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Hello and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss.

I love spelling.

I'm really looking forward to working with you today.

With you today, you need to bring your looking eyes your listening ears and your thinking brains, and as well as that something to write with and write on would also be really helpful.

Right, let's waste no more time and get straight into today's spelling lesson.

In this spelling lesson we're going to be using and applying the suffixes, -cial and -tial.

The outcome will be I can spell words with the suffixes, -cial and -tial, using spelling rules and also exceptions, words that don't follow our regular patterns or rules.

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Suffix, vowel, consonant, root word.

Great, let's have a chat about what these mean then.

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

A vowel is a speech sound produced with an open mouth like A, E, I, O and U.

A consonant is a letter that made, is made by the blocking of the air in the mouth with the teeth, tongue, lips or palette.

P, T, M and N are examples of consonants and the root word is a base word from which other words are formed, often by adding prefixes or suffixes.

So today we're gonna look at adding the suffixes, <v ->cial or -tial to the ends of root words,</v> and dependent on whether these suffixes, the shul suffix is proceeded by a vowel or a consonant, this will help us decide which spelling we are using.

So here's the outline for today's lesson.

We're gonna be using and applying the suffixes, -cial and -tial.

We're gonna begin by looking at those suffixes in action and spelling some exception words.

Then we going to spell some curriculum words and finally we're gonna get to apply some of the spellings that we've been looking at within a sentence.

Let's get on with looking at these suffixes and some words which are exceptions to our rules as well.

Remember the suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add to the end of words create another word.

Unlike prefixes which we add to the beginning of words suffixes often change the word's tense or word class.

Let's look at some in action.

Here we have permit.

It becomes permission.

Notice how the spelling of the root word has changed.

Here we have high, which becomes our superlative adjective, highest, globe here, which interestingly begins a noun.

We remove the E and add our -al suffix to create the adjective, global, its word class has changed.

Now there are loads of different types of suffixes.

Remember today we are concentrating on -cial and -tial, and some words with suffixes have really clear and obvious root words that we can recognise and some don't.

So let's read some words that have some of our focus suffixes in.

Partial, there was a partial closure at the theme park.

So part of it was closed.

Presidential, the president lives at the presidential house.

Special, beneficial, something that benefits you.

Initial, my initial thoughts.

So the first thoughts that you've had.

Financial, to do with finance and money, and commercial, as an adjective, commercial means to being engaged with trade or commerce.

So something being sold, or bought.

So you'll notice that all of these words have that shul at the end, and that can be spelled in two different ways.

It can be spelled -cial or -tial, and there are some spelling rules that help us to recognise when to use each spelling rule.

I'm wondering if you can remember any of these spelling rules.

Let's have a look at them then.

The suffix, shul, can be spelled -cial or -tial.

Listening to the sound before that shul, is going to help us to decide which spelling to use because if we have a vowel sound before the shul, like in official, uh, I, and beneficial I, uh, coming before that shul, it's most often -cial.

And if it's a consonant sound or consonant letter before the shul, like impartial with R and presidential with N, then it's the -tia spelling.

Or the -tial spelling, I should rather say that is most commonly used.

There are some exceptions to these spelling patterns though, which don't follow the rules that we've been looking at.

Initial, for instance, has an I, I, vowel sound before the shul, but it's spelled with -tial.

Financial has an N consonant before this shul, but it's spelled with a -cial.

Controversial has an -sial spelling for that shul and commercial is an interesting one.

It has that R consonant letter before the shul, but it's not a a -tial, it's a -cial.

These are just exceptions to the rules.

Looking carefully at the letter that comes before either the -tial or the -cial, that shul suffix can help us start to identify the words that do not follow the rules here.

So, initial, financial, controversial, and commercial don't follow our rules.

They are what we would call exceptions.

So if the letter before the shul ends in a vowel, -cial is usually used.

So special has an eh before the shul so -cial is used.

Social has an O vowel before the shul so -cial is used.

Beneficial has an I before the shul so -cial is used.

Do you remember any that we just looked at for that -cial ending? It was financial, it uses the -cial, although it doesn't have a vowel coming before it.

It has a consonant.

This links to that word finance, which ends in CE, to do with money.

If the letter before the shul ending is a consonant, then the -tial is usually used.

Partial here has the R before the shul.

So it is -tial.

Confidential, yep, you can see it has the N before the shul so it's -tial that's used, presidential, again, N before the shul, -tial is therefore used.

Do you remember any exceptions to the rule here that end in -tial? Brilliant, the word initial has an I vowel, not a consonant, but it's spelled a -tial.

We just have to remember this one.

Interestingly as well, I know the words part, confident, and president all link in meaning and spelling to these, those root words all end in a T.

That's one way for me to remember how to spell partial, confidential and presidential.

Sometimes it is the root of the word that is hard to spell.

Paying close attention to the words.

Look for the root words that you do recognise or the parts of the word that are difficult.

Artificial, like artificial intelligence, confidential, something that must be kept secret, crucial, something that's really important.

Essential, something that's necessary, and official, like an official document.

Do you notice anything particularly tricky about these words? Pause the video, take some time to look at them.

This will help to grow your word consciousness.

Great.

Well I've noticed a couple of things.

Essential, although not having a very clear root word is linked to the word essence, but has that double S in it as well which is really important to remember.

Official is linked to that root word, office, and it in the same way to that word office, it has that double F, office ending in a CE.

So that's why we have our -cial spelling there as well.

So with all the rules that exceptions in mind that we've looked at, which spelling is correct here? You must be older to use social media.

How do I correctly spell social? Remember to follow our rules.

Brilliant, social, ooh there's an O vowel sound before the shul so I know it's most likely going to be my -cial spelling.

If the letter before the shul ends in a vowel it's -cial, remember.

The torrential rain was relentless.

Which is the correct spelling of the word torrential? Pick it now.

Brilliant job.

Is this one here? Now there's two reasons that I know this.

Torrential.

There's an N consonant before my shul.

Also, there's a linked word here, torrent, that steady flow that ends in a T.

So torrential, -tial for that shul.

It is essential to bring a pencil with you.

Which is the correct spelling of essential? Select it now.

Brilliant job.

Now this one doesn't have a clear and obvious root word does it? Essential.

Ooh, there's an N consonant letter before my shul so it's my -tial spelling.

There are huge developments in artificial intelligence.

Which is the correct spelling of artificial? Great job, artificial, I, I.

There's a vowel sound before the shul so it's this one here with the -cial spelling.

So for our practise task now what we're going to do is have a go at spelling some words that end in our shul spellings.

Remember please to sound out the words.

Think of the root words if there's an obvious one.

Think of the spelling rules we've looked at.

So remember also, our exceptions, but also remember, is it a vowel or a constant letter coming before the shul, and read the words and check.

The first word is partial.

There was a partial closure.

Number two is beneficial.

Something that benefits you.

Number three, initial.

I wrote down my initial thoughts.

So your first thoughts.

Number four, financial, and number five, presidential.

So we have partial, beneficial, initial financial, presidential.

Pause a video and have a go writing those now, off you go.

Brilliant job today, team, really, really, really impressed with your application there of the rules that we've been looking at so far.

So let's look at the first word together and make any corrections as we go along.

Partial, now, and there's a linked word here, part, par as well, R consonant letter before the S shul so I know it's my -tial spelling.

The next word was beneficial.

So like the word benefit, it's I, I before so it's our -cial spelling.

The next one was initial, I, I coming here isn't it, initial.

This word though was one of our exceptions.

It's that vowel letter or vowel sound coming before the shul but it's spelled with -tial.

This is one we just have to learn.

Then we have financial, again, this was an interesting one.

Financial, linked to that root word finance, spelled, F-I-N-A-N-C-I-A-L.

Now it's a constant letter coming for the shul here but it's not spelled -tial, it's spelled with the -cial.

It's one of those exceptions but it does link to that root word, finance, which ends in a CE, removes the -ial suffix.

Then we have presidential, president is a linked word here.

We also have an N consonant letter before the shul, so I know it's going to be my -tial spelling, that has the word president in it as well as the root word.

So we have partial, beneficial, initial, financial and presidential, particularly watch out for initial and financial as they are exceptions to the spelling rules that we've looked at so far today.

How did you do then, team? Share your learning and make any corrections now, off you go! Onto our next learning cycle then, which is spelling curriculum words.

Curriculum words are those words which are going to appear a great regularity across the curriculum in our reading writing so it's really important that we are confident with both reading, spelling and writing them.

Let's read some words, my turn your turn.

Occur, when did this occur? When did something happen? Occupy, to take over or to take up space in a particular area.

Communicate, if you talk to someone you are communicating with them.

Read the words again.

Compare how they sound, how they're spelled.

Also look carefully at how they're spelled.

Do you notice anything particular about them? Pause the video and have a think.

So I've noticed a couple of things, occur and occupied both have a double C.

It's really important that we remember.

Occur has the final UR sound, spelled using that UR which is a rarer spelling for that UR.

Communicate has a double M like in the word community.

So with those spellings in mind, I really hope you're paying attention.

Which of these are spelled correctly? Point now to the correct spelling of occur! Great job.

So remember, double C and it's that UR spelled with a UR.

Occupy, point to the correct spelling now! Brilliant job, occupy, double C, and it's that UPY, that I sound being made by the Y.

And communicate.

There was a double letter in there somewhere.

Do you remember which one it is? Point to it now! Brilliant job.

It's this one here, double M, communicate, linked word here, community.

So we are now going to practise these spellings so for this practise task I like to write out three curriculum words using this look, cover, write, check strategy.

This is where you look carefully at word and consider how it's spelled, what's difficult about it and what you need to memorise about it, so I look carefully to occur, I know it's got double C and it's got the UR for that UR at the end, I then cover it up and then have a go writing it and then I check back, ooh, I spelled it correctly.

But I don't just do that strategy once.

I use it a number of times to really embed that spelling into my long-term memory.

So I'd like to use to use that strategy now with a occur, occupy and communicate, off you go.

Brilliant job, team.

So I'm hoping you've got the three words written out a number of times like this.

Check that you spelled them correctly and make any corrections now.

Onto our final learning cycle then which is applying spellings within a sentence.

In this learning cycle we're going to have a go at writing a sentence that contains some of our focus spellings.

When we write the whole sentence we have to do several things at once so let's really take our time, perhaps even have a brain break before attempting this part of the lesson.

We're going to have to remember the whole sentence.

We're going to have to sound out each word.

Think of the spelling rules we've been looking at for adding certain suffixes today.

Look out for common exception and curriculum words and obviously remember our sentence punctuation.

So I'd like you to just listen to me say the sentence first of all, going to read it to you, listen to the sentence I'll say it a number of times, try and hold the sentence in your head.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur.

So you can imagine some business people here having a meeting, communicating and conversing.

I'll say the sentence again.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur.

So we've got lots of shuls there.

Think carefully about the rules we've looked at today.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur.

So we can use some strategies now to help us to remember this sentence.

The first is to repeat the sentence several times out loud.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur.

The next is to picture what's happening in your head.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur.

I wonder what you envisage there.

And finally counting how many words there are so we make sure we didn't miss any out.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur, I made that 11.

So we're going to have a go at writing the sentence now.

Remember, sound out each word.

Look out for those common exception and curriculum words.

Remember the rules you've been looking at and don't forget your sentence punctuation.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur.

Off you go.

Brilliant job, team.

Let's check our work now and make any corrections as we go along.

When, we, communicate.

Remember, communicate has that double M linked to that word, community.

Confidential, ooh, there's our N, which is a consonant letter followed by the shul, -tial, discussions, watch out for the single C and double S there and the -ions, shuns, about essential, again, our N consonant letter so the -tial spelling for that shul, financial, that was one of those exceptions, wasn't it? We have the N, but it's the -cial for that shul, matters often occur.

Remember the double C and the U are for that UR.

And of course we have to have a comma here after the fronted adverbial of time.

When we communicate, confidential discussions about essential financial matters often occur.

How did you do? How did you do in particular with those curriculum words and those shul words? Share your learning and make any corrections now.

Great job in spelling today, team, we've been using and applying the suffixes, shul, spelled -cial and -tial.

It's common to see a C or a T before the suffix, -ial.

The shul suffix can be spelled -cial or -tial.

Words ending in the suffix, -cial or -tial are generally adjectives, but not all the time.

The suffix, -cial, shul, is usually used after a vowel.

The suffix, -tial, shul, is common after a consonant letter.

But remember, there are some exceptions to these rules, including the words, initial financial and commercial.

Great job, and keep up the great spelling practise.

I'll see you again soon.