Lesson video

Hello, I'm Mr. Marsh, and welcome to this spelling lesson.

Now, in this lesson we are going to investigate, when we have the /ee/ sound in a word, whether it's about 'ie' or 'ei'.

We're going to hopefully come up with some rules that help us learn which of those spellings we use.

So if you're ready to begin, let's make a start on today's lesson.

Now, before we begin the lesson, let's just have a little look at the agenda that we're going to cover in this lesson.

We're going to start by looking and investigating, some possible rules as when we know when we've got the /ee/ sound or whether we use 'ei' or 'ie'.

And finally, once we've done that, we're going to look and set some spelling words later in the lesson.

All right, let's continue.

Before we really get into the lesson, I want you to make sure you have an exercise book or some paper, pen or a pencil.

And make sure because it's going to be confusing, so I'm going to say 'ie' and 'ei' quite a lot.

Make sure that brain of yours is switched on, and you're ready to go.

If you don't have those things, pause the video now before we start.

Okay, let's begin.

So we're going to go straight into our lesson, where we're going to try and investigate and come up with some rules, or whether we know we use 'ei' or 'ie', for the sound /ee/ in words.

So when I say /ee/, I mean /ee/ as an a stretched e.

Okay, It's good to have rules, because then if we've got some rules, we're trying to work out how we spell a word.

Well, we can always think about the rule and think yes, that must be spelled like this.

Check.

Let's start our investigation.

Here are two words.

Let's do your turn, my turn.

Sorry.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Believe.

Receive.

So you can hear in the middle of those words believe, with an 'e' that stretched /ee/ sound, and receive that's got that stretched /ee/ sound too.

But they have different spellings, as we've already talked about.

So it's a bit of revision for you, I'm sure.

You've got 'ie' making the /ee/ sound believe and receive has got that, but it's not 'ei', but both making that /ee/ sound.

So you have 'ie' making the /ee/ sound, and 'ei' making the /ee/ sound.

So we need some rules, to help us know when do we use 'ie', and when do we use 'ie'.

Here are six words, achieve, perceive, deceive, friend, ceiling, and retrieve.

I actually want you to pause the video now, have a think.

How would you group these words? Would you split them into one group, two groups, six groups? Say the words to yourself out loud and think, how would I group these words? Okay, pause the video there for me now.

Okay, how did you get on? Well, I want you to pause the video again and think, look at your groups or look maybe what you've written down.

Because I've now highlighted the 'ie' and 'ei' in each word.

Does that change your groups? Say the words out loud again.

Have you got one group? Have you changed it to two groups? Are you thinking I need three or more groups? Pause the video now have a think.

Now, I've decided to put the words into these three groups.

Ceiling, perceive and deceive, all together.

Achieve, retrieve, are together, and friend is in a group on its own.

Pause the video, can you work out why, I have put these into three different groups.

Okay, pause the video now.

So let's see how you got on, let's see if you notice why I had put them into three different groups.

Well ceiling, perceive and deceive, all have that stretched /ee/ sound in the middle, but they've got the spelling 'ei'.

Achieve and retrieve again have got that /ee/ sound, stretched /ee/ sound in the middle of the word and spelling it with 'ie'.

Now friend does that got the stretched /ee/ sound.

Friend, no it doesn't.

So it doesn't have the /ee/ sound.

So there are some words that have 'ie' or 'ei', that don't make the /ee/ sound.

We're not really investigating those today, we're just looking for words that have that /ee/ sound, that is about 'ei' or 'ie'.

So let's first of all look at words, that have /ee/ sound, and have the spelling 'ei'.

So ceiling, your turn, perceive, so I might perceive, it's how you think about something.

That's what perceive means.

That your perception of something.

Deceive, your turn.

So if you deceive someone, you mislead them, you might confuse them about something.

Okay, so we're looking at the 'ei' spelling of the sound /ee/.

Maybe this is just revision for you.

And maybe, you can remember really quite common phrase, how we remember when we use 'ei'.

Maybe whether the letter I've highlighted is giving you a bit of an indication.

But pause the video and think, what do you notice about these words? Hey, pause the video now.

Okay, what did you see? Did you notice that often, 'ei' is used at maybe the beginning of the word, so like we've got in ceiling, or generally after a 'c'.

So you can see in the light blue colour, I have highlighted 'c', so 'ei' often will follow 'c'.

Let's have a look at the 'ie' spelling of the sound, a stretched /ee/ sound.

So we've got achieve.

So you might achieve something, you might be successful in doing something.

Retrieve, your turn.

So if I retrieve something, it means I get it back.

Belief, your turn.

Now, all of those words have the stretched /ee/ sound, but they also got 'ie'.

Pause the video.

Do you notice anything, that might help us come up with a rule about these words? Okay, how did you get on? Well, I'm going to highlight these letters.

I want you to pause the video again.

Does that give you any more of a clue? Okay, pause the video now.

Well, here's the rule.

Generally, 'i' before 'e', except after 'c', where the sound is /ee/.

So we have to think back to that rule that we just looked at, where often after 'c' we have 'ei', Well, then we can make this rule where generally it's 'i' before 'e', except after 'c', because after 'c', it will be 'ei'.

So in all these words, we have that I can achieve the 'h' before the /ee/ sound.

So therefore, we use 'ie', we have in retrieve, we have the 'r' before the /ee/ sound, so we use 'ie'.

And in belief, We have an 'l' before the /ee/ sound, so we use 'ie'.

So here's your challenge.

I'll say the word, and I want you to tell me which one is spelt correctly.

Should it be an 'ei' word? So 'ei' spelling of the stretched sound /ee/ or an 'ie'.

The word is receipt, your turn.

So receipt you might get when you've bought something at a shop.

Pause the video now, have a think.

What is the correct spelling, do I use 'ie' or 'ei'? Think about the rules we've already looked at in this lesson.

Okay, off you go.

I thought I would just highlight the letters for you.

Is it 'ei' or is it 'ie'.

Now, hopefully, but it doesn't matter if you got it wrong.

That you notice that before the /ee/ sound in receipt, we have the letter 'c'.

And remember our rule, 'ei', often it might be at the beginning of a word, but it generally comes after the letter 'c'.

So in receipt before the /ee/ sound, we have the letter 'c'.

Here's the word conceive, your turn.

So if you conceive something is when you think of something, so think again about our rules.

Remember the rules that we've looked at already.

Which do you think is the correct spelling of the word conceive? Pause the video now.

Okay, how did you get on? Well, I'm going to leave this here highlighted again, have we got 'ie' or 'ei'? Think about the letter that comes before the /ee/ sound in these words.

So when we say conceive again, that /ee/ sound has a 'c' before it.

So generally, if we have a 'c' before the /ee/ sound in a word, it is spelled 'ei'.

So it's not 'ie' in conceive.

Okay, another one for you, fierce, your turn.

So we might talk about some animal being fierce, its ferocious, might be attacking so it might be a fierce attack.

Think back to the rules for that /ee/ sound, is this work going to be 'ie' or 'ei'.

Okay, pause the video have a go.

So again, I've highlighted 'ei', 'ie', remember our rules, thinking about the letter that comes before that /ee/ sound in these words.

Okay, so because we have the letter 'f' before the /ee/ sound, generally is 'i' before 'e', except after 'c', so we don't have 'c' here.

So that means that we use 'ie', it's not 'ei'.

Fantastic.

Now, I'm going to read these words to you, and I want you to read them.

Sorry, say them back to me.

Ceiling, your turn, perceive, protein, and seize.

Now I want you to really focus on those, we're on the words protein, and seize, because they both got that /ee/ sound in their protein, and seize.

Do they follow the rules that we've just been looking at? Say them out loud, study the words hard and think.

Do they or do they not follow the rules? Pause the video for me now.

Okay, let's look closely at those words now.

So in ceiling, we have 'ei', well, we know our rule is generally 'ei' after the letter 'c'.

In perceive we have 'ei', again, it's generally 'ei' for that sound stretched out /ee/, if it's after the letter 'c'.

But we've got 'ei' in protein.

And we've got 'ei' in seize.

Do they follow that rule? Pause the video, have a think for me.

They don't follow our rules, do they? They don't follow the rule that we've just established.

But that's why I said generally the rule is, 'ei' after 'c'.

But there are some words like protein, like seize.

I think about seize when I think about, that's grabbing something, so I might grab something.

And protein is like vitamins you might find protein often in like meat, it's where we get a source of protein.

But words like that, are spelt 'ei' for that /ee/ sound, but they don't have a 'c' for the /ee/ sound.

So they are, ones that don't follow the rule, but generally the rule is, 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.

Okay, so this just shows that a little bit clearer for you again.

So now that we have set some rules or found out some rules for whether we use the 'ei' or 'ie' spelling for the sound /ee/.

We're going to set some spelling words based on those rules.

So what I want you to do if you don't already have a pen and paper, I want you to grab those, because as we go through the spelling words, I want you to carefully write them down, copy them carefully, so that over the next week or so, you can then practise the spelling's.

So that's why it's really important you copy them correctly, so that you're actually practising the correct spelling.

And then just when we get towards the end of the spelling's, I want to the pause video, and make sure you just copy them carefully.

Okay, let's have a look at our 10 spelling words.

So there are 10 spelling words, like I said, I'm going to go through each of them.

And you can see in our magnifying glass, we're going to focus on one at a time.

So I'm going to explain the meaning of each word to you.

Okay.

I'm going to do my turn your turn before I explain each one.

Perceive, your turn.

Perceive is how you see something.

So you might perceive something as one thing, but someone else might perceive it as something else.

It's how you see something.

Conceive, your turn.

You might conceive an idea, you come up with something.

Conceit.

So conceit could be, it talks about something being really proud.

So a conceited person, is someone who you might describe as being really vain and of really high opinion of everything they do.

Now, those three words in the light green colour, following that rule that we've established today, that we have the letter 'c' before the /ee/ sound, but it's before 'ei'.

Let me say that again.

When we have the spelling 'ei' for the /ee/ sound, has the letter 'c' before it, and those three words follow that rule.

Okay, spelling number four is protein.

Now protein we often find in different foods and a really common place really common foods that you find protein it is meat.

Seize.

Seize means that grab something, hold it really tight in your hand, grab it really quickly.

Caffeine So caffeine is found in coffee.

Sometimes caffeine can have a little bit of a crazy effect on people that makes them all go a little bit excited and buzzy.

Now those three words, use the 'ei' spelling for the /ee/ sound, but they don't follow that rule for having 'c' before the /ee/ sound.

So there are exceptions to that rule.

Spelling number seven is belief, your turn.

So belief, something you believe you strongly believe.

Mischievous.

So a mischievous person, might be someone that's always up to something, they're up to tricks, they're always playing tricks on people.

Retrieve.

So if you think earlier, we talked about seize was to grab something.

While retrieve you might grab it back from them, you retrieve it from whoever maybe took something from you.

And our final spelling is lenient.

Now a lenient person, might be someone that lets you get away with things, they don't enforce the rules.

Maybe they let you get away with the little sneaky thing that you're up to.

Okay, what I'd like to do now, I would like to pause the video.

And I would like to make sure you've copied out each and every single one of those spelling really, really carefully.

Okay, pause the video for me now.

So I just want to congratulate you, on getting to the end of this lesson.

And I hope you had a really successful lesson.

If you've found it a bit tricky, everything can be a bit tricky, and that's really good to challenge ourselves.

Let's just do a quick recap of what we've done in this lesson.

We've investigated and generated some rules, so that we know whether we use the 'ei' or the 'ie' spelling, when we have the /ee/ sound in a word, but we also started to look at some exceptions.

Then finally we set those spelling words.

And like I said earlier, I want you, to take those spelling words.

And I want you to practise those over the next week or so.

Little and often, is the best way to practise to make us the most successful with our spelling.

Well done, you've completed the lesson.

I hope you enjoyed it.

I really, really did.

And I'll see you in the next lesson.

Goodbye.