Suffixes: Past and present tense

Suffixes: plural

Suffixes: -y

Suffixes: -ly

Suffixes: -ful and -less

Suffixes: -er and -est

Silent letters

Prefixes

Homophones and homonyms

Compound words

Suffixes - past and present tense

Suffixes:  -ate -en -ify -ise

Suffixes:  -tion -ity -ness

Suffixes:  -tion -cian -sion -ssion

Suffixes:  -ous

Suffixes:  -ial

Suffixes:  -al

Suffixes:  -ic

Suffixes:  -ary / -ery

French-derivated sounds:  sh (ch) g (gue) k (que)

Double consonants

Homophones

Suffixes: plurals

Suffixes:  ate -en -ify -ise -tion -ity -ness -al -ic -ary -ery -ful -less

Homophones + near homophones

Syllables: -fer syllables

Suffixes:  -tion / -cian / -sion / -ssion

/ee/ sound 'ie' or 'ei' spelling

Word endings: -ant and -ent

Suffixes: -able -ible

C making soft and hard sound

Etymology: words of Greek origin  'ch' 'ph' and 'sc' spellings

Unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words

Prefixes: un- dis- mis- in- il- im- ir- re- sub- inter- super- anti- auto- bi- trans- tele- circum- de- pre- pro- sus- con- com- a-

Suffixes: Past and present

Suffixes: -er and -est comparative and superlative

Suffixes: -le -el -al -il

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

Suffixes: -tion, -cian, -sion, -ssion

Suffixes: -ous

Suffixes: -ial

/ee/ sound spelt ie or ei

Word endings: -ant -ent -ance -ence

Suffixes: -ible -able

French and Greek etymology

Curriculum words

English Spelling

Y4 English Spelling

Key Stage 2

Year 4

Spelling

THEME

UNIT

In this lesson, we will be investigating the -ery and -ary suffixes and set spelling words to learn.

To investigate suffixes -ary/-ery

﻿Hi there, my name is Mr. Byrne-Smith. And today, we are going to be doing some spelling together, which I'm really looking forward to. In particular, we are going to look at the -ary suffixes that's -ary, and -ery. We're going to investigate them, and figure out exactly how they work, and it's going to be fun, so come along. Here's the agenda for today's lesson. First, we're going to look at some key vocabulary, then, we'll investigate and generate rules before, finally, setting the spelling words with this unit. In this lesson, you will need an exercise book, or paper, a pencil, and then, of course, your brain. If you need to go and get any of these things, pause the video now. Okay, let's run through some key vocabulary. My turn, your turn, suffix. A suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that change its meaning and sometimes class. Adjective, an adjective is a word that describes a noun. It tells you what it's like. Noun, a noun is a person, place or thing. Root word, a root word is the most basic version of a word it has no prefixes or suffixes attached. Let's investigate And generate some rules. So, today, we're looking at the -ary suffix. There are, in fact, two versions of the -ary suffix

ery, and -ary, they both behave slightly differently. So, we're going to look at them separately and we're going to investigate them separately. First, we're going to look at the -ery suffix. Here, you can see that I've applied the -ery suffix to four root words. I need your help figuring out what the root words were. Our four words are scenery, bravery, bakery, and slippery. Have a think, what were the root words for each of these four words, pause the video now. Okay, great, so the root word for scenery is scene. The root word for bravery is brave. The root word for bakery is bake. The root word for slippery is slip. Now, we're going to think about the word class of each of these words. If we figure out the word class of the root word we can then see what happens when we apply our suffix. Reminder, our root words are scene, brave, bake, and slip. Now, when we figure out the root word of a particular word, my top tip is to put the word into a sentence. A sentence that works for you. Once you've done this, you can figure out exactly what the word is doing in that sentence. You can figure out its role in the sentence. Let's have a go with scene. The policeman were the first people on the scene. When I think about the word scene, especially in that sentence I imagine a place, a place where things happen. Now, I know that a noun is a person, place or thing. I think a scene is a place so, therefore, I think scene is a noun. My other two options are adjective and verb. Now, an adjective describes a noun. The word scene definitely describe a noun in my sentence. As for verb, a verb is a doing, or a being word. In my sentence, the police were the first on the scene, well, scene is definitely not a doing or a being word, therefore, I think that scene is a noun. I'd like you to have a go at the remaining words. Pause the video now. Okay so, let's go through the word class of each of our four root words. We have scene which is a noun, brave which is an adjective, we have bake which is a verb, and then we have slip which is a noun. Slip can also be a verb, so slip, which is either a noun or a verb. Okay so, when we generate rules, we often like to see patterns. Now, I can't really see any pattern so far because these are almost all different in terms of their word class. But maybe a pattern will emerge when we start looking at the word class of the product when we've added the -ery suffix. That's what we're going to do now. We're going to look at scenery, bravery, bakery, slippery. Now, we know that a suffix changes the meaning and sometimes the word class of a word. I wonder if the -ery suffix changes the word class of any of these words? What I'd like you to do is use the same strategy to figure out the word class of these four words, scenery, bravery, bakery, slippery. I'm going to have a go with scenery. I looked out the window and saw the beautiful scenery. Okay, I looked out the window and saw the beautiful scenery. Well, in that instance, the doing or being word is saw. That's what I did, what did I see? I saw something, I saw a thing. Now, the thing I saw was the scenery. I know that a noun's a person, place, or thing, so, therefore, I think scenery is a noun. Okay, I'd like you to have a go with the remaining three. Pause the video now. Okay, let's go through these one by one. Scenery is a noun, bravery is a noun, bakery is a noun, slippery is an adjective. So, we're getting somewhere here. I'm starting to see a pattern. Three out of four of these words have been turned into nouns. So, when it comes to defining exactly what the -ery suffix does we've got a starting point. Here, we have the makings of a rule. The -ery suffix often turns words into mm, I need your help. Now, I've said often because it doesn't always do this, but three out of the four examples we looked at, it did do this. So, help me out, the -ery suffix often turns words into mm, pause the video now. Okay, the -ery suffix often turns words into nouns. In the majority of cases, this suffix turns words into nouns Here we have our four words, scenery, bravery, bakery, and slippery. You can see that these have had the -ery suffix applied to them. As we discovered earlier, these all have very distinct and obvious root words, so in the majority of cases that we have seen the -ery suffix is applied to an obvious distinct root word. In this instance, that is not the case. Often the -ery suffix is applied to obvious root words, however, that is not always the case. Here's an exception, the word is mystery, which does not have an obvious root word. However, in the majority of cases, it does. So, what could we say? If the root word is obvious, the ending is often, what? Pause the video now. If the root word is obvious, the ending is often -ery. This is going to be really useful. When it comes to applying one of the two -ery suffixes you often rely on this rule knowing that if the root word is obvious it takes -ery. Let's look at the second of our two suffixes, -ary. Once again, we have four words that have this suffix applied imaginary, primary, vocabulary, and library. I need your help figure out the root word of each of these four. Now, remember, root words aren't always obvious, so just do your best, if there isn't an obvious root word there isn't an obvious root word, that's fine. Pause the video now. Okay so, the root word of imaginary is imagine. The root word of primary is prime. The root word of vocabulary is, oh, there's not an obvious root word for vocabulary. The root word for library is, oh, that's strange, once again, there's no obvious root word. So, in half of our examples we've seen that there is no obvious root word. From this, we can extract a rule. We can say that if the root word is not obvious, the ending is often -ary, A-R-Y. When it's an obvious root word, in the majority of cases, the ending is E-R-Y, when there isn't in the majority of cases the ending is A-R-Y. That makes our life very, very simple. The -ary suffixes can be very confusing. And this is something which helps us, and let's make the most of it. Let's continue to look at this suffix. You are going to help me figure out the word class of each of my words. I've already had a go with the first one. I figured out that imagine is a verb, I did this by putting it into a sentence. Sometimes I imagine my future, in that sentence imagine is a doing word. I know that verbs are doing or being words, therefore, imagine is a verb. I need your help with the remaining root words. Now, obviously, we only have one more, which is prime, the last two are unknown. To help me figure out the word class of the word prime, pause it here now. Okay, the word prime is a adjective. So, we know that our root words are both different word classes. Let's see if we can figure out what the -ary, A-R-Y suffix turns them into. To do this, we're going to look at imaginary, primary, vocabulary, and library. And we are going to think about their word class. Use the same strategy as before, putting each of these words into a sentence. Pause the video here now, and have a go. Okay, let's go through these one by one. Imaginary is a adjective, primary is a adjective, vocabulary is a noun, and library is a noun. So, the -ary suffix turns words into adjectives and nouns. Let's see if we can establish a rule. The -ary suffix often turns words into mm or mm. I need your help, pause the video and have a go. Okay, the -ary suffix often turns words into nouns or adjectives. Okay, slightly different to the -ery suffix which, in the vast majority of cases, turns words into nouns. Okay, let's think about how to apply our two suffixes. Often, if we can add our suffix onto the end of the root word without making any changes. However, this is not always the case. Here we have four examples, two ending in -ery, two ending in -ary, and you can see that I've included the root words, scene; scenery, brave; bravery, imagine; imaginary, prime; primary. I'd like you to look very carefully at these four pairs. In each instance, the same thing is happening to the root word when I add my suffix, what is it? Pause the video now, and have a go. Okay, if you look very carefully you can spot that each of my root words end in an e before adding my suffix, either -ery or -ary, I've had to remove the e. From this, we can establish a clear rule, if the root word ends in an mm, remove the mm, and add the suffix. Help me complete this rule, pause the video now and have a go. Okay, if the root word ends in an e, remove the e and add the suffix. This is a rule which is very common when it comes to adding suffixes. It's when we see time and time again. Sometimes there isn't an obvious rule to help us spell something. In these two instances, I use a useful strategy instead. I use say it as it sounds, this means reading a word very literally, and slowly so that its spelling becomes very, very clear. Let me show you what I mean. Here, we have the word cemetery and library. The pronunciation of each of these doesn't really help me spell it. I'm going to slow them both down and I'm going to say them both exactly how they're written. That way it will be very, very clear how they're spelled. Ce-me-tery, ce-me-tery, li-bra-ry, that one I think I can do even more with. Li-bra-ry, li-bra-ry, with library. there's this r that you can't really even hear, library, when we pronounce it, especially in the UK. So, we have to be very, very careful. There are two Rs, li-bra-ry, now I can hear it. Obviously, when you come to speak and use these words in sentences you won't pronounce them like this. But when you're spelling a word in your head, or when you're writing it's a very useful strategy. Let's set some spelling words for this unit. Here are our words, we're going to practise them together using my turn, your turn. And I'm going to put each one into a sentence. Now is a good time to write them down. When you write them down be very, very careful not to make a mistake because you want to make sure that you're practising the correct spelling, rather than the incorrect spelling. So, that's very important. Word number one, library, library. She scurried into the library to see what was in there. February, February, now, this is another tricky one. This has an r just after the b, which I've highlighted here. This is a word which is generally pronounced very quickly. And when it's pronounced you lose the sound of what other letters? So, this is a good one to say as it's written Feb-ru-ary, Feb-ru-ary. This was a room she hadn't seen since February. Number three, primary, primary. The word primary comes from the word prime, that's its root word. Prime suggests first or most important. You might say, his primary focus was getting out of there alive. That means his main focus. Necessary, necessary. If something is necessary it has to happen, or it must be done. Leaving the house wasn't necessary, so he didn't want her to do it, necessary. Ordinary, ordinary is another word for regular or something that's quite normal, something that is not out of the ordinary. These are no ordinary creatures, ordinary. Bakery, bakery. Bakery comes from the root word bake. A bakery is a place where things are baked. There's a really clear and obvious link there. It had been ages since they'd had fresh bread from the bakery. Seven, mystery, mystery. A mystery is something that you're not sure about, when you don't know what's happened or how it happened you might describe it as a mystery. They had no idea where he'd gone, what a mystery. Eight, bravery, bravery. Bravery is a lack of fear, if somebody has lots of bravery it means that they're not scared to do many things. Her bravery meant she didn't mind the occasional risk. It comes from the root word, brave. Nine, scenery, scenery. When you talk about scenery, you're talking about what something looks like. You might describe the scenery in the countryside as being green, and lush, and flowery. You might describe the scenery in the city as being concrete and grey. She stepped outside and couldn't believe the scenery. Number 10, nursery, nursery. The word nursery comes for the root word, nurse. Now, nurse is a noun, it's somebody who looks after people, who cares for people. It's also a verb, to nurse something, or someone means to look after them. Therefore nursery, a nursery is a place where people are looked after, generally, young things so children, and sometimes it's used to describe a place where young plants are looked after and cared for, and grown. He didn't want to spend time in the nursery, he wasn't a baby. Okay, there are 10 words, make sure you've written them down very, very careful. If you need to check, now is a good time to pause the video. And that's the end of the lesson, so well done. We've covered key vocabulary, we've investigated and generated rules, we've set spelling words. And you've worked really hard, so congratulations, bye.

In this lesson, we will practise and apply knowledge of the -ery and -ary suffixes.

To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes -ary/-ery

﻿Hi there. My name's Mr. Burnsmith and today we're going to be doing spelling. In particular, we're going to be looking at the -ry suffix E-R-Y and A-R-Y. If you haven't yet watched Lesson 2/10 I recommend that you do that first because it's going to be really really useful for today's lesson. Okay, let's make a start. Here's the agenda for today's lesson. First, we're going to look at some key vocabulary. Then we're going to recap the spelling rules. After that we'll learn a new strategy, before finally doing our test. In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, pencil and then of course, your brain. If you need to go off and get any of these things, pause the video now. Okay, let's go through some key vocabulary. My turn, your turn. Suffix. A suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that change its meaning and sometimes class. Adjective. An adjective is a word that describes a noun. It tells you what its like. Noun. A noun is a person, place or thing. Root word. A root word is the most basic version of a word. It has no prefixes or suffixes. Let's recap the rules for these suffixes. So we're looking at the -ry suffixes that's -ery and -ary. Now both of these suffixes behave slightly differently. So it's important that you look at them separately, even though they sound the same and look very similar. First, let's look at the -ery suffix. Here we have four words which have made use of the -ery suffix. Let's see if we can figure out the root word that each of these came from. We have scenery, bravery, bakery and slippery. Pause the video now. Okay, so scenery, bravery, bakery and slippery. Scenery comes from the word scene, bravery from the word brave, bakery from the word bake, and slippery comes from the root word slip. Here we've noticed that all of these root words are obvious. They're clear and distinct. If the root word is obvious, the ending is often -ery. If the root word is obvious, the ending is often -ery. This is not always the case, but very frequently. Here we have a word which has made use of the -ery suffix. I need your help figuring out the root word. The word is trickery. Pause the video now. Okay, trickery comes from trick. You can see that in this instance the -ery suffix was added straight on the end without any change being made to the root word. This time we've got the root word mock. I need your help adding the -ery suffix. Pause the video now. Okay, mock becomes mockery. Once again, we've been able to add the -ery suffix right on the end. Here we have each of our words. Scene which has become scenery, brave which has become bravery, bake which has become bakery, and slip which has become slippery. We're going to figure out the word class of each of these. We're going to start with the root words, scene, brave, bake, and slip. I'd like you to figure out the word class of these now. Pause the video. Okay, scene is a noun, brave is an adjective, bake is a verb, and slip is a noun but it could also be a verb, so let's say noun/verb. Okay, so we have a variety of word classes here. When we add the -ery suffix, I wonder if the word class changes. Let's figure out the word class of the words that have had the -ery suffix applied so scenery, bravery, bakery, slippery. Pause the video now. Okay, scenery is a noun, bravery is a noun, bakery is a noun, slippery an adjective. The -ery suffix often turns words into... Pause the video to help me complete this rule. Okay, the -ery suffix often turns words into nouns. There's our rule. Now we know this doesn't happen all the time, we had an example of a word being turned into an adjective, however, it is the most common use of the -ery suffix. Now, let's look at the -ary suffix. Here we have four words which have had the -ary suffix applied to them. Imaginary, primary, vocabulary, and library. I'd like you to help me work out the root words for each of these. Remember the root word isn't always obvious. So if there isn't an obvious root word, there isn't an obvious root word, that's fine. Do as many as you can do. Pause the video now. Okay, let's hear our root words. The root word of imaginary is imagine, the root word of primary is prime, and then vocabulary and library, well, they don't have an obvious root word, which is fine. In fact, that tells us something about the -ary suffix. If the root word is not obvious, the ending is often -ary. When choosing between the -ery and -ary suffix, this is very useful to remember. If there's no obvious root word, then it's probably -ary. If there is an obvious root word, then its probably -ery. Obviously, this isn't always the case but it's a really good starting point. Let's look at the word class of each of our words. I've done the first one for you. I know that imagine is a verb. When I put it into a sentence to test it, it becomes a doing or being word. I'd like your help with the next word prime. Pause the video now. Okay, so prime is an adjective. So we have a verb and an adjective. Obviously, we can't work out the word class of the two question marks because we don't know what those words are. So we'll leave those for now. But how about when the -ary suffix is applied? Does it change the word class of our root word? We have imaginary, primary, vocabulary and library. I'd like your help now figuring out the word class of each of these four. Pause the video. Okay, imaginary is an adjective, primary is an adjective, vocabulary is a noun, and library is a noun. So half and half. We can see from this, that the -ary suffix turns words into adjectives and nouns. So let's complete our rule. The -ary suffix often turns words into... or ... I need your help. Pause the video now and complete the rule. Okay, the -ary suffix often turns words into nouns or adjectives. Fantastic. So we've really got to the bottom of how these two suffixes are used. Here we have an example of the -ery suffix being used and the -ary suffix being used. Scene has become scenery and imagine has become imaginary. Now in both of these instances, our root word, scene and imagine, ends in an e. If you look very carefully, before adding the suffix I have removed the e. So what can we say our rule is? If the root word ends in an ..., remove the ... and add the suffix. Pause the video now and help me fill in the rule. Okay, so if the root word ends in an e, remove the e and add the suffix. That means that scene becomes scenery, imagine becomes imaginary. We have two more. Brave and prime. Help me complete these by adding the appropriate suffix. Pause the video now. Okay, brave becomes bravery and prime becomes primary. And you can see that I've removed my e. Let's remind ourself of this really important rule. If the root word is obvious, the ending is often -ery. If the root word is not obvious, the ending is often -ary. We're going to test this now. I'm going to give you a word. The word I give you will have had the -ry suffix applied to it but which one? That's the question. Remember obvious root -ery, no obvious root -ary. The first word is feathery. Pause the video now and have a go. Okay, feathery takes the -ery suffix. That's because feathery is made using the root word feather. Feather is an obvious root word, therefore your best bet is to guess that it makes use of the -ery suffix. The next word is temporary. Pause the video now. Okay, temporary is spelt using the

ary suffix. Temporary doesn't have an obvious root word so if I had to guess, if I had to go for the best bet I would go with the -ary ending because the vast majority of words without an obvious root word take the -ary ending. Okay, it's time for us to learn a new strategy. This strategy is called say it as it sounds. This is a really useful strategy where we read a word using the more obvious pronunciation. By doing this, we can highlight the really peculiar and strange things about how some words are pronounced. I'm going to use the example library. Now if you listen to me pronounce library, you can't really hear that there are two r's but in fact there are two r's in the word library. If I were to read it literally and slowly, I would say something like library. Library. Now when I come to write the word library, I pronounce it like this. By pronouncing it like this I can hear it's spelling very clearly. Library. Obviously I wouldn't pronounce it like this in day to day life. When it comes to writing and reading this is really useful. Library. Now, why is this a useful strategy? Well, firstly it give you a chance to hear the word multiple times. Hearing words help us spell them better. It's important that we don't just read words but that we use them out loud as well. Secondly, it makes us slow down when learning the word. By slowing down, we're more likely to take it in. Thirdly, it helps us identify tricky letters and sounds. Lots of words are made up of strange or peculiar spellings. This is often seen in how they're pronounced. Therefore, by reading a word exactly how its written we're highlighting the things that are most tricky about it. Let's use our new strategy on some of this week's spelling words. I've given you four examples but you can go for any. We have February, bravery, bakery and scenery. Pause the video now. Okay, time for our spelling test. Firstly, I'd like you to pause the video and write the numbers one to ten. Do that now. Okay, I'm going to read the words out slowly and I'm going to put them into a sentence. I really recommend that you pause the video whenever necessary. If there are any words you are unsure about, you could write out a few options and go for the one you think looks right. Alternatively, you could write them down, say them out loud and go for the one that sounds right. These are two strategies which might make this test a little bit easier for you. Let's start with out first word which is library. Library. She scurried into the library to see what was in there. Two, February. February. This was a room she hadn't seen since February. Three, primary. Primary. His primary focus was getting out of there alive. Four, necessary. Necessary. Leaving the house wasn't necessary, so he didn't want her to do it. Five, ordinary. Ordinary. These are no ordinary creatures. Six, bakery. Bakery. It had been ages since they'd had fresh bread from the bakery. Seven, mystery. Mystery. They had no idea where he'd gone. What a mystery. Eight, bravery. Bravery. Her bravery meant she didn't mind the occasional risk. Nine, scenery. Scenery. She step outside and couldn't believe the scenery. Ten, nursery. Nursery. He didn't want to spend time in the nursery, he wasn't a baby. Okay, we're going to go through the answers. If there are any that you haven't got right, don't worry about it, but please do write out the correct spelling next to your answer. And then have a look at how many words how many letters you might have got right in the word. It's very easy to focus on what you got wrong, but think about all the things you get right. Here are our words. I'm going to go through them one by one and read out each letter. One, Library. L-I-B-R-A-R-Y. Two, February. F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y. Three, Primary. P-R-I-M-A-R-Y. Four, necessary. N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-Y. Five, ordinary. O-R-D-I-N-A-R-Y. Six, bakery. B-A-K-E-R-Y. Seven, mystery. M-Y-S-T-E-R-Y. Eight, bravery. B-R-A-V-E-R-Y. Nine, scenery. S-C-E-N-E-R-Y. Ten, nursery. N-U-R-S-E-R-Y. Okay. Congratulations, that's the end of the lesson. We have looked at key vocabulary, we've recapped the spelling rules, we've learnt a brand new strategy and we've done our test which is an awful lot if you ask me. So well done for all of your hard work. Bye.

Unit Overview: Suffixes: -ary / -ery

Lessons:

To investigate suffixes -ary/-ery

To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes -ary/-ery