To practise and apply knowledge of word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence, including test

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Rabbit Proof Fence - Narrative writing

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Word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence

﻿Hello, I'm Mr. Marsh and welcome to this spelling lesson. Now, before we begin the lesson, it's another really hot day at school today. So I want to tell you about another word that I have learned today and the word is sweltering. The heat is so hot at school. It's almost as it's sweltering. And I thought again, that's a great word. And I love learning new words. Now this is lesson seven of 10, in this outcome. If you didn't watch lesson two of 10, then I want you to pause this video and go back and watch that now, because this lesson builds on the learning from that lesson. But if you did watch that video then fantastic. Because in this lesson, we are going to practise and apply all of that knowledge that we gained of the four suffixes, A N T, E N T, A N C E and E N C E. So if you're ready to begin the lesson, let's make a start. So in the lesson today, we're going to cover some key vocabulary. When we're going to remind ourselves some key vocabulary, that's going to help with our understanding. When we go through recapping our previous learning. And once we've recapped our previous learning about the suffixes that we're going to look at, we're then going to learn a new spelling practise strategy, that's going to help us when we practise our spelling. And finally, we're going to finish the lesson today with a test on the spelling words that we set in the last lesson. Now, before we get into the lesson, I want you to make sure you have an exercise book or some papers, like something to write on. You've got a pen or a pencil, something to write with, and you've got your brains. You know where they are, you know that they're ready to go, okay. If you need to get those things, if you need to put your brain in, then pause the video for me now. Fantastic. First thing we're going to do, is recap some key vocabulary for this lesson. You may remember if you've watched the last lesson that I do my turn, your turn. So once I've set the work, I'll do this with my hands and I'd like you to repeat after me. Suffix. So a suffix is a group of letters, at the end of a word that change it's meaning. Abstract noun. An abstract noun is a feeling and action, an idea that you can't touch. So we talked about certain things like tolerance in the last lesson, someone can demonstrate tolerance. They can put up with something, but you can't actually touch that. But it's still a noun, it's still a thing. Adjective. An adjective is a describing word. Okay, there's our key vocabulary. I want you to think about that key vocabulary as we go through the lesson, because it's all going to help with our recapping and understanding of the previous learning. So we looked at suffixes, we looked at four suffixes. I'm going to say the words to you. See if you can remember what those four suffixes were. Remember a suffix is some letters at the end of a word that change its meaning. So we looked at four, I'll say the words and then pause the video and have a think what they were. Tolerant, tolerance. Innocent, innocence. Okay, pause the video, have a think. Right, did you remember? Did you remember what the four suffixes were? Well, maybe this gives you a clue. We had four suffixes, one A N T, A N C E, E N T and E N C E. Now there was something about these suffixes though, and you've got my image there. I'm going to say these words. See if it triggers your memory of why it was a little bit tricky to know which of these suffixes I would use. We say the words to you and see if you can remember. Tolerant, innocent. Try those again, tolerant, innocent. Can you hear a difference between those words? Tolerant, innocent? 'Kay let's try the other two. Tolerance, innocence. Is there any difference between those words? Can you hear anything different about the suffixes, tolerance, innocence. One more time, tolerant, innocent. Now, you may remember that even though they've got different spellings, A N T and E N T, they have that unt sound at the end, tolerant, innocent. So that makes them a bit tricky to know which suffix that we would use if we heard the word and we were trying to spell it. It's the same for tolerance and innocence. So we have tolerance and innocence. So we have A N C E and E N C E, but they both have that unce sound at the end. So again, if we heard a word, we wouldn't know whether to spell it with the A N C E suffix or the E N C E suffix. So that's why here's my panda. And he's a little confused because he's heard a word ending with the unt sound or the unce sound, and he's not quite sure which spelling to use. Now, that makes this a bit tricky when we have these suffixes, because choosing the right ending just isn't easy. They sound the same in so many words and are often not stressed. So that means you can't really tell the difference. So normally, in my spelling lessons, if you've watched any of my spelling lessons before, I like to come up with rules and I like to come up with rules because it helps me know how I'm going to spell a word, but this time we just have to learn them. We have to learn them so that we know when we see a word or hear a word, what is the correct suffix to use? Because there are some rules that might apply, but generally there aren't really any rules. So it's all about learning them. So practise is actually absolutely vital with this suffixes that we were looking at. And recap quickly what these were. So an abstract noun was a feeling or action or idea, that you can't touch. And an adjective is a describing word. So sometimes that suffix changes the word class. So it might change the word from a adjective to an abstract noun. So let's have a look at these words, my turn, your turn, reluctant, reluctance. She was a reluctant participant. There was a general reluctance to leave. Now, one of those words is an adjective and the other is an abstract noun. I would like you to pause the video, have a think, which is which. Off you go. Okay, how did you get on? Well, she was a reluctant person. Someone who's reluctant is not really willing to do something. So she was a reluctant participant or participant is a noun, a person, place or thing. And the fact that, that participant was reluctant is describing what that participant is like. So reluctant is an adjective. And there was a general reluctance to leave. Well, reluctance is a thing, but it's not something you can touch. So therefore it's an abstract noun. So see if you can remember and recap from the last lesson, how would we complete this sentence? Changing the A N T suffix to the A N C suffix, can change the word from a mm to a. Pause the video. Can you fill in that sentence? Okay, how did you get on? Well, painting the A N T suffix to the A N C suffix, can change the word from an adjective to an abstract noun. Okay, let's look at the E N T and E N C E suffixes now. My turn, your turn. Obedient, obedience. So you may remember from the last lesson that obedient is someone or something that follows commands. So we have an obedient dog, the obedient dog, and we have the dog showed obedience towards its owner. Which one of these is an adjective and which one's an abstract noun. Pause the video, have a think. So, the obedient dog. So it's describing the dog. The dog follows command, so it's an obedient. So it's an adjective describing a dog and dog showed obedience. Well, obedience is a thing, but I can't touch obedience. I could see it possibly. I could see the actions of something being obedient. So the dog showed obedience is an abstract noun. So see if you can complete this sentence for me, changing the E N T suffix to the E N C E suffix, can change the word from a mm to a. Pause the video, have a think. Which is which to fill in those spaces off you go. Okay, 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 another recap for you. I showed you these images in the last lesson. So let's see if you can recall what word or words using the suffixes, A N T and A N C E. Could we describe in this image? The little boy is helping the older boy. See if you can remember, pause the video. So we might describe the little boy as the assistant to the older boy. He is providing assistance to him. Let's see how, if you can remember about this, there was a document and it was stamped top secret. Pause the video. Can you think of a word that uses A N T and A N C E that might relate to this image, off you go. Okay, so we might describe something as being an important document. That's using A N T suffix. Oh, this document is of a high level of importance. So that uses the A N C E suffix. Okay, I think I've used this word quite a lot today. And I've talked about a dog following the owners commands. Can you think of a word where it uses the E N T suffix and the E N C E suffix that relates to this image? Okay, have a think. Okay, have you got it? Well, I've referred to an obedient dog a lot today. Haven't I? Or I've talked about the dog showing a high level of obedience. Look, it's just looking at its owner, waiting for its commands. It's really paying attention. Okay, and this girl is cycling on this path, on her own. She's looking quite confident, isn't she? So think about what could this word, maybe you might recall from the last lesson, what word would use E N T as an adjective and an E N C E as an abstract noun? Have a think. Think about in school, when you're doing, you're asked to do some work on your own. You're asked to work. Okay, did you get it? Independent and independence. So the girl is independent, which means she's doing something on her own. She's showing a high level of independence. Okay, now last time, because I said there's no real rules. It's a really good strategy sometimes, to write down the two options of what a word and how it might be spelled. Because, there aren't any rules, we're going to have to rely on the fact that we need to see and trust ourselves on what looks right. So here we have the word urgent. So this work is urgent means it needs to be done now, it needs to be done immediately. Pause the video, have a think, which of these words looks like it spelled correctly. Okay, which one did you go for? Well, like I said, I like to write down words when I hear that, I can hear that unt sound at the end of both. And then I can think about which one looks correct. Now, urgent is spelled E N T at the end. Try this one for me, we have the word infant. So infant is a young person. Pause the video, which one looks correct? Okay, this time we have A N T, so infant, A N T. Okay, so we've looked at a recapped our learning from the last lesson. What I'm going to do now, is I'm going to teach you a new spelling practise strategy. And this is one I really, really liked because I find it really helpful when I'm practising my spellings, or actually if I'm trying to remember things at home, so I don't forget them. So this one is called display the words, and we're going to fuse reluctant, the word reluctant as our focus. Now, when I say display the words, well, what I mean is display them in places that you look really often, because then if you are regularly seeing them, then you're going to be maybe not even really noticing, but you're going to be remembering what those words and you're going to become really familiar with what those words are. So here's some pictures from school today where I took and I was trying to learn the word reluctant. So these are my pictures. And I put them in some places so that where I look really often. So here was my water glass. And I've been drinking from that all day. So, because I've been drinking from it all day, it means that I've regularly been looking at it. So it was a great place to put one of my notes because I've been looking at that word reluctant all day, and then I'm always looking at the clock. So I put the word reluctant on the clock. So here's the clock in my classroom and I've taken a picture of it. But every time I look at the clock, I see the word reluctant. So that's really helping me learn that word. So I think this is a really useful strategy because I see the word really often during the day. And it's just fun. I'm looking around my classroom and I see this word reluctant everywhere. Well, actually it doesn't make me reluctant to learn the word because I'm seeing it all the time. And it makes me really think about the meaning as well, because I'm really thinking I've got that word reluctant. Well reluctant means you're not willing to do something. Well, actually I am really willing to do it because I'm seeing it everywhere that I look. So why don't you pause the video now, take some of the spelling words. Here's four that I suggest you could do, but you could do all of the spellings in the last lesson and put them on notes and put them somewhere in your home. Put them in places where you're going to look often. Think about where I put them. I put them on my cup. I put them on the clock. Okay, pause the video. You could just pause the video at this point and come back in a few days time, just so that you had the chance to see those words dotted around your home. And then you might really, really learn them. Okay, go and do that for me now. Okay, what we're going to do now is we're going to test ourselves on the spelling words that we set in the last lesson, using the four suffixes that we've been exploring. You need to make sure you have a pen and paper, so something to write on and you need to make sure if you can get somewhere, where you're going to be able to concentrate for the next 10, 15 minutes, okay. When you're ready and when you've got the things you need, let's start our spelling test. So the first thing I want you to do, is I want you to write the numbers one to 10 on your paper. Okay? If you need to pause the video to do that, then do that for me now. Okay. In a minute, I'm going to start reading the spelling words to you. Now, if at any point you're thinking, Oh, Mr. Marshall going too fast for me, then feel free to just pause the video and then just press play when you're ready to hear the next one. What you might also want to do is hear all the words once through, and then once I've done, you could always go back in the video and listen to them again. That might be a really good thing to do anyway, just to check that you heard the words correctly. Fantastic, okay. Let's begin our spelling test. The first word is tolerant. They were tolerant person, tolerant. The second word is tolerance. They showed a high level of tolerance, tolerance. The third word is innocent. They were an innocent person, innocent. The fourth word is innocence. They try to prove their innocence, innocence. The fifth word is reluctant. They were reluctant to do it, reluctant. The sixth word is reluctance. There was a high level of reluctance to do it, reluctance. Obedient is the seventh word, obedient. It was an obedient dog, obedient. Spelling number eight is obedience. The dog demonstrated a high level of obedience, obedience. Spelling nine is independent. She was an independent person, independent. And finally spelling 10 is independence. They all demonstrated a high level, a high degree of independence, independence. Okay, like I said earlier, if you missed any of those words or you're not quite sure that you heard it correctly, then go back in the video now. If you want to, maybe pause the video, check your spellings, maybe think about spelling strategies that you've used in the last week to check and help you know, before we mark our spelling word, but once you're ready, click play again, and then we will mark the spelling test together. Okay. Fantastic, let's mark the spellings together. First word was tolerant, T-O-L-E-R-A-N-T. Second word was tolerance, T-O-L-E-R-A-A, sorry, let me start again. T-O-L-E-R-A-N-C-E. Spelling three was innocent, I-N-N-O-C-E-N-T. Four was innocence, I-N-N-O-C-E-N-C-E. Five was reluctant, R-E-L-U-C-T-A-N-T. Six was reluctance, R-E-L-U-C-T-A-N-C-E. Seven was obedient, O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T. Eight was obedience, O-B-E-D-I-E-N-C-E. Nine was independent, I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T. And 10 is independence, I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-N-C-E. Okay, I'd like you to pause the video now and I want you to do two things for me, check that you've marked your spellings correctly. And secondly, if you've got any wrong, then that's absolutely fine. We all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. So how you're going to learn from those mistakes is I want you to copy down the correct spelling for me, and then maybe over the next week or so, just practise that one spelling. Maybe you want to use that spelling strategy that we talked about earlier in the lesson. Maybe that's the word or words that you put around your home so that you're seeing those words regularly. Okay, pause the video for me now. Congratulations, we're nearly at the end of the lesson. So just before we finish, I just want to recap what we've done in the lesson today. We looked at the key vocabulary that really helped with our learning. And as we went through the lesson, then we recap the previous learning about the four suffixes that we've been looking at. We learned that spelling practise strategy of using the words dotted around the home so that we've got that constant reminder when we're looking around. And then finally we did a spelling test at the end. So that brings us to the end of this lesson, you've completed it, well done. If you found some of the spellings a bit tricky, then don't worry about it. Just take those spellings away and do a little bit more practise for me. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you maybe in the next lesson. Okay, goodbye.

To practise and apply knowledge of word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence, including test

To practise and apply knowledge of word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence, including test

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