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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, we'll be adding the suffix ous to words.

The outcome will be, "I can spell words using the suffix ous." Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you saying these.

Suffix.

Good job.

Root word, noun, adjective.

Fantastic.

Keep an eye and ear out for these in today's learning as they really are the key words.

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

A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word, which creates a new word.

A root word is that base word onto which we can add either prefixes or suffixes.

And today, remember, we're adding that ous suffix.

A noun is a naming word.

It's a PPT, a person, a place, or a thing.

And an adjective describes a noun.

It tells you what it's like.

Today we are going to be taking some nouns as our root words and adding the suffix ous to create adjectives.

Here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're going to be adding the ous suffix to words.

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

Then we're gonna look at some strategies for practising our spellings.

And finally, we're gonna have a chance to apply the spellings we've looked at in today's lesson within a sentence.

Let's get on with looking at some rules for adding the suffix ous then.

So remember that a suffix is a letter or group of letters that we can add to the end of a word to create another word.

Unlike prefixes, suffixes often change a word's tense or word class, and they can even change the spelling of the root word.

So here we have the root word offer.

I want to add my ed suffix, and it becomes the word offered.

Here I have the word camp as my root word, and I'm again adding my ed suffix to make the word camped.

Box, if I add my ing suffix can become boxing.

These are just two examples of suffixes ed and ing.

Remember, today we're looking at the ous suffix, and there are loads of different types of suffix.

There are different rules as well as to what happens to the root word when we add particular suffixes, dependent also upon the spelling of that root word.

So today we're gonna be looking at adding this ous suffix.

All of these words end in this ous suffix.

I'd like you to listen to how this ous spelt suffix sounds.

My turn, your turn, poisonous.

It makes an ous sound.

Dangerous.

Again, you can hear that ous.

So that ous makes an ous sound at the end of the word.

Famous, various, humorous, glamorous, obvious, hideous.

So we can see here the end of each of these words is our ous suffix.

Hmm, I wonder what impact this is having on those root words.

Well, adding the ous suffix creates adjectives.

All of these words are adjectives.

Adjectives, remember, are words that describe nouns.

The suffix ous means to be full of.

If something is poisonous, it is full of poison.

If something is dangerous, it is full of danger.

If something is humorous, it is really funny and full of humour.

An adjective ending in ous often shows the quality or state relating to the root word.

Now, this won't always be the case, because there might not be obvious root words that have the ous added, but we can see lots of examples here.

Poisonous, dangerous, humorous, and glamorous, all mean to be full of the state of that root word.

To be full of poison, to be full of danger, to be full of humour, and to be full of glamour.

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

So there are four key rules when adding our ous suffix.

The first is to just add ous.

The second is to remove the E and add ous.

Well, there's some slight nuance there, because if the root word ends in ge, then we don't remove the E.

The next is to remove the Y and add ious when that Y is proceeded by a consonant letter.

And finally, if the root word ends in our, we change that our to or and add ous.

We're gonna revise, review, and have a look at some examples of these rules in action today, so you really know what you're doing.

Here we can see them in action.

Courage and joy are our root words in courageous and joyous.

Courage ends in a ge, so we keep the E and add ous.

Joy might end in a Y, but it's part of a vowel digraph, so we just have to add ous.

With the words where we've removed the E, our root words were fame and nerve, both ending in E, but not ge.

So we removed the E and added ous.

Very and fury both end in a Y and a consonant preceded that Y.

So we removed the Y and added ious to make various and furious.

And humour and glamour, the root words there ended in our.

So we exchanged that our for or and added ous.

These are the key rules that we're gonna review today.

Remember, with the word courageous, if the word ends in ge, we don't have to remove the E, we just add ous.

So these words just add ous, and the root word doesn't have to change.

Hazard becomes hazardous, an adjective.

Danger, the noun becomes dangerous, an adjective.

This includes root words that also end in ge.

Let's look at this in action.

Courage becomes courageous, the adjective.

Outrage, the noun there becomes outrageous, an adjective.

So our example here is just adding ous as our rule.

And if the final E is needed for the soft G, like courage and outrage, we also keep that E and add ous.

Be careful.

Other words that don't have ge, but end in E, we remove the E and add ous.

So when the root word ends in an E, as I've just said, we remove that E and then add ous.

Let's look at this in action.

Fame becomes the adjective famous.

Continue becomes continuous, something happening again and again and again.

So don't forget that words ending in ge, we would just add ous.

But these words don't end in ge, do they? They end in just our E there.

So we remove the E and add ous.

When the root word ends in a consonant.

So that sound made by blocking of the air in the mouth or the teeth, tongue or palate.

And a Y, we change the Y to an I and add ous, our ous.

Very.

Oh, R is a continent letter preceding the Y.

I remove the Y and add ious to create the word various, which means lots of different ways or lots of different kinds.

Fury, which is a synonym for anger.

Here, consonant R preceding our Y.

So I remove the Y and add ious, so we get the word furious.

So our main rule here is removing the Y and adding ious.

But when the root word ends in our, we must change our to or and then add ous.

So our final rule, remember this one.

Humour, which is our noun there.

We want to make the adjective humorous.

Notice how the our ending is gone.

It's replaced with or and then ous.

And glamour here.

We want to create the adjective glamorous.

Again, our replaced by or and we've added ous.

I should also say here that when certain words ending in Y as part of vowel diagraphs, a Y, we wouldn't remove the Y and add ious.

We would just add ous, so watch out for those.

So the two rules, main rules on this page we've looked at, remove the Y and add ious and change the root word ending in our to or and add orous.

What will happen to the spelling of these words when we add our ous suffix then? We have adventure, courage, fame.

Consider carefully the rules we've looked at.

They all end in an E, but do remember there's one instance with a letter that proceeds the E where we don't have to remove it.

How would I spell adventurous, courageous, and famous? Pause the video and see if you can remember the rules.

Great job, team.

So adventure ending in an E, we just have to remove the E and add ous to create the adjective adventurous.

Now, courage becoming courageous is an interesting one, isn't it? It ends in a ge.

So we keep the E and add ous.

Remember that rule.

And fame, no ge, just an E.

Remove the E to create the adjective famous.

Remember, if the root word ends in a ge, like the word courage does, we just add ous and keep that E.

So thinking about the rule that we just looked at, what will the spelling of these words ending in Y be when the suffix ous is added? Here we have the root word study and victory.

We want to add our ous suffix and create the words studious and victorious.

Pause the video.

Think about what will happen to the Y, what will be added.

How will I spell studious and victorious? Off you go.

Brilliant.

Remember, looking at the spelling of the root word can really help us to know how to spell our new adjective.

I can see here in study and victory, I have a consonant followed by a Y.

My root word's ending in a Y, so I need to remove the Y and add ious.

And again, here for the word victorious, I remove the Y and add ious.

Remember, our rule here is remove the Y and then add ious to form our adjectives with the ous suffix.

What will the spelling of these words ending in our be and the suffix ous is added then? Here we have rigour.

We want to make the word rigorous.

And we have vigour, we want to make the word vigorous.

Remember to think carefully about the spelling of that root word.

How will I spell rigorous and vigorous? What's our rule? Pause the video and have a think.

Fantastic.

Remember, again to look at the spelling of the root word to help us to spell our new adjectives, rigorous and vigorous.

Our root words here end in our.

And our rule is remove the our, replace with an or, and then add our ous suffix.

So that's how I spell rigorous.

And then my adjective here vigorous.

I might shake something vigorously with great strength.

Remove the our, add or at the end of the root word, and then add ous.

So our rule here is change the our to or and then add ous.

So I'm gonna show us now some words, some root words.

I want us to think about which rule we would use.

Would we just add ous? Would we remove the Y and add ious? Will we remove the E and add ous or will we change the our in the root word to or and add ous? Here's our first word, mystery.

How am I going to change this to mysterious? Pause the video, select the rule, and have a go at spelling it now.

Off you go.

Great.

Well, mystery, it's that E sound there with the Y spelling proceeded by a consonant letter.

So I need to remove the Y and add ious.

So it was rule B.

Here's our next word, danger.

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

Off you go.

Great job, team.

Dangerous, just going to add ous to this one.

So our rule, there was A.

Next word, vigour.

Vigour, which is a synonym for strength or health.

Hmm, how am I gonna spell vigorous? Pause the video, select the correct rule.

Off you go.

Great job.

Our spelling.

We need to change the our to or and then add ous.

So it was D here.

And our final one here, fame.

How am I going to spell the word famous? Which rule does this follow? Pause the video, select the correct rule, and have a go at spelling famous.

Off you go.

Great.

Well, it ends in an E, doesn't it? And it's not an E proceeded by G.

So we remove the E and add ous to create the adjective famous.

So it was rule C.

So for our practise task now, I would like you to show me how you would change each of the root words we have here, mountain, outrage, victory, and rigour into adjectives by adding the ous suffix.

Look carefully at the spelling of the root words to tell you whether that's going to need to change or not before adding your ous suffix.

So I want you to have a go at spelling the words mountainous, outrageous, victorious, and rigorous for me.

Think about the rules that we've looked at so far today.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Fantastic job, team.

Amazing application of our spelling rules there.

You've done a really good job now, let's see how you've gotten on.

So it's okay to make magical mistakes remember, we'll make our corrections.

We'll share those mistakes and we'll learn from them.

So mountainous.

Yeah, here's my noun, mountain.

I want to turn it into an adjective.

We know we're gonna add our ous suffix, not just ous, mountainous.

It might phonetically make sense, but we know it's our ous spelled ous.

So mountainous, our root word doesn't need to change either.

Outrage is going to become outrageous.

Now think about this one.

Do I have to get rid of my E here? No, because it's that ge with that soft G, outrage, I just add ous and keep my E.

So my correct spelling is this one.

Victory, think about this one.

So Y spelling there at the end, but it's proceeded by a consonant letter R, victory.

I need to whoosh, remove the Y, and add ious to spell victorious.

And finally, rigorous.

Okay, our spelling.

What do we do there? Yep, that's it.

Get rid of the our, add or, and then ous, rigorous.

Fantastic.

How did you do? Do you have any corrections to make? Share your learning and make any corrections now.

Pause the video.

Onto our next learning cycle then, which is strategies to practise.

Let's have a look at some following curriculum words first though.

My turn, your turn.

Promise.

I made a promise that I would never break.

Promise.

Favourite.

Spelling is my favourite subject.

It is.

Favourite.

What do you notice about these spellings? What's slightly strange about them? What might even be tricky to work out phonetically? Can you work 'em out phonetically.

Are there some strange parts of them? Pause the video, have a go at saying them again and have a think about that.

Great, some lovely conversations being had there.

For me, in promise, it's this se at the end.

Okay, promise.

It has that E, se for that S at the end.

So watch out for that.

The S is spelt with an se in promise.

In favourite, favourite, be careful.

The our there is making a slightly different sound, isn't it? It's not favourite, it's favourite.

So the R sound in favour is spelt with an our.

Sometimes saying a word how it's spelled can help us remember this.

I quite often do this with B-E-A-U tiful.

F-A vourite is how we spell favourite.

Might help you remember that.

Just a strategy to help you there.

So let's take a little picture of these curriculum words, which appear very often in our reading and writing, promise and favourite, brilliant.

So with that in mind and with those spellings in your brain, hopefully, let's see if you, which words here are spelled correctly.

Which is the correct spelling of the word promise? Pause the video and point to it now.

Good job, team.

So remember, it has that se at the end for that S sound.

So this is our correct spelling here.

How do I spell favourite? Pause the video and have a go at spelling that now.

Choose the correct spelling.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

Remember, it has that our in it, doesn't it? And then our ite.

So this is our correct spelling here.

Great job.

So there are so many words ending in the suffix ous that we may not recognise or have a root word for.

So, tremendous, for instance.

Jealous and generous are two other examples that don't have clear root words with rules that we can therefore follow and that we must just learn.

Fabulous is also one.

These words are also adjectives in the same way the other words ended in that us ous suffix were.

You can use how the word sounds to help spell it.

Tremendous, jealous, generous, fabulous.

They all end in that ous sound, don't they? So the most common spelling for that ous sound is the ous suffix that we've been looking at, especially if they're adjectives.

So have a look at these words for me.

Choose the correct spelling in each sentence.

"That party was tremendous." "I felt jealous of my brother's new toy." "She's got lots of attention for her fabulous haircut." Remember, these words don't have root words, but think about the sound at the end and how we would spell that sound.

Pause the video now and select the correct spellings.

Great job, team.

"The party was tremendous." Ous, brilliant.

"I felt jealous." Ous, ous.

And, "She got lots of attention for her fabulous," no root word there, but ous, ous.

Fantastic.

Remember, if the root, if there is no root word that's obviously clear to us, remember to listen out for that sound.

And if it's an adjective, it's more than likely going to be that ous spelling for that ous sound at the end of the word.

So spelling rules can help us to know how to spell words.

And we've generated some of those rules today, four in fact, haven't we? But we also need to practise, and this can be really useful, particularly when we're doing those words that don't have rules that we can apply to them.

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those words that have ous that don't have clear and obvious root words.

When we practise, remember the words more easily, we get more confident and we get better at noticing what's unique about those words, and we've become more confident using them in our writing.

There are loads of different spelling strategies that we can use.

And we're gonna look at a really great one today that allows you to be very independent and is repetitive.

The look, cover, write, check strategy.

So the look, cover, write, check strategy can help us in several ways.

First, we have to really visualise the word.

We look carefully at it.

We play close attention to its spelling and any tricky parts in the word.

Then we test our memory by covering that word up after we've looked at it so we can't see it anymore.

This tests our memory as we have to try and remember how it's spelled.

Then I practise, I get to write it out from memory.

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

It works on that sort of muscle memory and that link between our hands and our brain.

And finally, we do self-correction.

We have a lot of responsibility here to check and see if we've managed to spell it correctly and we get to self-correct and correct any mistakes and learn how to spell it better next time if you've made those mistakes.

So we look, cover, write, and then check.

So with that in mind, I've got here out of order.

Check, look, cover, write.

What's the name of our strategy? What order should these be in? Please put them into the correct order now.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

So the first part of this strategy is always to look.

And really we always do that whenever we begin any spelling strategy.

Then I cover it up and test my memory.

I write.

Obviously my neatest handwriting to make really good links between my hand and my brain.

And finally, I have to check, don't I? So it's look, cover, write, and then check and make any corrections if needs be.

And we don't just do this more than once, we do this repetitively until we've really embedded that spelling into our long-term memory.

So I'd like you to choose three words that from this lesson that you'd like to use the look, cover, write, check, strategy with.

I want you to choose the words that you found most difficult so far.

So again, this is you taking some responsibility for your learning.

I've chosen the words favourite, jealous, and generous.

So I've got jealous and generous, which are two of that ous adjectives we've been looking at.

And I've got favourite, which is one of those curriculum words that we've looked at.

So I'm gonna model now using the look, cover, write, check strategy.

I'd like you to look, then cover, and then have a go at writing and then check, and do this more than once, maybe a few times for each of the three words that you're going to pick.

So I'd like you to have a go now at using the look, cover, write, check strategy on these three words or three other words that you found difficult from this lesson.

Pause the video, off you go.

Fantastic job, team.

So the three words that I'd picked, favourite, jealous, and generous look like this now that I've finished my practise.

Did you manage to spell your words correctly? Look back.

Do you have any corrections to make? Which piece of handwriting or line of handwriting are you most proud of? Share your learning and make any corrections now.

Pause the video.

Onto then our final learning cycle where we're going to be applying spellings within a sentence.

We're going to have a go now at writing a sentence containing some of our focus spellings and also some of our curriculum words.

Remember, we've been focusing on adding the ous suffix to words today.

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

So let's make sure we're prepared to do this and perhaps even have a brain break now.

we're going to need to remember that whole sentence.

We're going to need to sound out each word.

We're going to need to think of any spelling rules that we generated for adding our a ous suffix.

Look out for any common exceptional curriculum words.

Think about those words that we looked at today as curriculum words.

Favourite was one of them, remember? And we need to remember sentence punctuation, capital letters, full stops, apostrophes, commas, and the like.

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

Just use your amazing hearing and listen to me.

Chen made a promise to her favourite teacher to be courageous and studious that year.

So she's going to be brave and full of studies.

Chen made a promise to her favourite teacher that she'll be courageous and studious that year.

So I'm not just gonna throw you in and expect you to write that straight away.

We're gonna say the sentence a number of times and in a number of different ways.

The first way is tapping it out.

You can do in your head, your shoulders, and the table.

It doesn't matter, but it's really good to tap the beats of the words like the syllables, so we make sure we didn't miss any sounds out.

Okay, I'm gonna do it in my head.

Chen made a promise to her favourite teacher to be courageous and studious that year.

Pause the video and have a go at tapping that sentence out now.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

The next one is saying it in a silly voice.

Chen made a promise to her favourite teacher that she'll be courageous and studious that year.

Can you say it in your silliest voice now and try and make me laugh? Off you go.

Fantastic.

Some really funny voices there.

And finally, counting the words on our fingers.

Chen made a promise to her favourite teacher to be courageous and studious that year.

Pause the video and count that sentence out now on your fingers.

Brilliant.

So I'm gonna say the sentence one more time, so don't worry.

But now's your chance to really think about taking your time, sounding out each word, looking out for those common exception and curriculum words and thinking about your sentence punctuation.

Just listen to me say the sentence one more time.

Chen made a promise to her favourite teacher to be courageous and studious that year.

Pause the video.

Have a good at writing that now.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

Done a really good job there with your punctuation and your consideration of how to add the suffix ous to those nouns to create adjectives.

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

Chen needs to have a capital letter.

Made a promise.

Remember that se at the end there.

It's one of our curriculum words.

To her favourite, again, our curriculum word there, our our spelling in the middle.

Teacher to be courageous.

Our root word there is courage ending in that soft ge.

So we don't remove the E and we add ous.

And studious.

Our root word there is study.

Our D there precedes our Y at the end of study.

That E sound is made by a Y in study.

So I remove the Y and add ious to create the word studious.

That year.

And then, of course, a full stop.

How did you do their with both our curriculum words and our focus spellings with that ous? How did you do with the rest of the spellings in that sentence? Did you manage to punctuate it correctly? Share your learning, share your successes, share your mistakes, and make any corrections now.

Pause the video.

Brilliant job today, team.

We've been looking at using that suffix ous.

The suffix ous often turns nouns into adjectives and it means to be full of something.

For instance, the word poisonous means to be full of poison.

Some words ending in ous don't have a root word we recognise, a word like tremendous, for instance.

There are four spelling rules when adding ous where we do recognise the root word.

To some words, we just add ous.

To others, we must remove the E and add ous except where it ends in a ge with that soft G.

In other words, we must remove the Y and add ious, especially when that Y is proceeded by a consonant letter.

And finally, if our root word ends in our, we change that our to or and then add ous.

Keep up the great spelling and keep up the great practise.

I'll see you again soon, everyone.