Lesson video

Hello, I am Miss Corbert, and thank you so much for choosing to learn with me today.

Today's lesson is called Introducing adjectives to describe the people who help us.

One of my favourite things to do is read and write about something that is descriptive because it really makes me imagine what is happening.

So I can't wait to do that with you today.

You need a few things for this lesson.

The first thing that you need is a copy of "A Superhero Like You" by Dr.

Ranj.

And it would be great if your copy could look just like mine.

You also need something to write with, so some lined paper and a pen or a pencil.

So you need to get the book, some paper and some pencil.

Could you pause the video and go and do that now? Off you go.

Fantastic.

As well as that, can you make sure that you now have everything in front of you and you can turn on those listening ears, those looking eyes, and that thinking brain.

I think we are ready to go.

Let's get started.

So by the end of today's lesson, you will have used adjectives to describe personality traits, which is very, very exciting.

Lots and lots of lovely descriptive writing.

Let's have a look at our key words that will help us get there.

Remember, don't worry if you don't know what they mean, because I will point them out to you.

And by the end of this lesson, I think you will.

Are we ready? Adjective.

Noun.

Describe.

Personality trait.

That's a long one.

Okay, a bit quicker.

Adjective, noun, describe, personality trait.

Fantastic.

I can't wait for you to be able to explain what those keywords mean, because I think you will.

In today's lesson, the first question we will be asking is, what are adjectives? One of our keywords.

Then we will use adjectives to describe people who help us.

Let's get started.

We know that rereading a story helps us to remember the plot as well as notice extra details in the text that we hear or read and the illustrations.

So you are going to listen to the whole story, "A Superhero Like You" from the start until the end.

So make sure you have someone to read it to you.

Whilst you are listening, you need to try and think about how Lily, our main character, describes each person who does the jobs.

So think about how she is describing them, which means adding detail to them.

So you are going to read the whole story without stopping.

Make sure you have someone to read it to you.

And pause the video.

I hope you enjoy.

Off you go.

I certainly loved reading the story again, and I hope you did too.

I also hope that you managed to remember some words that Lily used to describe the people who help us.

Maybe you could pause the video now and have a think of some of the words that you heard.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Can you keep those in your head? Because they might come in handy later on.

We know that nouns are naming words.

Nouns are naming words.

We know that nouns name people, places, or things.

We are focusing on the nouns that are all people, like a dentist, a soldier, or a nurse.

I wonder, can you think of one more? Going to give you five seconds to think of one more person who helps us? So which is a noun.

Five, four.

Well done.

You might have named somebody specific with a specific name, or you might have named a common noun, which is not a specific name like a dentist or a soldier or a nurse.

Fantastic.

So we know that nouns are naming words.

I have a list of words here.

Two of them are nouns and two of them aren't nouns.

I'm going to read them and I want you to think of the words that are nouns.

Nouns are naming words.

Are you ready? Kind, shopkeeper, working, soldier.

Hmm.

Two of them are nouns and two of them are not.

Can you pause the video and say the words which are nouns? Pause the video.

Off you go.

Let's see if you've got them.

The nouns are shopkeeper, because a shopkeeper is a name of a person, and soldier.

Well done if you got it.

A soldier is also a naming word for a person.

Kind isn't a naming word, it's a describing word, which we're going to look at soon.

And working is something that we do rather than something that is named.

Well done if you've got shopkeeper and soldier.

So I told you we'd come to some describing words.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

There's our key word adjective and describes.

So an adjective adds detail to a noun.

So describe means add detail to something.

And when we add detail to a noun, that word we use is a adjective.

Adjective.

Adjective.

Well done.

We are going to use adjectives to describe the people who help us in our community.

And we will think about their personality traits, which are the special qualities that make them themselves.

So not what they look like, but about their personality and why they are so helpful.

When we describe a noun with an adjective, we add detail to give more information.

So the book is called "A Superhero Like You".

Here I have a superhero.

He's like this.

How could you describe this superhero? Not what he looks like, but about his personality.

I wonder if you could think the superhero is.

Pause the video and off you go.

Wow, you already managed to name so many adjectives to describe the noun superhero.

Let me share some of the ones that I thought of.

My 10, then your 10.

Helpful, kind, powerful, proud, caring, strong, curious.

Which means they're thinking about things and making a plan.

Brave.

Did you think any of those? Or did you think of some different ones? Well done.

Try and keep some of those in your head.

These adjectives give us more detail about and describe the noun superhero.

A kind superhero, a strong superhero, a brave superhero.

Superheroes and people who help us are often described with positive, which means good, adjectives.

Because they're helpful and we like them.

So, true or false.

Let me see if you've been paying attention.

An adjective describes a noun.

Do adjectives describe nouns? True or false? I'm going to give you 10 seconds.

10, five.

Well done.

An adjective describes a noun.

Yes.

Adjectives describe or are detail to nouns, like a kind superhero.

Kind is my adjective, superhero is my noun.

Adjectives help to picture a noun in our head by giving more detail.

So vet.

Vet is my noun.

Vet.

Hmm, I dunno much more about the vet.

At the moment, we don't really know anything about it other than vet.

Let's have a look at what happens when we add adjectives.

Kind vet.

Patient vet.

Helpful vet.

Adjectives give us more detail.

They help us create a picture in our minds.

So if I think of a patient vet, I'm thinking of a vet that is looking after a scared animal, and even though they're getting stressed and scared, they're taking their time and they're being patient.

If I think of a kind vet, I'm thinking of a vet who is being really kind to the animal's owner and may be giving a dog or a cat a cuddle being kind.

So they give us more detail and help us picture something in our minds.

So it's really important that we think carefully about which adjectives work best and which ones we can use.

Have a look at where the adjective is.

Caring vet, patient vet, helpful vet.

Adjectives are chosen carefully, we know, to best describe the noun.

But an adjective often comes before the noun it is describing, caring vet.

Adjective, noun.

Patient vet.

Adjective, noun.

Helpful vet.

Adjective, noun.

If it was the other way round, it wouldn't really make any sense.

Vet caring, vet patient, vet helpful.

No, that sounds silly.

So, often the adjective comes before the noun it's describing.

Have a look at some examples in a sentence.

The brave soldier protected the people.

My adjective brave, my noun soldier.

The strong recycling truck driver.

My adjective is strong and my noun is recycling truck driver.

The strong recycling driver collected the rubbish.

The kind carer dance with the people in the care home.

Kind is my adjective, carer is my noun.

So the adjective often comes before the noun it's describing.

Another true or false.

Get your thumbs ready.

An adjective often comes after the noun it's describing.

Hmm.

Would it be kind carer or carer kind? Does an adjective come after the noun it is describing? Is that true or is that false? I'm going to give you 10 seconds.

Off you go.

Five.

Did you get it? That is false.

An adjective often comes before the noun it is describing.

Like kind vet, patient doctor.

So, now it's your turn for our first task.

You are going to circle if you have it in front of you or just point to the adjective in each sentence.

Remember, an adjective describes the noun.

So search for your noun and then try and find your adjective.

Another clue is that your adjective will come before the noun.

I'm going to read you the sentences, then you are going to have a go at spotting being adjective detectives.

The brave firefighter went into the building.

The caring doctor put a bandage on their arm.

The curious scientist solved a discovery.

The proud teacher taught his class.

And the strong shopkeeper lifted the tins.

I would like you to pause the video and either circle or point to the adjectives.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Well done.

Let's see if you managed to hunt down all of those adjectives.

Let's have a look.

The brave firefighter went into the building.

The adjective is brave.

Well done.

The caring doctor put a bandage on their arm.

The adjective is caring.

Fantastic.

The curious scientist sold a discovery.

The adjective is curious, describing the scientist.

The proud teacher taught his class.

Proud is our adjective.

The teacher is proud of his class.

And the strong shopkeeper lifted the tin.

The strong is describing the shopkeeper.

Did you manage to find all of those adjectives? Well done if you did.

Let's move on to the final part of our lesson, describing people who help us.

We are getting ready to write, and we know that it's so important to warm up our hands before we write.

Your hands and wrists get stronger when you exercise them, just like any other muscle in your body.

Making your hands and wrists stronger will really help you to hold your pencil using your tripod grip, which means you'll get neater writing and it will be comfortable in your hand.

Okay, we are going to imagine that we are a crocodile.

Can you get one arm out, one arm above? And I want you to do three crocodile snaps.

(hands slapping) Fantastic.

Now you're going to imagine that you are a lion.

I would like you to get one paw with your claws and another pour with your claws, and you're going to stretch forward and do a big roar, ready? Three, two, one.

Oh my goodness, lots of lions.

And then stretch back, another roar.

And stretch back.

Fantastic.

Finally, I would like you to just twist your hands and your wrists around and I would like to stretch up one hand, stretch up the other hand, stretch up both hands, and I think we are ready to go.

We are going to write.

And we know that, so we are going to try and remember all of the things that it takes to write, like writing our letters neatly on the line, form more letters correctly, use our phonics to sound out and spell words, and read our writing back to check.

Do you think you can do that today? I think you can.

We are going to be using adjectives to describe these nouns to create captions.

Now we know that a caption is a label to add to a picture, a drawing or a photo.

A caption is a word or group of words to explain what the picture is.

We are going to be writing a caption today that is descriptive, so it'll be more than one word.

Let's have a look.

Here are the nouns.

A carer.

So rather than just carer, it might be a helpful carer.

Firefighter.

A brave firefighter.

Air ambulance pilot.

It might be a helpful air ambulance pilot.

You might also choose to describe a vet or a scientist, a doctor or a teacher.

You could also choose to describe one of these, a soldier, a shopkeeper, a police officer, a nurse, a dentist, or a postal worker.

These are all lots and lots of different options that you can choose to describe with your caption.

I wonder which noun are you going to choose to describe? I will choose.

Can you, and pause the video and decide? Off you go.

Well done.

Have you got your noun in your head? Who you are going to describe? I'm going to tell you what I have chosen.

I have chosen a teacher.

My noun is my teacher.

So I'm going to think of an adjective to describe a teacher.

A mm teacher.

My adjective comes before my noun.

A mm teacher.

A kind teacher.

A kind teacher.

I've used A to show that I'm talking about one teacher, a kind teacher.

Now it's your turn.

You are going to choose a job, a mm.

Then you are going to think of an adjective to describe that job.

A mm mm.

Your adjective then your noun.

Can you think of that now? Pause the video.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

You might have chosen a helpful shop worker, a kind nurse, a brave nurse, a collaborative truck driver.

You can decide making sure you have your adjective, then your noun.

We know that when we write words, the words that we're writing, like kind and teacher, we need to say the word.

So I'm going to think of kind.

Then we sound the word out.

K-I-N-D.

Kind.

Then we count the number of sounds It has I.

K-I-N-D.

Kind.

One, two, three, four.

Then we write the word.

Then we read it back by sounding out to check before moving on to the next word.

Because today we are writing more than one word.

We are writing three words, a mm mm.

A kind teacher.

So when we write more than one word, we put a finger space in between each word.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to read it.

Can you get your finger spaces ready? Well done.

Here is our success criteria for today.

You need to describe a noun using an adjective.

I think you can do that.

You need to write the adjective before the noun.

And so we can read it back, place a finger space in between each word that you write.

Now I'm going to have a go at writing it.

I wonder if you can help me.

I am ready to write my descriptive caption about a person who helps me.

For my writing, I need to make sure I have my paper.

I need to make sure I'm sitting comfortably, and I need to make sure I have something to write with.

I also have my success criteria in front of me, which is really useful to check off.

Let's read it.

I have described a noun using an adjective.

My noun is going to be teacher.

My adjective is going to be kind.

I have written the adjective before the noun.

A kind teacher.

Okay.

I have placed a finger space in between words.

So a, finger space, kind, finger space, teacher.

I think I can do that.

Now for your caption, you might have a photo printed or you might draw the person who helps you.

I have a photo printed of the teacher.

So now I'm going to get ready to write.

I'm going to move my page up so I'm ready to write underneath my photo or my drawing.

When I write, I need to start on the left.

This here is called a margin.

If your lines have a margin, you need to start next to the margin.

Okay, I'm going to say what I need to write, a kind teacher.

Can you say that with me? A kind teacher.

I'm going to whisper it.

A kind teacher.

Can you whisper it? I'm gonna say it in a squeaky voice.

A kind teacher.

Your turn.

And now I'm going to count how many words I'm writing.

A kind teacher.

How many words is that? Three words.

My first word is a, which is a common exception word because it's just spelled with the letter A.

A.

I can't forget my finger spaces.

A kind.

Ooh.

Do you think you could stretch out that word for me? Kind.

Kind.

Sound it out.

K-I-N-D.

Kind.

I'm going to count the sounds that I have.

K-I-N-D.

Kind.

That's four sounds I need to include.

Okay.

A, finger space, K.

I, hmm.

I know a few ways that I can spell I.

I know that in the word kind, it's just a letter i on its own.

K-I-N D.

A K-I-N-D, kind.

A kind teacher.

Okay, can you stretch out that word for me? Teacher.

Teacher.

Sound it out.

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

Teacher.

Count the sounds.

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

Teacher.

Okay.

My first sound is, T.

(gasping) Oh no.

What have I forgotten? My finger space.

Oh.

Thank goodness I didn't write the whole word.

I'm going to put a neat line through.

I'm going to do a finger space in between, and then start my T here.

Oh my goodness, that was close.

A kind teacher.

T-E.

Hmm.

Like the I, I know a few ways to spell E.

T-E-A-C-H.

My EA E really likes the ch sound, so I know it is E-A, T-E-A-C-H.

C-H.

Teacher.

Hmm.

The er that likes to go at the end of the words is E-R.

er, I'm going to check.

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

Teacher.

I'm going to read it back.

A kind teacher.

(gasping) I've done it.

Let's check my success criteria.

Can you help me? I have described a noun using an adjective.

There is my noun teacher and there is my adjective kind.

I've done that.

I have written the adjective before the noun.

So my adjective needs to come before.

Have I done that? Could you give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down? Yes, my adjective kind came before my noun teacher.

And then finally, I have placed a finger space in between words.

I have here.

I almost forgot, but then I fixed it.

So by the end, I managed to do that.

But I know that next time I write, I'm going to make extra certain that I do it.

Thank you so much for helping me with my descriptive caption.

And now it's your turn.

Thank you so much for helping me with my writing.

And now it's time for your go.

You are going to choose a job that helps the community and describe it using an adjective.

I wrote a kind teacher.

You've practised yours already out loud, so now it's your turn to write.

And remember to check your success criteria.

Pause the video, and off you go.

Well done.

I can see some fantastic writing.

Here's my writing.

A kind teacher, with my teacher above.

You are going to help me check my success criteria.

I have described a noun using an adjective.

My noun is teacher, my adjective is kind.

I have written the adjective before the noun.

A kind teacher.

Yes.

And I can see a space in between each words.

Now it's your turn to double check your success criteria.

Can you pause the video and do that now? Off you go.

Fantastic.

Did you manage to check and meet your success criteria? Well done if you did.

If you didn't, you could always go back and correct any mistakes now.

Fantastic.

I've loved learning with you today, and what amazing writing you've produced.

Well done.

We now know that adjectives are describing words that describe nouns to add more detail.

Your personality can be described using adjectives, and adjectives are mostly written before the noun.

Thank you so much for learning with me today, and I'm really looking forward to seeing you again next time.

Bye.