Lesson video

Hello everybody, it's Ms. Chamberlain-Webber.

I'm going to be teaching you spelling today and I'm so excited about this because spellings tell us more about the meaning of the words.

They tell us about where words come from and more importantly, they tell us about the order of the letters in a word.

Today, we're going to be focusing on the letter string at the end of words we call suffixes.

Lets investigate further.

We'll start today's lesson with some key vocabulary and the we'll generate and look at some spelling rules for our two suffixes.

Finally, I'll give you ten spelling words.

You'll need a pencil and paper for today's lesson.

Pause the video here if you need to go and get those things.

Please have your brain ready for your learning and try and be in a nice, calm, quiet place.

Key vocabulary.

These are the words we're going to need to use in today's lesson.

I'll say it, then you say it.

'Adjective' An adjective is a describing word.

We often use these in our writing to make it sound interesting.

'Root' Root is the basic form of a word onto which a prefix or a suffix is added.

'Suffix' Suffix are the letters at the end of the word that change the meaning of the word.

And sometimes, they change the word class too.

So, root words are the main part of the word and a suffix is the part we add on the end.

An adjective is a type of word class.

Okay, time to show me what you know.

Pause the video here and read each definition.

Remind yourself of the key word.

Okay, a a describing word is? An adjective! The most basic version of a word, onto which a prefix or suffix is attached is? Root word! And finally, a group of letters at the end of a word that can change the meaning, and sometimes the word class is? A suffix! Now we're ready to investigate.

Here I have some words.

What do they have in common? Let's read them together, my turn, then your turn.

'Adorable' 'Tolerable' 'Comfortable' 'Horrible' 'Visible' 'Terrible' What have you spotted about their spellings? They have the same or similar suffixes on the end.

Can you see the same letters at the end? B, L, E.

But what is slightly different about some of these words? The letter before the B.

Some have an A and some have an I.

Can you point at the letters with an -able.

Can you point at the letters with an -ible at the end? Okay.

What about the way we say these words? 'Adorable' 'Tolerable' Do they sound quite similar? They do.

So we're looking at the suffix -able and -ible.

But what about the meaning of these words? Lets look at the top row together, putting each word into a sentence.

'Adorable' means very cute and sweet.

The adorable kitten was on the bed.

'Terrible' is quite the opposite.

It means something that's not very good.

Oh, don't look outside, the weather is terrible today.

And 'visible' means something that you can see clearly.

At night time sometimes, a full moon is very visible.

Please pause the video here and try putting the bottom three -ible and - able suffix words into a sentence.

Okay.

Now we've looked at those six words a bit more closely.

Can you tell me what the word class of these six words are? They're adjective! They're describing nouns.

An adorable kitten, terrible weather, visible moon.

These are things, places or people they're describing.

ible and -able words are adjectives.

Can we sort these words into two groups of spellings? Pause the video here to give you some time, writing them down into two different groups.

Here we are, we have one group with -able spellings with an A in the suffix and one group with -ible spellings, with I in the suffix.

Time to generate rules.

Lets focus on -able to begin.

Looking at my words adorable, tolerable and comfortable.

Actually -able is interesting because its the most common of these two suffixes.

We call it the best bet suffix because if you're not sure of which one to choose in your writing, if you were to choose the -able you're more likely to be correct because there's many more words that use -able.

In fact, any new words that are created in the English language, will use -able not -ible.

Now, looking at these words a bit more closely, you might be able to tell, that its more likely that the root word will be recognisable in English.

This isn't always the case however.

But, it's most likely to have a recognisable root word.

Lets look at -ible.

These words are older words.

Remember, no new words are going to use this suffix.

And approximately 180 words use this suffix.

This might sound like a lot but actually, imagine you could learn all 180 words and then you know any other word with this sound, will be the -able suffix.

Now, sometimes its the case with -ible that the root word ends in an s or an s sound.

Lets look at our list.

Can you spot any root words that have an s sound? 'Visible' has an s before the -ible.

And the root words with - ible are not generally recognisable.

So they don't really make sense to us by themselves.

Great.

Now you know more about these two suffixes.

We're going to look at each word individually.

I'm going to say the word and I want you to look carefully at our rules in the top left hand side of your screen to help you decide which suffix it might be.

When I say the word, I wonder if you can spot or hear a word inside a word.

Are you ready? 'Comfortable' 'Comfortable' Pause the video here and write down the word you can hear inside the word.

Okay.

You could probably hear the word comfort.

This is the root word.

Looking at my rules in the top left hand side of your screen, what do you think will be the correct suffix to add to this word? Its going to be -able because the root word makes sense by itself and its our best bet.

Good.

What do you notice about the spelling of our adjective 'comfortable'? The -able has just been added straight to the end.

Lets try another one.

This time, when I say the word, listen very carefully and write down what the root might be.

'Adorable' One more time.

'Adorable'.

Pause the video here and decide which suffix will be added to the end of my root word.

I heard the word 'adore'.

Adore does make sense by itself, it means that you really like something.

So, which of my suffixes will be added onto the end? Its -able.

Ah, there's something different about this spelling though.

Have you spotted what's happened to the root word 'adore' when -able has been added to it? Ah the 'e' has been removed.

This is very often the case when were adding suffixes and a root word ends in 'e', So this is a spelling rule we need to try and remember.

You're doing great, lets look at another example.

Listening carefully and pausing the video if you need more time.

'Tolerable' 'Tolerable' Can you hear a word inside a word? I couldn't hear a word.

'Toler' is not a word recognised in the English language.

So, which of my suffixes do you think will be added.

Its an exception to the rule.

Tolerable has the -able suffix.

Now, we can still have a look at what 'toler' means because its from Latin origins and it means to bear or put up with something.

Time for another one.

Listening carefully.

'Terrible' 'Terrible' Pause the video and think about whether you can hear a word inside a word there.

What suffix is going to be added to the end? 'Terri' is not a word inside a word or recognised in the English language.

It might sound a bit like the word 'terror', with an -or at the end.

Now lets look at the spelling.

'Ter' by itself does not make sense and is not recognisable in the English language.

It means to frighten.

The suffix -ible was added, but why? Can you remind me? The root does not make sense by itself in this case.

'Visible' Can you hear a word inside a word? 'Visible' Pause here.

This ones a bit tricky because many words have 'vis' within them.

But 'vis' by itself, does not make sense.

So, which of my suffixes will be added? ible.

This follows the rule very well because also, have you spotted what's before -ible? It ours 's'.

And the s sound is commonly used for -ible.

Now, 'vis' is also from Latin roots and means to see.

It's time for our last spelling.

Listen carefully.

'Forcibly' One more time.

'Forcibly' Pause the video and tell me if you can hear a word in a word.

This time I can, force.

So in this case, which suffix should be added? It's -ible this time so this is another exception because -able is the suffix that's usually added to a word that makes sense by itself.

Remember, although these are great rules to follow, there are always exceptions to rules.

Perhaps you spotted the spelling rule for this one.

Which letter has had to be removed before -able is added? Its the 'e'.

Lets remind ourselves of our suffix rules and which ones we have looked at during this lesson.

Well, as you can see, we've looked at two different suffix rules.

The first one being 'comfortable'.

Can you point at the suffix rule used for 'comfortable? Just add the suffix -able, straight onto the word 'comfort'.

And how about the word we just looked at, 'forcible', and earlier 'adorable'? Well, the 'e' was removed and then the suffix added.

You're ready for your ten spelling words.

And here is your spelling list of ten words.

Don't worry about copying it down now because I'm going to go through each word individually.

After I've said each word twice and in a sentence, please pause the video to make sure you've written it down correctly because you don't want to be learning spellings that are actually incorrect.

Number one.

'Adorable' 'Adorable' That puppy is adorable.

This is an -able spelling and can you tell me the spelling rule for the root word 'adore'? The 'e' was removed.

Number two.

'Tolerable' 'Tolerable' The weather was barely tolerable today.

That means it wasn't very good at all.

What do we notice about this spelling? Its our exception, isn't it.

Why? Well, it has the suffix -able.

And usually, the -able suffix follows a root word that makes sense by itself.

Does 'toler' make sense? No.

Number three.

'Comfortable' 'Comfortable' My bed is very comfortable.

This time, no spelling rule has been needed before adding the -able suffix.

Number four.

'Enjoyable' 'Enjoyable' Going to the park today was very enjoyable.

Another -able.

Number five.

'Changeable' 'Changeable' Sometimes, the weather in England is very changeable.

This means it will change quickly from rainy to windy or to sunny.

Number six.

'Horrible' 'Horrible' I'm afraid this food tastes horrible.

What's changed about the suffix? This is a -ible word.

Remember there are two 'r's in horrible.

Number seven.

'Terrible' 'Terrible' Ooh, that sounds like a terrible idea, I don't want to do that.

Have you noticed the similarity between the word horrible and terrible? Double 'r' consonants.

Number eight.

'Visible' 'Visible' The moon was visible last night.

We know this is a -ible suffix because its commonly used when the root word ends in 's'.

Number nine.

'Audible' 'Audible' The music from the other room is very audible.

This has a bit of a tricky vowel sound at the beginning of the word.

Check you've written it down correctly, a-u-d And our final word, number ten.

'Forcible' 'Forcible' The push you gave me was a very forcible one.

This also has a spelling rule before the suffix -ible, have you spotted it? Our root word 'force' has had the? Which letter removed? 'E'.

Pause the video now and double check you've got all ten spellings written down correctly.

Really well done today.

You explored two very similar suffixes.

You should be really proud of yourself and I look forward to seeing you next time.