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Hello, I'm Miss Colbert, and I'm so excited to learn with you today.

We are going to be learning all about how to write a simple sentence about people who help us.

So I'm so excited to see your sentences by the end of this lesson.

For this lesson, I need you to get your copy of "A Superhero Like You" by Dr.

Ranj, and it would be great if your copy could look just like this.

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

That would be great if you can have lines on that paper, as well as somewhere comfortable 'cause you're going to be doing your writing.

Can you go and make sure you've got all of those things now? Pause the video and off you go.

(gasps) Well done.

I can see that you've managed to get everything.

That means that we are ready to get started, but you also need to make sure that you have those looking eyes, those listening ears, and your thinking brains.

Fantastic.

Let's get started today.

So by the end of this lesson, you will have written a sentence about people who help you.

Let's get started.

Our key words can help us get through our lesson together.

Remember, don't worry if you don't know what they mean, because I will direct you to them during the lesson.

Are you ready? My turn, then your turn.

Noun.

A noun is a naming word.

Adjective.

An adjective describes a noun.

Well done.

Simple sentence.

We will be writing a simple sentence.

Ready for the next one? Capital letter.

Well done.

And full stop.

Your turn.

Well done.

Let's get started.

The first part of our lesson will be preparing to write, where we will be thinking of our ideas and practising them again and again, 'cause the next part of our lesson is writing a sentence.

We know that re-reading a story really helps us remember the plot, what happens, as well as notice details in the text and the illustrations.

As we are writing, it also helps to give us some ideas of what we might write about.

Whilst you are listening this time, I want you to think about all of the helpful things that the people who help us do, and the ones that are mentioned in this story.

So I want you to listen to this whole story, so make sure you have someone to read it to you the whole way from the beginning to end, thinking about all of the helpful things that the people who help us do.

Pause the video and off you go.

Well done.

In this story, it shows us how many amazing and helpful things that people in our community do for us.

I wonder if you can think of what any of the people do to help the community.

Pause the video and have a little think.

Off you go.

Well done.

'Cause today you will be writing.

You are going to be writing about who helps you.

In the story, we know that Lily, our character, sees the people who help us as superheroes.

Because this story teaches us about the importance of our local community.

She sees them as superheroes 'cause they all do amazing things to help us.

I wonder, though, if you met somebody who has one of these jobs, what would you say to them? Would you think about what would you say to show that you are thankful? What would you say? Could you say a full sentence? I would say, pause the video, off you go.

Well done.

Let's have a look at some of the ideas.

Because we should be thankful for the people in our community.

This is one idea.

I would say thank you to all of the people who help our community.

I am thankful for the people who care for everybody.

I am grateful, which means another way of saying thankful.

I am grateful to people who keep our community safe and clean.

(gasps) Maybe they're thinking about the police or the recycling drivers.

I am thankful for the people who provide us with food.

So maybe this person is thinking about the shop workers.

Some really lovely ideas.

We can show our thanks that we are thankful by writing about these people, like carers, firefighters, ambulance pilots, vets, scientists, doctors, teachers, and so many more.

Soldiers, shopkeepers, police officers, nurses, dentists, postal workers, all of those jobs.

But who are you most thankful for? I am most thankful for.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Wow, I heard you really explain who you are most thankful for and why.

Really, really fantastic job.

Keep those ideas in your head 'cause you might choose to write about that person.

Because we are going to write a whole sentence describing who helps us.

A sentence.

One of our key words.

Sentence is one complete idea that makes sense.

So here's my soldier.

I want to say that the soldier helps me.

Let's have a look at what I've got.

Brave soldier helps.

Hmm, I can see a full stop at the end, but I don't think that makes it a sentence, because it isn't a complete idea and it doesn't really make sense.

Brave soldier helps.

Which soldier? Who does the brave soldier help? Hmm, let me try again.

The brave soldier helps me.

(gasps) That's better.

And I can see a whole idea that makes sense.

The brave soldier helps me.

And I can also see, because it's a sentence, it has a capital letter at the start, my capital T and a full stop.

The brave soldier helps me.

To show that my complete idea is making sense, and it is finished.

So we are going to get ready to write that sentence.

We know that it's so important to warm up our hands before we start to write.

We know that because your hands and your wrist get super strong when you exercise them, just like any other muscle in your body.

Making your hands and your wrist strong really helps you to hold your pen or pencil correctly and comfortably.

So we are going to try and move just one finger at a time as our warmup today.

Can you watch me, and maybe join in? One.

Can you see? I'm just moving one at a time.

(gasps) Onto the next hand.

Well done.

Now I'm going to try and move them up this time, which is a bit trickier.

Last time I moved them down.

Now I'm going to move them up.

Ooh.

And then give your hand a shake, and I want you to stretch up to that side.

Stretch up to that side.

I think we are ready to write our sentence.

We know that there are so many different things to remember, especially now we're writing a whole sentence.

Let's see what we need to remember.

Write our letters neatly on the line.

Form our letters correctly.

Use phonics to sound out and spell words.

Use finger spaces in between each word.

And we need to start our sentence with a capital letter and a full stop to end it at the end.

And then we need to read our writing back to check that it makes sense.

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

So those are the things that we need to remember when we're writing, and we have some other specific things for today's sentence.

So here is our success criteria, which will help us remember what we need to include.

We need to use a capital letter at the start of a sentence and a full stop at the end.

We need to use an adjective to describe the noun, and we want to use phonics to sound out and spell our words.

And then we always need to read back to make sure our sentence makes sense.

Have a look at this sentence here, the patient vet helps me.

Hmm.

Have a look at my first part of my success criteria.

Use capital letters at the start of sentences and a full stop at the end.

Let me look at the start of my sentence.

Is there a capital letter? Get your finger on the first part of the sentence.

(gasps) No capital letter.

Move another finger all the way to the end of the sentence.

Can you see a full stop? No.

Let's see whether they can appear.

Let me see.

There they are.

Let's try again.

Can you get your finger on the first part of the sentence? Can you see a capital letter? Yes, you can.

Get another finger.

Move it along.

Can you see a full stop at the end? Yes, you can.

Fantastic.

So important to check.

Have we used an adjective to describe the noun? The patient vet helps me.

My noun is vet and patient is my adjective to describe the noun.

Have I used phonics to sound out and spell words? Patient is quite a difficult word to write, so I might use a word bank for that, but I can definitely sound out vet and helps.

And then we have already read it back to make sure it makes sense.

But let's do it one more time together.

The patient vet helps me.

Does it make sense? It does.

I think you are ready to think of your sentence.

So I am going to say who I am thankful for.

Are you listening? The dentist helps me.

So I'm explaining who helps me to show that I am thankful for them.

The dentist helps me.

Okay.

Now I'm going to add an adjective to my sentence.

The kind dentist helps me.

Can you point to my adjective? Five, four, three, two, one.

Well done if you are pointing to kind.

Kind is describing the dentist.

The kind dentist helps me.

(gasps) I have my sentence.

The kind dentist helps me.

Now it's your turn to think of your sentence.

Are you ready? Say who you are thankful for by saying the mm helps me.

The mm helps me.

Going to give you 10 seconds.

Ten.

Five.

Well done.

The mm helps me.

Now you're going to add an adjective.

The mm, mm helps me.

So the adjective, noun helps me.

10 more seconds.

Off you go.

Have you got your sentence in your head? Now we are ready for our task.

Your task is to plan your whole sentence out loud.

The more you say your sentence, the easier your writing will be.

The first thing you need need to do is say your sentence.

I'm going to show you, then you are going to have a go in a little bit.

The kind dentist helps me.

Then I'm going to say it again, but in a silly voice.

The kind dentist helps me.

Then I'm going to say it again, including my capital letter, my finger spaces, and my full stop.

Okay.

Get my capital letter to start my sentence.

Capital letter.

The, finger space, kind, finger space, dentist, finger space, helps, finger space, me, full stop.

Now I'm going to tell it to somebody else.

The kind dentist helps me.

And finally, I'm going to whisper it to my pen or pencil.

The kind dentist helps me.

Now it's your turn.

The mm, mm helps me, doing all of those steps.

Pause the video and off you go.

Fantastic.

I heard so much rehearsal of your sentences in so many different ways.

For example, The curious scientist helps me.

The curious scientist helps me.

Capital letter, The curious scientist helps me, full stop.

The curious scientist helps me.

I think that I'm ready to write.

Are you ready to write your sentence? I think we are.

Let's get on to our second part of the lesson, which is writing a sentence.

Here is our success criteria, which we've already had a look at.

We are going to try and use capital letters at the start of a sentence, and a full stop at the end.

We will use an adjective to describe a noun, like the kind dentist or the curious scientist.

We will use phonics to sound out and spell our words, and we will always make sure that we read back to make sure it makes sense.

Let's have a look at some sentences and see how they meet our success criteria.

The postal worker helps me.

I can see a capital letter and a full stop.

The powerful firefighter helps me.

(gasps) I can see an adjective.

Powerful.

Could you say that one? Powerful.

I can see a sentence here.

The kind vet helps me.

The word vet and helps you will use your phonics to sound out and spell.

Then finally, I have a sentence that I need to read back to make sure it makes sense.

The powerful truck driver helps me.

Does that make sense? I think it does.

Fantastic.

So that is our success criteria.

I am going to get ready to write.

Before I start writing my sentence, The kind dentist helps me, I need to make sure I have everything ready.

I have some lined paper to write on.

I am sitting comfortably and I have something to write with.

I have my success criteria printed out so I can check off each one.

Maybe you could do that too.

Let's read it through first.

Use capital letters at the start of the sentence and a full stop at the end.

Remember, today we're writing a whole sentence, which is so exciting, so we can't forget our capital letter and our full stop.

We're also going to use an adjective to describe a noun, which is what we've been practising.

We will, when we are writing, use phonics to sound out and spell words, and then we'll read the sentence back to make sure it makes sense.

Before I start writing, I need to have that sentence in my head.

So I'm going to say it a few times.

Could you say it after me? The kind dentist helps me.

Your turn.

The kind dentist helps me.

Your turn.

I'm going to say it in a low voice.

The kind dentist helps me.

Your turn.

This time I'm going to include my punctuation.

So I'm going to get my capital letter and my full stop.

Capital letter, The kind dentist helps me, full stop.

Could you do that and include your punctuation? Capital letter, The kind dentist helps me, full stop.

(gasps) I think I am ready to write.

Okay, I'm going to start writing on the left next to my margin.

The, and I need a capital letter.

The, hmm, the is a common exception word.

I need my capital T, h, e.

The kind.

Hmm, let's stretch that word out.

Can you do that with me? Kind.

Kind.

Count the sounds in that word.

Kind.

Okay, I'm going to leave a finger space and start K, my letter K.

And the I in this word is spelled just with a letter I on its own.

Kind.

The kind, what's my noun? Dentist.

(gasps) Another long word.

Could you stretch this out for me? Dentist.

With words that have more than one syllable, you might clap it.

Dentist (clapping).

Could you do that? Dentist (clapping).

So let's do "Den" first.

Den.

Your turn.

Fantastic.

I can't forget my finger space.

Den.

The kind de, no, tist.

Tist.

Dentist.

The kind dentist.

(gasps) What was that next word? Helps.

Okay, stretch that word out for me.

Helps.

Okay, finger space.

I'm going to write it again.

Heps.

Hep.

Heps.

Hmm, that doesn't look right.

Hmm, maybe I need to sound it out again.

Helps.

Oh no, I missed the letter L in between.

I don't have space to fit it in, so I'm going to put a neat line through it and try again.

Can you say it with me? I think I need your help this time.

Helps.

Let's check.

Helps.

That's why it's so important to use our phonics and to read back to make sure it makes sense.

The kind dentist helps me.

Fantastic.

I'm going to leave a line just in case I need to make any corrections and start again here, because I ran out of space.

So I'm going to start here.

Me.

That is another common exception word.

M and then E spells me.

The kind dentist helps me.

(gasps) I finished my sentence.

What do I need at the end of my sentence? A full stop.

(gasps) Fantastic.

Let's read it back to check.

The kind dentist helps me.

(gasps) I think we've got it.

Did I use a capital letter? I'm going to start at the start of my sentence and then I'm going to scan for my full stop, and then I'm going to check it makes sense.

The kind dentist helps me.

(gasps) Yes.

I've got my capital letter and I've got my full stop, and it makes sense.

So I can tick off this one, and we read it back to make sure it made sense.

Use an adjective to describe my noun.

The kind dentist helps me.

Could you point to my adjective? Could you point in five seconds? Five, four, three, two, one.

(gasps) Kind.

Well done.

There's my adjective to describe my noun, dentist.

And we know that we use phonics to sound out and spell words, even when I made a little mistake, my phonics helped me to fix it.

Thank you so much for writing with me today, and I'm really looking forward to seeing your sentence.

Now it's your turn to write a sentence.

You've helped me with mine and now it's your turn.

You are going to write your sentence and use your success criteria to make sure you've included everything.

The mm, mm helps me.

Pause the video and off you go.

Fantastic.

I am so impressed you have managed to write a whole sentence.

I'm so impressed.

Let's have a look at mine, and then you will check your success criteria.

The kind dentist helps me.

I can see a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end.

I can see an adjective, kind, to describe the noun.

I've used phonics to help me sound out and I've read it back to check.

Can you now pause the video and check your success criteria with your sentence? Pause the video and off you go.

Fantastic.

Did you manage to check and meet your success criteria? And well done if you went back to fix any mistakes or corrections.

Because it's all about learning, and that is the way we learn.

Really good job.

What a fantastic lesson today.

We have got through so much.

I'm so impressed.

We now know that a sentence is an idea that makes complete sense, and a sentence can communicate a person's ideas or feelings.

And we wrote a sentence to show we are thankful.

Sentences must start with a capital letter, and they often end with a full stop.

Descriptive sentences can include adjectives, and we know that adjectives describe nouns.

Thank you so much for learning with me, and I really hope I see you again.

Bye.

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