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Hello and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss, 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 that something to write with and write on and someone or something to talk to would also be excellent.

Right then, let's waste no time and get right into today's spelling lesson.

In this spelling lesson, we're going to be spelling words of Latin origin that use the SC spelling to make a sss or S sound.

The outcome will be, I can spell words that use the letters SC to make an S sound.

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Sound, spelling, Latin origin.

Let's have a think about what these words mean then.

The sound obviously refers to the way a word is pronounced.

The spelling is the act of forming words by arranging letters in the correct order.

So we are looking at that SC spelling today, but it's going to make a very unique sound.

A sss or S sound, and words that contain this in English often have a Latin origin, this refers to words that come from the Latin language.

So we today spelling words of Latin origin that use SC to make an S sound.

We're gonna begin by using the Latin derived SC spelling.

Then we're going to spell some curriculum words.

And in our final learning cycle, we're going to apply some spellings within a sentence.

I really can't wait for that learning cycle.

Let's get on with using the Latin derived SC spelling.

So etymology is a branch of linguistics that studies the origins of words.

Modern English is a language that has roots in many other languages.

Here you can see English as our tree, and its branches and trunk and below are the roots where modern English has been derived from.

It has many origins.

Languages such as Hindi, Persian, Celtic, Norse, Germanic, Oroto Indo-European, French, Latin, and Greek.

Latin is that focus language for us today.

Here we can see the languages that help to make up English.

Latin is a large part of that, and that's why we're focusing on it today.

French and Germanic too.

Even Greek, and many of the other languages that I've mentioned as our roots there too.

And obviously proper names of places.

We are focusing today on a Latin derived spelling.

Etymologists, people who study where words come from, will consider the journey a word has been on to reach the point it is at today.

Some words have been on really interesting journeys.

Have a look at this word, for instance, from Greek.

I wonder if you recognise the word in English almost there.

Over time, it develops into this in Latin, and then this in French, and finally we have in English the word scene, as in the scene of a movie or a film, or the place in which something is set.

There are many words in the English language that are derived from other languages and not just Latin.

Think about that tree we looked at a moment ago and all of those different roots.

The word safari, for instance, comes from Swahili and Arabic.

Coffee comes from Arabic.

Pyjamas comes from Urdu.

In English, we spell it pyjamas, slightly differently.

Tea comes from Chinese.

Today we are going to focus on words that have Latin origins, so come from the Latin language.

Latin is an ancient language that is no longer spoken but it is often studied and is the basis for many, many languages, particularly in Europe.

Listen to these words.

See if you can spot something similar about all of them.

My turn.

Your turn.

Science, hmm.

Scene, the scene of a movie.

Discipline, so obeying the rules or showing self-control.

Fascinate, something that interests.

Crescent, that shape like the crescent moon.

Ascend, meaning to go up.

Descend to go down.

And abscess.

And abscess is a painful swelling that can grow and can contain puss.

Read these words again.

Do you notice anything about all of them? Do they all have something in common? Have a think.

Great, I've noticed that they all contain this SC spelling, but it is not making a sound that I'd expect it to make.

It's making an S sound, a sss sound, science, scene.

When this spelling is used, it is most often before the letters I and E.

Let's find out more about words that contain this Latin derived SC Spelling then.

Let's read these words.

The word scuffle is a noun.

It's a short, disorganised fight or struggle.

Its origin is not Latin 'cause it's making a sk, sk, It's not making a ss, ss sound.

But the word scene and abscess they both have that SC spelling and it's Latin derived.

It's making that sss sound.

That scene is a place where an event takes place.

It's derived from Latin.

Abscess, a painful swelling that contains pus, again with that SC spelling, but making that S sound.

So it's a Latin derived word.

The words containing the SC spelling of the S sound originate in Latin.

Latin was a language that was spoken by the Romans, it's no longer a spoken language it's what we might call a dead language, but many of the words that we use are derived from it.

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence.

Words that contain the mmm sounds, spell SC , often have a mmm origin.

Select from the words below, off you go.

Brilliant, so words that contain the S sound, or sss, spelt SC, often have a Latin origin, they are derived from the Latin language.

Let's look at some more words that contain this spelling.

The word discipline and crescent.

Discipline is the training of people to obey rules.

It's often associated with self-control.

Because it has that SC spelling for that ss sound, it is of Latin origin.

Crescent, a shape of the moon when it looks like a narrow arc, a crescent moon.

It is also of Latin origin 'cause it's that SC spelling for that ss sound that S sound.

The words are of Latin origin.

We call them Latin derived words.

Can you say that for me? Latin derived words.

Because they originate or are derived from the Latin language.

Can you identify the Latin derived spellings here? Think about the sound and spelling that we've been looking at so far in this lesson.

Read the words, off you go.

Great.

Scab, hmmm, sk-ab.

You've got a hard C there, scab, kh, kh, that is not a Latin derived word.

Scene, like scene from a film, ss, ss, for that SC.

Yes, that is a Latin derived word.

Scheme, Sk-eme, scheme.

Ooh, I can hear a kh, kh there.

That is not a Latin derived word.

The word scheme is actually derived from Greek.

It's that CH spelling for that kh, kh sound.

But the word abscess at the bottom.

Ss, ss, S, has that double S for that S, but also that C for that S.

So it is a Latin derived word.

Remember, an abscess is a painful swelling that can contain puss.

Sometimes just seeing the word in a sentence can help us to know whether the spelling looks right or not.

This is a really good strategy when learning words that don't have particular spelling rules or patterns.

June's favourite subject has always been science.

Select the correct spelling, now, which one do you think looks right? Great, absolutely it's this one here, and it has our SC.

It's a Latin derived word.

The magician never fail to fascinate the audience to keep them interested.

Hmm, which one do you think looks like our right spelling here? Great, absolutely it's a Latin derived word.

It's that SC for fascinate, great.

Read these sentences now and choose the correct spelling.

Think about which ones look right and think about which ones might be Latin derived.

Off you go.

Brilliant job team.

You must discipline your dog.

So you must make them obey the rules.

So discipline is a Latin derived word, it's that ss, ss, spelled SC discipline.

It's got that S sound, that's brilliant.

Mestled in the starry sky, the crescent moon blowed.

This is also a Latin derived word, C-R-E-S-C for that that ss, S crescent.

It's that ENT at the end there.

The scene is often set at the start of a story.

The scene is often set at the start of a story.

This is a Latin derived word here, in English, scene.

It also has some roots in Greek, but our spelling of it today our SC we get from Latin derived words.

So scene, S-C-E-N-E, grea.

For our practise task now we're going to have a go at spelling some words that contain that Latin derived SC spelling for that sound, That S sound, sss.

The first word is science.

I love teaching science.

Number two is scene, he set the scene.

Number three is discipline.

He lacked discipline.

Number four, fascinate.

And number five, crescent.

The crescent moon hung high in the sky.

So I'll say those words again.

Science, scene, discipline, fascinate, crescent.

Listen out carefully for that ss sound.

Remember our spelling we're using today.

Off you go team.

Great job, brilliant.

Really careful sounding out of the words there.

And great job for remembering that Latin derived SC for that sound that we are looking at today.

The first word was science.

It's Latin derived, so it's S-C and it's I-E-N-C-E, science.

It's got that soft CE there at the end making that ss as well, so watch out for that.

The next word then was scene.

Brilliant, like a movie scene.

It's again, not seen as in I have seen something, but seen as in the place where something is taking place.

It's S-C-E-N-E, brilliant.

It's a Latin derived word.

Discipline, so obeying the rules or showing self-control.

Discipline, here we have it.

It's a Latin derived DISC, spelled SC, remember that E at the end as well.

And fascinate was the next word, fascinate.

Like fascination or fascinating.

It's a Latin derived word.

SC, remember the order, SC for that ss, I-N-A-T-E.

And finally crescent, like the crescent moon.

Remember it has that ENT ending, it's a Latin derived word, crescent.

So c- c- re- e-, ss- ss- S-C-E-N-T.

Crescent, how did you do that? Share your learning, share any mistakes and make any corrections now, off you go.

Onto our next learning cycle then, which is spelling curriculum words.

Curriculum words are those words which are going to appear a lot in our reading and writing.

So let's read some, muscle.

Ooh, I think I might be using a Latin derived spelling there.

Suggest, I suggest you listen carefully.

Pressure.

Pressure, they felt under pressure.

What do you notice about these spellings? Is there anything maybe tricky about them? Say them again, compare how they sound to how they're spelt.

Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant, so I've noticed a couple of things.

Muscle is a Latin derived word.

It has that S sound, but with that SC.

also has that LE for that <v ->le at the end, so be careful of that.

</v> Suggest has a double G and it's not pronounced as a hard ge- ge-, but instead as a soft G, je- je-, is a bit like the word digest.

The double S in pressure makes a sh sound.

And it's also pressure, but it's not an ER spelling.

It's U-R-E, so watch out.

Okay, select the correct spelling for this sentence.

The footballer had a torn, or sorry, the footballer had torn a muscle.

Remember it's a Latin derived word.

How would it be spelled? Select the correct spelling now.

Great job, muscle, m- uh- ss- ss- and it's Latin derived so SE and it's that LE at the end there, muscle.

Mussel and muscle are also homophones.

Muscle spelled M-U-S-S-E-L is the mussel that you might eat, It's that creature that lives in the sea.

Which of these are spelled correctly? Quickfire round.

point to the correct spelling of suggest, off you go.

Great, it's S-U and it's that double G, making a soft G sound, and then E-S-T, suggest, brilliant.

Point to the correct spelling of pressure, they felt under pressure.

So pu-re-eh-sh, sh, that sh is being made by the double S and it's U-R-E, pressure.

So it's that U-R-E for that at the end as well, watch out for that word.

So because these are curriculum words, we need to learn them.

We are going to use the look, cover, write, check strategy to really embed these spellings in our long term memory.

This works by looking carefully at each spelling and considering what's difficult about it.

Then committing it to memory and covering the word up.

So now I've looked at muscle, I've covered it up, and I have a go at writing it in my neatest cursive handwriting.

This makes really good links between your hand and your brain, your motor memory.

Then I use my independent checking skills to check back and see if I spelt it right.

I did, but just 'cause I spelt it right once doesn't mean I'm not going to use the strategy a number of times.

I'm going to use look, cover, write, check a number of times to write out each word and really put them into my memory.

You use that strategy now to write out muscle, suggest, and pressure.

Off you go.

Brilliant job team.

So I'm hoping you've got muscle, suggest, and pressure written out like this a number of times.

I'm hoping you've managed to spell them correctly.

The look part is really important 'cause you can look and think about what might be difficult about a word.

As is the checking part, 'cause this allows you to independently make sure that you've got 'em correct.

On that note, check that you've got all of them spelled correctly now, make any corrections, and share your learning.

Off you go.

Onto our final learning cycle then, which is applying the spellings that we've been looking at within a sentence.

So we are gonna have a go at writing a sentence now that contains some of our focus spellings, that Latin derived SC.

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

So let's really make sure that we are ready for this.

We're gonna have to remember the whole sentence, sound out each word, think of the spelling rules that we've been looking at, those are Latin derived words, but also there's common exception in curriculum words that we've looked at, think about muscle.

Remember sentence punctuation as well.

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

I'm going to read it to you, listen, and try and hold the sentence in your head.

Under the crescent moon, the scientists felt the pressure to fascinate the audience with results.

Under the crescent moon, the scientists felt the pressure to fascinate the audience with results.

So we're gonna sound out each word as we say it, look out for those common exception words, and think about your sentence punctuation here as well.

Think about any clauses that might be in there.

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

The first is to repeat the sentence several times out loud, repeat after me.

Under the crescent moon, the scientists felt the pressure to fascinate the audience with results.

Under the crescent moon, the scientists felt the pressure to fascinate the audience with results.

Great.

The next is to picture what's happening in your head.

Under the crescent moon, picture that moon, the scientist felt the pressure, a stressed out scientist, to fascinate the audience with results, an audience around the scientist.

Picture what's happening now as I read the sentence.

Under the crescent moon, the scientists felt the pressure to fascinate the audience with results.

Brilliant.

And finally counting how many words there are so we make sure we don't miss any out in our sentence.

Under the crescent moon, the scientist felt the pressure to fascinate the audience with results.

I'm making 15.

Great, so you are gonna have a chance to write this now.

Send out each word, think about those curriculum words, and don't forget your sentence punctuation.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

Under the crescent moon, the scientists felt the pressure to fascinate the audience with results.

Off you go.

Amazing job team, great, really impressed.

You really, really considered punctuation there.

You really thought about that Latin derived SV spelling for that ss sound.

And I can see we've also really worked hard and thought about any of those curriculum words.

So under needs to have a capital letter.

Check your work now and make any corrections as we go along.

The crescent, Latin derived, S-C-E-N-T moon.

And we have a comma here to separate our clauses under the crescent moon, so we have a preposition here.

The scientist, SC, linked to that word science, but we've added that IST suffix onto the end.

Scientist felt the pressure.

That's that curriculum word, pressure that SS making a ss, and that URE.

To fascinate, another Latin derived word spell, ss, ss, spelt SC, SE fascinate, the audience, be careful of audience, it's A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E, audience.

It's CE at the end and AU at the beginning, with results.

And of course a full stop.

How did you do here? What did you learn? How did you get on in particular with our Latin derived crescent, scientist, and fascinate, and our curriculum where pressure? Share your learning, share any magical mistakes, and make any corrections now, off you go.

Excellent working spelling today team.

We've been looking at words of Latin origin that use SC to make that S or ss sound.

Many words in the English language come from other languages remember.

We focused on words of Latin origin today.

The letters SC make the S sound in words of Latin origin.

When the spelling is used, it is most often before an I or an E.

Example words include scene, fascinate ,and crescent.

Remember to keep an eye out for these words in your reading and keep up your spelling practise.

I'll see you again soon.