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Hello, it's Ms. Morgan again.

I'm here to teach your spelling lesson.

In this lesson, we're going to be practising and applying the rules to do with the suffix -y, when we add the suffix -y to it.

And we've also got the spelling test at the end.

Woo! So last time I told you a little bit about myself and that I came from Wales originally.

But I've got a new word to share with you today.

It's the word corgi.

Corgi.

And a corgi is a type of dog, a breed of dog.

In fact, it's the dogs the Queen has.

But the word corgi is actually from Welsh origin originally.

It's made up of two Welsh words, the word cor and the word gi.

And cor means dwarf, and gi means dog.

So when you put them together, it means dwarf dog.

And I'm not sure if you've ever seen the Queen's dogs, but they are quite small.

Anyway, we better get on with our learning.

Let's go.

So today we're going to revise the rules.

We're going to practise and apply the rules and see what you can remember.

Then I'm going to teach you a new spelling strategy.

Hopefully you've had a chance to practise those spellings.

And then finally, we're going to enter the spelling test.

You might decide halfway through the lesson or part way that actually you need a little bit more time to practise your spellings.

And that's absolutely fine.

You can come back and do it later.

As per usual, those three things that we need to have.

Perhaps you can say them with me.

An exercise book or paper, a pencil, and of course, that brain.

And I always like to think as well, do you want to try and find somewhere quiet to work, somewhere where you're not going to be disturbed? Pause the video and get these things now.

Okay, so our key vocabulary for today.

My turn, your turn.

Suffix.

Root word.

Shout it out.

Adjective! Noun.

Well done.

Can you put your hands on your head if you can remember what any of these words mean? You can pause the video and have a go, if you like.

Well done.

So, a suffix, and the clue's in the word there, "fix," the group of letters at the end of a word that changes its meaning, and it fixes to the words.

A root word.

This was a new word that we looked at in the last lesson.

So a root word is the most basic, the most simple version of a word, no prefixes and no suffixes.

And adjective.

It's a word that describes a noun.

And then my favourite one, a noun is a person, place, or thing.

How do you remember this? A PPT.

Do you want to say it with me? A PPT, a person, place, or thing.

Let's see if you can remember what happens when we add the suffix -y to these nouns.

The first noun is fur, as in the teddy bear's fur.

The second is sand.

And the third is snow.

What happens to these words when we add -y? Say them with me.

Fur becomes furry.

Sand becomes sandy.

Snow becomes snowy.

Can you remember what's happened to the words? What sort of words have they become? They're no longer a noun.

They are an adjective.

They are describing the noun.

Here is a word, chat.

I'm going to have chat with a friend.

It's a thing.

We know that it's a PPT, a noun.

And chat is the root word.

That word stays the same.

And then below, we've got the word chatty.

As in, "He was very chatty in class." I often got told that by my teachers, I was very chatting in class.

So chat is our root word.

y is the suffix that we add to chat to turn it from a noun to an adjective.

Can you complete this sentence using the words below? I'll read the sentences out first.

Then we should pause the video and see if you can add them.

Make sure you say that out loud in a full sentence.

y is a type of hmm.

When we add -y to the end of a mm, it becomes an mm.

I'll read it again.

y is a type of hmm.

When we add -y to the end of a mm, it becomes an mm.

Pause the video.

See if you can put the words in the right place.

Did you get it? y is a type of suffix.

Well done.

When we add -y to the end of a noun, it becomes an adjective.

Well done.

So we're going to go look at the big picture.

This is the mind map to allow us to see, visualise, all the spelling rules that we've been learning over these past couple of lessons.

Here is a mind map for suffixes that we've been looking at.

The most simple rule is we just add the suffix to the word.

Sometimes, if we have a short vowel, we will double the consonant.

Sometimes, if a word ends in Y, we will replace the Y with an I and add the suffix.

And then if a word ends in E, we will remove the E and add the suffix.

Remember, it's important to keep these in your mind to see where all the rules are fitting in, because this is not just the same for adding Y.

It also works when we were looking at the past tense, so adding E-D.

Or adding the plurals, adding S or adding E-S.

These are the rules when we are adding the suffix -y.

You'll see a link back to our mind map.

We just add -y.

We just add the suffix.

We can remove the E and add the Y.

Or we can double the consonant and add Y.

Now we're going to take practise and apply the rules.

I'm going to give you some words.

I want you to see if you can apply the suffix -y and write down what the words would be.

The first word is nut.

Can you add -y to this and turn it into an adjective? Have a quick look at the rules.

Pause the video.

Can you point to the rule that you have chosen? Does any one spot the tt, the consonant end with a short vowel ah? So we need to double the T add Y.

Here is the word cloud.

Can you point to the rule that you think it's going to be to make it into an adjective? We just add Y.

Cloud becomes cloudy.

Well done.

Here is the word spice.

Which rule would be used when we're adding the suffix -y? Pause the video and point to it now.

Did you spot the E on the end? You remove the E, and you add the suffix -y to make spicy.

Well done.

Now you're going to have a go with these two words.

The words are mud and nose.

Mud as in the mud on the ground, and nose as in the nose here.

I want you to add the suffix -y to these words, and I want you to write them down or say them aloud.

Take care, and think about which spelling rule you'd use.

Pause the video.

Do this now.

So I had a go with the word mud.

These were the two ways that I came up with it.

Can you see one of your ways here? I doubled the consonant, and I added the Y.

Did you spot the short ah sound? So I know that's going to be spelling number one.

Nose.

These are the two that I came up with.

Have a look at these ones, 'cause I wasn't quite sure.

And I went back and looked at the rules.

And I spotted "with an E." So I need to remove the E and add the Y.

Number two is correct there.

Now, the last lesson, I gave you 10 spelling words.

These are these 10 spelling words.

Hopefully you've been practising , maybe using some of the new strategies that I taught you.

Now, we're going to learn a new spelling strategy today, the top one.

It's called look, cover, write, check.

I think probably a lot of you do that already.

Or maybe you've been taught that before.

Look, cover, write, check.

The first thing we do is we look.

Well done.

We look at the word.

We look at how the word is spelled.

So hear is the word cheeky.

I'm going to look at it.

I can spot there's a double E in there.

That's going to help me.

Next, you cover up the word.

So I'm going to cover up the word cheeky.

Then, with your word still covered up, no peaking, you're going to write to the word.

Try and imagine what it looks like in your head.

Then finally, you can uncover the word, and you can check to see if you have written the word correctly.

Remember, it's okay if you don't write it correctly.

This is one of the reasons we need to practise the spellings.

I'll go through that again.

We look at the word, first of all.

See if there's anything tricky about it.

Maybe you'd underline the double E in cheeky.

Then you cover it.

Then you write the word down, and then you uncover it, and have a look at your two words to see if they're correct.

Can you remember what these parts are called? Can you call them out when I say them, with me? First of all, we? Look.

Well done.

Next, we? Cover the word.

Well done.

And we're going to? Write it down.

Excellent.

And then finally, we're going to? Check the word to see if it's correct.

So why is this a useful strategy? First of all, you are repeatedly copying the word.

Number two, it's allowing you to visualise the spelling, thinking what it looks like in your head.

And then thirdly, muscle memory.

By practising the word, it allows your hand muscles to connect with your brain.

Now, you have a go.

I want you to pause the video.

And I want you to choose four spelling words.

I want you to use the look, cover, write, check strategy to practise writing those words.

Off you go.

It's now time for your spelling test.

You can do your spelling test now, or maybe you've decided to do a little bit more practise using your new strategy, and you can come back to the test later on.

Make sure you've got a clean piece of paper.

And I want you to write the numbers 1 to 10 in a list with each number on a new line.

Pause the video.

Do this now.

I'm going to read the spellings out one by one, and then we will go through them at the end.

I will say each spelling twice and say it in a sentence so you understand the meaning.

If you want to pause the video to give yourself a bit more time to write it, that's absolutely fine.

A top tip for me is if you're not sure of the spelling, write down the different versions that you think it might be, thinking about those rules that we've been practising.

And remember, just do your best.

That's all we ever want for you.

As long as you are working hard and doing your best.

Off you go.

Spelling number 1.

Murky.

"The water was murky." Number 2.

Moody.

"He didn't know why he was moody." 3.

Cheeky.

"He was a cheeky young thing." 4.

Smelly.

"They were very smelly dogs." 5.

Grimy.

"The windows were grimy." 6.

Stony.

"The beach was very stony." 7.

Smoky.

"The fire was smoky." 8.

Shiny.

"The shiny pebble caught his eye." 9.

Slippy.

"The rain had made the pavement slippy." 10.

Knotty.

"The girl's hair was always knotty." Pause the video now if you want to have a quick check of all your spellings.

Well done.

Number 1, murky.

Remember, you tick it correct it, and you change if not.

Murky.

M-U-R-K-Y.

Number 2.

Moody.

M-O-O-D-Y.

Tick if correct.

Change if not.

Cheeky.

C-H-E-E-K-Y.

Smelly.

S-M-E-L-L-Y.

Grimy.

G-R-I-M-Y.

Stony.

S-T-O-N-Y.

Smoky.

S-M-O-K-Y.

Shiny.

S-H-I-N-Y.

Slippy.

S-L-I-P-P-Y.

And number 10.

Knotty.

You spell that knotty K-N.

K-N-O-T-T-Y.

Well done.

Remember, if you made some mistakes, it's absolutely fine.

It helps you to understand that you're still learning.

If you need to, write those spellings down.

I like to put them on something I can stick around the house so I can learn to practise or read them when I'm walking around.

You've had a busy day today.

We've revised the rules.

We've practised and applied the rules.

We've practised it and learned a new strategy, look, cover, write, check.

Then we've had our spelling test.

Well done.

You've worked so hard.

Make sure you keep practising on a daily basis.

See you next time.

I've finished the video