To investigate word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence

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Rabbit Proof Fence - Narrative writing

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Word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence

﻿Hello, my name's Mr Marsh and welcome to this spelling lesson. Now before we begin this lesson today, I want to tell you about a new word that I learned today. Now today is really hot outside and the playground at school was just so hot, but someone described it as blistering and I'd never heard that word before. But they said it's blistering almost like the tarmac is kind of splitting, which I thought was such a great word to describe how it was. Anyway, one of the reasons I love spelling is because I love learning new words and I wanted to share that new word with you today. So in our spelling lesson today, we are going to do an investigation and we are going to investigate suffixes. We're going to look at four suffixes, E-N-T, A-N-T, A-N-C-E and E-N-C-E. So if you're ready to begin the lesson today, then let's begin. Now before we begin today's lesson, we're just going to run through the agenda for the lesson, just so you're clear on what we're going to cover. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to look at some key vocabulary that's going to really help us in this lesson, help with our understanding. Then we're going to move on to investigate about those suffixes that I mentioned, A-N-T, E-N-T, E-N-C-E and A-N-C-E and hopefully, that's going to help with our understanding so that when we get to our spelling words at the end of the lesson, we're really clear on what we would use and which suffix we would use. Now before we dive into the lesson, you're going to need something to write on, so you're going to need an exercise book and some paper, you're going to need a pen or a pencil, so something to write with, and you're going to need those brains of yours. So if you need to go and get any of them, hopefully you've got your brain, then please pause the video now and go and get them. Okay, do that for me. Fantastic, well, the first thing we're going to do in this lesson is we are going to look at some key vocabulary that's going to help us move through the lesson, it's going to help with our understanding of what we are going to talk about. Now I'm going to do something called my turn, your turn. So when I'm doing this, I'm going to say the word and then when I do this with my hands, I would like you to repeat after me, let's try, suffix. So a suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that changes meaning. So like I said, we're going to look at four suffixes in this lesson, A-N-T, E-N-T, A-N-C-E and E-N-C-E. Abstract noun, now abstract noun is a feeling, an action or an idea that you can't touch. Remember a noun is a person, place or thing but all of those things you can touch. Well, an abstract noun is something you can't touch, but we'll explore and look at some examples of abstract nouns as we go through the lesson. Adjective. Now I'm sure this is just recap revision for you, but remember an adjective is a describing word. So we're going to investigate. Now if you've watched any of my other lessons, then you know I like to really investigate to come up with some rules and rules that are going to help us know which spelling do we use when we're looking at a spelling word. So we've got four suffixes today, so let's do our investigation. My turn, your turn again, tolerant, tolerance, innocent, innocence. So a tolerant person is someone that will put up with a lot. So if you have a high level of tolerance, it means you're willing to put up with lots of things. An innocent person is someone who hasn't done anything wrong and if someone's trying to prove their innocence, they might be trying to prove that they haven't done anything wrong. Now I want you to pause the video and think, what do you notice about these words? Think about the suffixes that I've already suggested, pause the video for me now. I've highlighted four strings of letters at the ends of these words. Pause the video, what do you notice about these letter strings? Okay, now we are going to look at four suffixes. Remember our definition of a suffix is letters at the end of the word that change its meaning and we've got some examples here. So a tolerant person, well, a tolerant person is someone that can put up with lots of things and if you show a high level of tolerance, then you are able to put up with lots of things. Now listen to me say all of these words, and I want you to listen to the sound that these suffixes make, tolerant, tolerance, innocent, innocence. Let me do that one more time for you. Really listen hard to the sound that each of these suffixes make, tolerant, tolerance, innocent, innocence. What did you notice? Did you notice there was a different sound or do they sound similar? Well, we'll come back to that later in the lesson. The first thing we're going to do though, is we're going to think about these bits of vocabulary and the different words that we've just looked at. So let's do a quick recap, so an abstract noun was that feeling, action or idea that you can't touch. Actually, we'll look at that in a minute. I was going to explain them, but we'll come back to it. An adjective is a describing word. So what I've done here once we've got tolerant and we've got a sentence, she was a tolerant person, and then we have tolerance, she showed great tolerance, now one of them is an abstract noun. So remember, that's something that you can't touch, but it's an idea, a thought, an action and one of them is an adjective, so either tolerant or tolerance is either an abstract noun or an adjective. Pause the video, have a think to yourself, which do you think it is? Okay, should we see how you got on? Well, tolerant is an adjective and we know that because person, in that sense, she was a tolerant person, well, person is a noun, a person, place or thing. So an adjective is describing that noun. She's showed great tolerance, so tolerance is an abstract noun. It's not something that we can see, but it is a thing. So remember it's that thought or a idea or action that we can't physically touch, so we can't touch tolerance, but it is a thing, it's making it an abstract noun. So let's try and fill in this sentence for me. You need to either add adjective or abstract noun. Let's see if you can complete it. Changing the A-N-T suffix to the A-N-C suffix can change the word from a, into a. Can you complete that sentence? Pause the video, have a think. Okay, how did you get on? Well, let's see. Changing the A-N-T suffix to an A-N-C suffix can change the word from an adjective, so here, we've got tolerant to an abstract noun, tolerance. You're probably familiar with what I'm going to do now, so we've got two words, innocent. So this time we've got the E-N-T suffix and that innocence, the E-N-C-E suffix. They were innocent, they stated their innocence, again, can you find the abstract noun? And which one is the adjective? Pause the video for me now. Okay, how did you get on? Well, they were innocent, that's an adjective, describes how they were innocent and they stated their innocence, again, that's a thing but it's not something I can touch, innocence. I can't touch innocence, therefore, it's an abstract noun. See if you can complete this sentence for me now, changing the E-N-T suffix to the E-N-C-E suffix can change the word from a, into a. Have a go, can you complete that sentence? How did you get on? Well, changing the E-N-T suffix to the E-N-C-E suffix can change the word from an adjective to an abstract noun. Now that's not always the case but what we're going to do is we're going to go back to something I've already thought about innocence and we've kind of already discussed, and I've got that symbol down there. You're going to hear me speak and say these words, I want you to listen hard to the sound that those suffixes make. Let's begin, tolerant and innocent. What sounds did you hear at the end of those words, tolerant and innocent? Is there any difference in those sounds? Tolerant, innocent. Well no, they don't, they make the same unt sound at the end, so tolerant, innocent. Let's look at tolerance and innocence. Let me say that again, tolerance and innocence. Well, they make the unce sound at the end, tolerance, innocence. Why is my panda here? Why is he confused? Why does that make it tricky when it comes to spelling? Well, it makes it tricky because normally, if we are able to hear a different sound, then we'd be able to make a rule for each spelling of the suffix. But if they sound the same, that makes it tricky when we hear a word. So choosing the right ending, just isn't easy 'cause they both sound the same and in many words that use these suffixes, they're really unstressed, so it's really hard to tell whether it's A-N-T or E-N-T or whether it's A-N-C-E or E-N-C-E. So normally, like I said earlier, and I said, I love to make rules for spelling because rules help me when I'm trying to spell words. But with these suffixes, we just have to learn them. This time, we've just got to learn them. There are no real set rules. What we're going to do though, is we're going to look at some words that maybe use these suffixes 'cause we need to try and develop our vocabulary, so we are really clear on which suffix to use. So we've already talked about tolerant and tolerance. Now here are two images and these images are words or suggesting words that do end A-N-T-E and A-N-C-E, so can you think and pause the video, can you think of what each of these images is trying to show you with words ending A-N-T and A-N-C-E? Pause the video for me now. So how did you get along? Well, let's just think for a second. We've got one older boy and the other boy is helping him. Now when someone's helping someone, there's another word for that. I'm thinking of the word assist and how could I use those suffixes that we've got, A-N-T and A-N-C-E with the word assist? What do you think? Have you thought of any words that we might have? Well, we have assistant, so it still got that sound unt sound at the end, so the little boy is the assistant to the older boy. We have assistance, so he is providing assistance to his brother. Careful with that word assist, S-S, then another S, I always make that mistake, but it's okay, we make mistakes on my spelling, even I do that. Now there was this image. Now it says top secret. What could it be? It's like something that really, really we'd need to focus on, maybe it looks like something that's important, important. So it's an important document, hence why it's stamped, top secret and it has a high degree of importance. Look at our word in important and importance. You've got import, that might help us if we were trying to learn to spell that word, we can see import in important. Now we're going to look at other words that use the E-N-T and the E-N-C-E suffix. So we've looked at innocent and innocence already, now we've got a dog that's really listening to its owner and then there's a girl that's cycling on her own. Pause the video, have a think, what words might use these suffixes? Okay, off you go. How did you get on? Well, this dog is obedient, your turn, and the dog is showing a high level of obedience. An obedient dog is one that really listens, so if someone's obedient, they really listen and follow to commands from other people. So if someone is showing a high level of obedience, it means that they are following all the commands they're being told. And this girl is riding a bike on her own, or we might say she's doing an independent cycle ride. You might do independent work at school, again, an adjective, independent. Or you can say she's cycling on her own, she's showing a high level of independence. Really good, again, independent and independence, good use of that spelling strategy, the elliptical word within a word, I can see pen. That might help me know how to spell independent and independence. Now sometimes, because like I said, there's no set rules, we just have to think about the word and how it looks and whether it looks correct. Think about where you've maybe seen words, you might've seen it on signs. you may have seen it when you've done lots of reading, so sometimes, we need to think what just looks right. What, when I know I hear that unt sound at the end of a word, if I wrote down both options, I could write them down and then go, "Yes, that one looks correct?" So I've done that with two words here, instrument, monument. So a monument is like a statue. I want you to pause the video, which of the two options for each word looks correct? Think about maybe where you've seen that word. Okay, pause the video. How did you get on? Well, instrument is E-N-T. There's no set rule for that as we've established, but it may just look correct. So it's great to write down both options 'cause then I could see, yes I know 'cause I've seen it somewhere else, it's instrument, E-N-T. And monument is also E-N-T, again, writing down both options, great strategy, 'cause then I can see which one looks right to me. We have confidence, restaurant, again, pause the video, which one looks like the right spelling for each word? Off you go. So confidence is E-N-C-E, again, wrote down both words, that one looked correct. And restaurant is A-N-T. If you've got those wrong, then not a problem. That's how we learn, we learn from making mistakes. It's really good to make mistakes because it makes you actually really focus on those mistakes and you probably won't make them again. So what I like to do sometimes, and one of the things I love about spelling is looking at the origins of words and I've taken the word confident and confidence. And I'm going to show you where those words came because the English language is fascinating about where words originated. So the word confident and confidence actually comes from two places, comes from the Latin, confidentia and it comes from the word confidence in French. Now excuse my pronunciation if that wasn't quite correct. But the things I really enjoy about it is that both of those words in those languages meant to have full trust. So if you think about, if I said that in English, I am really confident about how you're going to do, it means I've got full trust in how you're going to perform. And I'm just going to show you another word. If you confide in someone, it means that you're going to tell them something really secret that you don't want to tell anyone else, but you tell them because you really trust them, you confide in them. So there are so many words that are really interesting and they use those suffixes, E-N-T and E-N-C-E. Another one, and a word we're going to explore a little bit that uses these suffixes comes from the verb, obey and obey me is like carry out commands and again, it's a word that originates from French and it's become part of the English language. Now let's look at some other words and we've already looked at them a bit today. We have obedient, so that uses the suffix E-N-T and we have obedience, so you're following commands. Remember that dog, there was commands that his owner was telling him to do and he was following them absolutely. Now we have other words, disobedient and disobedience. Now if you think back, it's probably a bit of revision, you've got that prefix, that dis at the start of those words. So if obedient means to follow the rules or carry out commands, what do you think disobedient means? Yeah, that's right, it means to not follow the rules, to not carry out commands. So if someone's showing disobedience, it means they're not listening to someone's instructions, they're not following what they're asking them to do. They might be disobeying them. What you need to make sure you've got now is a pen and paper and a pen 'cause we're going to set the spelling words for this week. There are 10 spelling words. I want you to carefully write them down because then you're going to take them away and practise them before we get on to the next lesson. So over the next week or so, take them away and practise these spelling words. So there are 10 spellings, carefully copy them down. I'm going to go through each and every one of them and I'm going to explain their meaning, so don't worry if you're not quite sure of the words. You can always watch this video back at any point and then you might really, really understand the meaning. We're going to do my turn, your turn. Tolerant, so a tolerant person is someone that can put up with a lot. If someone was irritating, but they don't get flustered, they don't get annoyed, then they'd be tolerant. Tolerance, so someone might show a high level of tolerance. That means that they're able to put up with a lot. Innocent, so an innocent person means someone that hasn't done anything wrong. Innocence, someone might be proving their innocence, they're proving that they haven't done anything wrong. Reluctant, so a reluctant person is someone that's maybe not keen to do something. You might be reluctant to tidy your bedroom. Reluctance, so someone that's showing a lot of reluctance means someone that's trying to avoid something like I just talked about. They might be showing up. If you're being asked to tidy to your bedroom and you're showing a high level of reluctance, it means you're not really willing to do it. Obedient, so in obedient remember, we looked at that dog and that the old dog was following all of the commands of its owner, so it was being obedient. Obedience, so that dog was showing a high level of obedience. Observant, so an observant person is someone who notices lots of things, they really, really notice lots of details. Expectant, so expectant, have you got that word expect? So if someone's expectant, that means they're expecting something to happen. Pause the video for me now and make sure you've copied down each and every one of those spellings for me correctly 'cause it's so important you are copying them correctly, otherwise if you don't, you might end up learning the wrong and incorrect spelling. Pause the video for me now. Fantastic, so we're nearly at the end of the lesson. I just want to congratulate you and I'm going to quickly recap what we did in this lesson. So we looked at some of the key vocabulary in this lesson that we used. So we use the word suffix a lot 'cause we looked at the four suffixes, we used abstract noun and we also used adjective and then we did a kind of investigation. But what we established today that there weren't really any rules. For those four suffixes we looked at, you kind of just need to learn them because they all make a very similar sound, then we set our spelling words. And what I want you to do now is take those spelling words and take them away over the next week or so and practise those spellings. Remember, little and often is best. So 10 minutes a day, maybe just focusing on two spelling words, maybe using some spelling practise strategies to do that. Brilliant, you've completed this lesson. I think you've probably done a wonderful job. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next lesson. Goodbye.

To investigate word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence

To investigate word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence

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