Hello, I'm Ms. Corbert and welcome to today's lesson, writing a character description of a family member, which I'm so excited for because I love my family.

So I'm really looking forward to describing them to you and I can't wait to hear your character descriptions too.

For this lesson, it would be fantastic if you had your own copy of the story, "Anna Hibiscus' Song", and it would be great if your copy could look just like mine, as well as that you need something to write on and something to write with.

It'd be great if you could have line paper to help you.

Let's get started.

Here is the outcome for today's lesson.

I can describe a member of my family using adjectives and adverbs.

And here are the keywords that will help us get there.

Are you ready to repeat them after me? My turn, then your turn.

Comma.

Adjective.

Joining word.

Adverb.

Personality trait.

Fantastic.

Thank you so much for joining in with me.

We are going to start with our first part of our lesson generating vocabulary.

The story of "Anna Hibiscus' Song" follows the story of Anna finding all of the things that Anna's family do when they are happy.

I would like you to use your copy of the book to remind yourselves of all of the characters who are in the story.

You might do this by looking through the illustrations or you might ask somebody nearby to read the story to you.

Pause the video now.

I really hope you enjoyed looking back at the story.

I wonder if you can list all of the characters in the story.

First try and do it without looking at the book and then look through the book to check.

Pause the video.

Here are some of the characters from the story.

We have Grandfather, Grandmother, the Aunties, cousins, the Uncle Tunde and Papa.

We've also got Mama and we can't forget Anna.

Anna has a really large family.

Who is in your family? Maybe you could start your sentence with, in my family there is.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic.

So lovely to hear about your families.

So from that we know that every family is different.

You may or may not live with all of your family members.

You may or may not see your family members as often as others.

You may have a smaller or a larger family than Anna's.

Anna loves her family and loves doing things with them, which is the most important thing because did you notice that Anna joined in with everything that her family were doing? What do you like to do with your family? Maybe you might say, with my family I like too.

With my family I really liked going long walks in the countryside.

I also like to play board games with my family too.

Pause the video now.

Great.

So even if your family doesn't look exactly like Anna's, we all have things that we can do with our families that we enjoy doing.

Which family members are in Anna's family? We have got grandmother, uncle, brother, and sister.

Which one of these are in Anna's family? I'm going to give you 10 seconds to decide.

10.

Five.

And zero.

We've got grandmother and uncle.

Anna's brother and sisters aren't mentioned.

So I'm guessing she doesn't have any.

So I wonder is this the same or different to your family? Hmm.

It's different to my family because I do have a sister.

I have two sisters.

I wonder whether it's the same or different to yours.

We know lots of adjectives to describe Anna's family members.

We also know different adverbs to describe how Anna's family did things in the story.

So we have got Grandfather.

The adjectives that we could use to describe him are, calm, relaxed Grandfather.

That's an expanded noun phrase because I've stretched out the description by using two adjectives.

And we know what does he like to do, the verb, counts.

And Grandfather counts quietly.

Quietly is my adverb telling me how the verb happened.

And we can put this into a sentence.

So we've got those points there.

I watch calm, relaxed Grandfather count quietly.

We have a capital letter to start my sentence and we have a verb, watch.

Something that Anna is doing if we're imagining we are her.

Then we have our expanded noun phrase separated by a comma.

Calm, comma, relax Grandfather.

Then I have my verb, count.

Again, so I've got two verbs there, talking about something I do and then talking about something that grandfather does.

And then my adverb to describe how he counts, quietly.

And my sentence needs to finish with a full stop.

I watch calm, relaxed Grandfather count quietly.

Here is some of the vocabulary that we have generated in a word bank.

Word banks are really useful to keep all of our vocabulary that we found together and can help us with spelling as well.

We are going to break our word bank into adjectives and adverbs.

Have a look at some of our adjectives and listen out for the ones that are your favourite.

And maybe start thinking about ones that could describe your family members.

Happy, caring, kind, loving, energetic, lively, calm, blissful.

Another word for happy, overjoyed.

Excited, friendly, lovely.

Grateful, which means you are thankful.

And relaxed.

Now let's look at some adverbs.

Quickly, slowly.

Maybe be thinking about some of the actions things that your family members like to do and think about how they do them.

Carefully, gently, bravely, powerfully, quietly, calmly, excitedly, happily.

We can use this vocabulary to describe our own family members.

Often adverbs end in an -ly at the end, which can help to identify them, like all of these here.

But something a bit sneaky is that some adjectives also end in -ly, like friendly and lovely.

You wouldn't say that Grandfather counts friendly or Grandfather counts lovely, 'cause they are adjectives.

You might say Grandfather is friendly.

Kind, lovely Grandfather.

So we've got to be really careful to make sure that we don't just assume that any word ending in -ly is an adverb.

So think about how the words can be used in a sentence to know which they are and how to use them.

So for example, the friendly girl played happily.

We have two words there ending in -ly.

Hmm, I'm going to look for my noun.

(Ms. Corbert gasps) There's my noun, girl.

So before that is my adjective, friendly girl.

Whereas my verb, what did the friendly girl do? Played.

The friendly girl played happily, which means happily is my adverb.

I'm going to think of someone in my family and I'm going to keep some of that vocabulary in my head.

I am thinking of my sister.

I am going to describe them.

My two adjectives from that list.

My kind, energetic sister.

Now it's your turn to think of a member of your family.

I am thinking of.

Pause the video and tell me.

Great! Now I would like you to describe that family member using two adjectives.

My mm mm, then your family member.

My adjective, comma, adjective noun.

Pause the video.

I love that you tried to choose words from our word bank.

I'm now going to think about what my family member likes to do.

So I need a verb.

My kind energetic sister dances.

She's always dancing.

I'm going to include an adverb to show how they do that action.

My kind energetic sister dances excitedly.

Can you try and imagine my sister now dancing excitedly? There's my adverb.

Now it's your turn to think about what your family member likes to do.

My mm mm mm, the adjective, adjective noun that you've already thought of.

What do they like to do? Maybe dances, counts, hugs, reads, plays.

Try and think of one.

Try and think of a verb and put it into a sentence.

My mm mm mm, and your verb.

Pause the video.

Fantastic.

Now I would like you to include an adverb to show how they do that action.

My adjective, adjective noun, verb for the action.

How do they do it? Slowly, carefully, bravely, strongly, gently, quietly, loudly.

How do they do it? Can you say that whole sentence? Pause the video.

Fantastic.

Well done.

Try and keep that sentence in your head and then I would like you to repeat that whole process with another family member.

I wonder, could you pause the video now and do that again? Off you go.

Great job.

Now we've had some practise of choosing some adjectives and adverbs to describe our family members.

You are going to have a go at creating your own word bank.

So you could do this just by talking and sharing together, or you could write them down because the spellings are all there for you.

You need to sort these words into the word bank under adjective and adverb.

I'm going to read them for you and then you are going to do it.

Caring, gently, grateful, quietly, happily, overjoyed, friendly.

Remember, don't let that one trick you.

Loving, bravely, excitedly, calmly and calm.

Okay, pause the video now and sort them into your word bank.

Off you go.

Well done.

Let's see how you got on.

Our adjectives are caring, grateful, overjoyed, friendly, loving, and calm.

I can check that by trying to think of them to describe a noun.

Caring Grandfather.

Grateful Anna.

We've also got here are our adverbs.

Gently, quietly, happily, bravely, excitedly and calmly.

Remember, our adverbs are detailed verbs.

Skipped gently, walked quietly, read happily.

Remember, I wonder whether you got friendly in the right column.

Even though friendly ends in -ly, it's still an adjective describing a noun.

Did you manage to sort those words correctly? Well done if you did.

Let's move on to the final part of our lesson.

Writing a descriptive compound sentence.

We are going to write a sentence describing your family members.

Here is our success criteria.

Use expanded noun phrases to describe two of your family members.

Use a verb to show what they like to do.

Use an adverb to show how they do that action and join your two ideas together using the joining word 'and'.

We know that the joining word 'and' can join two simple sentences together.

Here's the sentence that I plan with you earlier.

My kind, energetic sister dances excitedly.

That sentence has a capital letter and a full stop.

An expanded noun phrase, kind, energetic sister.

It has my verb, dances, and my adverb, excitedly.

I want to join that with another idea.

My caring loving cousin.

There's my expanded noun phrase.

Hugs.

There's my verb.

Happily.

And there's my adverb.

So, hmm, I've got two separate ideas.

Let's see what happens when I put my block in to build them using 'and'.

My kind, energetic sister dances excitedly, and my caring, loving cousin hugs happily.

This creates a compound sentence.

My two ideas join together using 'and'.

We need to make sure that as well as adding 'and' in, we check the punctuation that we have used.

Before we join our ideas, this is what the punctuation looks like.

Have a look.

A capital letter for my first idea.

My kind, energetic sister dances excitedly.

A full stop to end the first idea.

Then I need a new capital letter for my next idea.

Capital letter.

My caring, loving cousin likes to hug happily.

Full stop to end my second idea.

Hmm.

When we join two ideas using the joining word 'and', we need to swap the first full stop out for the word 'and'.

And as we are creating just one sentence, we no longer need the second capital letter.

So my kind, energetic sister dances excitedly.

Full stop.

My caring, loving cousin hugs happily, turns into, we take away our full stop and then take away our capital letter and we swap it for, 'and'.

My kind, energetic sister dances excitedly and my caring, loving cousin hugs happily.

Can you see my full stop has gone away and my capital letter for my, the second my, has also gone away in place for 'and'.

Let's see whether you can spot which sentence is punctuated correctly.

The sentence is.

My kind, caring grandmother squeezes hands kindly and my calm, relaxed grandfather counts quietly.

Remember, when we join two ideas together, we just need one capital letter at the start and one full stop at the end.

We swap out our full stop and our second capital letter for the word 'and'.

Have a look really carefully at which one is punctuated correctly.

Pause the video now.

Well done, if you manage to spot, C is the correct answer.

My kind, capital letter.

My kind, caring grandmother squeezes hands kindly, and, I've taken away my full stop and my next capital letter, my, without a capital letter, calm, relaxed grandfather counts quietly.

Full stop.

The first one is incorrect because it still has my first full stop in, and it's put a capital letter for the word 'and'.

My full stop needs to go and 'and' does not need a capital letter because it's all part of the same sentence.

My second one is wrong because I got rid of my first full stop, which is great after kindly, but I didn't get rid of my second capital letter for my.

So we've got to remember both of those things.

I am going to plan my sentence out loud to get ready to write.

And I will say the sentence, including my capital letter and my full stop.

Capital letter, My kind, comma, energetic sister dances excitedly and my caring, comma, loving cousin hugs happily.

Full stop.

Now it's your turn to plan your sentence out loud to get ready to write.

And you will say the sentence, including where your capital letter and your full stop will be.

My, and my, full stop.

Pause the video now.

Great.

I think we are ready to write.

Can you help me with my writing first? I am ready to write my sentences about my family members.

I have got my success criteria, my lined paper, and I've got my vocabulary that we generated with me too to help me.

Let's check our success criteria.

Use expanded noun phrases to describe two family members.

Use a verb to show what they like to do.

Use an adverb to show how they do that action.

And join two ideas using the word, joining word 'and', okay.

The family members that I'm going to describe are my sister and my cousin.

So I've got my first idea already.

I'm going to put my vocabulary above me so I can see it.

My kind, energetic sister dances excitedly.

So far I've got my capital letter.

I've got my expanded noun phrase, kind, comma, energetic sister dances, the verb, excitedly, the adverb.

I know that I need to join two ideas using 'and', so I haven't put a full stop because I'm going to join my ideas using 'and'.

So instead of putting a full stop, I'm going to write the word 'and'.

I'm gonna leave a finger space.

Ah.

And.

My kind, energetic sister dances excitedly and.

What was it? My caring loving cousin hugs happily.

Okay, my, I can copy that there but without the capital letter, I don't need a new capital letter 'cause I've joined using 'and'.

And where the Y spells my, my cousin.

How am I describing my cousin? Caring and loving.

Both of those adjectives we generated earlier.

Caring, loving.

My caring loving.

I need a new line.

Cousin.

That's a word that I've seen lots of times.

Now, caring loving cousin.

I've used two adjectives.

What do I need to separate my adjectives? A comma.

My caring, comma, loving cousin hugs happily.

Hugs.

Could you sound out hugs with me? Hugs.

Ha u ga ss.

Hugs, hugs.

Happily.

Now happily is an adverb that we generated earlier.

Happily.

It's like you can see part of the word happy.

But I've got -ily.

Hugs, finger space, happily.

App, two Ps, ily.

Okay, let's read it back to check.

My kind, comma, energetic sister dances excitedly and my caring, comma, loving cousin hugs happily.

I've got to the end of my sentence.

I've joined by two together so I need a full stop.

Let's check my success criteria.

Use expanded noun phrases to describe two family members.

My kind, energetic sister.

There's my expanded noun phrase.

And caring, loving cousin.

And we remembered our commas.

Have we used verbs to show what they like to do? My kind, energetic sister dances excitedly and my caring, loving cousin hugs happily.

What does my sister like to do? My kindm energetic sister dances.

There's my verb.

And my caring, loving cousin hugs.

That is what they like to do.

I've used adverbs to describe that.

Dances excitedly.

Hugs happily.

And we've used 'and' to join two ideas.

My kind, energetic sister dances excitedly, could be a sentence on its own.

As well as, my caring, loving cousin hugs happily.

But I decided to join them together using 'and'.

Thank you for helping me with my sentence.

And now it's your turn.

Now it's your turn to write your sentence to describe two family members.

Here is your success criteria to help you.

Use expanded noun phrases to describe two family members.

Use a verb to show what they like to do.

Use an adverb to show how they do that action.

And join two ideas using the joining word 'and'.

Pause the video and off you go.

Fantastic.

Let's check this sentence here.

This is the sentence that I've already written and I know that it met my success criteria.

We have got my capital letter on my full stop.

We've joined using 'and', and we have two expanded noun phrases as well as a verb and an adverb.

Can you pause the video and double check your success criteria now? Off you go.

Well done.

Thank you so much for learning with me today, and what a great compound sentence you have written.

We have learned that vocabulary can be generated and used in different ways using a word bank.

We've also learned that adjectives described nouns.

And when we use two adjectives, a comma is paced in between them.

Such as, kind, friendly sister.

Using adverbs can add detail to how family members do something and two ideas can be joined together using a joining word like 'and' to form a compound sentence.

Thank you so much for learning with me today.

I love today's lesson and I hope to you again soon.

Bye.