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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 would be great, and having something or someone to talk to would also be excellent.

Let's get right into today's spelling lesson then.

In this spelling lesson, we are going to be spelling words with the suffix -ible.

The outcome will be, I can spell words using the suffix -ible.

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Suffix.

Root word.

Adjective.

Adverb.

Brilliant.

A suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add to the end of a word to change its meaning.

The root word is the base word from which other words are formed often by adding prefixes or suffixes.

An adjective describes a noun.

An adverb describes a verb.

So today we are going to be adding the suffix -ible to the end of root words to create adjectives.

And we're also going to look carefully at using -ibly to create adverbs as well and the links between these adjectives and these adverbs and the suffix or the suffixes that is making them.

We're gonna be spelling words with the suffix -ible today.

We're gonna begin by looking at in our first learning cycle.

Then we're going to be linking -ible and -ibly, so adjectives and adverbs.

Finally, we're going to spell some curriculum words.

Let's get on with using the suffix, -ible.

A suffix, remember, is a letter or group of letters that we add to the end of a word which creates another word.

Unlike prefixes, which come at the beginning of the root word, suffixes often change the tense or word class when added to the end of the word.

Here we have the root word reverse.

If I add my -ible suffix that we're looking at today, it creates reversible, an adjective.

Here we have reason.

If I add my -able suffix, it creates reasonable, another adjective.

Here we have adore.

If I add my -ably suffix, it creates adorably.

Notice how the spelling of the root word has changed there as well.

This time I've created an adverb, a word that describes a verb.

There are lots of different types of suffix and here are just three examples.

Different suffixes, remember, can create words with different word classes.

Today we're concentrating on adding that -ible and -ibly suffix.

Read these words.

What do they have in common? Reasonable.

Sustainable.

Valuable.

Invisible.

Responsible.

Incredible.

They are all adjectives ending in the suffixes -ible and -able.

The suffix, or the suffixes, -ible and -able can sound the same.

You have to be very careful with them.

So it can be really hard to choose the correct spelling when you hear them in a word.

The suffixes -ible and -able usually mean capable of being or doing something.

So, if something's valuable, it holds lots of value.

If something's invisible, it cannot be seen.

If something's sustainable, it can last a long time or sustain itself.

If something's reasonable, it has that reason.

The -able spelling is the most common.

Words ending in our -able are more likely to have a root word that we can recognise in English.

Remember, that root word is that word onto which we are adding that suffix.

For instance, this word.

Comfortable.

Reasonable.

Enjoyable.

Have a look at these roots here.

We can clearly see comfort, reason, and enjoy.

There are some exceptions to this, such as the words, vulnerable, available, and capable, because these words do not have clear root words.

Also, all newer words use the -able ending, for instance emailable or printable, words that have only come into our vocabulary in recent history because of new technology and phenomenon.

So, words using the -able suffix, not the -ible that we're looking for today, do they A, usually have a root word that we recognise? B, do not usually have a root word that we recognise? Or C, are modern words? Pick two from this list of three.

Pause the video.

Great job, team.

They A, usually have a root word we can recognise when ending in that -able suffix, and C, are modern words.

Words ending in -ible don't often have a recognisable root word.

Visible, for instance.

Horrible.

Terrible.

Possible.

Legible, which means something that can be read.

Legible handwriting.

Vis here is not a clear root word, but it is based in Latin.

It's to do with being seen.

Horr as well.

Terr, poss, and leg or leg.

They often have Latin roots such as visibilis, meaning to see, or horribilis, meaning something that causes fear or dread.

There are, however, some words that end in our -ible suffix that do have recognisable root words.

Here we have responsible.

The recognisable root word here is response.

Sensible, where recognisable root word is sense.

You may be noticing a pattern here.

Response, sense, what sound are they ending in? And here we have accessible, ending in the root word, access.

Response, sense, and access.

These are exceptions to the rule.

They all end in an S sound.

These root words often end in an S sound then.

So, these -ible words follow familiar spelling rules when adding the suffix to the root word and many of the other suffixes that I'm sure you would've looked at previously.

If our root word ends in an E, we (whooshes) remove that E and then add our suffix, because of course our suffix is beginning with a vowel.

The word response for instance, here we do have the clear root word, an exception ending in that S sound.

We remove the E and add our -ible to create the word responsible.

Sense, again, remove the E and add -ible to create sensible.

Choose the correct spelling for reversible, an adjective, means something that can be reversed, changed backwards and forwards.

Reversible.

Pause the video and point to it.

Great.

Absolutely.

The correct spelling here is reversible here, because it ends in that E spelling with that S sound, so we chop it off and then add our -ible.

Words using the -ible suffix.

Read the options and pick the correct options.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

Usually have a root word that we can recognise? I'm not so sure.

I thought that was our -able suffix.

Do not usually have a recognisable root word? Yes, they don't often have a recognisable root word, but there are some exceptions like reverse and reversible.

May have root words ending in an S sound.

Yes, those are our exceptions, sense and sensible, recognised and recognisable.

Which rule would help us spell this word? We have A, -able words that have recognisable root words and -ible usually don't.

Is it B, -ible may have a root ending in an S sound.

C, new words using -able.

Or, it's an exception.

Here's our word, emailable.

Which rule is this using? Have a think about it now.

Select the correct rule.

Fantastic.

This word is a new word.

Our root word is email and it's a modern phenomena, isn't it? Modern technology.

So we know it's going to use our -able.

And also we have a recognisable root word here, email, that I can just add my -able to because my root word here ends in a consonant.

I just add the -able suffix.

So two options there.

Ready for the next word? Read it for me.

Invisible.

Hmm, think about this one.

Which rule is it following? Make your selection now.

Great.

It is, of course, this one here, a word that doesn't have an obvious root word.

We have vis in there, don't we? Which is from visibilis, being able to see.

And we also have the prefix in- before it too.

This doesn't have a root word, so it's an -ible, I-B-L-E.

Ready for the next word? Read this word for me.

Comfortable.

Which rule is it following? Pause the video and point to it now.

Great.

The rule it's following is we have a recognisable root word here, comfort, and we just add our -able suffix.

Comfortable.

It's our adjective comfortable.

A comfortable chair.

Accessible.

Which rule is this one following? Pause the video and point to it.

Great.

Well, I can see I've got my -ible, I-B-L-E here, accessible.

Hmm, and at the end of my root word, access here, I have a s sound, an S sound, don't I? Accessible.

Brilliant.

Watch out for the double C and the double S in the word access before adding your suffix.

Available.

Does this have an obvious root word? Hmm.

Which rule is it following? Great.

This one is an exception.

It's an -able word that doesn't have a clear and obvious root word.

We know most -able words do, but this one doesn't.

It links to the word availability too.

This word here, forcible.

Great.

This one here has that s sound at the end, that S sound, so a soft C, our root word is force, spelled C-E, we gotta chop off that E and add our -ible suffix.

Great, we now are going to have a go for this practise task at spelling some words that use our suffix, -ible.

They will be adjectives.

Remember to sound out the word.

Think, is there a root word? There most likely isn't, so be careful.

Think of the spelling rules that we've looked at for adding this suffix today, and also read the word and check it to see if you're happy with the way that it's spelled.

The first word is responsible.

You are responsible for your own actions.

Number two is incredible.

I had an incredible day.

Number three, legible.

Your handwriting is very legible.

Number four, visible.

Number five, horrible.

So we have responsible, incredible, legible, visible, and horrible.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Brilliant job, team, excellent work.

Some really good application, this slightly tricky suffix here.

So many of these words don't have root words, so it's actually really important that we know how to spell them.

The first one was responsible.

Now this does have a root word, response, ending in that se making that S sound.

Because it ends in that se, we need to remove the E and add our -ible suffix, responsible.

Incredible was our next word, wasn't it? Incredible.

This doesn't have an obvious root word.

Incredible, but if I sound it out, i n c r e d ible, incred ible, incred ible, -ible here.

Sometimes writing both words out with the -ible or the -able can help us see which one's spelled correctly.

The next word was legible.

Now this one doesn't have a root word either.

Legible.

Phew, be careful with this one.

It's a j j sound, but it's with that G, but it's a soft G sound, isn't it? It's not a hard g g, it's not leg able.

It has the word leg in it though, which might be a helpful way for you to remember it.

Legible.

Hmm.

It might sound like it is a DG as well, but it's just a G, and it's our -ible suffix, meaning something that can be read.

Visible is our next one.

Visible.

Remember, it's got that vis in it, not with a Z, but with an S, V-I-S, coming from Latin visibilis, meaning to be seen.

And it's our -ible, visible.

And here horrible.

Be careful with this one.

It has a double R in it, like the word horror.

They're linked in spelling and meaning.

Horror, horrible.

Horrible, -ible.

How did you do? Share your learning with me and with those around you and make any corrections now.

Off you go.

Onto our next learning cycle then, which is linking our -ible adjectives with some -ibly adverbs.

So, many adjectives ending in -ible have a related adverb ending in -ibly.

They are linked in spelling and meaning.

Let's look at some.

Sensible.

Sensibly.

So you would do something sensibly.

Sensible is our adjective, describes a noun, sensibly can be used to describe a verb, so it's an adverb.

Visible or visibly.

Incredible or incredibly.

Possible, and you've guessed it, possibly.

We can see here that these words are connected by their meaning and their spelling.

The spelling of the root, the main body of the word here, so the first part of it stays the same, and we have to just add our -ible or our -ibly.

They are interchangeable and create words with different word classes, either an adjective to describe nouns or an adverb to describe verbs.

This means that the rules that help us to spell -ible words can also help us to identify the -ibly spelling.

There usually isn't an easily recognisable root word in English for when we add the -ibly suffix.

Visible and visibly.

Vis, again, doesn't have that clear root word.

We know it comes from Latin vis, or visibilis, meaning to be seen.

Incred and incredible and incredibly.

Incred, again, not a clear root word.

Pos, possible and possibly.

If there is a root word, it usually ends in an S sound.

Sense.

Our root word here, sense, S-E-N-S-E, making that S sound, becomes sensible and sensibly.

Each time we've removed the E and added our -ible or -ibly suffix.

So, I want you to have a go for me at writing the new words ending in -ibly, our adverbs here, into the table.

Use the spelling of the -ibly word to help you.

Remember, often words ending in -ly are adverbs, words that we can use to describe verbs.

Pause the video.

Have a go at adding your -ibly suffix now.

Will the spelling of the first chunk of the word change before the -ible? Remember what you just looked at.

Off you go.

Great.

So, visible and visibly our linked in spelling and meaning.

V-I-S, and then instead of an -ible, we just added an -ibly.

Incredible and incredibly.

Again, first part spelling of the word stays the same and we just add our suffix -ibly.

Sense is our root word for sensible and sensibly, ending in an E.

Remove the E and then add our either suffix.

And flexible and flexibly.

Again, we just have to add either suffix.

For this practise task, I'd like you to select the correct words below to make this text make sense.

Read it out loud to help you.

We have the words impossible and impossibly, visible and visibly, flexible and flexible, flexibly, sorry, incredible and incredibly.

Think carefully about the meaning of the words.

Think carefully about their word class, whether their adjectives or adverbs, and what co-locate or word pairs they're going to be paired with in the sentence.

Pause the video, read it out loud, and try putting the correct words in.

Off you go.

Great job, team.

During the magic show, the audience was amazed by the incredible feats the magician performed.

So not incredibly feats, but incredible feats.

The incredible things that he did or she did.

Each trick seemed more impossible, not impossibly, than the last.

And that's an adjective there being used to describe the tricks.

And people were visibly shocked.

Ooh, shocked is our verb, visibly means they can be seen being shocked is our adverb.

As cards appeared and disappeared.

The magician's assistant, who was extremely flexible.

Ooh, we have there our adjective, flexible.

Managed to reveal the cards whilst doing the splits.

Did you manage to get the correct words in there? Check.

Remember, these words are connected in both meaning and spelling.

Let's move on to our final learning cycle then, spelling curriculum words.

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

They might have some tricky elements to them, so it's important that we know how to spell them.

My turn, your turn.

Material.

My jumper is made from a soft material.

Straight.

Draw me a straight line.

Read these words.

What do you think might be difficult about them? Say them again and have a think.

Great.

I've noticed a few things.

Material has an I-A-L spelling at the end, a bit like the word memorial.

You can hear the e sound that the letter I here is making, mat eer ee al.

Doesn't necessarily sound like mat eer i al, ree al.

So be careful with that.

It's an I-A-L making an ee al sound.

The word straight has a very rare ey spelling in it, the A-I-G-H for that ey sound.

So watch out for that one.

Take a snapshot of these now because I'm gonna test you on them in a minute.

(imitates camera shutter) Material, straight.

With that in mind, quick fire round.

Which of these are spelled correctly? Point to the correct spelling of material.

Great, material.

Ooh, this one here, isn't it? M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L.

It's that I making that E-L sound there isn't it? And that A-L at the end.

Straight.

Hmm, which spelling do I have for my ey sound here? Point to the correct spelling of straight now.

Great.

It's that rare A-I-G-H and that T at the end, straight.

So, because these are such important words that are gonna appear so much, it's really important we embed those spellings into our memory.

This is a great strategy that allows you to practise independently.

You look carefully at the spelling, you consider what's maybe tricky about it, any naughty letters it might have in it, you then cover it up, and then you write it, and then you uncover it and check and see how you did.

And even if you get it right first time, you keep practising it, look, cover, write a number of times.

In your neatest handwriting as well to make really good links between your hand and your brain.

Pause the video now and have a go at using the look, cover, write check strategy to write out material and straight a number of times.

Off you go.

Brilliant job, team.

So I'm hoping you've got material and straight written out a number of times like this.

If you have any corrections to make, make them now.

Also, show me your learning.

I'd love to see it.

Incredible.

So, today in spelling we've been looking at the suffixes, -ible and -able, but mainly -ible.

Both of these suffixes can create adjectives.

Removing the -ible suffix does not usually leave a recognisable root word in English.

For instance, in the word visible we're left with the word vis.

Adjectives ending in the suffix -ible and adverbs ending in the suffix -ibly are connected in spelling and meaning.

Keep up the great spelling and see if you can spot these suffixes in your reading.

See you again soon.