To investigate letter strings: -ough, -ear, -ou, -au, -ice

Key Stage 2

English spelling

Letter strings: -ough, ear, ou, au, ice

English

Spiderman - Journalistic writing

﻿Hello. I am Mr. Marsh, and welcome to this spelling lesson. Now, before I begin this lesson, I'm just going to tell you a new word that I learned today. It's all a bit mad at school today, is a bit crazy. Everyone's running around and one of the other teachers described it as frantic. And I thought, what a great word frantic. So, at school today, it's a bit frantic, but hopefully in this lesson, we're not going to be frantic. We're going to be calm and collected. So, let me tell you what we're going to do in the lesson today. In the lesson today, our objective is to investigate about some letter strings. A letter strings are groups of letters in maybe at the start of a word, maybe at the end of a word or maybe in the middle of a word. And we're going to look at five different letter strings. So, if you're ready to begin the lesson, then let's make a start. Now, let's just have a quick look before we start the lesson at what our agenda is going to be. So we're going to investigate about those letter strings that I talked about. And we are going to then set some spelling words that use those letters strings, okay. In the lesson, you're going to need something to write on, you can make notes at any point. So get yourself an exercise book or a piece of paper, get yourself a pen or a pencil, because you're going to need something to write with and make sure that brain of yours is ready and raring to go. If you need to go and get any of these things, then pause the video for me now, and then you can restart it when you're ready. Okay, off you go. Okay. Why do we investigate when we talk about spellings? Because well, we investigate because it helps us to either establish some rules that can help us with our spelling. 'Cause if we know rules then we know maybe how a word is spelled or not spelled. Also, it just helps us to understand more about words, understand more words in our language. And we can then see all the different ways that things are spelled because English is actually, and I bet you think this too, a really quite tricky language. Has lots of things to learn. And something we're going to look at today is that you might have four letters and we call that a letter string. But sometimes those four letters are pronounced differently. Isn't that confusing? Well, that's what we're going to do today. We're going to look at letter strings that are pronounced differently. Okay. Let's carry out our investigation. Here are four words, now, often in this lesson, I'm going to do my turn, your turn. So when I point at myself, I'll say the word, but when I point at you, I want you to repeat the word back to me. Okay. Let's give it a go. Cough. Plough. Rough. And through. Okay. There were those four words, I'd like to pause the video. Do you notice anything similar about these words? Do you notice anything different about these words? Okay. Pause the video for me now, maybe when you're pausing the video, you want to say those words out loud again and see what you hear too. Okay, pause the video for me now. Okay. Well, I wonder did you spot that they all have these letters in them? O U G H. So cough, rough plough and through, all have O U G H. And we call it O U G H a letter string. It's four letters together in these words. Now I'm going to say the words again to you. And that's what my symbol means there. I want you to really listen to how I say the words and I want you to think, do they all sound the same? Or do they sound different? Okay. Listen to me say them, I'm going to say them twice. Cough. Plough. Rough. And through. One more time. Cough, plough, rough and through. Now I want you to pause the video, I want you to say those words to yourself and see if you can hear anything different about those words. Okay, pause the video for me now. Okay. How did you get on? But, when you say cough the O U G H letter spring is actually pronounced as off. So cough. In plough, it's got that ow sound. Plough, the O U G H it's spelled the same, but it's got the ow sound. And with rough, we've got like that uff sound, rough. So even though it's O U G H, it's pronounced differently. And in through we've got that stretch ooo sound, haven't we? So there we've got four words, they've all got the same letter string of O U G H, but four different sounds. O U G H, off, ow, uff and oo. Okay. So, do you think you can complete this sentence at the bottom for me? These words all have the same letter string, O U G H, but the letter string makes a different mm in each word. What could that be? What did you think it was? Should we say these words all have the same letter string. O U G H, but the letter string makes a different sound in each word. Okay. So, so far we've looked at four sounds for the O U G H letter string. Here are three more words and those are the ones in grey. I'm going to do my turn, your turn, just of those. My turn, thorough. Thought. Your turn. Although. Okay. I'm going to say those one more time and I want you to think does the O U G H sound the same. Does it sound the same as some of the words that we've already looked at? Let's try. Thorough. Thorough. Thought. Thought. And although. Now I've made a little bit of a mistake, I've just noticed on my slide. 'Cause in thought the letter T shouldn't be in blue. It should be in black. So, 'cause if we're just looking at the letter string O U G H. But, you know, see, even teachers make mistakes. So remember we're only looking at the letter string O U G H. Okay. I'll say those words one more time. Thorough, thought and although. Why don't you pause the video and think, do those words make the same sound when they say the, O U G H, as cough, through, plough and rough. Pause the video for me now. Okay. So there's those three words, thorough, thought and although. And then you could see in thorough, we've got that a, we've got that short vowel sounds. Sorry, I did a long, but I mean, short vowel sound. We have thought, that's got that aw kind of sound, doesn't it? Aw, and then although, got the oe sound, another stretch. oe sound kind of a bit like toe, although, toe, they kind of rhyme, don't they? So we have here, we've looked at seven different sounds from the same spelling, O U G H letter string. So what that means is that maybe if I hear a word, well, I might even think, well, if I hear any of these sounds, it might be, O U G H. But it kind of explains a little bit why sometimes our language is a bit tricky as well, because maybe if I see a word, if I see a word in when I'm reading, I might not quite know if it's a new word to me, which of these pronunciations is correct. But we have done here a great investigation because we found seven different ways that you can say the letter string, O U G H. Okay. Here are four more words for you. Aunt. Sausage. Because. Cause. Okay, pause the video now, study those words, do you notice anything different about them? Anything similar about them? Maybe even start saying the words to yourself to see if they sound the same. Okay. Did you notice that they've all got A U in them? So aunt, sausage, because, and cause all have a letter string A U. Okay, here are the four words for that letter string A U. Now I'm going to say these four words and I want you to really listen hard to how I pronounce them. See if there's a difference in the way the A U letter string is pronounced. Okay, I'm going to say them twice. Aunt. Aunt. Sausage. Sausage. Because. Because. Cause. Cause. Now, what I want you to do, I want you to pause the video, say those words to yourself and think does the A U letter string sound different? Or does it sound the same in these words? Pause the video for me now. Great, what did you notice? Well did you notice, that in the word aunt, that the A U letter string makes that ar sound. Now, actually you may not have noticed that you might have noticed something different because I say it with a ar sound because of where I'm from. I'm from Southern England, but for other parts of great Britain, you may say it with a short vowel sound, the a sound. Now, that just shows even more, how sometimes it's a bit tricky to know about spelling. Sausage, did you notice that the A U letter string had the o sound, that short bowel sounds so, sausage. Okay. So it's got the short vowel sound. In because you've got the short vowel sound of u for the A U letter string. And in cause you've got that slightly stretched aw sound, so cause. So again here, we've got a letter string A U, and we've looked at and explored that there are five different ways to pronounce it. So can you complete my sentence again, for me? These words all have the same letter string, A U, but the letter string makes a different mm with each word. What's that going to be? I'll give you a couple of seconds to think. Okay, let's try it together. I want you to say the word that you think goes in the gap, when we get to that part of the sentence. These words all have the same letter string A U, but the letter string makes a different, did you say sound? Great if you did. Sound in each word. Now, here are two more words, that have the A U letter string. I'll say them and then you can repeat after me. Trauma. Now, trauma, you might refer to a traumatic event. So if you're suffering, trauma means something bad's really happened a traumatic event is something really bad. Autumn. Let me say those words again for you. Trauma and autumn. Pause the video, say those words to yourself. Is the A U letter string pronounced differently than the other four words we've looked at. Okay, pause the video for me now. Okay. What did you notice? Trauma, autumn. So that's kind of got that or sound, does it? Trauma, autumn. So another sound for the letter string, A U. So we've now looked at that and we've actually seen that there are eight, sorry not Eight. Mr. Marsh needs to work on his mass. There are six letter, There are six pronunciations for the letter string A U. But there may be more, but we just looked at six. Okay. Here are four words, my turn, your turn. Dear. Bear. Heart. Learn. Now, study these videos, study videos, study these words. Pause the video for me and think, is there anything similar about these words? Okay, do that for me now. Great. Well, what did you notice? Did you notice, think about it, we're now looking at letter strings. You now know what this lesson is. Did you notice that all of these words have the same letter string? The same three letters, E A R. Now what we're going to do is I'm going to say the words to you twice and I want you to think, can you hear anything different or anything the same about that letter string, E A R. Okay. Dear. Bear. Heart. And learn. Dear. Bear. Heart and learn. Okay. Why don't you pause the video and then just say those words to yourself and see, you can hear the different sounds are made by the letter string E A R. Okay, do that for me now. All right. What did you get? What did you hear when you said dear? Did you hear that ear sound almost like the ear, my ear here. So ear to d-ear at the end. In bear, well it sound air, doesn't it? So bear has the air sound at the end. In heart, you've got the ar sound. And ear in learn, has got the er sound. So again, we have four different pronunciations four different sounds for the letter string E A R. So here's a slightly different challenge for you. I want you to pause the video, grab your pen and paper and I want you to try and write me, write down at least one other word that uses the E A R letter string, but where it's pronounced either ear, air, ar or er. Okay, let's see if you can complete my challenge, pause the video, off you go. Okay. How did you get on? Did you manage to find at least one other word that follows that sound for the letter strings E A R. Well, let me show you what I got. So for dear, I also had hear and clear. For bear, so with air as the sound I had wear, as in I wear some clothes or I tear, as in to tear something up. With heart, I had hearth. Now a hearth is something that goes in front of a fire. And learn I had earn, so I earned money and early. I wonder how you go on. Hope you like that challenge. Here are four more words. I think you're getting really familiar with what we're looking for now. So we're looking for letter strings. That mean that these words have something in common. So I'll do my turn, your turn. Pour, as in I pour a drink. Could. Shout. And route. So you might plan a route. If you're going somewhere, you might say I'm going to go from this place to that place and that's known as your route. Okay. Pause the video for me now and study these words. Is there anything that you noticed that similar about these words? Okay, pause now. Okay. How did you go on? What did you notice? Well, did you notice that all four of these words have this letter string in common, O U. Let's think though. Do you think, what do you think? Do you think that they're all going to sound the same in each of these words? Every time I say the O U letter strings, do you think it sounds the same? I wonder. Let me say the words to you. Pour. Could. Shout. And route. Pour. Could. Shout. And route. Okay, pause the video, say those words to yourself and see if you can hear what sound each one of them makes. Okay, do that for me now. Okay. Well, how did you get on? Should we say, did they all sound the same? Does the letter string O U sound the same in each of these words? I wonder. Well, in pour, you've got that or sound, haven't you? A, o. So you've got that or, you've got a stretched sound. In could, you've got the u sound, just a short vowel sound. In shout, you've got that ow sound, haven't you? It's kind of a stretched ow again. And then route, you've got a stretch oo sound, haven't you? So route. Okay. I've got that challenge for you again. Here are those four sounds for the O U letter string. But what I want you to do now, is I want you to think. Can you think of any words, any other words than the four that I've done here, that have that sound using the O U letter string. Okay. I want you to pause the video and have a think for me now. Off you go. Okay, how did you get on? Well, here I had your and oh, hold on, I think I cheated. I think I tried to pretend that I'd come up with a second one with pour, but hopefully you found some other ones. Those aren't the only ones I'm sure there are more. And we had could with the short vowel sound of u. How many did you get? Well, I also had would and should. Those modal verbs could, would, should. What about shout, that ow sound. I have out and hour. Now did you beat Mr. Marsh? Because, Mr. Marsh was really trying to think of another word that had that stretched oo sound using the O U letter string like route, but I couldn't think of one. So if you've got one, one point to you, and no points to Mr. Marsh. Okay. Here are two words, price, and notice. Now, funny we've got the word notice. I want you to see if you can notice anything about these words. Pause the video for me now. Okay. Did you notice that they both have the letter string, I C E. Well, let's see if those I C E letter string sound the same. Price. Notice. Price. Notice. Well, price has got the ice sound at the end, doesn't it? But notice has got is sound at the end. So again, we have a letter string I C E, which is the same in both of these words, but it's pronounced it sounds different. Now there may be other pronunciation, other sounds for the I C E letter string, but we're going to look at these two. Here's my challenge again for you. Can you think of any other words that have the ice sound for I C E as a letter string. Can you think of any other words that have that notice the is sound for the I C E letter string. Okay. Pause the video, have a go for me now. Right, how many could you come up with? You're already beating me one nil, if you came up with anything else for route in our last letter strings. So let's see if you can outdo me here. So for price, I had sacrifice. So the word sacrifice means to give up something. But for notice, I actually found quite a few, so let's see if you beat me. I had office, malice, so doing something with malice is kind of doing something with anger. Justice. Practise. Service. And apprentice. An apprentice is someone who's learning about a job. They're an apprentice. Did you do better than me? I wonder. But again, we're here, we have a letter string I C E, has two, at least anyway, we've only looked at two different sounds, for the way that that letter string is said. Okay. Make sure you've got that pen and paper ready. Make sure you're ready to write down this week's spelling words. 'Cause this week spelling words, all look at the things that we've just been look at. All of the letter strings that we've been doing. I want you to copy down the spelling words very carefully for me, because then that means you can take them away and over the next week or so, you can practise your spellings. Okay, let's look our spelling words for this week. There are 10 spelling words. Now I'm going to go through each and every one of them just in case, you're not quite sure of the meaning. Okay. Thorough. So if you do something thoroughly, it means you do it really, really well. You really focus when you do it. Brought. So brought, as in the past tense of bring. So if I bring something, I brought something means it happened in the past. Although. Although. So although, I got up late, I made it into school on time. Audacious. As you say that word after me, audacious. Now audacious is someone or maybe if someone said an audacious attempt, it's something that's bold, it's something that's daring. Naughty. Yearn. So yearn means you're like longing for something you're really hoping for something. Learnt. So, that is the past tense of the verbal learn. So I learn my spelling, I learnt my spelling Route. So we've already talked about route. Route means like a journey, a way that you travel. So if you think that you might plan your route from A to B is how you get from A to B. Apprentice. So an apprentice is someone that's learning about a job. Someone that maybe doesn't know much about it, but they're learning from someone more experienced and they're getting better and better. A malice. So a sort of malice. Malice is like doing something in anger. Okay. I want you to pause the video for me now. And I want you to carefully copy down each and every one of those spellings. 'Cause if you don't copy them down correctly, you're going to start practising them wrong. So pause the video and make sure you've got each and every one of them copied down for me correctly. Okay, do that for me now. Fantastic. Well, let's then finish our lesson. Well, we've nearly finished our lesson. What I like to do at the end of my lessons is just do a quick recap of everything we've done. Because in this lesson we have investigated, we've looked at five different letter strings and you've done a brilliant job because you've noticed that those five letter strings of each letter string although it might be spelled the same, they have many different sounds, many different pronunciations for each of those letter strings. And then what we did is we've set 10 spelling words. And then what I want you to do over the next week or so is practise those spellings. Remember little and often is the best. And if you've got spelling practise strategies to use even better use them because by using strategies, it's going to help us become better spellers. So well done, you've completed this lesson and you've done an excellent job. If you found it a bit tricky, then that's absolutely fine. It was really hard, because it's really hard to see all the different pronunciations of the letter strings. But I'm sure because you've been working so hard, you're so much better at it now. Okay. I hope you enjoyed the lesson, goodbye.

To investigate letter strings: -ough, -ear, -ou, -au, -ice

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