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Hello and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss.

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 would also be brilliant, right? Let's get right into today's spelling lesson, then them.

In today's lesson, we are investigating compound words.

The outcome will be, I can spell compound words.

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.

Compound word.

Brilliant.

Just two keywords today.

Let's have a think about what these keywords mean then.

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

A compound word is two or more words joined together to create a new word with a new meaning.

Investigating compound words.

We are going to be looking at compound words first, and then we're gonna have a go at practising and applying some of the spellings we've been looking at.

Let's get on with looking at compound words.

Compound words are formed when two or more root words are added together to create a new, longer word.

Here we have the words play and ground added together to make playground.

Blue and bell can be put together to make the word bluebell, a new word.

Foot and ball create football.

Notice how the spelling of either the root words here has not changed.

There are many examples of compound words.

The spelling of the original words stays the same.

Let's have a read of some words.

My turn, your turn.

Newspaper, seaside, football, starfish, waterfall, somewhere honeycomb.

All of these words are made up of two words.

If we take newspaper, it's made up of the words news and paper.

Two separate words.

Seaside, made up of the words sea and side.

Foot and ball, star and fish, water and fall, some and where, honey and comb.

And those words on their own have their own meanings and they can be used separately.

But then joined together, they create compound words.

Words we've added those two words together, and they now have a new meaning.

The spelling of each word in the compound word has not changed.

So the spelling of those root words that we've used to add together to create the new words has not changed.

For instance, the word anywhere is made up of any and where.

And you'll notice here, the spelling of any and the spelling of where has not changed when being added together to create anywhere.

Eye and and ball, exactly the same.

Eyeball.

Outside.

Again, to create outside, not changed.

Each word can make sense on its own.

Paint.

Brush.

Together, used separately, they'll make sense on their own.

Joined together they create the compound word paintbrush.

A new word with a new meaning.

Shoe, lace.

Shoelace, both linked to the word shoe and lace, joined together to make shoelace, new word.

No, where creates nowhere.

Dust and bin, dustbin.

I find it can help to go paint brush, paintbrush.

Shoe lace.

Shoelace.

No where.

Nowhere.

Dust bin.

Dustbin.

When another word is joined to it, it forms a new word that we call a compound word.

This new word has a new meaning, but the spelling of those individual words when joined together has not changed.

Most compound words are nouns.

So they're ppts, people, places or things.

So I want you to read through these three sentences now.

I'd like you to select the compound word in each sentence.

Think carefully.

Pause the video.

Read those sentences.

Find the compound words.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

He settled down in front of the fire with a newspaper.

Well, I can hear there.

News paper, newspaper, newspaper.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

I've got here newspaper, which is my compound word.

It was news and paper, put together, two words.

The spelling of news and paper haven't changed.

They've been brought together to create a new word, newspaper.

They spent their summers at the seaside.

Sea side.

Oh, they've been joined together there.

And yesterday I played football after school.

Be careful with this one, yesterday.

Although you can see a word in a word there, day, yester though on its own, not a word is it? So yes, in day they have sort of been brought together, but they're not compound words.

Yester, not a word on its own that can make sense on its own.

So the root, the word here, which is a compound word with the two root words drawn together.

It's football.

Foot and ball have been added together.

So look at these nouns for me.

Sun, flower.

In their own right, they make sense, don't they? Sun and flower.

Compound words have a new meaning, which is often linked to the meaning of those root words.

So we can create the word sunflower, which is a flower that looks like the sun.

Look at these nouns for me.

Star fish.

Again, the spelling of these original words won't have changed.

And we can create the word starfish.

The words have just been joined together to form a new compound word, which is starfish, which is a fish or fish-like creature that looks like a star.

So something that's found in the sea that looks like a star, starfish.

Often a single word can be used within lots of different compound words.

And this can really help us with our spelling.

For instance, the word time.

If you know how to spell the word time, you know how to spell lots of words.

Lunchtime, for instance, bedtime, daytime, timetable, timeline, timekeeper.

So again, these words are all linked because of that word time.

However, the word playtime is not a compound word.

And you'll notice here is not a compound word because the words are not joined together to create a new word.

They stay separate and have separate meanings.

If we know how to spell one word, it can help us with the spelling of all of these other words as well.

So have a look here for me.

On the left hand side, I've got some words.

And on the right hand side, I've got some words.

Each word on the left hand side matches a word on the right hand side to create compound words.

Pause the video, match the words up, and have a go at saying those compound words.

Now, off you go.

Brilliant.

So star fish.

Excellent.

Our word was starfish.

Wind mill.

Our our new word there, our compound word is windmill.

Somewhere is our word there.

And finally, paint and brush.

Paintbrush.

So star fish, starfish, wind mill, windmill.

Some where, somewhere.

Paint and brush, paintbrush.

Some compound words can contain three existing words joined together.

So it's not always just two.

Have a look at these words for me.

Mother-in-law.

And you'll notice an interesting piece of punctuation here.

Forget-me-not.

Something that will mean you don't forget someone.

And commander in chief.

These words contain a hyphen because they contain multiple words as opposed to just two.

And this makes 'em clearer and easier to read.

So remember, compound words won't always just be two words.

They can be more than two and they will often then be separated by hyphens to make them clearer and easier to read.

These are not as common as the compound words made up of two existing words that we've been looking at so far in this lesson.

So here's our practise task.

With compound words in mind, I'd like you to use each word once to complete the sentences and create compound words.

Put your rubbish in the mm bin.

He spotted the mm fish under the rock.

Remember to tie your mm lace so you don't trip.

The museum is mm where along this street.

And the words we have are shoe, some, dust and star.

So pause the video now.

Create the compound words by adding these words to the other words.

Off you go.

Brilliant job team.

Done a really, really good job there.

And I loved hearing you say those words out loud and then repeating the sentences too.

So remember, our compound word is two root words or could be more than that.

But in this instance we're just adding two root words together.

The spelling of those root words won't change, but those words will now be together in a new word.

So our words were dust bin.

Put your rubbish in the dust bin.

He spotted the starfish under the rock.

Remember to tie your shoelace so you don't trip and the museum is somewhere along this street.

Make sure as well that you've left no space in order to make them compound words.

If there's a space between, they're two separate words.

None of these words needed a hyphen either.

How did you do? Pause the video and check.

Onto our final learning cycle then, which is to practise and apply our spellings.

Let's read some curriculum words.

These are words which will appear commonly in our reading and writing.

And that's important we know how to spell them so we're confident when using them.

So my turn your turn.

Enough.

That is enough.

Naughty.

Forwards.

I moved forwards.

Have a look at these words again for me.

Have a say of them.

Look at the spelling compared to how it sounds.

What do you think might be difficult about them? Do you notice anything interesting about these spellings? Pause a video and have a think.

Brilliant.

So I've noticed in enough is an O-U-G-H.

There's a letter string that can be remembered by the pneumonic ou grumpy hippo.

So it's E-N-O-U-G-H, O-U grumpy hippo.

Enough.

Be careful.

There's no F.

There's no F's there.

It's O-U-G-H.

Then we have naughty.

And I've noticed there's that A-U-G-H for that augh.

That augh sound is spelled a A-U-G-H.

And then it's got that EE spelled with a Y at the end.

Naughty.

The A-U-G-H here in naughty can be remembered with another pneumonic, another upside down grumpy hippo, A-U-G-H.

And finally in forwards the ar spelling there in forwards makes sort of sound like book and look makes an ugh.

Forwards.

So be careful with that one.

It's not four words.

Okay? Or like the word war.

It's forwards.

It's making an ugh sound forwards.

So be careful.

With those words in mind then, which are the correct spellings of the curriculum words we've just looked at then? Enough.

Pause the video and point to it now.

Can you remember that mnemonic device? Fantastic.

So enough.

It's E and then N and then O-U-G-H.

And we can remember that as O-U grumpy hippo.

Remember, it's a strange spelling for the way it sounds.

The next word was naughty.

There's another mnemonic device that can help you here as well.

Pause the video and point to it now.

Brilliant.

Naught, ee, naughty.

Now how is that aught sound being spelled? It was another upside down grumpy hippo.

So N-A-U-G-H-T ad then Y.

So be careful with that one.

Another upside down grumpy hippo.

A U-G-H.

That aught.

And finally forwards.

Forwards.

I'm moving forwards.

Pause the video and point to it now.

Brilliant.

So for, F-O-R has the word for in it.

Okay, F-O-R.

And then it's that strange A-R spelling, isn't it? W-A-R-D-S, forwards.

So for wards, forwards.

Splitting words into syllables can help with spelling.

Clapping the syllables in these compound words can help too.

Waterfall.

You have a good at clapping the syllables there now.

Brilliant.

Remember, the syllables are these beats in the words where we have our vowel sounds, aren't they? Waterfall.

So we have water, which is our first word here and fall.

And together they obviously create polysyllabic words.

So our words that are compound words will always be polysyllabic.

Waterfall.

Making sure we don't miss any parts of the word there.

Play ground.

Pause the video, clap out those syllables now.

Brilliant.

Just two syllables here.

Play and ground.

And finally beekeeper.

Have a go at that one.

Brilliant.

Our first word there is just bee single syllable and keeper has two syllables there.

It'd be quite helpful there, 'cause if you think about the word water, okay, you can often forget that it's that E-R spelling.

You say water, it's, we don't emphasise it so much.

And it's the same with keeper.

We don't always say keeper, you say keeper.

So be careful there.

Using word families can also help us with our spellings and help us to spell compound words correctly.

Remember earlier we looked at the link between time and all of those other words like bedtime, lunchtime.

If you know the spelling of one word, it can help you spell any other words within the same family of words.

So here we have the common word anyone.

Anyone.

Anybody, anywhere, anything.

If I know how to spell the word root word there any, that first word, I know how to spell all of these other words.

So one, body where and thing are the other words that have been added to any there to treat the compound words.

The same here with some, if an I spell some, S-O-M-E, some.

I have someone, somebody, somewhere and something.

Interestingly here, again, all with that word sum.

Sum has been added to one body where and thing to create compound words.

So if you know to spell sum, you'll know how to spell all of these words.

And you'll notice again if you now how to spell anyone, you'll know how to spell someone.

You'll know how to spell the one part of that as well.

If you know how to spell anybody, you'll know how to spell somebody.

Anywhere, you know how to spell somewhere, anything.

You know how to spell something.

Think about these links.

Think about these patterns that you can spot and the families that are linked together.

So I'd like you here to identify the compound words that belong in the same family.

Think carefully about what I've just said.

Pause the video and point to 'em now, there's a pair of them.

Brilliant.

So if you have the word summer, something, somebody and summary.

Hmm.

Now be careful here.

This is summary as in, can you please give me a summary of the events that happened, an overall retelling of what's happened.

We have summer, as in the season.

We have something and somebody.

So the compound words here, what I'm looking for as well, remember.

So some and think is a compound word.

Some and body is a compound word.

Summer, not a compound word.

It has that suffix er on the end, doesn't it? E-R summer and summary as well, not a compound word.

So some and thing and sum and body.

They're compound words, but they're also linked, aren't they? They both contain the word some.

And if you know how to spell that word, sum, you would know to spell something and some body.

So here are our compound words that belong to the same family.

Remember, remembering those families can help you with your spellings.

Sometimes we cannot hear every syllable when we pronounce it.

Instead, we just have to look carefully and remember its spelling.

A really great word for showing this is the word every.

Now, be careful with this one 'cause it's every, isn't it? But it just sounds like every, in terms of those two syllables, 'cause our root word here is ever, isn't it? Ever, which would be two.

So we have to be really careful here.

If we learn the spelling of the word every and we memorise that this can help us spell several compound words within that same family.

So words that are part of the same family here are everyone, everywhere, everybody and everything.

Notice how these are all compound words, aren't they? Two words join together the spelling of the root words has not changed.

They've created a new word.

So what I'd like you to do for me now is to choose four spellings that you found difficult so far in this lesson.

And we are going to use the look, cover, write, check strategy to practise them.

The words that I've struggled with are dustbin, honeycomb, everywhere and naughty.

This is your chance to take some independence and responsibility for your own learning.

Think about the words you found difficult.

You could use these words or you could use some of those words that you are finding tricky.

We're gonna use a look, cover, write, check strategy, which is a really great, independent, self-checking strategy that's repetitive and embed spellings into our long-term memory.

So we have dust and bin made up of the words.

Dustbin.

Dustbin.

Two syllables.

And look closely at the word.

I study it.

It's made up of dust and bin, brilliant.

I then cover it up.

I've got it now in my head.

I then write it in my neatest handwriting, dustbin.

Ooh.

Let's see.

And I check, that final step.

I got it right, but I'm not just gonna do it once.

I'm gonna do it a number of times using that strategy, even if I keep getting it right, to really embed that spelling.

And I'm gonna use my neatest cursive handwriting to keep those links between my hand and my brain and work on that memory there, that motor and muscle memory.

So pick four words or use these four words and use that look, cover, write, check strategy now.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Fantastic job team.

How did you do that? How did you get on with that look, cover, write, check strategy.

As I said, it's a really great independent, self-checking strategy.

What words did you spell? Did you use these ones or did you spell some words that you were finding tricky? So I'm hoping you've written out your words a number of times using that strategy.

And now have them really embedded in your memory.

If you have any corrections to make or want to share your learning, share that with me now or those around you and make those corrections.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Great job today team.

We've been investigating compound words.

Remember that compound words are two or three existing words that join together to make one word.

Compound words are most often nouns.

Compound words have a new meaning, which is often linked to the meaning of the root words which have made them up.

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