

It's not making an r sound.

So making more regular, calendar, so that er sound there.

And in continue we have at the end here the ue making that ew sound, which isn't that particularly regular representations for that.

A bit like in the words glue or blue, we have continue.

So that ew sound there spelled using ue.

It's making that similar sound as in new.

So let's have a think about these one more time.

Regular and calendar, ar at the end there and continue ue at the end there.

With that in mind, which is the correct spelling here? Pause and point to the correct spelling of regular.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

I think all of these probably make phonetic sense, don't they? But maybe not the first one 'cause that looks like reglar, but the other ones regular, reguler and regula, yeah, they all might make sense, but we need to know it's our ar representation at the end there of that er sound or regular.

Can sometimes sound like an ah as well.

So be careful.

Regular.

I don't say regular, okay.

But remember, regular is spelt regular can help to break it down like that.

So same here with calendar.

Pause the video point to the correct spelling of calendar.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

Has that same ending as regular, doesn't it, calendar? I know it doesn't sound like that.

It sounds like calendar.

Is that ar? I remember it as calendar, calendar.

I find it helps to break those words down.

And finally continue, which is the correct ew sound at the end there.

Pause the video point to it now.

Great.

Continue, continue.

Be careful as well.

'cause the o isn't always emphasised there as well.

I don't always say continue, I say continue sometimes.

So be careful of how you pronounce that one.

Continue, ue at the end, isn't it? Ue, like in the words blue and glue.

Excellent.

So we are gonna have a go now at writing a sentence that contains some of those curriculum words, but also some of the words that have our ery suffix that we've been looking at.

So I want you to listen to me first of all.

I'm gonna say the sentence first.

Just use your amazing hearing and listen to me.

In February, the art store sold pottery, jewellery and scenery calendars.

In February, the art store sold pottery, jewellery and scenery calendars.

Lots of erys there.

So we're gonna use some strategies now to help us remember this sentence.

The first one is tapping it out.

I find this helps to make sure we get all of those beats, all of those syllables and the words and we don't miss any sounds out.

In February, the art store sold pottery, jewellery and scenery calendars.

Pause and tap that out now.

Down your head, your shoulders, doesn't matter.

Off you go.

Great.

Whispering it.

In February, the art store sold pottery, jewellery and scenery calendars.

Whisper that now to yourself or to someone around you.

Off you go.

Brilliant, barely hear you.

And finally, counting the words on our fingers.

In February, the art store sold pottery, jewellery and scenery calendars.

I make that 11.

Say that sentence.

Count those words.

Make sure you're not missing any out.

Off you go.

So I'm gonna say this sentence one more time in a second.

You are gonna have a good writing it.

Remember to sound out each word.

Look out for those common exceptional curriculum words.

Check your sentence, punctuation.

Not just capitalism in full stops, but other forms of punctuation as well.

And then listen for the word endings or suffixes.

Think we've been looking at that ery suffix today, haven't we? So be careful.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

In February, the art store sold pottery, jewellery and scenery calendars.

Pause the video and have a great writing that sentence.

Brilliant job, team.

Great application of our curriculum, common exception.

and those focus spellings we've been looking at with our ery suffix.

So wonderful handwriting and some great punctuating.

Let's check our work and make any corrections as we go along now.

In needs capital letter, February, now be careful with this one.

February, that's that ary at the end there.

That's also a curriculum word and it needs to have a capital letter because it's proper noun.

We have a comma here to separate our front adverb here of time because it's when that was happening, in February.

The art store, with an e at the end there, sold, S-O-L-D, pottery.

Now think, pot, root word, double the t ery.

We had a clear root word and we had that ery at the end, ery spelling.

Pottery, jewellery.

again, jewel, double l ery.

Comma here 'cause we've got a list of nouns between our pottery, jewellery and scenery.

Root word there is scene ending in an e.

Removes the e and then add ery.

Calendars, that was that curriculum word.

Calendar, spells calendar.

It's that ar for that er at the end there.

And of course, a full stop.

So, in February, the art store sold pottery, jewellery, scenery calendars.

How did you get on there? Did you make any measure mistakes? What success have you had? Pause the video, share your learning and make any corrections now.

Off you go.

Great spelling today, team.

Today we've been looking at that suffix, ery.

That suffix, ery usually turns words into nouns.

When the root word is obvious, it's often that ery spelling and not ary.

When the root word ends in e, we remove the e and add that vowel suffix, ery.

Great job today.

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