To practise and apply knowledge of letter strings: ough, ear, ou, au, ice including test

Key Stage 2

English spelling

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

English

Spiderman - Journalistic writing

﻿Hello I'm Mr. Marsh and welcome to this spelling lesson. Now this is lesson seven of 10 in outcome one, but if you haven't watched lesson two of 10, I want you to pause this video and go back and watch that now, because we're going to use all the knowledge from lesson two in lesson seven to help us. But if you did watch lesson two, then brilliant. In today's lesson, we are going to recap all of those things that we did when we looked at the letter strings and the five letter strings in lesson two. So if you're ready to begin, let's make a start. Okay, before we begin the lesson, let's just have a quick look at the agenda for the lesson. The first thing we're going to do in this lesson, we're just going to recap the previous learning about letter strings from lesson two. And then we're going to look at the spelling words that we set in those lessons, just to remind ourselves of what they were. And then, I'm going to teach you a new spelling practise strategy, 'cause it's excellent if we can have strategies about practising our spelling, 'cause it makes us better learners of spelling. And then finally, in this lesson, we are going to have a test on the spelling words that we set in the last lesson. Now, what I want you to do, I want you to make sure you've got an exercise book or paper, so something to write on. Make sure you've got a pen or a pencil. Make sure your brain is in, ready to go and you're ready to focus. So, if you need to go and get any of those things, pause the video before we start. Okay, go and do that now. Okay, for first thing we're going to do in this lesson is recap the previous learning from our last lesson where we looked at five letter strings. Now, I wonder if you can remember what a letter string was, let's see. Here are seven words. Cough, plough, rough, through, thorough, although, and thought. Remember through means to go through something, but if you do something thoroughly or something thorough, it's to do it really well, your really focus when you do it. I'll say those words one more time. Cough, plough, rough, through, thorough, although, and thought. Thought is quite a good word to end on because what I want you to do now is I want you to pause the video and give it some thought. What can you remember about all of these words? Can you remember back to the last lesson? Is there something similar about them? Is there something different about them? Okay, I want you to pause the video and have a think back to the last lesson, off you go. Okay, what did you notice? Well, did you remember that all of these words have got the letter string ough in common? But could you remember anything that was different about them? Was there anything different about them? I'll say it one more time. Cough, plough, rough, through, thorough, although, and thought. Hmm, does that remind you? I want you to pause the video and I want you to say all of those words to yourself and see, can you remember why I have put this symbol down there, why want you to say them out loud? Okay, pause the video for me now. Well, fantastic, did you remember that ough the letter string, can be sound, does sound different, can be pronounced differently. Let's have a look at those different sounds and see how well you remember the different sounds that they make. We had the off sound in cough. The ow sound in plough. We had the uff sound in rough. With the oo, that stretched oo sound in through. We had that short vowel sound of a in thorough. We had thought, so that aw sound. And then we had that, although, the oe sound, again, a bit of a stretched oe sound, but as in like toe, although. So we had seven different sounds, but all form the same letter string ough. So, let's see if you can complete my sentence at the bottom. These words all have the same letter string ough, but the letter string makes a different? What's going to go in there in each word? Let's try one more time. Say it in this space when I pause this time, what you think should go in there. These words all have the same letter string ough, but the letter string makes a different? Sound in each word, okay good. If you didn't remember that, don't worry. Think about it for the next letter string that we might be looking at. Okay. Here are five words. Aunt, because, sausage, cause and trauma. Remember trauma was talking about traumatic event, event that's really upsetting. Okay. Aunt, because, sausage, cause, trauma. Is there anything about those words that you notice is the same? Is there anything you've noticed about them that's different. Pause the video for me now. Okay, did you notice that they've all got that letter string au? But did you notice anything different about them? Can you remember back to the last lesson, if there is anything different about them? I want you to pause the video and I want you to say each of these words out loud. Can you remember what is different about them? Think back to ough. What did we notice that was different about each of the letter strings. Okay, pause the video me now. Right, did you remember that the letter string au can be, can sound different, can be pronounced differently. So in aunt, well, I say with the ar sound, but if you're from somewhere else in great Britain, you may say it with the shorter abouts and a. In sausage we've got this o sound, a short vowel sound. in because, au has got the short vowel sound of a. In cause we've got the aw sound and in trauma, we've got or. Okay. So again, there are six different sounds for the same letter string au. I want you, as I read the sentence to shout out what goes in the gap. These words all have the same letter stream au, but the letter string makes a different? Didn't hear you, in each word. You going to have to do that again. These words all have the same letter string au, but the letter string makes a different? Sound, good I heard you that time in each word. Okay here are four more words. Dear, bear, heart, and learn. Pause the video. What's the same, what's different about these words? Okay. Did you notice that they've all got the letter string ear Dear bear, heart and learn. But, I want you now to pause the video again, say these words out loud. Can you remember what sounds each of these, the letter string makes in each of these words. Okay, pause it for me now. Okay, in dear we've got ear, in bear E-A-R sounds air. In heart it's got the ar sound. And in learn it's got the er sound. Here are four more words. Paul, could, shout, route. Paul, could, shout, route. Pause the video for me again. Is there something similar about these words, but is there something different? Okay, go and have a go. So did you notice that they've all got that letter string ou? Did you remember that from the last lesson? So I pour a drink and remember route. Route is the journey you take from one place to another. So you might plan your route. Okay. Again, I want you to pause the video and I want you to say these words out loud and can you hear the different sounds that the ou letter string makes? Great, go and do that for me now. So did you hear the different sounds? In pour we've got the or sound, in could ou mixed the u sound. In shout we've got that stretch ow sound. So shout, ou makes that ow sound. And then route we've got, definitely got that stretch oo sound, have haven't we? Route. Okay, brilliant. Two more words for you, price and notice. And I like the word notice here, because I'm looking for you to notice something. Can you notice something that's the same about these words, but something that also is different about these words. Okay, pause the video for me now. Well did you notice that they both have the ice letter string, price and notice. But, let's think about how they sound. I want you to say these two words out loud to yourself when you pause the video and see if you can work out what sounds they make. Price, notice. Okay, you're turn. So did you notice at the end of price, we've got ice, I-C-E letter string sounds like ice, but in notice it sounds like, is, notice. Okay. We're now just going to do a quick recap of our spelling words from the last lesson. We're going to do my turn, your turn. Just so that we're really clear on how we pronounce them. So when I do this, that's my turn, when I point at you, it's your turn to say the word back at me. Okay, let's begin. Thorough, So thorough is to do something really well. You're really focused on it and you've given it all of your attention. Brought. Although. Audacious. Naughty. Now I'm just going to go quickly back, audacious. We're going to look at that word 'cause you might be thinking Mr. Marsh, that is a tricky word. That's a new word to me. We'll come back to it, we're going to look at it in a minute. Let's look at number six. Yearn. Learnt. Route. Apprentice. And malice. Okay so malice comes from the same word form as malicious. So think about doing something that's really aggressive and really angry. Okay, I said, we're going to look at this word audacious again. And one thing I love to do in spelling is I love to learn where words came from. And when I was thinking about this lesson and the word audacious came up, I thought that is the word that I really want to know where and how I became part of the English language. Audacious. Okay. So what dishes comes, well, lots of our language, lots of English names comes from Latin and French. And actually both of those languages have a word, very similar to audacious, which is basically the origin of where our word audacious in our language comes from. So when we're in Latin, I probably not going to pronounce it correctly, but audacia. And then in French we have audace that may not be pronounced correctly. I apologise if it's not. But the interesting thing is, is it those words in those languages mean bold and daring. So if I talk about an audacious person, when I'm using the English language, it means someone who's really bold. They're doing something really daring. You might say that's an audacious attempt at something, which means it's a really, really maybe risky, but daring thing to do. Okay, audacious that was one of your spelling words for this week. Now I'm going to teach you a new spelling practise strategy. It's great to have strategies when we practise, 'cause it really makes us more effective learners. And the spelling sorry, Mr. Marsh, can't speak. The spelling strategy that we are going to look at this week is called small to large and we're going to use one of our spelling words. And the we're spending where we're going to use is route. Now it's small to large, you write the word at the normal size in your exercise book or paper that you would normally. But then on the next line, or maybe you skip a line, you write the word a little bit bigger. And then you skip a line again. And then this time you might need to write the word over two lines because it's just getting bigger and bigger. And what I really like to do is when it's got bigger and bigger, I like to just double check with my fingers. I move along, but I've got all of the correct letters. Now why do I think this is a really useful strategy? Well I think is useful because it makes me really interact with the world. I get to write the letters really big, and it makes me really focus on each letter that I'm doing. I really like to look at the different shapes of the letters as well, 'cause the bigger you draw them, the more you focus on the letter shapes. And then that helps you and your memory of how to write and spell different words. And finally, because you're writing the letter so big, you have to write them slowly because they're so, so large on the paper. That's why I think it's a really useful strategy. So I'm going to show you just another example. We had that word yearn, which was another one of our spelling, home learning words. Our spelling words to learn at home. We had yearn. So yeah, the first time I'd write it would be my normal size of writing. And then I would skip a line and then I would write it a bit bigger. So I make sure I fill up the whole of one line, but then the next time I write it, I might have to write to over two lines, 'cause I'm writing it's so big now, that it's taken up more than one line. And then I could even write it three, four, five times, it's bigger and bigger. But what I want to do at the end is use my finger and just track all the way along to make sure that I've got all of the same and I spell each one correctly. 'Cause that's a good way just to check. Okay. What I want you to do now then is take away this strategy from small to large, and try it with these four words. It may be that you come back to this lesson in two days time, three days time when you've practised it with all of the spelling words, that's absolutely fine. Or you may choose to go and practise for half an hour and then come back to this video, I don't mind. But what I really want you to do, is to go and practise this small to large strategy. Okay. Go and do that for me now, off you go. Okay, it's time for our spelling test towards the end of this lesson, you need to make sure you have a pen and paper. And if you can, be somewhere where you are going to be able to just concentrate for the next 10 to 15 minutes. Okay, well let's begin our spelling test. First thing I want you to do. I want you to pause the video, write down the numbers one to 10 on your paper. Okay, do that for me now. Okay, before I start reading out the spelling words, if you think at any point Mr. Marsh, you're going far too fast for me. I cannot write the words down quick enough. And don't panic, you can do two things. You could either pause the video after each time I said a word or you could listen all the way through and then if you missed one or two or more, you can always go back in the video and listen again. That might be a good idea to do that anyway, just so you can double check your spellings. Okay, when you're ready, let's continue and do the spelling test. Okay. The first word in your spelling test is thorough, he did a thorough job. Thorough. The second word in your spelling test is brought. He brought it with him to school. Brought. Spelling three is although. Although I want to go to the park, I actually can't. Although. Spelling four is audacious. It was an audacious attempt, audacious. Spelling five is naughty. It was a naughty dog. Naughty Spelling six is yearn. I yearn to go away. Yearn. Spelling seven is learnt. I learnt that at school yesterday, learned. Spelling eight is route. They took that route to school. Route. Spelling nine is apprentice. He became an apprentice. Apprentice. And spelling 10 is malice. Malice. Okay. That brings us to the end of our spelling test. Before we go through the answers, what I want you to do, I want you to double check. So you're going to need to pause the video, check your spellings. Think about those spelling strategies that you might've used from your spelling practise. And if you feel you need to, go back in the video and listen to the spelling test again, just so you can check your answers or maybe fill in some of the gaps. Okay, we're now going to go through our testing. So the first word was thorough. T-H-O-R-U-G-H. I think I spelled that wrong. I'm going to try that again. Thorough, T-H-O-R-O-U-G-H. Brought, B-R-O-U-G-H-T. Although, A-L-T-H-O-U-G-H. Audacious, A-U-D-A-C-I-O-U-S. Naughty, N-A-U-G-H-T-Y. Yearn, Y-E-A-R-N. Learnt, L-E-A-R-N-T. Route, R-O-U-T-E. Let me do that one again. R-O-U-T-E. Apprentice, A-P-P-R-E-N-T-I-C-E. Malice, M-A-L-I-C-E. Okay. I want you to double check whether you got all of those or you've marked them correctly, and if you've got any wrong, then that's absolutely fine. We all make mistakes, I've have made a few mistakes doing this video, but that's okay. We learn from our mistakes and it's perfectly acceptable to make mistakes. So what I want you to do, if you did make any mistakes, copy down the spelling that you got wrong, and I want you to just take it away and over the next week or so, just practise it a few times because I bet you, next time you go to spell that word, you'll probably get it correct. Okay. Before we finish, I just want us to recap quickly what we did in this lesson. So we started off by recapping our previous learning and the spelling words about the letter strings from the previous lesson. And then we learned a new spelling practise strategy from going from small to large. And you can use that, not just with these letter strings, but for many different words. And then finally we finished off doing our spelling tests. Congratulations, we've completed this lesson. I hope you enjoyed it, I certainly did. And I hope to see you again. Okay, bye bye.

To practise and apply knowledge of letter strings: ough, ear, ou, au, ice including test

To practise and apply knowledge of letter strings: ough, ear, ou, au, ice including test

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