Lesson video

Hi everybody my name's Ms. Chamberlain-Webber I'm teaching you spelling today and this is the second lesson in this unit.

The first spelling lesson was lesson two and we talked about the patterns and rules for the 'ee' vowel sound spelt in two different ways.

Though if you haven't watched that already stop this video now and go back to lesson two in this unit that's where we investigate the rules because this lesson we're going to apply those rules with some spelling strategies and then there's going to be a test at the end.

We'll start today's lesson reviewing the rules and spelling words from the first lesson then we're going to look at exceptions to the rule and learn a new spelling strategy before taking a test of the ten words I gave you last lesson at the very end.

As usual You're going to need a pencil and some paper its also important you're in a nice quiet and calm working space so that your brain is switched on and ready for learning.

Pause the video now if you need to go and get a pen and paper.

Here are two definitions I want you to decide which ones are vowel sounds and which ones are vowel letters.

Pause the video if you need more time.

A speech sound made with an open mouth is a vowel sound.

The letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u' and 'y' are vowel letters.

In today's lesson we're going to be focusing on vowel sounds.

Here's a quick reminder of the ten spelling words I sent you at the end of last lesson.

Let's look at what they have in common what rules and spelling words were included? Here are two different words How are they spelt differently? And what vowel sound do they include? Was that a short or a long vowel sound? Long 'ee' sound So what was different about the spellings? Well in the word thief the long 'ee' sound is made by 'i' before the 'e' Whereas in the word deceive the letters are the other way round.

Can you point at them for me? The 'ee' sound in the word is made by the 'e' before 'i'.

What patterns do you notice here? There was something special about these words with an 'e' before the 'i'.

Can you remind me? 'i' before 'e' generally is after the letter c where the sound is a long 'ee' sound.

Please can you point at the c's in both these words? And where are they in the words? Before the e and the I.

Lets look at the patterns for these two words.

What do you notice? This time are there any c's in these words? No In fact generally the 'i' comes before an 'e' except after the letter 'c' where the sound is 'ee'.

So let's look at these words together.

Here we can really notice the difference.

In the column on the left what letter are we looking for to make the letters in the order 'ei'? 'c' good.

There's a 'c' in transceiver, perceived and deceit.

Are there any 'c's in the words on our right? No So our letters are which way round? 'i' before the 'e' Now you've remembered our rules show me what you've learnt.

Which of these two words is spelt correctly? Conceive is what word class? Its a verb to conceive means to form a plan.

Okay what's the right spelling? Pause the video here for more thinking time.

Which letter should we be looking at carefully here? The 'c'.

So conceive has a 'c' in the word therefore the 'e' comes before the 'i'.

How about these two spellings of chief? Which one is correct? Point at the correct one.

This time 'i' before 'e'.

Which is the correct spelling for the word perceive? Is the one on the left or the right? Look carefully and pause the video now.

Its the one on the left that's correct but why? What letter helps us decide? There's a 'c' a 'c' so after 'c' we have a 'e' then an 'i' generally.

How about these two spelling of the word weird? Point at the correct spelling.

Oh this ones tricky.

Its our exception remember that whilst you're pointing.

Okay so instead of 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' weird doesn't have a 'c' but we still have 'i' before 'e'.

There are some more exceptions to the rule.

Lets look st some more of them now.

My turn.

ancient your turn sufficient efficient What sound is similar in all three words? Pause the video now and tell me what you noticed about their spelling.

This time the rule doesn't apply.

'i' before 'e' is after 'c'.

So we just have to remember that spellings with that sound don't follow this particular rule.

Here are two more words.

Foreign Forfeit Again these two have a similar sound what is it? for the letters 'ei' Can you spot why these are exceptions? This time its 'e' and 'i' without a 'c'.

Usually if there's not a 'c' in a word the 'i' should come before the 'e' but in these words they follow the pattern that usually comes after the letter 'c'.

We just need to remember these words.

perhaps you notice something similar about the beginning of these words.

They begin with 'for' if you remember the words beginning with 'for' don't follow the rule it might help you spell them.

Here's more exceptions leisure eighty In this case the letters 'i' and 'e' are the other way round 'e' and 'i' can also make different sounds which do not follow the rules we have learnt.

So as before for all these exceptions we just to try and learn them and remember its this way round for the spelling.

Time for a spelling practise strategy.

Today we're going to be looking at a new strategy called small to large.

So this is my word received written in a small way what I do is I write it below in a much larger way.

And then I can do it several more times getting bigger each time.

So Why is this a useful strategy? Well it means we interact with the word we're thinking about every single letter we write down as we do it.

Its great for us to experiment with shape because writing a word larger and smaller means that it might commit to out memory much better.

And finally it slows us down.

If we're focusing on writing these words larger each time it means we're really going to notice each of the letters we're writing.

Also its a bit fun.

Have a go with this word pierce.

Making it larger each time.

Pause the video here to complete that on your piece of paper maybe as you did this you noticed that there was an 'i' before the 'e' as you dot your 'i' bigger and bigger it might make you remember that the 'i' goes directly next to your 'p'.

Use this strategy for these three words from your spelling word list before we have our spelling test.

Okay time for your spelling test.

I would like you to get a fresh piece of paper and cover up any practise that you've done today or previously.

You need to number your paper one to ten.

Pause the video now and complete that.

Its really important as I read out each word one by one that you pause the video after each word.

This will give you more time to use some of your spelling strategies to complete the spelling word.

For example if I'm not sure about a spelling I could write out two different types of spelling of the same word and then look at both of them to decide which one is more likely to be correct.

So before we start if at any point you feel a little bit stressed or quite flustered.

Remember pause the video and take a deep breath.

This will make our mind nice and prepared to carry on with the test.

There's no rush at all.

Number one: ceiling Number two: fierce Number three: deceit Number four: convenience Number five: hygiene Number six: transceiver Number seven: received Number eight: priest Number nine: weird Number ten: grief Its important you pause your video here and check through every word individually.

Next I'm going to show you the correct spellings.

Please use a different coloured pen to check through each letter at a time.

Number one should be spelt 'c' 'e' 'i' 'l' 'i' 'n' 'g' ceiling.

Number two 'f' 'i' 'e' 'r' 'c' 'e' fierce Number three 'd' 'e' 'c' 'e' 'i' 't' deceit Number four 'c' 'o' 'n' 'v' 'e' 'n' 'i' 'e' 'n' 'c' 'e' convenience Number five 'h' 'y' 'g' 'i' 'e' 'n' 'e' hygiene Number six 't' 'r' 'a' 'n' 's' 'c' 'e' 'i' 'v' 'e' 'r' transceiver Number seven 'r' 'e' 'c' 'e' 'i' 'v' 'e' 'd' received Number eight 'p' 'r' 'i' 'e' 's' 't' priest Number nine 'w' 'e' 'i' 'r' 'd' weird Number ten 'g' 'r' 'i' 'e' 'f' grief Give yourself a mark out of ten and pause the video if you need some more time.

You've done a really good job.

Reviewing spellings and rules looked at exceptions to the rules and you learnt a new spelling practise 'small to big' finally if you're happy with your test score great but you should always be happy even if you've made mistakes.

Remember the words you may have written incorrectly mean you must practise them a bit more.

Congratulations! You've finished your spelling lesson for the day.