Lesson video

Hi everybody, and welcome to our lesson today.

My name's Ms. Mullins.

Today's going to be our first writing lesson of our unit so far, so I'm really excited to see how we all get on.

In your learning today you'll be using a plan to help you write the introduction of a non-chronological report about tigers.

Here are some key words we will use, introduction, general information, purpose, the writing process.

An introduction is the first paragraph of a non-fiction text that encourages the reader to read on.

General information is the most basic and necessary information.

The purpose is the aim of the text.

The writing process involves planning, drafting, checking, editing, and publishing a piece of writing.

Today we will be writing the introduction of a non-chronological report about tigers.

Firstly, we will be preparing to write and then we will move on to writing our introduction.

Non-chronological reports often follow the same structure.

They have a title, an introduction, which is the first paragraph that encourages the reader to read on, sections, which contain paragraphs of information related to a particular aspect of the subject.

In our non-chronological report, our sections are going to be about tiger's diets, and their adaptations.

And then our conclusion is the last paragraph that summarises the key information of the text.

And today we are writing our introduction.

The introduction is the first paragraph of a nonfiction text that encourages the reader to read on.

The introduction follows a clear structure.

We have a subheading, introductory sentence, general information, and our linking sentence.

The introductory sentence introduces what the report will be about.

General information gives the reader some necessary information about the topic, and then our linking sentence links on to the next paragraph.

The purpose is the aim of the text and the purpose of the introduction is to do all of these things.

We want to engage our reader, we want to make them want to read on, and we want to give them some general information.

We save our more specific facts for later on in our report.

Let's just recap our knowledge of word class.

A noun is a person, a place, or a thing.

Your turn.

Well done, nouns can be singular, meaning just one of them, or plural, meaning more than one.

Here are some examples of singular nouns, dog, child, woman, tooth, all of these examples are singular because there is only one of them.

Now let's look at the plural versions.

Dogs, children, woman, teeth.

Great work, these are examples of plural nouns because in these examples, there is more than one of the noun.

When a noun possesses another noun, we show this possession using an apostrophe.

For example, the tropical rainforests belonging to India.

India possesses the tropical rainforests, so we would write this as India's tropical rainforests.

India is the owner here, so we write India apostrophe S.

The diet belonging to the tiger.

In this example, the tiger possesses its diet, so we'd write this as the tiger's diet.

Because the tiger is the owner here we write it as tiger apostrophe S.

Both of these are examples of singular nouns where there is one owner.

Let's have a go at doing a few practises of these.

How would the apostrophe for possession be used for these singular nouns? The shoes belonging to the boy.

So the boy possesses the shoes.

So I'd write it as the boy's shoes.

Because the boy is the owner we write the apostrophe S after the word boy.

The writing belonging to the child.

The child possesses the writing.

So this time we'd write it as the child's writing.

Because the child is the owner we would write it as child apostrophe S.

Now it's your turn.

How would the apostrophe for possession be used for these singular nouns? Let's read them together.

Adaptations belonging to a tiger.

Habitat belonging to this mammal.

Pause the video now while you decide how to use an apostrophe to show singular possession here.

Well done if you spotted that we would write adaptations belonging to a tiger as, a tiger's adaptations.

And habitat belonging to this mammal as, this mammal's habitat.

When a noun possesses another noun, we show this possession using an apostrophe.

Here we've got an example of ears belonging to tigers.

This time, the tigers possess the ears, so we'd write it as tigers apostrophe ears.

Dens belonging to these felines.

This time, these felines possess the dens, so we'd write it as, these felines apostrophe dens.

This time you might have spotted already that our owners, our nouns, who have the possession of the other nouns are plural.

This time there's more than one owner.

Now let's have a go at using apostrophe for possession.

This time with plural nouns.

The shoes belonging to the boys.

Who possesses the shoes? Well done, the boys possess the shoes.

So we'd write it as the boys apostrophe shoes.

This time we've got the writing belonging to the children.

Who possesses the writing.

Well done, you're right.

The children possess the writing.

So we'd write this as the children's writing.

Because the children are the owners we write the apostrophe S after the word children.

Now it's your turn.

How would the apostrophe for possession be used for these plural nouns? Let's read them through together first.

Adaptations belonging to tigers.

Habitat belonging to these mammals.

Pause the video now while you decide how to show this possession using an apostrophe to show plural possession.

Brilliant work, everyone.

Well done if you spotted that the tigers, they possess their adaptations.

So we'd write it as tigers apostrophe adaptations, and the mammals possess their habitat.

So we write that as mammals apostrophe habitat.

Such excellent work, well done.

Now it's time for your task.

Rewrite these phrases using an apostrophe to show singular possession.

Here's my example, the coast belonging to the island.

That's one island.

We'd write that as the island's coast.

Now it's your turn with the country's belonging to Asia and the grasslands belonging to India.

Pause the video now while you rewrite these phrases using an apostrophe to show singular possession.

Well done, if you spotted that we would write the country's belonging to Asia as Asia's countries, and the grasslands belonging to India would be written as India's grasslands.

Now it's time for the second part of your task, where this time you're going to rewrite these phrases using an apostrophe to show plural possession.

So this time there is more than one owner.

Let's look at my example first.

The diet belonging to these cats.

So we would write that as these cats' diet, because the cats plural are the owners.

Let's read your example phrases together.

Branches belonging to the trees.

Jaws belonging to the tigers.

Pause the video now while you rewrite these phrases using an apostrophe to show plural possession.

Great work, everyone.

So we would write the branches belonging to the trees as the trees' branches, because the trees are the owners.

So we'd write it as trees apostrophe.

And jaws belonging to the tigers would be written as the tigers' jaws.

Again, the apostrophe goes after the word tigers because the tigers are the owners in this phrase.

Excellent work, well done everyone.

What a great start to our lesson.

Now we're going to move on to write our introduction.

When we write, we always try to do these things.

We plan and say each sentence before we write it.

We use punctuation where we know the rules.

We showcase each sentence type we know.

We write letters neatly on the line in joined handwriting.

We use spelling strategies to spell words accurately, and we check and improve our writing when we think we finished.

Here's our success criteria.

Success criteria are really, really helpful because they act as a guide to help us remember what we want to include in our work.

Let's read them through together.

I have written an introductory sentence that explains what the report is about.

I have included a general fact about tigers.

I have written a linking sentence that tells the reader what they will learn in the report.

I have used an apostrophe for plural possession.

Now, we've got to make sure that we use our plans when we are writing 'cause all of that hard work and that thinking that we put into our planning in our last lesson is going to really help us now when we come to write.

We can build on our ideas from our plan when we write today.

Make sure you've got your plan with you ready for writing.

Let's just remind ourselves of the structure of the introduction before we get started.

So we need to have our subheading, our introductory sentence, which introduces what the report will be about, our general information, which gives the reader some necessary information about the topic.

And then our linking sentence links on to the next paragraph.

We're gonna start by writing our introductory sentence.

Make sure you've got the relevant part of your plan with you.

Here's my plan.

I'm going to use that a lot to help me with my writing now.

Okay, everyone, as you can see, I've stuck in my success criteria.

For some reason, my page has gone a bit curly, but we are not gonna worry too much about it.

So I stuck in my success criteria into my sheet, and I'm going to start by writing my subheading, which is just the word introduction.

So I'm gonna get started on that now.

And as I'm writing, I'm focusing on my handwriting as well, making sure that my lowercase letters have got those lead-ins and tails so I've got nice cursive handwriting.

Gonna use a ruler to underline my subheading.

The first sentence I'm going to write is my introductory sentence.

Now remember, this explains what my report is about, okay? So from my first sentence, my reader needs to know that this report is about tigers.

I'm going to go with tigers are, Hmm? I would like to have an EMP here.

So I'm gonna have two different adjectives.

So looking back at my plan, I had the word nocturnal, and also that they are large.

So I'm going to go with, oh, and I need to remember my indentation.

The tigers are nocturnal comma large, now I could say animals, felines, cats.

I'm gonna go with mammals, large mammals.

Now I've also got Felidae family written on my plan.

So I'm gonna say that they are nocturnal large mammals that belong to the Felidae family.

Okay, full stop.

Now I can tick off my first success criteria.

I've written an introductory sentence that explains what the report is about.

Now I need to give my reader a little bit of general information now at this point.

Hmm, on my plan, I've written that they're highly-adapted, that they're apex predators, and then some interesting facts as well.

So I'm going to go with these, hmm, felines.

Now I would like an adjective to describe the felines.

I could do.

I'm gonna go with fascinating.

These fascinating felines.

That's quite nice 'cause that's alliteration too, where I've got two words beginning with the same letter, these fascinating felines are, and like I'm going to use highly-adapted, are highly-adapted, highly hyphen adapted.

And I want to give, oh, they're highly-adapted.

Hmm, what are they? They're apex predators.

They're highly-adapted apex predators.

And I'm gonna extend this now with a that to add now another general fact.

That can weight up to 300 kilogrammes.

Now let's just reread this sentence and make sure it's good to go.

Let's read it together.

These fascinating, now I remembered my tricky spelling there, SC, felines are highly-adapted apex predators that can weigh, oh no, look, I've written the homophone for weight as in that way over there.

Whereas actually I'm talking about weigh as in how heavy these apex predators are.

So I need to cross this out and edit my spelling.

So going back to my plan, I can check my spelling of the word weigh, WEIGH up to 300 kilogrammes.

Brilliant, so now I have written a general fact that they weigh up to 300 kilogrammes, and now I need to finish off with my linking sentence.

Okay, so I am going to go with looking back at my plan.

I've got two options on my plan.

I've got throughout this report comma, or in this report comma.

I'm gonna go within this report.

In this report, now I need my comma here, after my fronted adverbial, we will learn about.

Now what are we going to be learning about? So we're going to be learning about what tigers eat and how they're adapted and also their habitat.

So we will learn about tigers' diets, adaptations, and there habitats, adaptations, and habitats.

Okay, let's do a quick check of this sentence.

In this report, comma.

Yes, I've remembered my comma after my fronted adverbial, we will learn about tigers' diets, adaptations, and habitats.

Oh, I've spotted two mistakes here with my punctuation.

I wonder whether you have too? Who do the diets and the adaptations and the habitats belong to.

Yes, you are right.

They belong to the tigers.

We're not writing about one tiger.

We're talking about all tigers.

So it's tigers plural.

So the owner here is the tigers.

So my apostrophe goes after the word tigers.

Now, that's one of my mistakes corrected.

Let's reread it again.

In this report we will learn about tigers' diets, adaptations, and habitats.

That's a list of three things we're going to be learning about.

I need to use a comma.

Well done if you spotted that mistake as well.

Between the items of my list, but I don't need a comma in front of the word and.

Okay, now let's go back to my success criteria.

I've written a linking sentence and I've used an apostrophe for plural possession.

So I am good to go.

Let's just do one final reread of the whole thing to make sure we're happy with it, and then we're finished.

Introduction, tigers are nocturnal large mammals that belong to the Felidae family.

These fascinating felines are highly-adapted apex predators that can weigh up to 300 kilogrammes.

In this report, we will learn about tigers' diets, adaptations, and habitats.

I'm feeling really good about that and I've met all of my success criteria.

Thank you very much for all of your help.

Thank you so much for all of your help just now, everyone.

Now it's your turn.

So you're going to use your plan to draught your introductory sentence.

If you would like to, you can use my sentence scaffold.

Tigers are hmm comma hmm mammals that.

I've put in a scaffold there for an expanded noun phrase if you would like to use some adjectives to describe your tigers.

If you would like to use your own sentence structure though, that's also great.

Pause the video now while you do that, and then we'll share our ideas.

Well done everyone.

Here are some ideas that you might have come up with, but I would say what's probably on your sentences will be a little bit different and that's great as well.

So here are my suggestions.

Tigers are nocturnal comma distinctive-looking mammals that belong to the Felidae family.

So here I've written an introductory sentence that explains what the report is about.

If you've also written your introductory sentence, you can tick this success criteria off now.

Now we're gonna move on to writing our general information section.

This is where we give our reader some necessary information about the topic.

Make sure you've got the relevant part of your plan, and here's what I had on my plan.

So I mentioned that they're most commonly found in India and Asia, that they're highly-adapted to help them survive and they're apex predators that can reach running speeds of up to 65 kilometres per hour.

Make sure you have a quick reread of your plan now.

Pause the video if you need to do that.

Now that we've reread our plan, make sure now you're going to use your plan to draught your general information.

Here's my sentence scaffold that you might want to use.

These, hmm, felines, pause the video now while you do that.

Excellent work, everybody here are my ideas, but I'm sure yours will be fantastic.

These highly-adapted felines are most commonly found in India, Asia, and are deadly apex predators that can reach running speeds of up to 65 kilometres per hour.

Do you see here how I've combined lots of the different words and phrases that I had on my plan and turn them into full sentences.

Make sure that you've used your plan to help you with this as well.

Now I can tick off that I've included a general fact about tigers.

You can tick this section of your success criteria off as well.

Finally, we're now going to move on to our linking sentence where we link on to the next paragraph.

Make sure you've got the relevant part of your plan in front of you.

Here's my plan.

So I had a couple of suggestions for sentence openers and a couple of ideas for either writing that we will explore or that we'll learn about tigers' adaptations, diet and habitat.

Use your plan now to help you draught your linking sentence and you can use this opener if you would like to use it.

Pause the video now while you do that.

Well done everyone, here is my example.

So throughout this report we will be exploring in further detail the adaptations, diet, and habitat of these fascinating mammals.

So now I can tick off that I have used a linking sentence that tells the reader what they'll learn in their report.

You can now check your success criteria.

Great work, everybody.

Now this is onto the final stage of our writing.

It's time now for you to check your writing and make any edits or improvements.

Then rewrite your sentences as a full introduction with a subheading and make sure you always keep referring back to your success criteria.

Pause the video now while you do that.

Here's my example.

Let's read it through together.

Tigers are nocturnal, distinctive-looking mammals that belong to the Felidae family.

These highly-adapted felines are most commonly found in India, Asia, and they are deadly apex predators that can reach running speeds of up to 65 kilometres per hour.

Throughout this report, you will learn further detail about the adaptations, diet, and habitat of these fascinating mammals.

Now upon reflection, now that I'm reading this as a full piece, I've realised that I've repeated the word mammals a couple of times.

There are so many ways I can refer it to tigers.

So I'm going to change that second mammals in my final sentence and move it and use a different synonym.

I'm gonna go with the word cats instead.

So here now, I've changed that final mammals to cats so that I refer to the tigers in different ways in every sentence.

Now I can go through my success criteria.

I've written an introductory sentence, which explains what the report is about.

I've included some general facts about tigers.

I've written a linking sentence that tells the reader what they will learn in the report, but I have not yet used an apostrophe for plural possession.

Some of you might have already used one, which is fantastic and well done for doing that.

Some of you might be like me and have not included one.

So now let's go back and look at our sentences and how can we maybe rework our sentences or reframe them slightly to change the order of the words around so that we can change some of these sentence to show possession instead.

Let's look again at my final sentence.

Throughout this report, you will learn further detail about the adaptations, diet, and habitat of these fascinating cats.

Now, I think I could quite easily change that into the cat owning the adaptations, diet, and habitat.

So first of all, I'm going to cross this bit out, the adaptations, diet, and habitat of these fascinating cats and instead reword my sentence.

So now my final sentence says, throughout this report you will learn further detail about these cats' fascinating adaptations, diet, and habitat.

And you can see now that I have turned my sentences wording slightly so that now I've got the cats plural, owning the fascinating adaptations, diet, and habitat.

Now I can check off that I have used an apostrophe for plural possession.

Thank you so much for all of your help with that.

Well done everyone, now this brings us to the end of our lesson.

Today we've been writing the introduction of a non-chronological report about tigers.

The purpose of the introduction is to engage the reader and give general information about the subject of the report.

Tigers can be referred to in the singular and the plural form.

The process, sorry.

The purpose of a plan is to help writers during the writing process.

The writing process involves planning, drafting, checking, editing, and publishing a piece of writing.

I hope you're feeling really, really confident with the piece of writing you have just produced.

Well done for all of your hard work, and I'm looking forward to seeing you again soon.