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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 today's lesson, we're going to be applying the suffix -ic.

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

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn and make sure I can hear you say these back to me.

Noun, adjective, root word, suffix.

Brilliant.

Keep an eye on an ear out for these words as they're going to be really important today for today's learning.

Let's have a little chat about what they mean then.

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

An adjective describes a noun.

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

And a suffix is a lesser or group of letters added to the end of a root word to create a new word.

So today we are going to be taking nouns as our root words and adding the -ic suffix to the ends of those nouns to create adjectives.

So here's the outline.

We're gonna be applying the suffix -ic.

We're gonna look at rules for using that suffix, and then we're going to look at some strategies for practise.

And finally, we're gonna have a go at applying the spellings that we've been looking at today within a sentence.

Let's get on with looking at the rules for using the suffix -ic.

A suffix member is a letter or group of letters that we add to the end of a word that creates another word.

Unlike prefixes, suffixes often change the word's tense or word class.

Here we have the root word, invent.

I add tion to make invention.

Notice there that the spelling of my root word changed a tad.

Here we have joy, and I've added full, joyful.

Here the spelling of my root word has not changed, but I have created a new word, joyful.

Electric.

If I add I-T-Y becomes electricity.

Notice that the pronunciation there of the root word change a touch as well.

So here we have three examples of suffixes, full, I-T-Y and tion, T-I-O-N.

Today we're looking at adding -ic as our suffix.

There are lots of different types of suffix.

Remember that there are also different rules to how the root word will change, dependent on the root word, how it's spelled, and also the suffix which is being added.

Let's read some words then that use this -ic suffix.

My turn, your turn.

Poetic, organic, heroic, basic, scenic.

Something that's scenic is something that's beautiful.

Historic, allergic, scientific.

So you can see here that all of these words contain that -ic suffix.

Some of them you can see have obvious root words as well, that this -ic suffix has been added to.

Adding the -ic suffix create adjectives.

And remember, adjectives are those words that describe nouns.

An adjective ending in -ic often helps us to describe things connected to the original noun.

For instance, the hero, which was our noun now root word that we've added -ic to is heroic.

As the suffix -ic begins with a vowel, it follows many of the usual rules for adding suffixes when we can recognise the root word.

For instance, the root word poet, I've then added -ic to make poetic.

Notice that the pronunciation of that root word slightly changes as well.

Hero becomes heroic.

There are three key rules when we are adding this -ic suffix, and I'm sure you'll recognise many of these.

In many cases, we just have to add -ic.

In other cases, as with many other suffixes, we have to remove the E if the root word ends in a E and then add -ic.

And finally, if the root well ends in a Y, remove the Y and then add our -ic.

So let's have a look at this in action then.

We've got here the root words, angel, artist and class or class have become angelic, artistic and classic.

Just having to add -ic there.

And then we can see here, we need to remove the E and then add -ic.

The root words were base, athlete and scene.

We've had to chop that E off and then add our -ic suffix.

And finally, our root words were specify, history and allergy.

So that I sound being made by the Y there at the end, we remove the Y to make specific, historic and allergic.

So three key rules to remember.

Just add -ic in some instances.

Remove the E and add -ic, and then remove the Y and add -ic.

So let's look at some words with the -ic suffix and see how those root words have changed.

When the root word ends in an E, remember, we remove the E and then add -ic.

So here the root word is base.

We want to make the adjective basic, something that's simple.

I remove the E and add -ic.

Here my root word is scene, like the scene from a film or the place in real life or fiction where an incident has occurred.

Notice here it has a naughty C in it, scene.

We don't hear that C, it's making a soft sound.

And also don't confuse this word with I have seen you, which is a homophone, a word that sounds the same, but is spelt differently and has a different meaning.

We want to make the adjective scenic.

I remove the E from the root word scene and then add -ic.

Athlete here becomes athletic.

Notice there's a difference there also in sound.

Athlete, athlete.

So there's a different E sound being made there, and eh, as opposed to that E athlete, athletic.

Again, remove the E and add -ic.

So the E is removed here, and then the suffix -ic is added to turn these words, these nouns into adjectives.

What will the spelling of these words ending in E be when the suffix -ic is added? We have the root word base, scene.

Will you keep or remove the E? I want us to have a go at spelling the words, basic and scenic, those two adjectives.

Pause the video now.

(no audio) So absolutely we need to remove the E to make basic and remove the E to make scenic.

When the root word ends in a Y, we have to remove the Y and then add -ic.

Irony here becomes ironic.

Ironic is an adjective used to describe something happening in the way that you wouldn't usually expect it to happen often with a funny outcome.

Economy becomes economic.

History becomes historic.

Horrified becomes horrific, and the pronunciation certainly changes there.

So with these words here, we remove the Y and then add -ic to create our adjectives.

What will the spelling of these words be ending in Y when we add our suffix -ic then? We have horrify and irony.

Are we going to remove the Y, keep the Y before adding our -ic suffix? How are we gonna spell the words horrific and ironic as adjectives? Pause the video now and have a go.

Think about the rule we've looked at.

(no audio) Great, absolutely, we need to remove the Y and then add -ic so it becomes horrific and ironic.

If the root word does not end in the letter E or the letter Y, then the root word stays the same.

So here, poet, that noun, someone who will read poetry becomes poetic.

That's an adjective used to describe a piece of work.

Icon becomes iconic.

Iconic is an adjectives that's used to describe something that's worthy of being celebrated.

Magnet becomes magnetic.

Was a noun, now it's an adjective.

Organ can become organic, something that's grown naturally.

So there are lots of words with the suffix -ic, where we can't always recognise the root words.

For instance, the words comic, manic and tropic as well.

So you won't always have a clear root word there.

So what will the spelling of these words be when the -ic suffix is added? We have icon and magnet.

Remember, do they end it in E or a Y? Does that root word need to change? Pause the video now and have a think.

(no audio) Brilliant, remember looking carefully at the spelling of the root word can really help us here.

Neither of these root words ended in E or a Y.

So we don't have to remove any letters.

I simply have to add -ic to create iconic and magnetic.

So our rule here is just add -ic.

So we've looked now at three key rules when adding that suffix, -ic, to the end of words, to create adjectives.

We've looked at just adding -ic.

We've looked at removing the Y and adding -ic, and we've looked at removing the E and adding -ic.

So I wanna show us now some words that are root words onto which we can add our -ic suffix.

And I want you to think about the rules and have a go at spelling those words and pick the correct rule.

So here's our first root word, economy.

How am I going to spell economic? Pause the video, select the correct rule now and have a go at spelling it.

(no audio) Brilliant.

The root word ends in a Y.

So I need to remove the Y to create the word economic.

So it is rule B.

My next root word is poet.

Poet, how am I going to turn this into an adjective by adding -ic, what's the word going to be? Pause the video, select the correct rule, have a go at spelling it.

Have a go at saying it.

Off you go.

(no audio) Brilliant, it doesn't end in a E and it doesn't end in a Y, ends in that consonant T, I just have to add -ic to make the word poetic.

So our rule is A.

Next root word, scene.

Scene like the scene from a movie.

I want to create the adjective, scenic.

Pause the video now.

Which rule will I use? Have a go at spelling that word.

(no audio) Brilliant.

That root word ends in an E, doesn't it? So I need to remove the E and add -ic.

So I'm using rule C here.

Scenic.

And remember in that word, watch out for that naughty C.

And be careful with the homophone.

SEEN, seen, like I've seen you.

That's not what this word means.

So with that in mind and with the fact that we know those three rules now, I've got four root words here onto which the -ic suffix can be added to create adjectives.

I would like to show how each of these root words will change and have a go at spelling the new adjective once we add the -ic suffix.

So magnet will become magnetic, allergy will become allergic, base will become basic, and terrify will become terrific.

Pause the video, now look carefully at the root words, have a go at writing, those new adjectives, off you go.

(no audio) Excellent job, team.

Brilliant consideration there of the root words and those rules that we've generated for adding this suffix.

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

Magnet becomes magnetic.

Now think about this.

We are adding -ic at the end, aren't we, all the time here, 'cause that's the suffix we've been adding today.

I know it's a short vowel sound, magnet.

Ih, ick, but it's not gonna be a CK.

It's just going to be our -ic suffix.

And the spelling of that root world won't change because it doesn't end in an E or a Y.

So it becomes magnetic.

Allergy will become allergic.

This root word ends in a Y.

That E sound there is made by a Y, I need to remove the Y and then add -ic to create the word, allergic.

Like you might have an allergic reaction, the adjective there.

Base becomes basic saying it is simple.

Base, most base form, basic.

Think about this one, again, I know it's ih, ih, short vowel sound where you might expect there to be a CK, but it's our -ic suffix we've been adding today.

I need to remove the E from base and then add -ic to create the word basic.

And here we have terrify, which will become terrific.

So for terrific, I have to remove the Y and then add -ic.

Correct Spelling is this one here.

How did you do? What success have you had? Remember, always look carefully if there's a known root word onto which suffix has been added because we can consider the rules that you generated by adding certain suffixes.

Share your learning now, make any corrections.

off you go.

(no audio) Onto our next learning cycle then, which is going to be strategies to practise.

So let's read the following words.

My turn.

Your turn.

Bicycle, centre, recent.

So this is a bicycle that you might ride, the centre of something, so that middle point and something that's recent has happened in the near past.

So have a look at these words again for me.

Have a go at saying them.

They're curriculum words.

It's really important we know how to spell them.

But there's some tricky bits about them.

Have a go at saying those words again and consider what's difficult about these spellings and what would be harder to remember? Pause the video and have a think now.

(no audio) Brilliant.

Well, I've noticed a couple of things.

In bicycle, centre and recent, they all have this soft C, don't they? So the letter C or the nearest C in bicycle in particular at the beginning of each word makes a soft sound.

So bicycle, centre, recent, S, S.

I've also noticed it's a couple of things.

The Y in bicycle bi, ih, ih, sounds like an eh, doesn't it? It sounds like a sound that an I spelling might make, bicycle, not a Y.

In centre has an RE at the end, but it's making an er sound.

So it's flipped those R and a E, you might expect normally an er sound to be ER, er, er, like a better letter.

But here it's an re, centre.

And finally, in recent, we don't always clearly hear that E and don't always say recent.

I say recent, so sometimes isn't really clearly emphasised.

So be careful.

Remember, bicycle, centre and recent all contain a soft C.

In bicycle, the ih is made by a Y, in centre, that er, that sound at the end there is made by an re.

And in recent there's an E that we don't always hear.

With that in mind then, which of these words is spelled correctly? Remember, these are curriculum words.

Bicycle, pause the video and point to the correct spelling of bicycle now.

(no audio) Great, well let's think about what was tricky about it.

Had a soft, soft C into it bicycle and the ih, ih sound was made by a Y, bicycle, and it had the LE at the end as well.

So bicycle is here.

centre, as in the city centre, the centre of the ring.

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

(no audio) Great, right, it's that soft C, isn't it? S, S.

And then how do we say it was, the sound at the end was spelled? RE, centre like that.

And the final one, recent.

Recent.

How am I gonna spell recent? Pause the video and point to it now.

(no audio) Great, recent, they had a soft C.

All of these words had a soft C bicycle, centre, recent.

So soft C, and I don't always hear do I, the E, I don't always say recent, but there's a naughty E in there.

So it's R-E-C-E-N-T, recent.

Brilliant.

So there are also loads of words or many words that use the suffix, -ic, that we may not recognise the root word for.

Here we have the word comic.

This is an adjective that describes something that's meant to cause laughter.

We have manic, something that's crazy and wild.

Tropic, something that's warm near the tropics.

These words are also adjectives.

They end in our -ic suffix.

You can use how the word sounds to help you spell them.

Comic.

Comic.

So comic.

And you know if it's an adjective, it's gonna be that -ic.

Manic actually has a word in a word there, man and then ick, man, ick, M-A-N-I-C and tropic, trop T-R-O-P, trop, ick.

If it's an adjective, it's gonna be that -ic spelling.

So use how they sound to help you spell these words.

If there's no clear root word for us to add our -ic suffix onto.

With that in mind then, have a read of these sentences, which is the correct spelling of our adjectives of our -ic suffix? Off you go.

(no audio) Brilliant.

I love reading comic books about superheroes.

So comic here.

Now I've got, they both are phonetically plausible, aren't they? But remember if it's an adjective here that's being used, okay, comic books, -ic, <v ->ic is going to be my suffix, so C-O-M-I-C.

</v> We learn about animals that live in tropic regions, tropic.

So have a think about the spelling we looked at before.

Trop, T-R-O-P, trop, I know it's gonna be -ic.

I don't know if I need a double P.

So the correct spelling is here, tropic.

The streets were manic with people rushing to get to the concert.

So the streets were wild and crazy.

People hustling, bustling and walking around everywhere.

It's an adjective.

It's being used to describe the streets.

Okay, manic, man is in that word.

Mm, Ah, mm, man.

And -ic, 'cause it's an adjective, okay? Manic.

Great.

Remember, use the sound of the words if you don't have the clear root word to help you.

And remember, if it's an adjective, it's being used to describe a noun in the sentence, it's more than likely going to be that -ic suffix spelling.

So spelling rules can help us to know how to spell words, but there's no replacement for good old practise as well.

And that's what this learning cycle is all about.

Strategies to practise.

When you practise, you remember words more easily and you get better at noticing how they're spelled.

You become more confident, especially using 'em in your writing.

There are loads of spelling strategies that we can use, but one that we're going to be using today is a really great independent and repetitive strategy called the look, cover, write, check strategy.

Can you say that for me? Look, cover, write, check.

Brilliant, so the look cover, write, check strategy helps us in several ways.

The first is through visualising the word.

Because we have to look carefully at the word first, paying close attention to how it's spelled on any tricky parts.

So it's particularly useful when spelling those common exceptional curriculum words.

Then it tests our memory because we cover the word up once we've looked at it and memorised it so you can't see it anymore.

And this tests our memory as we try to remember how it's spelt.

Finally, we practise, we write the word from memory.

This helps to reinforce the spelling in our mind, 'cause writing by hand is a powerful way to remember things.

Makes those links if we use our best cursive handwriting also between our hand and our brain through motor memory.

And finally we have independence and self-correction.

We check our spelling against the original by uncovering it and we see if we spelled it correctly.

This helps us to learn from any mistakes and remember the correct spelling for next time.

And we do the strategy a number of times.

We don't just look, cover, write, check, and if we've got it write, stop there.

We keep going till it's really ingrained in our memories.

So I've got the strategy here, but it's all out of order.

What order should this strategy go in? Pause the video and put this into the correct order now.

Off you go.

(no audio) Fantastic, the first thing we always do whenever we're doing any spelling strategy and learning spellings is always look, always have to look carefully.

Then we have to cover it up and now we're trying to visualise it in our head from memory.

Then we write, obviously using our best cursive script.

And finally we then check back against the original.

We make any corrections, we see how we did.

So our strategy, remember is look, cover, write, check.

So I'd like you now to choose three words to practise the look, cover, write, check strategy with, choose the words that you found most difficult from the lesson so far.

I found these words difficult.

Recent, which is one of our curriculum words, 'cause of that soft C and that E that we don't always hear, manic and comic.

The reason I've chosen those two is, 'cause they don't have clear root words.

So recent mannequin comic, I'm gonna use the look cover, write check strategy now.

I look at recent, think about what's tricky about it and the soft C and the E there recent, I then cover it up, I've memorised it, I can see it.

Yep, I have a go at writing it in my neatest handwriting, recent.

And then I check back, oh, I managed to get it right, but I don't just do it once.

I'm gonna do it a number of times to really embed that strategy into my long term, that spelling into my long-term memory using this great strategy.

So I'd like you now to take some responsibility, some independence, and choose three words and have a go at writing them out a number of times using this strategy.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

(no audio) Great job, team.

Done a really good job.

So I have written out recent, manic and comic a number of times just like this.

I'm wondering how you did.

Obviously you'll have to check your spelling against the original spelling.

You always have to start with the correct spelling to begin with.

Did you spell them correctly? Look back at your original spelling, check.

Make any corrections if you need to, share the favourite word that you practised using this strategy.

Share your learning, correct any mistakes.

Now pause the video, off you go.

(no audio) Okay, onto our final learning cycle then, which is going to be applying spellings within a sentence.

So we're going to write a sentence containing some of our focus spellings now.

Remember, we've been focusing on those adjectives ending in that suffix -ic.

When we write the whole sentence, we have to do several things at once.

So it's really take our time.

We need to remember the whole sentence, sound out each word, think of our spelling rules.

So if we know the root word here, we know we're either going to remove the E or the Y and add -ic.

And if there is no E or Y at the end of that root word, we just add -ic and we look out for those common exception and curriculum words.

Remember we've looked at bicycle, recent, and then we also need to remember our sentence punctuation, capital letters, full stops and any other punctuation might be in the sentence.

So I'd like you to just listen to me first of all, say this sentence, use your incredible hearing and listen to me before we have a go saying it ourselves.

"Riding his electric bicycle, he explored the scenic streets with the terrific and iconic landmarks.

Riding his electric bicycle, he explored the scenic streets with the terrific and iconic landmarks." So I'm not just gonna expect you to write that all of a sudden, we're gonna have a go at saying the sentence ourselves a number of times and using some strategies to help us remember it.

First one is tapping out.

"Riding his electric bicycle, he explored the scenic streets with the terrific and iconic landmarks." Pause the video and tap that out now.

Off you go.

(no audio) Brilliant.

The next one, saying, in a silly voice, "Riding his electric bicycle, he explored the scenic streets with terrific and iconic landmarks." Pause the video and sit in your silliest voice and see if you can make me laugh.

Off you go.

(no audio) Brilliant, some amazing silly voices there.

And finally counting the fingers on our, counting the words on our fingers, not the fingers on our words.

"Riding his electric bicycle, he explored the scenic streets with the terrific and iconic landmarks." Pause the video and count that sentence on your fingers now, off you go.

(no audio) Brilliant.

So we're gonna have a go now writing the sentence, I'm gonna say it one more time.

You're gonna sound out each word, look out for those common exception words, and then check your sentence punctuation.

So I'll say the sentence one more time and then you are gonna have a go at writing it.

"Riding his electric bicycle, he explored the scenic streets with the terrific and iconic landmarks." Pause the video and have a go at writing that now.

(no audio) Brilliant job, team.

Done a great job there.

Really, really, really great use of lots of our words with our -ic suffix there.

Also some great punctuating and some wonderful presentation and handwriting.

So let's check our work now and make any corrections.

Riding capital, R there, it's beginning of our sentence.

His electric.

So here we've got -ic here, electric, bicycle.

It's an adjective used to describe the bicycle.

Bicycle is that soft C, remember? And that first C and then that Y for that ih, bicycle, and we have a comma here after our front of that verb here, riding his electric bicycle, he explored, ED, the scenic.

Our root word there was scene.

We removed the E and ad -ic, streets with the terrific, terrify there.

Remove the Y, ad -ic and iconic, icon, no E, no Y.

Just have to add -ic to the root word.

Landmarks.

That's a compound word.

Pause the video now.

How did you do? Did you remember your punctuation? What have you learned? Did you make any magical mistakes? Do you have any corrections to make? Share your learning and make your corrections now.

Off you go.

(no audio) Great job in spelling today, everyone.

Really, really impressed.

The suffix, -ic, often turns nouns into adjectives.

Some words ending in -ic don't have a root word we recognise.

There are three spelling rules when we do recognise the root word, often we just have to add -ic.

But if the root word ends in an E, we remove the E and add -ic.

And if the root word, that noun ends in a Y, we remove the Y and add -ic.

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

(no audio).