Lesson video

Hello.

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

Now this lesson is lesson seven of 10 and outcome three of the Golden Compass.

If you didn't watch the spelling lesson which was lesson two of 10 in this outcome, I would like you to pause this video and go back and watch that for me now.

But if you did watch it then excellent because what we're going to do today is we're going to apply all of that knowledge that we gained in the previous lesson and look at that same spelling rule of that stretched /ee/ sound, spelt either that E-I or I-E.

So when you're ready, let's begin today's lesson.

So before we begin the lesson, I'm just going to run through the agenda for this lesson.

The first thing we're going to do in this lesson is recap the rules that we looked at in the last lesson, that we established for that stretched /ee/ sound and the spellings either E-I or I-E.

And then we're going to look at the spelling words that we set in the last lesson.

Now, sometimes there are exceptions to the rules.

And exceptions means things that don't follow the rules.

So we're going to look at some E-I and I-E spellings that don't follow the rules that we found in the last lesson.

Then we're going to move on to look at and learn a new spelling practise strategy.

It's great to have strategies when we practise, cause that really helps us embed all of those new words and how they're currently spelt in our minds.

And finally we're going to finish this lesson with a test.

Now in this lesson, you will need an exercise book and some paper, a pen or a pencil and if you're feeling a bit dozy, you need to wake up a little bit.

You need to make sure that brain of yours is ready and raring to go.

So if you don't have those things right now, pause the video, get them ready, and then we can make a start.

Okay, off you go.

Fantastic.

Well, the first thing we're going to do in this lesson is we're going to recap some of the rules that we found in the last lesson.

And then we're going to look at the spelling words that we set and just remind ourselves of what those were.

Now I'm going to do something in this lesson where I say my turn, your turn and I'm going to do that with my hands.

So when I say my turn I'm going to read the word out loud.

And when I do this with my hands, I want you to repeat the word back to me.

Let's give it a try.

Achieve.

Receive.

Okay.

What I want you to do now is delve back into your brains and think from the last lesson, what were those rules that we found out in our investigation about the I-E and E-I spelling of the stretched sound /ee/.

Can you pause the video, have a look at these words and think what was the rule? Okay, pause the video now.

Okay.

How did you get on.

If you got, can you remind yourself, have you remembered what those rules were? Well, those rules were looking at that /ee/ sound and we'll get back to what they were in a minute.

But in believe we've got that /ee/ sound, but spelt I-E and in receive we've got that stretched /ee/ sound but spelt E-I.

Now let's focus on that E-I spelling.

Let's see if you are already some of that thinking and that reminding of yourselves of the rule was correct or not.

So I've put two words on this slide.

Ceiling.

Perceive.

And the word perceive, it talks about like the word perception.

so how you see something, how you think about something.

So how you perceive something.

That's those two words.

Can you remember when you have the E-I spelling and with the stretched /ee/ sound, what our rule was.

Pause the video, maybe say the words to yourself that might help you.

But really study those words too.

Okay, pause the video now.

Now I've given you a bit of a clue here.

I've highlighted the letter C.

Can you recall what our rule was? The C becomes before the E and the I of the stretched /ee/ sound.

That's right, E-I often is used at the beginning of words so like in the word ceiling, so we talk about the ceiling.

So I'm pointing up to the ceiling now, or generally it becomes after the letter C and by generally that means lots of the time it will, not always, but some, but lots of the time it will.

So E-I is often used at the beginning of a word, and generally after the letter C.

So that was one rule that we established from the last lesson.

Movie.

Auntie.

So here we have the I-E spelling of that stretched /ee/ sound.

And this sort of gives us an idea of what our second rule was.

So I want you to pause the video and think what was our rule that we found with the I-E spelling of the stretched /ee/ sound.

Okay, pause the video for me now.

Okay.

Have you started to get an idea of what it was? Now I've highlighted two letters here, the V before the I-E and the T before the I-E.

Does that help you? Are you starting to remember what our rule was from last time? Well, let's see if you remembered it.

Generally, we have I before E except after C.

So remember, we've just found out that we either have the E-I spelling if it comes after the letter C.

So what we can say is that if the /ee/ sound isn't after the letter C, then generally it will be spelt I-E.

Okay.

Those are the two rules that we've really established in the last lesson.

What I want you to do is try and put those into practise 'cause remember this is a practise and apply that knowledge lesson.

So I've got two alternative spellings of the word, chief, your turn.

So chief might be someone that's kind of in charge of something.

They're the chief, the person that's kind of at the top, the head of maybe a family or something.

Think about our rules.

Is it going to be E-I, or is it going to be I-E.

Pause the video for me now, give it some thought.

Okay.

What are you thinking? Are you thinking it's I-E or are you thinking it's E-I? They both make that stretched /ee/ sound.

Well, remember our rule it's generally I before E except after C.

So in chief, the letter H comes before our stretched /ee/ sound So we know that it's likely to be the I-E spelling of /ee/.

Okay.

Here's another one for you.

Conceive.

Now, if you conceive something, it means you think of it.

So we've got two again, we've got two words here, two alternative spellings for conceive.

I want you to really think hard about those two rules and think which one of these is likely, generally likely to be the correct spelling.

Pause the video and study the words for me now.

Okay, off you go.

So how did you get on? Well, they've got the E-I and the I-E but what you really need to be looking at is the letter that comes before that /ee/ sound.

So here, the letter C comes before the stretched /ee/ sound.

So there we, therefore we know that it must be the E-I spelling of the stretched /ee/ sound because generally we have E-I following C.

Okay.

So here we have two more words that have E-I in them and make the stretched sound /ee/.

Perceive and weird.

So something's a bit weird, something's a bit bizarre.

What do you notice about these words.

Do they both follow the rules that we've already established? Pause the video and have a think.

Okay.

What did you notice? Well did you notice that they both got that E-I spelling of the stretch sound /ee/ but do they both follow the rules that we've had so far? Remember it, E-I normally, generally after the letter C.

What does that happen in both of these words? Well it does in perceive, but in the letter, sorry in the word weird, we have a W before, so that doesn't follow the rule that we've established.

So generally, and that's why we have that word generally the rule is it's E-I after the letter C, but there are some words where it doesn't follow that rule, but it still has the stretched sound /ee/ and weird is an example of that.

Maybe that's a bit weird.

So, I'm going to quickly recap the spellings from the last lesson.

Okay, we're going to do my turn, your turn.

Perceive.

Conceive.

Conceit.

So remember conceit is having a really like high, so conceited person is someone who has a really high opinion of themselves, you might describe them as vain.

Protein.

Seize.

So seize is something you grab and you grab it really quickly.

Caffeine.

Belief.

Mischievous.

Retrieve.

Now, remember retrieve is grabbing something back.

Lenient.

So a lenient person is someone kind of lets you get away with things.

Maybe they don't enforce the rules, maybe like in school they might be lenient and let you get away with it, certain things.

Okay.

Now I said at the start of this lesson that sometimes there are exceptions to the rules.

We've already kind of had a look at one, haven't we where there are some spellings that with the E-I that don't follow that rule after C like with the for example the the word weird.

We're going to look at some other exceptions now.

I'm going to look at this first exception to the rules.

The first one.

I'm going to say the words and I want you to repeat them after me.

Ceiling.

Achieve.

Friend.

Now some of these words follow the rules that we've already established, but one or more of these words don't.

Pause the video, have a think.

Maybe say the words to yourself, study the letters in the words and think which does not follow the rules that we've already established.

Okay, pause the video for me now.

Okay, how did you get on? Well, I'm going to ask you to pause again in a minute, but I'm going to highlight to you that we have E-I I-E and I-E in all of these words.

I want you to say them out loud to yourself when you pause the video and tell me, what do you notice about those words? Okay, off you go.

So ceiling that follows our rule, E-I after the letter C.

Achieve follows one of our rules, I-E generally, unless followed, unless it has the letter C before it, and then we have friend.

Friend.

Now let's listen to those words.

Ceiling.

Yes I can hear the stretched /ee/.

Achieve.

Yes I can hear the stretched /ee/.

Now friend.

Friend.

That doesn't have that stretched /ee/ sound, does it, but it still has the I-E spelling.

So I and, I-E and E-I can also make different sounds.

They don't just make the /ee/ sound, that stretched /ee/ sound.

So sometimes there are words that don't follow those rules that we've talked about, but that's typically where they don't make that stretched /ee/ sound.

Here are some other words that follow with the I-E spelling.

We have ancient.

So ancient refers to something being really old.

Species.

So we often talk about species in science.

We have things that are different species, different parts of the animal kingdom.

Now, there are some words spelt E-I that don't follow our rules and also don't follow that stretched /ee/ sound.

Weight.

When we talk about weight we talk about how heavy something is.

Foreign.

So we might talk about that in terms of a foreign country.

So a different country to the one that we live in.

Neighbour.

Neighbour, the person who lives next door to you and eight.

And that's eight as in the number eight, be careful that doesn't mean as in the past tense of the verb eat as in ate.

That's spelt A-T-E.

So we have eight which is E-I G-H-T.

So again, these words contain I-E or E-I, but they don't make that stretched /ee/ sound.

So just some exceptions to the rules that we have been looking at.

Here's another exception to the rules that we've been looking at.

The word ceiling and veil.

Veil means like to cover up.

So my turn, ceiling.

Veil.

So there's something different about those words, I will say them one more time.

Ceiling.

Veil.

What can you hear me saying? Listen to me say them one more time.

Ceiling.

So that's got a stretched /ee/ sound and veil.

What did you notice? Well, they both have that E-I spelling in the words, but they have a different sound.

So some words that have the E-I spelling, kind of make that long A sound not a sound.

So rain and veil.

They have a different sound, but they're spelt E-I.

So they don't follow that rule of the stretched /ee/ sound.

Okay.

We're going to move on now.

We've looked at the exceptions, we've recapped the rules from the last lesson.

We're going to learn a spelling practise strategy.

And the one I'm going to teach you about today is called look, cover, write, check.

We're going to look at that word conceive, which follows that rule that we've been looking at, E-I after C.

the first thing you do when you're doing this spelling practise is look like we've got under the magnifying glass and you look hard at the word.

Conceive.

Study it, make sure you're kind of have it, you can visualise that word in your head.

Maybe you're applying another strategy here that's helping you see what the word looks like.

You might see a word in a word, so I can see con, C-O-N here.

Maybe that's helping me too.

But I've looked at the word, that's the first thing I do.

Now, what I do is I cover up that word, make sure I can't see any of it.

And then I write it down.

And I write down that word and then what I do is I check, I check whether I was right by taking my hand off the word and then checking what I've written and how it matches to the word that I'd already written down and see if I've got it right.

Now I think this is a really useful strategy, because again like I've talked about maybe in some other spelling strategies, if you've watched any of my other lessons, it's a good way to interact with the word 'cause you're looking at it really carefully and you are looking at all the different letters and it's a really good way 'cause you can just test yourself and you don't just have to cover it up once and try, you can cover up several times.

You can keep doing this strategy until you're getting it right every single time.

And it's good because sometimes it's good to go slow.

If we rush our spellings, we don't necessarily remember them very well.

So by looking at it for a little while, covering it up, taking your time to write it and then testing yourself, we're going methodically and slowly through it, which makes a really good strategy.

So I think it actually might be really good at this point in the lesson to pause the lesson and go away and try that strategy for yourself.

I want you to try it on at least three of the spelling words from last lesson.

Perceive, protein and mischievous.

But if you want to do it on all of them, then fantastic.

You can always come back to this video at a later day.

Okay, pause the video and go and do that for me now.

Okay.

We're going to finish today's lesson with a spelling test.

Now you're definitely going to need a paper and pen and you're going to need, if you can, just to be somewhere where you can make sure that you can concentrate for the next five to 10 minutes.

Okay, if you're ready, then let's begin.

First thing I want you to do.

I want you to write the numbers one to 10 on your piece of paper, 'cause there are going to be 10 spelling words in this test.

Now, if you are finding that I'm going through the test and you're going, "Mr. Marsh you're going far too fast for me", then don't worry because you can always pause the video and then just press play and hear the next word or you can go back in the video and just watch the spelling test again before we get around to marking the test.

So don't worry.

And sometimes tests can be a little bit daunting, can be a little bit worrying.

But if we make mistakes then that's fine because we get better by making mistakes.

So don't panic.

Okay, let's begin the spelling test.

Spelling number one is perceive.

Perceive.

Number two is conceive.

Conceive.

Spelling three is conceit.

Conceit.

Spelling four is protein.

Protein.

Spelling five is seize as in grab, seize.

Spelling six is caffeine.

As in caffeine that you might find in a cup of coffee.

Caffeine.

Spelling seven is belief.

He has a strong belief.

So spelling seven is belief.

Spelling eight is mischievous.

He was a mischievous individual.

Mischievous.

Spelling nine is retrieve.

So retrieve as in grab back.

Retrieve.

And spelling 10 is lenient.

They were a lenient person.

Lenient.

Okay.

Well if you missed any or felt, Oh, I'm not quite sure what number four was, for example, then why not go back in the video and just watch the spelling test again.

Also it might be a really good idea at this point, just to pause the video and check your spellings before we mark them.

Think back to any spelling practise, maybe strategies you've used and see if that helps you see whether you've got the words correct or not.

Okay.

So before we mark them, remember if we've made mistakes, then that's actually great because we can learn from those mistakes.

The most important thing you can do is write down the correct answer and then go away and practise them 'cause I bet you, you won't make that mistake again.

Okay.

Fantastic.

Let's go through our spelling test.

So our first word was perceive.

P-E-R-C-E-I-V-E.

Then we had conceive.

C-O-N-C-E-I-V-E.

Number three was conceit.

C-O-N-C-E-I-T.

Number four was protein.

P-R-O-T-E-I-N.

Number five was seize.

S-E-I-Z-E.

Number six was caffeine.

C-A-F-F-E-I-N-E.

Number seven was belief.

B-E-L-I-E-F that's B-E-L-I-E-F.

Number eight was mischievous.

M-I-S-C-H-I-E-V-O-U-S.

Number nine was retrieve.

R-E-T-R-I-E-V-E.

Number 10 was lenient.

L-E-N-I-E-N-T.

So again, you might want to pause the video and just double check that you have got those spellings correct.

And double check that you're writing down any corrections correctly.

Okay.

Do that for me now.

Wonderful.

Well, congratulations.

We're nearly at the end of our lesson, but before we wrap up, I just want us to go over what we've done in this lesson.

So we recapped those rules for that stretched /ee/ sound for the, with the spellings I-E and E-I.

And we recapped the spelling words.

We looked at some of those exceptions to the rule.

So words the have that I-E or E-I spelling but don't make that stretched /ee/ sound.

Then we had that spelling practise strategy of look cover, write, which I think is an excellent one.

You can use it almost for any spelling words.

And then finally we finished with a test.

Brilliant.

And congratulations, you've completed this lesson.

You may have found it a little hard, you may have found the test hard, but that's absolutely fine because we all learn from mistakes.

I made lots of spelling mistakes.

So if you've made some today, then that's not a problem.

All you need to do is go away and revise those words.

Okay.

I hope you enjoyed the lesson.

Goodbye.