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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 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're going to be spelling further words with the suffix -ing.

The outcome is I can spell a word in the progressive tense using the suffix -ing.

Here are the keywords for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you saying these back to me.

Suffix, short vowel sound, consonant.

Let's say those one more time.

Suffix, short vowel sound, consonant.

Brilliant.

So let's think about what these words mean then.

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

The suffix that we're adding today is -ing.

A short vowel sound sounds short when spoken, like the A in cat or the O in hot.

K, a, t, a, a, h, o, t, o, o.

A, e, i, o, uh are our short vowel sounds.

And a consonant is a letter that is made by blocking the air in the mouth with the teeth, tongue, lips or palate.

T, M, N, M, L are all examples of consonants.

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

We're spelling further words with the suffix -ing.

We're gonna look at some more rules for using that suffix in the first learning cycle.

And then we're going to practise and apply the spellings and write a sentence that uses some curriculum words and some words that contain our -ing suffix.

Let's get on with looking at some rules for adding our -ing suffix then.

Remember that the suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add onto the end of a word to create a new word.

There are many different rules when we add different suffixes, and there are many different types of suffix.

Remember today that we are adding the -ing suffix.

You may know some rules already for when we add this -ing suffix.

Let's read these words that use this suffix.

Talking.

Whilst you read these words, I want you to think about the root word onto which -ing has been added.

Do you recognise the root word? Has the root word changed its spelling at all? So here, we have talk has become talking.

Helping, closing, taking, slipping, sitting, staying, enjoying.

Brilliant.

All of these words end in this -ing suffix.

They are all verbs, and they're verbs in that progressive tense, which shows an ongoing action.

Remember that that progressive tense, depending on the being verb that comes before them, can be both present and past.

The -ing suffix shows that verbs are in this progressive tense.

This shows that an action is ongoing.

I am talking to you.

That is continuing to happen in the present tense.

It is ongoing.

We have already looked at two rules, or you may know two rules that apply when we are adding this -ing suffix.

The rules that you may know are with this suffix, we keep the Y.

We don't need to remove the Y and add an I, as we would do with some other suffixes.

We already have that -ing.

And the other one is that really common rule of removing the E before adding the suffix -ing.

So bake, smile, dance or dance, and like, remove the E from those words, and then add our -ing.

When keeping the Y, that Y can both, at the end of the word, can make both an ee or an ahy sound, or it can be a Y that's part of a vowel digraph ending in Y, as in enjoy and play.

Oi, ey, there is our vowel digraphs.

When we remove the E, it's because the root word has ended in E.

So with that in mind, let's do a little bit of a check to see if you understand those two rules that you may know already.

I've got three word pairs below that I'd like you to read.

I've got the root word, and then I've got the word onto which my -ing suffix has been added to create the progressive tense verb.

Which rule has been used? Am I keeping the Y and adding -ing, or am I removing the E and then adding -ing? Pause the video and match these word pairs now to the rule that's been used.

Off you go.

Good job, team.

So write and writing, the root word write there ends in an E, so I remove the E before adding -ing.

Stay and staying, it's part of a vowel digraph, that Y at the end, we can keep the Y and add -ing.

And take and taking, the root word take ends in an E.

I don't want to have E-I-N-G.

I remove the E, and then add -ing.

We know that there are four rules for adding this suffix -ing, and we've looked closely at two of them just now.

Here are the rules.

Sometimes, we just add -ing.

Sometimes, we keep the Y and add -ing.

Other times, we must remove the E in add -ing.

And finally, in some words, we must double the final consonant letter before adding -ing.

Today, we're gonna focus on two of these, examples of words where we just add -ing, and examples of words where we have to double that final consonant letter before adding -ing.

So look at what happens when the suffix -ing is added to these verbs to create progressive tense verbs.

Walk has become walking, watch has become watching, ask has become asking, help has become helping, camp has become camping.

What do you notice here? I'm gonna say one of our keywords to you, consonants.

I want you to look carefully at the ends of the root words onto which the -ing suffix has been added.

Do you notice a pattern here? Think about that keyword, consonants.

Pause the video and have a think now.

Good job, team.

So I can see here, walk has become walking, watch has become watching, ask has become asking, help has become helping, and camp has become camping.

Something that I've noticed here is the fact that my root word has not had to change.

And something I've also noticed, which I was kind of trying to get you guys to think about, was that each of these root words ends in two consonant letters.

L-K in walking, C-H in watching, S-K in ask, L-P in help, and M-P in camp.

And after those two consonant letters, we then just had to add our -ing suffix.

This usually happens then when the root word ends in two consonant letters.

What will the spelling of these words be when the suffix -ing is added? Enjoy, watch, call.

Remember, the spelling of the root word can help us to spell the new word.

I want you to think about how I'm going to spell enjoying, watching, calling.

Pause the video and have a go at spelling those now.

Great job, team.

So enjoy, oh, and there's one more, playing, which has another vowel digraph there.

Let's think about these, and we'll talk about that one in a moment.

So enjoying, though, first of all, that I'm sure you've had an attempt to spell.

It's that vowel digraph at the end ending in a Y, and we know we keep the Y and just add -ing.

Watch ends in two consonant letters, a C and an H, so I just have to add -ing.

Call, L, two consonant letters, calling, just add -ing.

And play, that vowel digraph, A-Y.

We know we keep the Y and just add -ing.

So we can say here, our rule is, and we've kind of built on this rule now of keeping the Y and adding -ing, we just add -ing.

If our root word ends in a Y, we just add -ing.

If our root word ends in two consonant letters, we just add -ing.

Now let's have a look at our next rule, then.

Look at what happens when the suffix -ing is added to these verbs to create progressive tense verbs.

Hop, as in, I hop up and down on the spot.

It's a short vowel, o, o, hop becomes hopping.

Beg, as in I beg for money.

Beg becomes begging.

Skip becomes skipping.

What do you notice here? How is the root word changing? Are we adding a letter? Pause the video, watchy spot.

Great, some lovely conversations going on there.

I've noticed that the root word has not changed, but the final consonant has been doubled before the suffix -ing.

So the main root word hasn't changed, it's still there, but we've added, we've doubled that consonant, and then added -ing.

And that's because these root words contain a short vowel sound before that final single consonant.

Hop, o, o, short vowel sound.

Remember, our short vowel sounds are a, e, i, o, uh, those vowel sounds that sound short when spoken.

So the O in hop is o, o, short vowel sound.

The E in beg, e, e, short vowel sound.

That i, the I, sorry in skip is i, i, short vowel sound.

So we've had to double our consonant letter at the end, P, G, and P here, before adding our -ing.

So our rule here is double the final consonant when there's a short vowel before adding -ing.

With that rule in mind, then, when the root word has a short vowel sound and a single consonant, that final consonant letter is doubled when the suffix -ing is added.

So run, uh, uh, short vowel sound, single consonant letter at the end, becomes running, double that consonant.

Sit, i, i, becomes sitting.

Get, e, e, becomes getting.

So the rule here is double the consonant, then add -ing.

And we're doubling that consonant when there's a short vowel sound before our final single consonant letter.

Watch out, though.

There are some exceptions to this.

Often, if a word ends in X, it doesn't follow this rule.

So mix here, obviously, i, i, short vowel sound, and then a single consonant letter, X.

We just add -ing, we don't double the X.

So X is our exception here.

The same as relax, a, a, short vowel sound there, and then ks, our X becomes relaxing, so watch out.

If our root word ends in an X, we just add -ing.

So how will these words change when the suffix -ing is added? Remember to look carefully at the root word.

We've got sit, beg, hop.

Have a go at spelling sitting, begging, hopping for me now.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

So sit, i, i, short vowel sound, double the final consonant, add -ing.

Beg, the same, short E, double the G, add -ing.

And hop, short O, double the P, add -ing.

Remember our rule, double the consonant, then add -ing.

So the final consonant is also doubled in these words.

Let's look at some examples.

Refer becomes referring.

I am referring to you.

Commit becomes committing.

Control becomes controlling.

These root words have two syllables, so two beats, and the final syllable is stressed.

Refer, commit, control.

You can really clearly hear them stressed.

They end in a single vowel letter followed by a single consonant letter.

So E-R, I-T, O-L.

If the last syllable is not stressed, then the last letter is not doubled.

So offer, it's not offer, like refer.

I don't here have to double my final consonant letter.

I just add -ing.

This is probably the trickiest rule of this lesson, and this requires really careful listening to the root word.

You have to listen out for those stressed and unstressed syllables.

Refer, that er there is really stressed, so I double the R and add -ing.

Offer, I don't say offer, I say offer.

Sounds like an uh.

It's not stressed, I just add -ing.

Be careful with this.

So which rule is used here? Double the consonant, add -ing, or just add -ing.

Enter, expel, visit.

Choose the rule that has been used for each one.

Pause the video now and select the correct rules.

Off you go.

Good job, team.

So enter.

Well, I'm not saying enter, I'm not stressing my second syllable there.

Enter, it's an uh, so it's not stressed, so I just have to add -ing.

Last syllable, not stressed, just adding -ing.

Expel, expel, which means to throw someone out, or something, expel you from here, expel.

Well, that L there, okay, is stressed, isn't it? So I have to double the L, the last syllable is stressed, double the consonant L, and then add -ing.

Visit.

Visit.

I didn't say visit, I say visit.

It's not so stressed, so I just add -ing.

Remember, this is quite tricky, and it just requires some real listening there for that second syllable to hear whether it's stressed or not.

Have a look here for me.

I've got ask or ask has become asking or asking, run has become running, and commit has become committing.

Have I doubled the consonant and added -ing, or I just had to add -ing? Pause the video, match these word pairs now to the rule that's been used.

Off you go.

Good job, team.

Ask ends in two consonant letters, doesn't it, so we just have to add -ing.

Run, uh, uh, short vowel sound and a single consonant letter.

Double that consonant letter and add -ing.

And commit, commit, two syllables there.

My second syllable is stressed, so I double that consonant letter and add -ing.

Here are all of the rules that we have looked at when adding our -ing suffix then.

We can just add -ing, and keep the Y and add -ing, they're effectively the same thing, aren't they? We can remove the E and add -ing, and we can also double that consonant before adding -ing.

So we can narrow these down to three basic rules.

Just add -ing, which is the same as our keeping the Y and adding -ing.

So words like ask and play become asking and playing.

Remember, where we have two consonant letters at the end of the root word, we add -ing, and when we have a Y either making an ahy or an ee sound, or part of a vowel digraph, we just add -ing.

Our second rule is removing the E and adding -ing when that root word ends in an E.

Root words give and close both end in E, remove the E and add -ing.

And finally, double the consonant before adding -ing.

And we can do this where we have a short vowel sound, a, e, i, o, uh, before a single consonant letter, and then we double that consonant and add -ing.

So here are three rules.

With that in mind, I'd like you to add the suffix -ing to each of the words on the left-hand side here, and match it to the rule that it follows.

Our root words here are bake, worry, help, and control.

On the right-hand side, we have our rules.

Am I just gonna add -ing, am I gonna remove the E and add -ing, or am I gonna double the consonant and add -ing? Pause the video, and select the correct rule, and have a go at spelling our -ing progressive tense verbs now.

Great, let's look first at bake.

Bake ends in an E.

I remove the E and add -ing.

Worry, ends in a Y, doesn't it? We can keep that Y and add, I just add -ing.

Help, two consonant letters, I'm just going to add -ing.

And control, control, two syllables.

That second syllable there is stressed, so I double the L, double the consonant before adding -ing.

Well done.

Onto our practise task, then.

You can see that I've got a selection of root words below, some verbs, and I'd like you to turn them into <v ->ing progressive tense verbs.

</v> Which rule are they going to use, just add -ing, remove the E and add -ing, or double the consonant and add -ing? I'd like to put them into the correct column, and then have a go at turning them into progressive tense verbs.

Pause the video, have a go at doing this for me now.

Off you go.

Good job, team.

Let's see how you've done them.

Ask, try, and walk.

Ask and walk, two consonant letters, we just have to add -ing.

Try, that ahy sound instead of a Y.

We keep the Y and add -ing.

Give, write, and take, all ending in E.

Remove the E and add -ing.

Beg, clap, sit, all contain short vowel sounds, a, e, i, o, uh, followed by a single consonant letter.

Double the consonant and add -ing.

How did you do? Do you have any corrections to make to the table? Pause the video, check that now.

Onto our next learning cycle, then.

Practise and apply spellings and sentence writing.

Let's have a read of some words.

My turn, your turn.

Though, though.

Although, although.

Through, through.

Have a look at these words for me.

What's a little bit strange about the spellings compared to the way that they sound? We have though, although, and through.

Pause the video and have a think now.

Brilliant.

So they all have this O-U-G-H spelling, don't they? Th, though, th, although, through.

And they're making slightly different sounds, aren't they? In though and although, they're making sort of an oh sound, and in through, it's making an oo sound, but they're both spelled O-U-G-H.

So all of these words contain the letters O-U-G-H.

We can sometimes use the mnemonic "oh you grumpy hippo" to help us remember the order of the letters when writing out words that contain this O-U-G-H spelling.

Now, in the word although as well, the word all is spelled A-L-L, but although just has one L.

So remember, although only has one L.

These words are curriculum words, and they're really important and helpful for us to remember to spell, 'cause they're gonna appear a lot in our reading, and in particular, in our writing.

So we have though, and although, and then through.

Remember that "oh you grumpy hippo" mnemonic, O-U-G-H.

With that in mind, which of these words that we just read are spelled correctly? Which is the correct spelling of the word though, though? Pause the video and point to it now.

Brilliant.

Remember, it's that "oh you grumpy hippo," O-U-G-H, this is our correct spelling.

If you know that one, it's great, because we've got a word in a word.

What's the spelling of although? Pause the video and point to it now.

Great.

So it's the same though, and it's that all at the beginning, but remember, just one L.

And finally, through, has that "oh you grumpy hippo" spelling, but it sounds a little bit differently, through.

I walked through the door.

Through, point to it now.

Brilliant.

Through, T-H-R, "oh you grumpy hippo," this one here.

Be careful with this word, though.

Threw with that E-W spelling at the end, it's a homophone.

That's my past tense of throw, okay? So I don't say I throwed, I'd say I threw the ball.

Be careful, they're homophones.

Remember, homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelt different, and have different meanings.

So we've looked at these three rules today for adding our -ing suffix, just adding -ing, removing the E and adding -ing, and doubling the consonant and adding -ing.

So with that in mind, with those rules in mind, I'm gonna read you some sentences.

I've got two spellings of our -ing suffix words here.

One's wrong, one's right, and I'd like you to select the correct spelling.

I am walking to the library to get a new book.

Everybody was grabbing their hats and scarves.

The little bird was trembling with fear.

We are staying up late to celebrate.

Pause the video and select the correct spellings of the progressive tense verbs here.

Off you go.

Good job, team.

I am walking.

Now, only one spelling can be right there, 'cause we're looking at -ing, aren't we? And I'm not gonna change my root word, 'cause it ends in two consonant letters.

So it's walk becomes walking.

Everybody was grabbing their hats and scarves.

Grab, g, er, ab.

A, a, short vowel sound.

Grab, the root word ends in a single consonant letter.

Double that consonant and add -ing.

Tremble, my root word here, trembling.

Tremble has an L-E at the end for that l.

I need to remove the E and add -ing.

And stay, that's a vowel digraph ending in a Y.

We keep the Y, and we just add -ing, becomes staying.

Great job.

So I'm gonna read you a sentence now.

We're gonna see if we can apply some of our curriculum words that we've looked at, and also some of our -ing progressive tense verbs.

So just listening carefully, I'm gonna read you a sentence.

I was walking through the playground, watching people dancing, skipping, and playing.

I was walking through the playground, watching people dancing, skipping, and playing.

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

The first is clapping it out.

I was walking through the playground, watching people dancing, skipping, and playing.

Pause the video and clap that sentence out now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

The next one is shouting out.

I was walking through the playground, watching people dancing, skipping, and playing.

Pause the video and shout it out now, and make sure I can hear you.

Off you go.

Brilliant, could really hear you there.

And finally, counting the words on our fingers, so make sure we don't miss any out.

I was walking through the playground, watching people dancing, skipping, and playing.

Say that sentence, and count those words on your fingers now.

Off you go.

Great job.

So we're gonna have a go at writing the sentence now.

Remember to sound out each word, look out for any common exceptional curriculum words, and then remember to check your sentence punctuation, not just capital letters and full stops, but any commas and apostrophes that might be in that sentence as well.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

I was walking through the playground, watching people dancing, skipping, and playing.

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

Off you go.

Brilliant job, team.

Some fantastic handwriting, some great punctuation, and some great application of not only our curriculum words, but also words with our -ing suffix in the progressive tense.

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

I needs to have a capital letter there.

Was, W-A-S, walking.

So that's that root word walk, and I just have to add -ing here.

Through, "oh you grumpy hippo".

The, playground, together, compound word.

Watching, root word watch, ending in two consonant letters, just add -ing.

People, P-E-O-P-L-E.

Watch out for that naughty O in there, and that L-E at the end.

Dancing, root word there is dance ending in an E.

We remove the E and add -ing to make dancing, or dancing if you prefer.

We have a comma here to separate our list of actions, because we have a list of verbs here.

Skipping, i, i, short vowel sound.

Skip, the root word ends in a single consonant letter.

Double that consonant letter and add -ing.

And playing, root word play, vowel digraph ending in a Y, we just add -ing.

And of course, we have to have a full stop at the end of our sentence.

I was walking through the playground, watching people dancing, skipping, and playing.

Brilliant.

What success have you had there? Have you made any magical mistakes? I'd like you to share your learning and make any corrections now.

Pause the video, off you go.

Great spelling today, everyone.

We've been looking at spelling further words with the -ing suffix today.

Adding the -ing suffix turns verbs into the progressive tense, remember, and that can be the progressive present or the progressive past, depending on our being verb that's used before our -ing word.

Progressive means an ongoing action.

When adding the suffix -ing, different spelling rules are used depending on the spelling of the root word.

There are three key rules that we've generated, just adding -ing, removing the E and adding -ing, and doubling the consonant and adding -ing.

Keep up the great spelling, everyone.

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