Lesson video

Hello, everybody, welcome today's lesson.

In today's lesson, we are going to practise and apply our knowledge of French and Greek etymology, and we have our test.

My name is Mrs. Richards and I can't wait to teach you.

Let's get started.

Let's start today by recapping our previous learning, then we are going to learn a spelling practise strategy and finally we have our test.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil and definitely your brain.

So pause the video and go and get any resources that you might need.

Okay, let's start by recapping our previous learning.

Here are two key terms that you need to be able to understand and use in today's lesson.

My turn, your turn.

Etymology, etymology.

And word class, word class.

Can you remember the definitions of these terms? Etymology is the source or origin of a word and word class, a group of words which perform the same way in a sentence.

The words perform the same function in a sentence.

Okay, let's have a look at our learning from the previous session.

On the board there are three sounds, /g/, /k/, /sh/.

These sounds have interesting spellings in words which originate from French.

Can you remember these spellings? Pause the video and write them down.

Let's have a look at some words including these spelling to help you.

The sound /g/ is found in dialogue.

Can you see the spelling here? /K/ is found in picturesque.

Can you see the spelling? And /sh/ is found in brochure.

Can you see the spelling? Let's have a look.

The /g/ is spelt G-U-E, in dialogue.

The /k/ is spelt Q-U-E, as in picturesque.

And the /sh/ is spelt C-H, as in brochure.

Remember these spelling aren't random, they exist because these words originated from French and they've retained the aspects of spelling from that language.

Let's have a look at the sounds and the spelling's which originate from Greek.

Hear your sounds, /k/ and /f/.

Can you remember how to spell them? Pause and write them down.

Okay, here are some clues, /k/ as in character, and /f/ as in catastrophe.

Okay, let's have a look at the spellings.

/K/ is spelt C-H in words which originate from Greek and /f/ spelt P-H in words which originate from Greek.

How about our last one? /S/, can you write down the spelling of the /s/ sound, which we saw in our last lesson, in words which originated from Latin? Let's have a look.

Here's your clue, scientist, and scissors.

Let's see, SC, well done if you wrote that down.

Okay, as applies to these spellings within sentences, I'm going to read you the sentence and then I want you to point out the correct spelling, ready? The mobile phone is a useful piece of technology.

Have a look at the two spellings on the board.

Technology, is got a /k/ sound, how would it be spelt? Point now, good try.

Remember this word originates from Greek.

Yes, with the CH making the /k/ sound, well done.

Let's try another.

When we write dialogue, we use inverted commas.

When we write dialogue, we use inverted commas.

Have a look at the three spellings on the board, which one's correct.

Basically, this word originates from French and it's got the sound /g/.

okay, let's have a look.

Dialogue well done, it's spelt G-U-E.

Well done for participating.

Next one, the brochure says that the town is picturesque.

The brochure says that the town is picturesque.

Let's look at the first word, brochure.

Look at the three spellings on the board, can you point to the correct spelling of this word? I'll give you a clue, it comes from French.

Think about the /sh/ sound and how it might be spelled in French.

Be attentive to the spelling in the rest of the word.

Let's have a look.

Yes, well done, the brochure says that the town is picturesque, well done.

Next word, to complete our sentence we needed the word picturesque.

Which one could be the correct spelling? Again, this is a word which originates from French.

Think about the /k/ sound and how it might be spelt.

Okay, let's have a look.

Picturesque, spelt with that Q-U-E, making the /k/ sound, well done.

"It is a catastrophe," said the scientist.

"It is a catastrophe," said the scientist.

Let's just look at the first word, catastrophe.

Have a look at the two spelling in front of you.

Think about the spelling of the /f/ sound, it comes from Greek.

Let's have a look, see if you're right, catastrophe, well done.

Let's have a go at the last word in the sentence.

"It is a catastrophe," said that scientist.

Have like three spellings on the board.

Which spelling is the accurate spelling of scientist? Yes, well done.

The word in green with the SC making the sound /s/, a good try.

Let's teach you a practise strategy to help you learn these spellings.

Today we're going to look at colour blocking.

Colour blocking is when we look closely at the word, we decided which letters we would group together and we colour each group of letters a different colour.

I had to go with the word technology.

I had to look at the word for a while to work out how to group the letters.

And how I see those groups might be different to how you do that's absolutely fine.

You have to do what's right for you.

I saw the first four letters as being a chunk, T-E-C-H so I called them one colour.

And then I tried to do the rest a couple of different ways.

The first time I looked at it, I could see that O-L-O making an interesting spelling pattern.

So I coloured that in a separate colour.

I had the N in pink and then the O-L-O in brown and the G-Y in yellow.

The second time I had to go, the tech is one chunk but then I used groups of three letters for the rest of the word.

N-O-L coloured in pink, and O-G-Y coloured in yellow.

Why is this a useful strategy? It forces us to interact with the word.

The strategy breaks the word into smaller chunks, and the colour helps to trigger our memory.

Now it's your turn.

The instructions for colour blocking are on the board, as are your spelling words.

So pause the video and have a go at colour blocking.

Try it a couple of times for each word and see which one looks right to you.

Off you go.

Okay, I hope you found that a fun and useful strategy.

I know that I find it really useful.

Coming up, we have our spelling test.

If you felt like you need more practise time that's absolutely fine.

Pause the video here and take as much time as you need.

Remember, the more practise, the better.

That practise is what helps commit that word to our long term memory.

And when it's stored in our long term memory, this helps us to use it accurately in writing.

If you're ready for your spelling test, we'll get started.

Here are some strategies to support you.

Remember, pause, take a deep breath and take as much time as you need.

Try writing the word more than once.

Think about which spelling looks right.

If you're unsure, try writing the word more than once and now sound out the different spellings.

Which spelling sounds right? For your spelling test, you need a blank piece of paper and you need to get the numbers one to 10 down the margin or down the side of the page.

Make sure you can't see your spelling words anywhere.

Pause the video now and get ready.

Okay, let's go.

Number one, character, character.

The actor played an interesting character in the play.

Pause the video here and give yourself as much time as you need to write the word down.

Remember your spelling test strategies.

Number two, technology, technology.

My computer is a useful piece of technology.

Pause if you need to.

Number three, brochure, brochure.

I read the brochure about the town.

Pause if you need to.

Number four, catastrophe, catastrophe.

"This is a catastrophe," yelled the woman.

Pause if you need to.

Number five, phenomenon, phenomenon.

UFO sightings are an interesting phenomenon.

Pause the video if you need to.

Number six, dialogue, dialogue.

The characters had a dialogue on stage, a conversation.

Pause if you need to.

Number seven, picturesque, picturesque.

This scenery is picturesque.

Pause if you need to.

Number eight, grotesque, grotesque.

That mask is grotesque.

Pause if you need to.

Number nine, scissors, scissors.

Be careful when using scissors.

Pause if you need to.

Number 10, scientist, scientist.

We are learning about a fascinating scientist.

Pause the video here and give yourself as much time as you need to check your spellings.

Remember those strategies.

Try writing your word more than once, consider if it looks right and if it sounds right.

When you're ready, we'll go through the answers.

Here they come.

Number one, character.

I'll read the letters aloud to you and you need to check your spelling and self correct.

C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R, character.

Pause if you need to and self correct.

Number two, technology.

T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y.

Pause if you need to and self correct Brochure, B-R-O-C-H-U-R-E.

Self correct, pause the video.

Number four, catastrophe, C-A-T-A-S-R-O-P-H-E.

Self correct, pause the video.

Well done, you're doing brilliantly.

Give yourself as much time as you need and remember, don't worry about your errors.

It's what we do after that that counts.

If you've made a mistake, copy down the correct spelling now and practise.

Number five, phenomenon, P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-O-N.

Look carefully at this word, self correct, pause the video.

Number six, dialogue.

D-I-A-L-O-G-U-E.

Self correct, pause the video.

Number seven, picturesque.

P-I-C-T-U-R-E-S-Q-U-E.

Self correct, pause the video.

Number eight, grotesque.

G-R-O-T-E-S-Q-U-E.

Self correct, pause the video Number nine, scissors.

S-C-I-S-S-O-R-S.

Look carefully at this word, self correct, pause the video.

Number 10, scientist.

S-C-I-E-N-T-I-S-T.

Self correct, pause the video.

Take as much time as you need here to go back and check your spellings.

Remember self correcting is important.

At the end of this test, you should have written down each word spelt correctly.

Okay, let's reflect.

So three things to be proud of, number one, be proud of how much you practised.

Did you practise everyday for 10 minutes? Number two, be proud of the number of practise strategies that you used.

Did you try colour blocking? Did you try wrapping the spellings? Did you try pyramid letters? Number three, be proud of how you're paying close attention to words in your reading and writing.

I wonder if you've seen any of these words around you this week.

Number four, in misspelt words, look at how many, how many letters you spelt correctly, as well as the letters which were wrong.

I sometimes hear children say, "I can't spell this word." And it's often not true.

In most words, you could spell the first letter, maybe the last letter, maybe a couple letters in between.

There's no such thing as a good speller or a bad speller.

We're all improving, getting better all the time and that just takes practise.

So remember, learning comes from mistakes.

You might not be able to spell this word yet, but keep practising.

Well done for all your hard work today.

You've done brilliantly.

I'll see you next time, bye.