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Hi, I'm Louise again.
This is year two phonics, lesson four,
and today, my favorite, we've got a morphology focus.
Let's start with those definitions,
and morphology, is starting with a morph,
so what's the morpheme?
A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning within a word.
Let's do that one again, it's new.
A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning
within a word.
Suffix; now a suffix, a suffix comes at the end of a word,
and it changes the meaning of this base word,
but it's not a word on its own.
Okay, a prefix, now a prefix comes at the start of a word,
it changes the meaning of this base word,
but it's not a word on its own.
The prefixes we have already learned is un,
un means not.
Action, un means not.
Let's do that together; un means not.
Re; re means again.
Do it together; re means again, excellent.
Okay, let's go on now to our suffix.
So a suffix comes at the end of the word,
it changes the meaning of that base word,
but it's not a word on its own.
Let's review our suffixes.
Er means one who, or comparison.
We have y (making ē) at the end of words,
full of or inclined to.
Ed, it means past tense.
S means plural, more than one.
Ly means like or how.
Ful; full of or having.
Ing; happening now.
And es, plural, more than one.
And we use this suffix es after some of those hissing sounds
like X, and we also use es
after T-C-H and C-H.
Okay, we're coming now to a bit of a review
about when we use our e rule,
adding a consonant suffix, and adding a vowel suffix.
So let's review that for now.
So, when we add a consonant suffix,
we keep the e that's on the end of the word.
Let's have a look at some of the prompts that are up here
on our chart.
So, ful, let's identify our suffix first,
so what's our suffix?
Ful; does it start with a consonant?
Ff, yes, consonant suffix,
consonant suffix, so hope becomes hopeful,
keep the e.
Care becomes careful.
Keep the e.
Time becomes timely.
Keep the e.
We are using consonant suffix here.
Hopeful, careful, timely,
we keep the e in our spelling pattern.
Let's have a go at these two examples,
so we've got home, we're going to attach a suffix ly,
consonant suffix?
Yes indeed; so we are going to keep the e.
So home would become homely.
Keep the e.
Next suffix, ly, starts with a consonant,
so we are going to keep the e.
Safe becomes safely.
My a is not looking great.
Fixed it; okay, so that's a consonant suffix.
What happens when we add a vowel suffix
to words that already end in a vowel?
Well, we have to drop that e.
So let's look at our vowel suffixes that we know.
We had er, ing, ed.
Let's look at a couple of examples where we're gonna drop
that e for our vowel suffix.
So these suffixes all start with a vowel,
let's check; ing, vowel,
ing, vowel, so hope becomes hoping,
but we have dropped that e.
Vowel suffix, ing,
care becomes caring,
we've had to,
drop it, let's do an example.
We have shake, we wanna add the vowel, suffix ing,
shake will become shaking.
Let's write it.
Shake; drop the e, vowel suffix ing.
Shake becomes shaking.
Last one for today; take.
Adding vowel suffix ing, we're gonna drop that e.
And take will become taking.
Excellent; all right, coming onto our learning intention
for today, our learning intention today
is a new morpheme, and it's a suffix.
The suffix we are learning today is est.
Now, est, est means greatest.
It also can mean more than or most.
What does est mean?
Est means greatest, more than, or most.
Excellent; we have got some keywords
that are coming up on your screen now.
Have a look, our keyword is fastest.
Now, what's fast?
A dog, a dog's pretty fast.
My dog Sadie, Border Collie, she's fast.
But my horse Gally Boy, Gally Boy is faster.
Fast, faster; I don't own a cheetah,
but I know that they are the fastest land animal
on our planet, and they are the fastest.
So we have fast, faster, fastest,
it's a modal word.
Est means greatest or the most.
The most fast.
Next keyword, loud.
Have a look there.
One person playing a trumpet is certainly loud.
Several people playing the trumpet is louder.
A hundred or more people playing a trumpet is the loudest.
The greatest, the most noise.
More than several trumpets, it's the loudest.
Est means greatest, more than, or most.
Excellent, all right, coming up to words to write.
Next activity, we are going to add the morpheme est,
means greatest, more or most, to the end of these words.
Now, when we're adding this suffix,
est is a consonant or a vowel suffix?
Vowel suffix, so what do we do?
Do we keep the e?
Drop the e?
Mm hmm; vowel suffix we drop the e, keep that in mind.
Right, first word, fast,
fast will become fastest.
Fast becomes fastest.
Dark, add est, dark becomes darkest.
Next word, low, low becomes lowest.
Write the word.
Check your spelling.
Lowest, excellent, next word, large.
Now before we write, have a look.
We're adding a vowel suffix,
this word ends in an e,
what do we need to do?
Drop it, so large becomes largest; write the word.
Drop that e, add est.
Largest; last one for today, ripe, will become ripest,
vowel suffix, drop that e.
Ripe become ripest.
Excellent, all right, time for that quick quiz again.
I want you to tune in.
I'm thinking of a word, I want you to get your pencil
and paper ready again,
and just write the word down that I'm thinking of.
So this word means the most quiet.
The most quiet, would be the,
quietest, write the word quietest.
Excellent; most weak.
It was the most weak kitten in the litter.
What word am I thinking of?
The kitten was the weakest.
Excellent, let's write weakest.
Okay, next word, tighter than,
tighter than, it's the most tight,
it's the tightest.
Adding a vowel suffix, do I need any e's?
No, 'cause the word ends in t,
so tightest, let's write.
Check your spelling, last word for today.
Cuter than, this word means cuter than.
Cute, cuter, what is it?
It's the cutest.
Excellent, write it down.
Now, just check because the base word cute,
ends in an e, drop that,
to add our suffix est.
Let's read through these words quickly.
Quietest, weakest, tightest, cutest.
Excellent, well done.
We are coming back to reviewing what our morpheme was
for this lesson, so, today our new morpheme was est.
And it's a suffix, it comes at the end of these base words,
suffix est, est means greatest, more than or most.
Excellent, independent task for today,
independent task is to come back
to this chart, and continue on.
So what I'd like you to do is I would like you to add
a list of words down here, and add the suffix est.
Now you really have to make sure whether you're adding
a consonant suffix or a vowel suffix.
We know it's a vowel suffix, so if your base word
ends in an e, drop it.
Excellent, I'm gonna check back in with you tomorrow.
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