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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, 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 be great as well.

Well, let's get on with today's spelling lesson then.

In today's spelling lesson, it goes to be adding the suffix, EN to words.

The outcome will be, I can turn adjectives and nouns into verbs using suffix, EN.

So here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn.

Your turn.

Suffix, root word, adjective, noun, verb.

So today we are going to be adding suffixes.

Remember that a suffix is a letter or group of letters will be added to the end of a word to change its meaning.

We're going to be adding the suffix, EN to words today.

We're gonna be adding onto root words, and those are base words from which other words are formed by adding prefixes or suffixes.

An adjective describes a noun.

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

And a verb is a doing, being, or having word.

So today we're gonna be adding that suffix, EN to root words, either adjectives or nouns, and turning them into verbs that have that EN ending.

Here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're going to be adding the EN, the suffix, EN to words.

We're gonna begin by looking at some rules for adding that suffix.

Then we're going to practise some spellings, and finally we're going to apply our spellings within a sentence.

So let's get on with adding the suffix, EN to words then.

Remember, the suffix is a letter or group of letters that be added to the end of a word.

Unlike prefixes, suffixes often change the word's tense or word class, and they create a new word.

Here we have the root word offer.

I have my ed suffix, and it becomes offered.

Notice there that my root word hasn't changed at all.

This won't always be the case dependent on the suffix we're adding, and the root word.

Here we have decor, which we add ate to to become decorate, which is a verb.

It's changed the word class there.

Here we have elastic.

I can add my ate verb suffix ending there to make elasticate.

Again, changing the word class.

So there are lots of different types of suffix.

Here are just two ed and ate.

Remember that today we are adding the suffix, EN.

There are different rules for how those root words will change dependent on the suffix that we are adding.

So let's read some words that have our EN suffix in.

As well as other verb suffix endings.

Here we have activate, pollinate, deepen.

There's our en, strengthen, there's our en.

Apologise, modernise, purify, and beautify.

So I can see two words there that I have that suffix that we are concentrating on today, deepen and strengthen.

But all of these suffix, ATE, EN, ISE, and IFY are all linked.

They all end with the suffixes, ATE, EN, IFY, and ISE.

These are what we call "my turn, your turn verb suffixes." Brilliant.

They transform the root words into verbs where the root word may have been a noun or an adjective.

If we add these suffixes to the end, they become verbs.

Doing, being, or having words.

They often change the meaning to an action or process related to the quality of the root word.

So if we look at the word deepen, for instance, you know what that word deep means? It's an adjective.

If we deepen something, we are making it deeper.

It's that quality of making it that root word deeper.

So the suffix is ATE, EN, IFY, and ISE which are found in verbs, often mean to make or to become.

Decorate is to make something more attractive.

Sweeten, we have the root word sweet there.

We add our en suffix that we are concentrating on today is to make something sweet.

It's to make it that root word.

Simplify, IFY is my suffix there, is to make something more simple and modernise is to become modern.

Our root word there is modern.

We're concentrating, remember today on that EN suffix.

Look at how the meaning of these words are connected.

We have length, my turn, your turn length.

So the length of something, how long it is, is a measurement of something from end to end.

I then added my en suffix to make the word my turn, your turn lengthen.

That is to make something longer.

To increase its length.

The en suffix turns nouns or adjectives into verbs to being, doing or having words.

The length of this table is two metres.

In this sentence, Length is a noun.

It is a thing.

I will lengthen this dress with extra fabric.

In this instance, lengthen is a verb.

It's a doing word, making something longer.

It's the action of making something longer, of lengthening it.

So here I've got the word flat and the word flatten in two different sentences, I'd like you to figure out which word class the word flat is, and which word class the word flatten is.

Pause the video, read the sentences, and have a think.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

The landscape was flat with no hills.

It is an adjective here, an adjective describes a noun.

A noun here is the landscape.

Our adjective is flat.

The chef used a rolling pin to flatten the dough.

In this instance, flatten referring to an action, making something flat.

It's a doing word, so it's a verb.

Notice we've added our EN suffix to change our adjective flat into the word flatten, which is now a verb.

Remember, adding certain suffixes can change the word class of word.

The suffix EN begins with a vowel and follow similar spelling patterns for adding the suffixes, ING and ED 'cause it begins in that vowel, lengthen, soften, tighten, ripen, sadden, flatten, sharpen.

Can you recognise any rules from these words? Consider what the root words are.

Pause the video.

Have a read of those words again.

Look at where the suffix has been added and think, has that root word changed? Has it stayed the same? What might our rules be when adding our en suffix? Pause the video and have a think now.

Can look here carefully at the root word and see how it's changed.

So if I look at lengthen, the root where there is length and I've just had to add an en.

Soften, my root word is soft and I've just had to add an en.

Tighten a tight, again.

I've just had to add an EN.

So let's have a little bit of a closer look now at adding our en suffix.

What happens to these root words when the suffix EN is added? length becomes lengthen.

Sharp becomes sharpen.

Deep becomes deepen.

The suffix is just added on.

The root word doesn't change.

We just have to add our EN suffix to create our verbs: Lengthen, sharpen and deepen.

The root word ends in a consonant.

So in length we have th in sharp, we have rp, and in deep we have our p.

And it doesn't have a short vowel sound in any of these.

So we have lengthen, sharpen, deepen.

Our rule here then is just add the suffix.

What happens to these root words? When the suffix EN is added? wide becomes widen.

So you're making something wider.

Awake becomes awaken.

That act of waking up.

The final E is removed before the suffix is added here.

We don't want to have two E's.

We remove the E and then add our EN suffix.

So our root words here end in a vowel.

So we remove that vow before adding our EN.

This makes sense 'cause our suffix begins with a vowel, an E.

So here our rule is remove the final vowel, then add the suffix.

So in some instances we just add EN in others, we have to remove the final vowel and then add EN.

What will the spelling of these words be when the suffix EN is added? So tight, ripe.

I want ask to spell the words, Tighten and ripen.

Think about the rules you just looked at.

Pause the video.

Have a go at spelling.

Tighten and ripen.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

So Tighten ends in a consonant, doesn't it? I'm just gonna add EN and ripen.

Enter the vowel or remove that E, and then add EN.

So just add the suffix and remove the final vowel, and then add the suffix.

The spelling of the root word here is going to help us know how to spell our new verb with that EN suffix.

The spellings and meanings are also connected between tight and tighten, ripe and ripen.

What happens to these root words when the suffix en is added, then? flat.

Notice what happens, becomes flatten, sad becomes sadden.

The final consonant here is doubled and the suffix is added.

These root words contain a short vowel sounds.

Our short vowel sounds are ah, eh, i, ah, uh.

Let's look at this.

Flatten, ah, ah, short vowel, and then a single consonant.

So we double that consonant and add EN sadden.

Ah, ah.

Again, double the D consonant and add EN to get flatten and sadden.

So here all it is.

Double the consonant and then add the suffix.

So we have our three major rules here.

I want us to have a go at adding the suffix EN to some root words, and I want us to consider which rule we will be using and how that new word, the new verb with EN ending is going to be spelt.

We have A, just add the suffix.

B, remove the final vowel and add our suffix.

And C, double the cons anent and add the suffix.

So here we have loose.

Loose.

We want to make loosen.

How am I going to do that? Think about the root word.

Pause the video, select the rule, have a go at spelling, loosen.

Off you go.

Great.

Well, the root word is ending in an E there, isn't it? A vowel.

So I need to remove that E and then add EN.

So remove the final vowel, then add our suffix.

The next root word is bright.

How am I gonna spell Brighten? Pause the video.

Select the rule.

Have a go at spelling that word now.

Great job, bright ends in a consonant, doesn't it? So I just have to add my EN here.

Brighten.

There you go.

And it's a long vowel sound "bright." It's not a short vowel sound.

So I don't use double consonant, I just add the EN suffix.

My next word is glad.

I want to make the word gladden.

Pause the video.

Which rule would I use here? Be careful.

Look at that root word.

Listen to it as well.

Off you go.

Great.

Glad becomes gladden.

Ah.

Ah.

Short vowel sound, double the final single consonant add EN.

So it's rule C.

So I'd like you now for your practise task to show how each word will change when the suffix EN is added.

Use the spelling of the root word and the rules that we've looked at to really think carefully about how you're going to add your EN suffix.

So you have bright, wide, hard and flat, and I want us to create the verbs.

Brighten, widen, harden, flatten.

Pause the video.

Have a go at writing those words now.

Off you go.

Fantastic work team.

Let's see how you've done then.

Bright is our root word, brighten.

Now sometimes our EN can sound, a bit like an IN, but we know it's our EN suffix is going to create our verb.

So brighten, we just have to add the en because it ends in a consonant.

Widen, now wide ends in an E.

So I have to remove that final vowel and then add my EN.

I don't want two E's there.

Hard, harden the process is then becoming harder, that action of becoming hard, harder.

The outer shell began to harden.

Hmm.

So harden, hard, consonant.

And then just add our EN.

And finally, flatten.

Flatten.

Ah ah, short vowel sound.

Ah, ah, ah.

A short vowel sounds before single consonant.

So I've gotta double the consonant and add EN for flatten.

I'll flatten you like a pancake.

So check, see how you did.

Pause the video, make any corrections now.

Off you go.

Onto our next learning cycle then, which is practising spellings.

Let's begin by reading a word.

My turn your turn.

Consider, consider.

I wish you would consider my offer.

Consider, interest, interest, history, history.

Have a go saying these words again and think what would be tricky about the way that they're spelled compared to how they sound? Consider, interest, history.

Pause the video and have a think.

Great.

There's a few things I've noticed.

In consider, has three syllables.

Con-si-der, spelling each syllable in turn can help us, and it's quite a useful strategy so we don't miss any sounds out.

Con-si-der.

You can't always hear the E in the middle of interest.

Lots of people say intrest.

They don't say interest, they say "intrest." It's not emphasised all of the time.

Some people pronounce the word "intrest" and in history, again, we don't always hear that O, but we do know that there's a word in a word there.

There's a useful strategy tell for us.

Remember how to spell history.

The word story is in history.

Remember that O with that in mind, how do I spell these curriculum words then, the words that we've just looked at, which of these is the correct spelling of consider? Pause the video and point to it now.

Brilliant.

Consider.

So it is gonna have three syllables, isn't it? Con-sid-er, breaking the word up like that can help us to spell it.

So it is this one here, con sid er.

Interest.

Think about which was the naughty letter here, pause the video and point to the correct spelling of interest now.

I have great interest in seeing how you spell this word.

Pause the video.

Fantastic.

Remember, it's in-ter-est.

You don't always hear that E, some people might pronounce it intrest, but it's interest, E there in the middle, in ter est and history.

Remember, there's a particular word that's hidden inside this word.

Pause and point to the correct spelling of history now.

Brilliant.

Remember the story in history that's H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.

You can see story there.

These are all curriculum words that are gonna appear a lot in our reading and writing.

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

Well done.

So now we're going to practise spelling words with the suffix, EN, that don't have an obvious root word.

Look carefully at these words and think about anything special or difficult about the spellings, my turn your turn.

Happen, Listen, Open.

Have a little think for me now.

What do you notice about these spellings? What might be difficult about them? Pause the video and have a think now.

Brilliant, for me in happen, it's that double P, happen.

Also be careful.

It's that EN happen.

Listen.

Now we don't pronounce here very clearly.

The T do we? I don't say lis ten.

I say listen and open is that O spelling there isn't it at the beginning? Open that O sounds spelled just with an O.

So the suffix E can sound like an N or an IN.

So be careful when pronouncing it.

And did you know that the root word for hap means a luck or coming by chance? Remember, happen has two P's in.

So choose the correct spellings in each sentence.

Now I'd like you to read the sentences and select the correct spelling with our EN suffix.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

I wonder what will happen at the end of the story.

HA double P, EN, right? Yeah, we said that before, happen.

Listen to the bird singing outside.

Now we know it's got that naughty T in it, hasn't it? It might sound like, lissin, IN, but it's EN is our verb ending here.

But EN suffix and we have a T in it.

Listen, lis ten spells, listen.

I remember that as having ten inside of it a word inside a word.

The shop will open at eight o'clock open.

We might not clearly say open, so we don't hear that EN, but we know it's open EN as our ending.

There are suffix, OPEN.

So I'm gonna say some words to you.

Now I'd like you to think really carefully about how they'd be spelled.

Have a go saying it yourselves.

Remember to sound out the words.

Remember any tricky parts that are in those words.

I remember to read the word and to check back, I'm either gonna give you a curriculum word here or a word that has our EN suffix, but not an obvious root word.

So the first word is interest.

This lesson is of great interest to me.

Interest, number two is history.

I love learning about history.

And number three, is listen, listen.

Listen to me.

so we have interest, history, listen.

Pause the video and have a go writing those words for me.

Now, off you go.

Great job team.

Really careful consideration there of some of these curriculum words and the naughty letters or the trickier parts of those words that are there.

So I've seen interest written in this way.

Remember what was interesting about interest? It had that E in the middle, that naughty E didn't it that lots of people would forget.

So interest there, er there in the middle.

The next one was history.

What's that wave? You can remember history.

History contains the word story.

History, H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.

Story as in history.

And then we had, listen.

Now be careful here, it's our EN.

It might not sound like it, but we know that's the suffix we've been looking at.

And there's a naughty letter in there that we don't quite hear.

Almost a silent letter.

It's the T.

We don't say lis ten, but we know ten is in Listen.

Great job.

How did you do? Pause the video.

Make any corrections now.

Off you go.

Okay, team onto our final learning cycle then.

Applying spellings within a sentence.

So we are gonna have a go now at writing a sentence containing some of our focus spellings, those words that contain our EN suffix when we write the whole sentence, we actually do several things at once.

So let's really take our time.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to sound out each word.

We also need to think of our spelling rules.

Remember where, or if we know the root word or what we do to add our EN.

And if we don't know the root word, think about some of those spellings that contain EN.

Look out for common exception and curriculum words.

Think about those curriculum words we've looked at like history and interest.

And then we need to remember our sentence punctuation.

Capital letters, full stops.

Any commas and apostrophes that might also be in there.

I'd like you to just listen to me say the sentence, first of all.

Use your incredible hearing and listen to me.

When they study history, the children listen and deepen their understanding.

When they study history, the children listen and deepen their understanding.

So let's use some strategies to help us remember this sentence now.

I'd like you to repeat the sentence several times out loud.

When they study history, the children listen and deepen their understanding.

When they study history, the children listen and deepen their understanding.

Repeat that sentence several times now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

The next one, picture what's happening in your head when they study history, the children listen and deepen their understanding.

Say that out loud again and picture what's happening in your head.

Great.

And finally, counting the words.

When they study history, the children listen and deepen their understanding.

Pause the video, say that sentence and count each word on your fingers.

So make sure you don't miss words out.

Now, off you go.

So I'm gonna say the sentence one more time in a moment and then you're gonna have a chance to write it.

Remember to sound out the words.

Look out for any common exception in curriculum words.

And don't forget your sentence punctuation.

When they study history, the children listen and deepen their understanding.

Pause the video and have a go at writing that now.

Great job team.

Some really good use of how we are going to add our suffix there, EN and also some really great careful consideration of our curriculum words and the difficulties around those words as well.

Some really great punctuation and some beautiful handwriting.

So let's see how you've done them.

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

When needs to have a capital letter, they study history that has story in it, doesn't it? That was one of our curriculum words, which have a comma here to separate our verb subordinate clause "when they study history" as our subordinate clause.

Now we are gonna have our main clause after our comma, the children.

Listen.

Listen, remember EN, and it has that T in it.

Ten is in listen and deepen.

That's that root word deep.

We just have to add EN, 'cause it ends in that consonant.

Their.

T-H-E-I-R possessive their, understanding.

Fantastic.

So remember to check you've got your comma there.

Check how you spelt history.

Remember it has story in it.

Listen and deepen.

In particular words to watch out for as well.

How did you do? What success have you had? Have you made any magical mistakes? Share your learning now and make any corrections.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

So, really great spelling today, everyone.

We've been adding that EN suffix to words today.

Whether the suffix is a letter or group of letters at the end of a word, which creates another word and can change the word class.

The suffix, EN turns adjectives and nouns into verbs.

So it's changing the word class.

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

When the root word ends in a vowel, we remove the final vowel and add the suffix.

And when the root word has a short vowel, we double the consonant and add the suffix.

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