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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.

For you today, need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains, as well as that thing 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 this lesson, we're going to be using and applying all the rules of the suffix -ous, which makes an ous sound.

The outcome will be, I can spell a range of 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, root word, pronunciation, adjective.

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

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

The root word is that base word from which new words are formed when we add prefixes or suffixes.

The pronunciation is the way in which a word is spoken.

And finally, an adjective describes a noun.

So today we are going to be taking root words, adding our -ous suffix to some of those root words to create adjectives.

Here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're gonna be using and applying all of the rules for that suffix -ous.

We're gonna review and revise those rules in the first learning cycle, then we're gonna look at some strategies for practising , and finally we're gonna have a chance to apply the spellings of that we've been looking at within a sentence.

So let's get on with looking at those rules for using the suffix, -ous or ous.

Remember that a suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add onto the end of a word, which creates a new word.

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

Here we have happy.

I want to add my -ly suffix to it to create an adverb.

Notice that my root word here, happy, has changed.

I've removed the 'y' and added -ily.

This will sometimes happen dependent on the root word and the suffix that you're adding.

Sometimes the root word will stay the same, and sometimes it will change.

Here we have long, I want to create my superlative adjective longest, by adding -est.

I don't have to change my root word here.

I just add -est, and it becomes longest.

And here we have hot.

To create my comparative adjective, hotter, I have to here double the consonant and add -er.

Remember that when we add some suffixes, the root word will change.

When we add others, they won't change.

There are lots of different types of suffixes.

Here we have -est, -ily, and -er.

And there are different rules for how the root word will change when those suffixes are added.

Remember that today we are concentrating on adding that -ous or ous suffix.

So there are many words in the English language that end in that suffix -ous.

Some of these words don't have obvious root words, and some of them do.

The words that do have obvious root words, we can generate some rules for adding that -ous suffix, the words that don't, we just have to sort of learn by sight.

So words ending in -ous are generally adjectives, most of the time.

Remember, adjectives are words that describe nouns, that show the quality or state relating to that root word.

For instance, if I take the noun, poison, and I add my -ous suffix to it, I create the word poisonous.

That's something that is full of poison, that shows that quality of poison a lot.

The suffix -ous means full of then.

How many -ous words can you think of right now? I've given you one already, poisonous.

Pause the video.

How many -ous words can you think of? And remember they're gonna sound like an ous at the end.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

I wonder how many you managed to say there.

I thought of a couple, dangerous, poisonous, egregious.

There's quite a few.

So there are four key rules when we add that suffix -ous to a root word.

And this is when we know and clearly can see that root word.

To some words we just add -ous, like the word poison, I just add -ous to make poisonous.

To other words we remove the 'e' and add -ous.

Be careful here though.

If the root word ends in a 'ge', we keep the 'e' and just add -ous.

If the word ends in a 'y', we remove the 'y' and add -ious.

And if the root word ends in 'our' , we change the 'our' to 'or' before adding our -ous suffix.

So have a look here for me.

We have the root words, courageous, and joyous.

The root words there are courage and joy.

For courageous, it ended in 'ge', so we just had to add -ous.

Joy was part of a vowel digraph so we just added -ous, I didn't need to remove the 'y'.

In the remove 'e' column and add -ous, we had fame and nerve as our root words, so we chopped off those 'e's and added -ous.

In the remove 'y' column here, you can see my root words were vary and fury.

I've changed those words now by removing the 'y' and adding -ious to various and furious.

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

I had to remove the 'our', add 'or', and then my -ous to create humorous and glamorous.

These words are adjectives, they describe nouns.

So just as a very quick reminder, 'cause it's really important, we don't have to remove the 'e' if the 'e' is preceded by a 'g' and it's helping make that soft 'g' at the end of the word.

So remember the root word that ends in 'ge', we keep the 'e' and we add -ous.

So these words just add -ous.

The root words don't need to change.

Let's look at some of these in action.

We have hazard, which is a bit like a danger.

Something's a hazard or becomes hazardous, it is dangerous.

We have that word danger, and we just add -ous.

This includes root words that end in 'ge' remember as well.

So courage becomes courageous.

Outrage becomes outrageous, the adjective.

Notice here, we haven't had to remove the 'e' because it's a 'ge' ending so we just add -ous.

So our rule here is if the final 'e' is needed for that soft 'g' sound, courage, outrage, not a hard ga, but a soft 'g', then we keep that 'e' and add -ous.

So our rule here is just add -ous.

When the root word ends in an 'e', we need to remove that 'e' and then add our -ous suffix to create our adjectives.

Fame becomes famous.

Notice how the 'e' has been removed.

Continue becomes continuous, for something to happen again and again and again, you go on and on and on continuously.

We remove the 'e'.

Don't forget that words ending in 'ge', we just add -ous.

When the root word ends in a consonant and a 'y', we have to remove the 'y' and add an 'i' and then our -ous.

So vsry here becomes the adjective, various, V-A-R-I-O-U-S.

Victory here becomes the word victorious.

We were victorious in the game.

So here our rule is remove the 'y' and add -ious.

When the root word ends in 'our', you must change the 'our' to 'or' before adding -ous.

So here, humour, which means something that's funny or funniness, becomes humorous, something that's full of funniness.

Glamour becomes glamorous.

So remove the 'our', add 'or' and then add -ous.

That's our rule.

Change the 'our' to 'or', and then add -ous.

So what will the spelling of these words be when the suffix -ous is added? Think about those four rules that we've just reviewed.

Adventure, courage, nerve.

Will you keep or remove the 'e'? Think about the rule that we've looked at.

I want us to make the words adventurous, courageous, and nervous.

Pause the video, have a good at spelling those words now.

What rule are you gonna follow? Off you go.

Brilliant.

So look carefully at the root words here.

Adventure ends in an 're'.

So we are gonna remove the 'e' and add -ous.

Courage though ends in that 'ge' making that soft G.

So we keep the 'e' and add -ous.

And nerve becoming nervous.

I was nervous.

N-E-R-V-O-U-S remove the 'e' and add -ous.

If the root word ends in a 'ge' remember, we keep the 'e' and then just add -ous.

It falls under our just add -ous rule.

What will the spelling of these words ending and 'y' be when the suffix -ous is added then? Study, becoming studious.

Glory will become glorious, and harmony will become harmonious.

If something's harmonious, it's working peacefully and in unity.

There's no argument, there's no fighting, it's peaceful.

So have a look here with these me, how am I going to spell studious, which means full of study, glorious, full of glory, harmonious, full of harmony? Pause the video, think about our rule.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

Study, I need to remove the 'y' add -ious.

It's the same with glorious and the same with harmonious.

We remove the 'y' here and add -ious, because those 'y's are also preceded by consonants.

We have a D-Y, R-Y, N-Y.

The spelling of the root word here can help us to know the spelling of our new word, the new adjective that we've created.

And our rule here is remove the 'y' and add -ious.

What will the spelling of these words ending in 'our' be when we add the -ous suffix? We have rigour.

If something is rigorous, which is the word that we'll be making, it means it's quite difficult and strong, it won't be easy.

We also have vigour, which is to do with health and strength.

If you're vigorous, you're full of health, full of strength and full of life.

So think about our rule here.

What do we do to the 'our' to create the words rigorous and vigorous? Pause the video, have a go at spelling them now.

Brilliant.

O-U-R we need to change the 'our' to 'or' and then add our -ous.

And it's the same for vigorous.

So remember to look carefully at the spelling of the root words, it's gonna tell us how to spell our new adjective.

If it ends in 'our', remove the 'our' and change it to 'or' and then add -ous.

So I'm gonna show us some words now and I want us to think really carefully.

Which rule will the root word use when we add our suffix -ous? We've got A, which is just add -ous, B, remove the 'y' and add -ious, C, remove the 'e' and add -ous, but not when it ends in 'ge'.

And then D, change the 'our' to 'or' then add -ous.

Here's my root word, glamour.

How will I spell glamorous? Which rule will I use, how will I spell it? Pause the video, off you go.

Fantastic.

So it ends in 'our', we're going to remove the 'our' and add 'or' and then -ous.

So we use rule D.

Here's our next root word, harmony.

How will I spell harmonious? Full of harmony.

Pause the video, which rule will I use? Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well, the root well ends in a 'y', I need to remove the 'y' and add -ious there.

And it doesn't just, it's not just 'cause it ends in a 'y' here, it's because that 'y' is preceded by a consonant.

And we have outrage.

Outrage.

How would I spell outrageous? Be careful with this one.

Which rule will you pick? Pause the video, off you go.

Brilliant.

So you might think I'm gonna remove the 'e' and add -ous, but it ends in a 'ge' that 'e's helping make that soft 'g', so I keep the 'e' and just add -ous, so it's rule A.

The next one, nerve.

How am I going to spell nervous? Choose the rule, have a good spelling it, off you go.

Fantastic.

This one doesn't end in a 'g', just ends in an 'e'.

So I remove the 'e' and add -ous to make the word nervous.

Brilliant.

I'm gonna say some words to you now that end in that -ous.

I want you to really think about the root words, sound out the words, and then read your words and check back as well.

So word number one is outrageous.

Outrageous.

That is an outrageous decision.

Number two is luxurious.

Luxurious.

The king and queen lived in a luxurious palace.

Number three is nervous.

I felt nervous before the game.

And finally glamorous, number four is glamorous.

She wore a glamorous dress to the party.

So you have outrageous, luxurious, nervous and glamorous.

Pause the video, have a good writing them now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

Great job everyone.

I can see really careful consideration of our root words there.

You were considering the ending of those root words 'cause you knew that was gonna inform you as to how to spell our new adjectives.

So the first one was outrageous.

The word outrage is our root word here.

It ends in 'ge' so we have to keep the 'e' and add -ous.

So this is our correct spelling.

The next word was luxurious.

Our root word there is luxury and it's that 'e' sound but with a 'y' spelling at the end.

And it's 'y' there is preceded by an 'r', a consonant, so we remove the 'y' add -ious for luxurious.

The next one was nervous.

My root word there is nerve with that 'e' at the end.

No 'g' there though, so I remove the 'e' and add -ous.

And finally glamorous.

My root word here is glamour.

It's that er, but it's an 'our' spelling.

So what's our rule? Yep, we change the 'our' for 'or' and then add -ous.

Glamorous.

Glamorous.

I don't necessarily say glam-or-ous, though I say glamorous.

So be careful with that one.

Remember 'our', change to 'or' and then add -ous.

Great job team, pause the video, make any corrections, see how you did here.

Off you go.

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

Let's have a look at some following words.

These are curriculum words.

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

My turn, your turn.

Guard.

Guard.

Stand guard and watch the door.

Exercise.

Exercise is important to keep you healthy.

Decide.

I cannot decide what I want to have for dinner.

Have a look carefully at these words again for me.

Have a good at saying them.

What do you notice about these spellings compared to how they sound? Do you think there's anything tricky about them? Pause the video, off you go.

Brilliant.

So I've noticed these different things, in guard, there appears to be a strange 'u', a silent 'u'.

We don't say g-ard, we say guard, making an R sound, don't we? So it's almost like a silent 'u'.

In exercise, okay, it's that soft C there, exercise.

And in decide it's the same thing, a soft C.

So there's a silent 'u' in guard, and there's a soft C in both exercise and decide.

I didn't say exer-kise or de-kide.

It's a C that's making a soft C, almost like an S.

So be careful.

You find that spelling each syllable in both exercise and decide can help us, ex er cise.

So you remember that cise is that soft C, and D side, okay, that 'de' prefix there and then side.

Brilliant.

So which of these words are spelled correctly then? Think about these words we just looked at.

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

Fantastic.

Remember it has that silent 'u', guard, G-U-A-R-D.

Which is the correct spelling of exercise? Watch out for the soft C here, ex er cise.

Pause the video, point to the correct spelling now.

Fantastic.

So it's ex er cise is the way I remember this, E-X-E-R-C-I-S-E, exercise with that soft C, and decide, D side, decide.

Pause the video.

Be careful.

It sounds a bit like 'de', decide, but be careful.

Point to the correct spelling of decide now.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

So it's D-E-, D side, side with that soft C, D-E-C-I-D-E.

Great job.

So some words don't have an obvious root that end in this -ous suffix.

Tremendous for instance, tremend, not a root word.

Jealous for instance, jeal, G-E-A-L not a root word.

Generous, gene not a root word, but all of these make that ous -ous.

Tremendous, jealous, generous.

Fabulous is another one.

Fabul not a root word there that's obvious, but it's making that ous sound at the end.

Fabulous.

Words that have that 'ee' sound before the -ous are usually spelled with an 'i' but sometimes an 'e'.

So it's that 'i' making 'e' sound or the 'e' making 'ee' sound before our -ous.

Here we go.

We have my turn, your turn, serious.

Notice that 'e' sound there.

Listen out for it before our -ous for ous sound there.

Serious is an 'e' sound, but it's spelled with an 'i'.

Previous.

So the one coming before.

Obvious.

Something that should be clear to you.

Curious.

If you're curious, you want to find out and learn more.

Hideous.

Something that's incredibly ugly.

Spontaneous.

Something that happened at the spur of the moment.

Courteous.

In all of these words, the ous is still making them adjectives in the main and it's meaning full of.

If something's courteous, it means it's full of courtesy.

So it's full of manners.

So you notice here we have that 'e' ous sound, don't we? That 'e' before -ous, ous.

And it's spelled most commonly with an 'i', but sometimes with an 'e' as well, so watch out for this.

These words don't have an obvious root word.

They're also the words derived from a root word ending in 'y' that follow this pronunciation and spelling pattern.

So vary here, the 'y' has been removed and the 'i' has been added and it's made that 'y'.

And that 'i' there that's been replaced.

Replacing the 'y' is making an 'e' sound.

Various.

Here we have glory.

The root word is glory, a 'y'.

We remove that 'y' and replace it with an 'i' and add -ious to make glorious.

The same with luxurious as well.

So we are going to practise spelling words.

When practising spelling words, it's helpful to focus on the words that you can find difficult.

This will be unique to you.

So you could choose words with not so obvious roots.

So the some of these words we've just looked at a moment ago, like tremendous, jealous, generous and fabulous.

You could also choose words ending in -ious or -eous, envious, serious, obvious, various and hideous.

And you can also think about our curriculum words that we've looked at as well.

Guard, exercise, and decide.

So I'd like you right now to think about three words that you have potentially found difficult in this lesson.

This gives you a chance to be a bit independent and a bit responsible for your own learning.

Three words that you'd like to practise spelling, using a strategy that we're gonna pick in a moment.

Have a look at some of the words I put here, maybe we'll use some of those.

Pause the video, have a think.

Pick three words you'd like to practise spelling today.

Off you go.

So now we've got these words, we need to decide on the strategy that we're going to use to practise them.

So this could be, look, cover, write, check, colour blocking, big letters, pyramid letters, or naughty letters.

The strategy may depend on the spellings you've chosen and what makes them difficult.

Next, we're gonna practise our spellings.

So I'd like you right now, before we begin practising , we know the three words we're practising , I'd like you to pick the strategy that you think is going to make most sense for your words.

Maybe use a variety of strategies.

Pick a strategy now, off you go.

So once you've got your words, you've picked your strategy, you can then practise your spellings.

And finally, don't forget to check back and make sure you spelled those words correctly against the original words and make any corrections.

So what order do these go in for our task? They're all out of order.

Put them into the correct order now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

So the first thing we have to do is choose the words that we want to practise.

It's really important that we choose words that are individual to us, that we are finding most difficult or that we are most interested in making sure we know.

The next job then is to decide on the correct strategy you're going to use.

This could vary from word to word, or you might want to pick one strategy to use with all your words, then we need to do the actual practising.

And finally, we have to check back and see if we've managed to spell them correctly.

So I'd like you to now practise your spellings using the strategy you find most helpful.

Choose three words that you find most difficult, you should have those words already, from the lesson, and then choose the strategy.

Make sure you know the strategy that you've chosen.

So take those three words, choose the strategy from the strategies we've looked at.

Off you go, pause the video now.

Brilliant job.

So I'm hoping that you've got three words written out using a variety of strategies or just picking one strategy to use for all three.

I'm hoping that you've managed to spell those correctly.

Did you manage to spell them correctly? What strategy did you use? Can you tell me now, or can you show the people around you what strategy you've used? Pause the video.

Brilliant.

Did you manage to spell those words correctly? Now it's really important that you do that checking part.

If you haven't spelled them correctly, make any corrections.

If you have, well done.

Pause the video, make those corrections now.

Onto our final learning cycle then, which is applying spellings within a sentence.

We are going to have a go at writing a sentence containing some of our focus spellings, so some of those spellings with that -ous suffix, making that ous sound.

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

We're going to need to remember the whole sentence.

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

We're going to need to think of the spelling rules.

Remember we had those four key rules for adding -ous.

And then look out for any of those common exception and curriculum words.

And of course, remember our sentence punctuation, capital letters, full stops, and any other punctuation in the sentence.

I'd like you to just listen to me say the sentence first of all, and just use your amazing hearing.

The guard decided to do some serious and rigorous exercise.

The guard decided to do some serious and rigorous exercise.

Can hear lots of words with that ous sound there.

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

The first one is tapping out, using your head, your shoulders, the table, the floor.

I'm gonna do my shoulders I think.

The guard decided to do some serious and rigorous exercise.

Pause the video and tap that out now, off you go.

Brilliant.

The next one, saying the sentence in a silly voice, one of my favourite strategies for remembering it, the guard decided to do some serious and rigorous exercise.

Can you say it in your silliest voice for me? Try and make me laugh.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

And finally, counting the words on our fingers.

So make sure you didn't miss any words out in our sentence.

The guard decided to do some serious and rigorous exercise.

Pause the video, count out each word as you say it now.

Off you go.

Great job.

So I'm gonna say the sentence one more time.

The guard decided to do some serious and rigorous exercise.

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

Great job team.

Some really good application of our spelling rules for the -ous suffix there.

And really good consideration of the curriculum words that we've looked at as well.

I'd like us to check our work now and make any corrections as we go along.

The, obviously needs to have a capital letter.

Guard, silent 'u' there.

Guard, G-U-A-R-D spells guard.

Decided, we've got that word decide in there, which has that soft C, and we've added that -ed suffix there.

To do some, S-O-M-E spells some, serious, serious, that's that 'e' with that -ious, there's no clear root word there, but it's that 'e' with that 'i' spelling and then our -ous.

And rigorous.

Rigour is our root word there, that ended in '-our'.

So we had to remove the '-our', replace it with '-or', and then add -ous.

Exercise, ex er cise.

So we have our ex er and then our soft C, cise.

Brilliant.

And of course we have a full stop.

How did you do there with those key curriculum words and those words that followed our -ous suffix rules? What did you learn? Did you make any magical mistakes? What successes have you had? Share your learning now and make any corrections.

Off you go.

Brilliant spelling today, everyone.

Today we've been looking at the four key rules for adding our -ous suffix.

So some words we just add -ous, to others we remove the 'e' and add -ous, for some we remove the 'i' and add -ious, and for others we remove 'our', replace it with 'or' and add -ous.

Some words ending in -ous do not have a root word we recognise, remember.

And when you hear the 'e' sound before the -ous, eous, the most likely spelling is an 'i', but sometimes it will be the letter 'e'.

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