Lesson video

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

Now this lesson is lesson seven of 10 in outcome one of the Golden Compass.

Now if you didn't watch lesson two of 10, I want you to pause this video and go back and watch that for me now, because everything we're going to do in this lesson is going to build on what we did in the last lesson.

So like I said, if you haven't watched lesson two of 10, pause this video and then come back to this one later.

But if you have watched lesson two of 10, then fantastic.

You are ready to move on to this lesson.

And in this lesson, we're going to practise and apply all of that knowledge that we did about the O-U-S suffix in the last lesson where we carried out our investigation.

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

Now before we begin the lesson, I just want us to have a quick look at the agenda so you're really clear on everything we're going to do in this lesson.

We're going to recap some key vocabulary so you may remember.

From the last lesson, there was some key vocabulary that really helped us with our understanding.

And then that's going to help us when we recap the rules that we learned and we established together in the last lesson.

And we're going to quickly recap the spelling words that we set in the last lesson.

Then we're going to look at some other words that use the O-U-S suffix.

But maybe they're a bit tricky, and maybe they don't follow the rules that we already have.

Then we're going to to learn a spelling practise strategy, and then at the end, we're going to test ourselves on those words that we set in the last lesson.

You're going to need something to write with in this lesson.

You're going to need something to write with, so you're going to need a pen or a pencil and you're going to need something to write on.

So you're going to need a pad or exercise book or a piece of paper.

And that brain of yours needs to be switched on.

If you can need to go and try and move somewhere where you can focus a bit better then do that for me now as well, okay? If you need to go and get any of these things.

Pause the video for me now.

Excellent.

Well, the first thing we're going to to do is we're going to to just recap some key vocabulary.

And you may remember that I like to be my turn, your turn.

So when I say the word, and I pointed myself, I'm going to say.

But when I do this, I want you to repeat after me.

So let's give it a try.

Suffix.

Let's try that again.

Suffix.

So a suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that change its meaning.

So the suffix that we're focusing on in this lesson is that O-U-S suffix.

Root word.

So a root word is a word or part of a word that can form a new word to the addition of a prefix which goes at the start of a word.

Or a suffix which is what we're looking at, which goes at the end of a word.

And the suffix again we're looking at is O-U-S.

Okay.

In our last lesson we looked so much at investigating and rules related to the O-U-S suffix.

We're going to recap what those are now.

Then we're going to recap what our spelling was that we set based upon those rules using that O-U-S suffix.

So here were two words let's do my turn, your turn.

Cautious.

Spacious.

I'm going to say those words again and let's see if you can remember why it's sometimes hard to know what the spelling is of words that use that O-U-S suffix.

Cautious.

Spacious.

Well, those words sound very similar, but let's recap with the rule works that might help us remember.

Here we have the word infection.

Infection.

So he had a bad infection.

How am I going to change that? Let's see if you can remember by you changing the meaning of the word using the O-U-S suffix.

Pause the video, write it down, see if you can remember.

Okay, off you go.

How did you get on? Did you remember that? Well, we're adding the O-U-S suffix, infection becomes infectious.

Let's see how we did it because if the root word or the word here ends in I-O-N, then we use the O-U-S suffix by removing N and then adding U-S.

So infection becomes infectious.

He had a bad infection.

The disease was infectious.

Infection being a noun, and infectious being an adjective.

So, to recap, we remove the N.

If the word ends in I-O-N, add U-S, so that we've got O-U-S suffix, but we've got that sh sound in there too.

Infectious.

Okay.

I've already thought talked a little bit about world class in this lesson already.

Let's see if you can remember.

What's a word class? so we think about what a word class means is it a word, noun, a verb an adjective and adverb or could be another type of class of word.

In these sentences, what's the word class on nutrition and nutritious? Through his meals, he gets good nutrition.

He ate a good, nutritious meal.

What type of word is nutrition? And what type of word is nutritious? Have a think.

Through his meals, he gets good nutrition.

He ate a good, nutritious meal.

Well, I'm going to to give you a clue that either a noun or an adjective.

Pause the video, and have a think whether it's a noun : a person, place or thing, or an adjective: a describing word.

Okay, off you go.

Okay, well, nutrition; through his meals he gets good nutrition.

That's the thing, isn't it? Nutrition is a thing.

Whereas, he ate a good nutritious meal are words describing the meal as being nutritious.

Therefore, it's an adjective.

So what we can learn from this is that when we change a noun using the suffix O-U-S generally, it becomes an adjective.

Here was our second rule.

We have the word grace.

So if someone carries himself with grace, they carry themselves with great dignity.

They look very respectful.

So remember root word is a word or a part of a word that can form a new word through the addition of the suffix.

So how can we add the suffix O-U-S to grace which is going to become gracious.

Got that sh sound and also that O-U-S suffix.

Can you remember? Okay, pause the video for me now, see if you can remember what our rule was that we established in the last lesson.

Off you go.

Okay, should we see how you go on, see if you can remember what our rule was when grace became gracious? So let's leave those two words there for a second and study them.

What happened to grace to become gracious.

They carried themselves with grace or they were a gracious individuals.

What do you notice about those words? Can you remember what our rule was? Well, if the root word here ends in an E so grace, then add the I-O-U suffix.

But before you do, you need to remove the E, add I and then add O-U-S suffix.

So grace becomes gracious.

So our two rules.

If your root word ends T-I-O-N,then you remove the N and then add U-S.

Or if our root word like grace ends in E, we remove the E add an I and then add a O-U-S.

Okay.

Let's have a quick look at word class of root words ending with an E.

Space and spacious.

There is lots of space in their house.

Their house is spacious.

So again, I want you to pause the video.

One of them is a noun, one of them is an adjective.

Can you work out which one is the person, place or thing and which one is a describing word? Okay, pause the video for me now.

Right, how did you get on? Well, let's have a look.

There is lots of space.

Spaces of thing, isn't it? In their house.

So space is a noun.

Now I think about why people go into space as well.

Let's also think about space, we talk about rockets and planets, that's also a thing.

And if the house is spacious, well, we're describing their house because the house has got lots of room.

So the house is spacious and spacious is an adjective.

So again, we can say, by taking a root word, and then adding the suffix O-U-S, it changes a noun into an adjective.

Fantastic.

Time for you to have a go.

Which rule should we use? We've looked at two, we've recapped those two.

Here is the word ambition.

My turn, ambition So the children saw great ambition in their challenge.

How am I going to add the O-U-S suffix to this word so it becomes ambitious? They were an ambitious group of children.

Okay, pause the video for me now and have a go.

Okay, which rule do you think it followed? Well, if the root word ambition ends in the I-O-N, then you use the suffix O-U-S.

So we remove the N, and we add U-S.

Ambition becomes ambitious.

Excellent, how did you go on? If you got it wrong, don't worry.

We learn from our mistakes.

That's the best way to learn.

Here's another one for you.

Vice.

So vice relates to the word vicious.

So vice is going to become vicious.

So we think about a vicious animal or a vicious individual as someone who's very aggressive.

Which rule is this going to follow at the O-U-S suffix? Pause the video for me now.

Okay, what did you notice about the word vice? Vice ends in an E, doesn't it? So we need to remove the E add an I, and then we add our O-U-S suffix.

Vice becomes vicious.

So we're going to do a quick recap of learning our words from the last lesson.

I'm just going to say the words but I'm going to stop on some words I think may be quite tricky to know the meaning.

Spacious.

It was a spacious house.

Conscious.

They were conscious of what was going on around them.

That conscious is another way of saying aware.

Gracious.

He was a gracious individual.

Vicious.

It was a vicious animal.

Delicious.

It was a delicious meal.

Cautious.

They needed to be cautious.

Contentious.

It was a contentious decision.

So the word contentious means maybe not everyone would agree with something.

So if I said a decision was contentious, it means that there was maybe some people that would agree with it.

And maybe some people that didn't.

Which means that people weren't in general agreement with it.

Ambitious.

They were an ambitious group.

Superstitious.

He was a superstitious individual.

So someone that is superstitious.

Well, often I think about maybe sports people are quite superstitious.

They might put their socks on in a certain order because they think it brings them luck.

Infectious.

His laughter was infectious.

So if something is infectious, it means that you can catch it.

So we might talk about things like diseases, or someone who's got the cold.

And sometimes you might talk about laughter being infectious because if someone is laughing so much, you might want to join in with them.

So you find their laughter infectious.

Okay, we've recapped our rules, and we've recapped our spelling words.

We're now going to to look at some other words that use the O-U-S suffix, and maybe they're a bit tricky, 'cause maybe they don't quite follow the rules that we've already established.

Let's have a look.

Here are two pictures.

And what I want you to do is I want you to pause the video and think.

Can you work out what these pictures might mean with a word that you might know or may not know that has the O-U-S suffix? That house looks quite fancy to me.

Can you think of a word that maybe might use the O-U-S suffix and might describe that? And this lady looks a bit stressed.

So can you think of another word that might use the O-U-S suffix? Pause the video, have a good think about what these pictures might be showing.

Okay, off you go.

Well, should we take a look? Well, that room could be described as luxurious.

Luxurious.

And the woman is a bit stressed that she might be described as anxious.

So you've got luxurious and anxious.

What's different about those words from the words that we've been looking at so far? Luxurious, anxious.

Well, they both use the O-U-S suffix I can see that but, there is something different about them from maybe what we've looked at so far.

Pause the video, look at the words and think can you notice what's different? Okay, off you go.

So what did you see? Well, luxurious doesn't have the T-I or the C-I spelling before the suffix O-U-S.

And anxious, the same that's got X-I.

So there are some words that use the O-U-S suffix but don't follow those rules that we've looked at.

Okay, let's look at a few more.

We've got fiction.

Fiction.

So you might think about that when you think about books.

We've got fiction and non-fiction.

Fiction are books that are not true in stories.

Would our rule normally be if we have the word fiction? Remember the rule that we've looked at is if the root word ends in I-O-N and we use the O-U-S suffix.

We remove the N then add U-S.

So fiction if you're following our rules that we've studied so far will become fictious.

Only to think whether you've heard or that sounds correct.

Fiction becomes fictious.

That's actually not what happens here.

Fiction becomes fictitious.

My turn, your turn.

Fictitious.

So, fiction, well, it's different because instead of removing the I-O-N and then adding the O-U-S suffix or removing the removing N and then adding the U-S suffix, well here we have not done that.

We've removed the O-N and then added T-I-O-U-S.

Fiction becomes fictitious.

This book was fiction.

It was a fictitious character.

So another word where the O-U-S suffix is used but it doesn't follow the rules? Now, you might be asking Mr. Marsh, why are you doing this? Why you confusing me? Well, it's great to have spelling rules.

And the rules that we've learned so far are going to to be really useful to us.

But I'm just making you aware that sometimes there are words that don't follow those rules, And those are the words we also just have to learn.

But we can always fall back on those rules that we did learn.

So if we're not sure how to spell a word, then try and apply the rules that we have learnt.

Great.

What we're going to to do now is we're going to learn a spelling practise strategy, and by having strategies that makes us actually really effective at practising our spellings.

And it helps us to be able to recall our spellings when we're having to write them down, do a test.

Now, the spelling practise strategy that I'm going to teach you today is called naughty letters.

We're going to use the word vicious to look at what I mean by naughty letters.

Vicious.

Well, the tricky thing with the rules that we've learned is to know whether we use C-I or T-I.

Or maybe on some of those words that don't follow the rule X-I or R-I.

And that's where we can use this naughty letters spelling strategy because the naughty letter read in vicious, is whether we know we're going to to do the sh sound.

So do we know whether it's the C-I,T-I or is it one of the other ones? So with naughty letters, when I'm practising my spelling, I can make the letter in vicious the letter C, which is the tricky one I need to remember really big in my letters.

Because then, that makes it really clear in my head, which spelling it is.

Or I can even draw a face in the middle of it, I could draw a face of someone who looks a bit menacing.

So here I've to look for someone who looks bit glum, a bit fierce, so they're a bit vicious.

That might also help me remember the shape of the letter in vicious.

Here's another example , infectious.

So again, with this spelling rule that we're looking at, we've taught to know whether it's C-I or T-I, because it sounds the same with that sh sound, doesn't it? So here my naughty letter in infectious is that T.

So, again, I've written out really big and I might write out really big several times making the letter T much bigger than the other letters because then that stands out and I can picture it when I'm doing my spellings.

So why is this a useful strategy? It helps you to identify what the key, maybe letter is to identify between one spelling and another.

So what I want you to do now is I want you to take that new strategy of naughty letters.

And I want you to go and practise it.

We may choose to pause the video now for half an hour to practise your spelling words or you may choose to do it for a couple of days and that's absolutely fine.

Either way, you can always come back to this video at any point.

What I want you to do is to practise naughty letters with these four words from our spelling list: Spacious, delicious, cautious and ambitious.

Well, the naughty letter is going to be in those words.

Can you think? Well, in spacious, it's going to be the C isn't it? In delicious, it's also going to be the C.

In cautious it's going to be the T.

And in ambitious is also going to to be the T, because those are the letters that it's hard to hear the difference because they sound the same.

But that's what makes a different spelling from spacious and cautious.

Okay, pause the video for me now and go and do a bit of spelling practise.

Fantastic.

What we're going to to do is we are going to do our spelling test and we're going to test ourselves on the words that we set in the last lesson and that we've been practising using our spelling practise strategies.

You're definitely going to need something to write on, and you're definitely going to need something to write with.

So if you don't have those things, I want you to go and grab them for me now.

Great, off you go.

So before we begin our test, I want you to write down the numbers one to 10 on your piece of paper.

Do that for me now.

Okay, if you find that we're going through the test and you're finding it's going too fast and I'm reading out the words too fast, then don't panic.

You can do two things, you could pause the video after every spelling to give yourself a little time to think.

Or, if you're finding it, okay, but you maybe missing one or two, you can always pause at the end of the test and go back and listen to it once, twice, three times if you want.

That's probably a really good idea to do that anyway, because you may be wanting to check your spellings or you might want to write down options with the spelling and then you can pick the correct one.

The key thing is you don't just have to listen to it twice.

You can always pause the video, okay? If you want to get yourself ready, pause the video for me now.

But if you are ready to begin the spelling test, then let's make a start.

So spelling number one is spacious.

It was a spacious room.

Spacious.

Spelling two is conscious.

He was conscious that he was late for the meeting.

Conscious.

Spelling three is gracious.

He was a gracious individual.

Gracious.

Spending four is vicious.

It was a vicious animal.

Vicious.

Spelling five is delicious.

It was a delicious meal.

Delicious.

Spelling six is cautious.

He was a cautious individual.

Cautious.

Spelling seven is contentious.

It was a contentious decision.

contentious.

Spelling eight is ambitious.

She was really ambitious.

Ambitious.

Spelling nine is superstitious.

They were all really superstitious.

Superstitious.

And finally spelling 10 is infectious.

His laughter was infectious.

Infectious.

Okay, well done.

That brings us to the end of our spelling test.

Now, if you found it tricky, then that's absolutely fine.

We all find certain things tricky and if you maybe have made a mistake once we've marked and then that's also fine because we all make mistakes.

Before we go to mark them, I want you to be confident that you're happy with your answers.

So you can either pause the video and just check them maybe using some of those strategies where you might write down two or three options and then pick the one you want.

Or if you want to, you could go back and listen to that test again before we mark them.

Okay, so if you need to do that, pause the video.

But if you want then we can just move on and we will now mark our spelling test.

Okay, so spelling one was spacious.

S-P-A-C-I-O-U-S.

Two was conscious.

C-O-N-S-C-I-O-U-S.

Spelling three was gracious.

G-R-A-C-I-O-U-S.

Spelling for was vicious.

V-I-C-I-O-U-S.

Spelling five was delicious.

D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S Spelling six was cautious.

C-A-U-T-I-O-U-S Seven was contentious.

C-O-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-U-S Eight was ambitious.

A-M-B-I-T-I-O-U-S Nine was superstitious.

S-U-P-E-R-S-T-I-T-I-O-U-S.

And 10 is infectious.

I-N-F-E-C-T-I-O-U-S.

Okay, what I want you to do, again you might want to pause the video, double check that you spell the words correctly.

If you've got some wrong then, again I repeat.

Absolutely fine.

We become the best learners by making mistakes.

But what you need to do is copy down the correct spelling, and then maybe over the next day or next few days, maybe practise that spelling just a few more times, get someone to test you and I bet that you will have learned from that mistake.

Okay, pause the video for me now.

Brilliant! Well, that pretty much brings us to the end of our lesson but before we finish before I wrap up, I just want us to quickly recap what we've done.

We did a quick look at the{ } lesson as a key vocabulary that helped with our understanding.

So we looked at suffixes and root words, and then we recap those two spelling rules for that O-U-S suffix from the last lesson and recap our spelling words.

We looked at some other words that use the O-U-S suffix, but maybe don't quite follow the rules that we have been looking at.

Then we learned the spelling practise strategy of naughty letters which was really effective with these kind of words with the O-U-S suffix.

And finally we did a test at the end.

So brilliant! You've completed the lesson.

You may have found it tricky, but if you did, absolutely fine.

I'm sure that you become a better learner and a better speller because you did find it tricky.

I hope you enjoyed the lesson.

Take care.

Bye bye.