Lesson video

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

Now in this spelling lesson, we are going to practise and apply some knowledge from lesson two of 10.

So if you didn't watch lesson two of 10 of outcome one, then I want you to pause this video and go back and watch that for me now.

But if you did watch it then brilliant, you're ready for this lesson 'cause in this lesson, we're going to practise and apply all of that knowledge from the previous lesson where we looked at suffixes making words into plurals.

So what I want you to do now is get yourself ready for the lesson, make sure you've got some pen and paper and a pencil something to write with, and when you're ready, let's begin today's lesson.

Let's just take a quick look at the agenda for this lesson.

So we're going to recap some key vocabulary and rules we looked at for the plural, suffixes in the last lesson.

We going to recap our spelling words, then we're going to look our spelling practise strategy, so how to be an effective person at practising our spelling, then we going to finish off with our spelling test, okay.

Make sure you've got something to write with, make sure you've got an exercise book or some paper.

Make sure you've got something to write with a pen or a pencil.

Make sure that brain of yours is ready and raring to go.

If you need to go and collect any of those things, pause the video and go and get that for me now.

Excellent, so we're going to start off by recapping some key vocabulary and revising those rules about adding suffixes, plural suffixes to the end of words.

So going to do my turn, your turn.

Suffix.

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

Noun.

A noun is a person, place or thing.

Remember when I point at you, I want you to say the word back to me.

Singular.

Singular is referring to one thing.

Plural.

So plural is more than one thing.

Okay.

So I've taken away their headings.

Can you, think to yourself, which of these is which, we've got suffix, noun, singular plural, which is which, okay.

Have a think.

So group of letters at the end of where the changes meaning is at suffix good, a person, place or thing is noun.

Excellent.

One thing is singular good.

And more than one thing is plural, brilliant.

So singular refers to one thing and plural refers to many things.

So one rule that we have, is that when one thing, is on its own, when noun an egg, we just add an S to make it plural, and that's probably the most common way to make a noun singular, sorry from taking a noun that was singular to plural, adding an S.

Here were other rules, One should just add an -S, one was to change the Y into I and add -ES, one was to remove an F and add -VES.

And sometimes we have irregular plurals that don't follow any of those three rules.

Now a lot of this is revision probably for many years you've been through school, so we're just going to do a quick recap and see how well you can remember all of those things from the last lesson and from other years of learning.

So here's a word privilege, my turn privilege.

It's a privilege to know you.

Which means like it's an honour to think about our rules, how would I make privilege plural? Okay, pause the video for me now.

So that's just add an S because it doesn't have a Y end and it doesn't have an F at the end, and okay, could be an irregular plural, but we're not sure the most common way to make a word a noun, plural is to add an S, so that's what I should do.

So privileged become privileges, privileges Mr Marsh's struggling to say that one.

Okay, here's another word for you, category your turn.

So you might categorise something, you might put them in groups, so category might be one group of something.

How am I going to make that plural? How am I going to make that into many categories? Think about my rules, pause the video for me now.

Okay, so category ends in a Y, doesn't it? Therefore then it follows that rule that I have to change the Y into an I and then add -ES, so category, I have one category have many categories.

Another one for you, knife, knife.

How am I going to make knife into knives? So knife becomes knives.

This is a little bit of a tricky one.

And am a bit sneaky here.

So what do you think? Well knife, well, you remove the F add -VES.

Well that's kind of not quite true, maybe I've been a bit sneaky because knife doesn't end in an F, ends in FE, so we have to remove that to become knives that's more than irregular plural, really, so I've been a bit cheeky there.

And then we get irregular plurals, so like foot, I have one foot, I have many, feet.

Okay.

So we've done a quick recap of our rules, but let's just go over them one more time, the most common way to change a noun a person, place or thing to plural is to add S, bruise becomes bruises, symbol becomes symbols, but sometimes our nouns end in Y and then the rule is that we remove the Y add an I, and then add ES.

And then sometimes, well, again, a bit like knife, we've got wife here where we remove the F or if you've got that F sound like in wife, you remove the F and then add VES, and then we have the tricky ones, the tricky ones which irregular don't follow any of those three rules.

So like a child have one child had many children.

We have die as enrolling a dice in a game, we have one die or more than one die is a dice.

So those are irregular.

So quick recap of rules.

The most common is just add an S, if you're noun ends in Y you remove the Y add an I and then add ES.

If your noun ends in an F, like loaf where you remove the F add VES loaf becomes loaves.

And then there are some irregular plurals, which all we can do is just try and learn those irregular plurals.

Lets have a little closer look at some more irregular plurals, because they got what we call inconsistent endings, which means they don't follow the rules, and they don't follow the patterns that we've already established.

So here we've got one goose, we have many geese.

So that doesn't follow any of the rules that we've done.

And then look sheep and sheep, well they don't change that doesn't change at all.

So I have one sheep, I've many sheep.

So the singular and the plural there it's the same, therefore it's any regular plural.

I want you to think here, which of these is the odd one out? I hear we've got singular, one berry, an activity, and a person.

What are the plurals for these words? And then can you work out which is the odd one out.

Okay, pause the video for me now.

Okay, how did you get on? Well, if I have one berry, I have many berries, so that follows my rule, doesn't it get rid of the Y and then I and then add ES.

Activity becomes activities.

So that follows our rule.

Again, remove the Y add an I and then add ES, but this is where I've got my irregular plural.

Person, I have one person, but many people.

Okay.

That's the odd one out because it's an irregular plural.

So that just recap before we move on, what we have learned, you need to in the gaps there are four gaps, you need to either put suffix, plural, noun or singular in these gaps.

Let me read the sentence, pause it, and then I want you to maybe even you can trace with your finger, or you can write it down the order, which you think goes in each gap.

So a is a person, place or thing.

When there is one person, place or thing the noun is, when there is more than one person, place or thing the noun is, we add a, to the end of the word to change this.

Take pause the video now, can you fill in the gaps.

Great, how did you get on? Well, a noun is a person, place or thing.

When there is one person, place or thing, the noun is singular.

Good.

When there is more than one person, place or thing, the noun is plural.

And we add a suffix to the end of a word to change this.

Fantastic, lets quickly recap our spelling words from the last lesson.

So we had languages, they speak many languages,.

Individuals.

So we have more than one person, we have an individual or many individuals.

Neighbours.

So we might have talked about our many neighbours.

Communities.

So you might have one community, which is your local community, but then if you talk about all the communities in your area, we're talking plural.

Identities.

So you have one identity, we have many identities.

Opportunities.

So we have one opportunity, but many opportunities.

Say this word together, wharves, your turn.

So remember a wharf, if you remember from the last lesson is like maybe you get them beside the water, maybe often boats dock against them, but it can be often like a wooden structure, and maybe that's where boats dock and they offload things, that's a wharves, and in plural of those, is wharves.

Themselves.

Your turn.

So that's the plural of themself.

Indices.

So remember we have an index which might list loads of things and put them in groups or an indices or indices, are many lists of things.

And we have formulae, so we have one formula, but many formulae.

Okay.

Am going to teach you spelling practise strategy, and I think this is a really fun one and a really good one to use quite a lot, it's called colour blocking.

We're going to use the word formulae to help us with this learning, our spelling practise strategy.

So with colour blocking, and in any order, you can block the colours using different shapes, that helps us really interact with it, so I've chosen to do a pink box of colouring them in pink for the F-O in formula, I've chosen to do R-M-U in blue, just L on its own in purple and then green for the A and E.

Now there's no real right or wrong answer to this, you can do it however you want, but it's a useful strategy because you get to interact with a word, you can really look at each individual letter and you could decide, how you split it up.

You get to have fun colouring it and doing at the different shapes, and that means that you're really kind of focusing on the word, and it's just quite a fun way to practise rather than just repeating, writing out, or you get to do some colouring and you get to have fun and kind of interact with the word.

So we've got the word wharves.

Here's another one this time I've chosen to just do W in blue, H in purple and then A-R-V in pink, and then E-S in green.

So I could have done it differently, but that's just one way, we can use the colour coating practise strategy.

And what I want you to do now is I want you to take this strategy, and I want you to do it on some of the spelling words for this week.

And you may choose to pause the video for maybe even a day if you want to, to go and practise it maybe with all of the spelling words, but I'd like you to go and spelling, practise the colour blocking spelling practise strategy for me now.

Great, off you go.

Fantastic.

Well, hopefully you've had the opportunity to practise your spellings now.

Now it's time for us to do a spelling test.

Now, what I want you to do, make sure you've got a pen and paper, if you can be somewhere where you can just really concentrate for the next 10 or 15 minutes, that will be even better.

If at any point during the spelling test you're thinking that Mr Marsh is going too fast, then you can always just pause the video, take a little break, or give yourself a little time to think about how you might spell a word, or you could go all the way through and just go back in the video to watch them over again, maybe even watch them twice just to check that you heard the spelling's correctly.

Okay.

So some strategies for spelling.

Always take a pause maybe even take a pause now, take a deep breath, take as much time as you need, like I said, you need to pause the video, you can do, you can try writing a word more than once, see if you want to sound out the different spelling, so if you're not quite sure, maybe write multiple different options, see which one actually looks the right one.

And that way you might still definitely want to pause the video after each and every spelling just so you can do that.

But the main thing is don't panic.

Okay.

Even if you do make mistakes, we all make mistakes, that's absolutely fine, that's how we learn, that's how we become better learners.

Okay.

I want to pause the video and I want you to write the numbers one to 10 on a piece of paper for me, off you go.

Fantastic.

Now what am going to do, is am going to read each word out, am going to say each word twice, again, if you need to pause the video, just because you think I'm going too fast, then definitely do, or just go back in the video and watch it over again if you think you miss one, Fantastic, let's make a start on our test.

Our first word is languages.

He spoke many languages.

Languages.

Spelling two his individuals.

There were many individuals.

Individuals.

Spelling three is neighbours.

He had many neighbours.

Neighbours.

Spelling four is communities.

The city was made up of many communities, communities.

Identities.

He had many identities.

Identities.

Spelling six is opportunities.

They had lots of opportunities.

Opportunities.

Spelling seven his wharves.

There were many wharves along the coast, wharves.

Spelling eight is themselves.

They were not themselves.

Themselves.

Spelling nine is indices.

There were many indices in the, oh I can't even think of something, let me try again.

It was made up of many different groups, it had many different indices.

The word is indices.

And the final spelling is formulae.

He came up with lots of different formulae to solve the problem.

Formulae.

Okay, like I said, might be a really good idea now to pause the video and double check all your answers, think back to all that spelling practise you've done and the different strategies you've done, and if you want, you can always go back and check your spellings before we mark them.

Okay, go and do that for me now.

Okay.

We're going to go over our spellings, and if you've got any wrong, then of course, that's absolutely fine.

Like I said earlier, that's how we become better learners, but to become a better learner, make sure that you copy down the correct spelling and why not take it away and practise those a little bit more then maybe get someone to test you again.

Okay, let's mark our spelling test.

The first word was languages.

L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E-S.

Individuals, I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L-S.

Neighbours.

N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-S.

Communities, C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-I-E-S.

Identities I-D-E-N-T-I-T-I-E-S.

Opportunities, O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-T-I-E-S.

Wharves, W-H-A-R-V-E-S.

Themselves, T-H-E-M-S-E-L-V-E-S.

Indices, I-N-D-I-C-E-S.

And formulae, F-O-R-M-U-L-A-E.

Pause the video double check, whether you've got the spellings right or wrong and copy down any mistakes, if you did make any, do that for me now.

So let's just do a little bit of reflection on our spelling test.

Some things you can be super proud of is probably how much practise you did.

So if you did even five or 10 minutes every day, then brilliant.

Be proud of the number of strategies maybe that you used, so if you went away and used our colour blocking strategy, excellent, and be really proud of paying really close attention to each word, when you maybe you spotted those words from our home, like a practise from, you know, in your reading and writing maybe in the last week.

And if you misspelt any, look how many you actually spelled correctly, don't focus on the ones you got incorrect, because if you've got eight out of 10, then fantastic, you've got eight right, and only two wrong, and you should really celebrate that, and the key thing to remember is that loads of learning and our best learning comes from us making mistakes.

So remember to tell yourself you just can't spell that word yet.

Okay.

Just quick summary of our lesson, we looked at the key vocabulary and rules for plural, suffixes, where you recap the spelling words, then we learned that colour blocking practise strategy, and then we finally did our spelling test.

That brings us to the end of our lesson.

Think you've done brilliantly well today.

We've completed it now, and so I really hope you enjoyed it.

Okay.

Hope to see you again.

Bye bye.