Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Miss Barron, and welcome to lesson five.

In this lesson, we are going to do some reading, we're going to be reading a section of our story, so I'm really looking forward to that.

Now in today's lesson, we are going to make inferences based on what is said or done by characters.

Now, inferences is a big word and it might be a new word, so let's just practise saying it together.

My turn, your turn, ready? Inferences, your turn.

Fantastic.

Again, inferences.

Your turn.

Brilliant.

So I'm going to tell you what it means to make inferences or to infer a bit later.

But for now let me tell you what today's lesson is going to look like.

First, we are going to do a quick spelling activity.

Then we're going to do our strategy check.

After that we are going to read together, and then we are going to practise making inferences.

And we're going to do some of that together, and then you're going to have a go at doing some of that on your own.

So in today's lesson, you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper to write on, a pencil or a pen to write with, and if you can, download and print the reading extract that comes with this lesson.

But don't worry if you can't, you can just follow along on the screen.

So pause the video now and go and get those things if you need to.

Amazing job.

You are back with everything you need to start the learning today, so let's get going.

We are going to begin by practising spelling some of our tricky words.

We know that we are learning how to spell tricky words this week, and we know that we can't sound these words out, we just have to learn them, and that means practise, practise, practise.

So, let's first go through our words and practise reading them in different voices.

You ready? First word, is.

My turn, is.

Your turn.

Is.

Is.

Is.

Fantastic.

Peacock is proud of his feathers.

The next word, his.

My turn, his.

Your turn.

His.

His.

His.

Well done.

Tiger is proud to have all of his stories.

The word is his.

And the last word today is, our.

My turn, our.

Your turn.

Our.

Your turn.

Our.

Our, our.

Our.

Brilliant job.

"We need to get our things back," cried dog.

So the first thing that I would like you to do with these tricky words today is to practise spelling them using your look, cover, write, check strategy.

So take each word at a time, look at it carefully, cover it up, write it down three times, then uncover it so that you can check it.

And at that point you might fix any mistakes you may have made, and you might like to carry on writing it.

You might want to do it more than three times until you feel really confident, until you have learned to spell that word from memory.

So pause the video now and have a go at that.

Fantastic job using your look, cover, write, check strategy.

to practise your tricky words.

So the last thing that I would like you to do with your tricky words today, is to have a think about which one of them would make sense in each of these sentences.

So your first sentence, "We must get, mm, things back," cried Peacock.

Anansi, mm, a trickster.

Mm, tricks made Tiger lose all of his stories.

So pause the video now and complete those sentences with the correct tricky word.

Fantastic, you're back.

So let's go through them, shall we? The first sentence should have the tricky word.

Go on tell me now, tell me to your screen.

Our, fantastic.

It should say, "We must get our things back!" cried Peacock.

The next sentence.

Anansi, mm, a trickster.

Go on, what tricky word should go in there? Tell me to your screen now.

Well done.

It's is, isn't it? Anansi is a trickster.

And finally, mm, tricks made Tiger lose all of his stories.

Go on tell me to your screen.

It's his, isn't it? His tricks made Tiger lose all of his stories.

And there his would have a capital letter because it's going to be the beginning of that sentence.

Fantastic job on your tricky words today.

Now let's move on to our reading.

Now I told you that I was going to tell you what inference meant.

So inference is sometimes called reading between the lines, and that's because we add information to the clues in the text to make meaning of them.

So in order for us to understand better what we're reading we can look for clues.

So things that aren't written on the page in front of us, but we use what we know already to work out extra information.

And we're going to do that today by thinking really hard about what the characters say and do in the story to find out what else it tells us about them.

Before we start to infer, let's just remind ourselves what we do to help us read the words on the page.

So if we come across a word that is difficult to read, what do we do? We look at the letters, make the sounds, and blend them together.

Fantastic.

If it's a tricky word or a sight word we can't sound it out, can we? So we see it, we say it.

We see it, we say it.

Well done.

If we don't understand the sentence if we don't understand it, we go back and we reread.

What do we do? We go back and we reread.

Excellent.

And the final thing that we need to do, is to get our reading finger, ready to go under the words so that your reading finger can follow along as we read.

Now then, let's have a look at our strategies for inference.

Now that looks like a lot of text on this page, don't worry, I'm going to talk you through it.

So these are some things that we can do to help us infer, to help us look for clues in the text like detectives.

So first we can use what we already know to help us.

Next, we can use all of the information in the text, for example what characters say, how they say it, and what they do, that's going to help us too.

Next, we can use the punctuation to help us work out the meaning.

So remember question marks might show that a character is confused.

They might be asking themselves a question or somebody else a question, and exclamation marks usually show strong feeling, so they can help us work out extra meaning.

And finally, we're going to look for bold or italic prints.

Now bold is when the letters really stand out, and italic is when they're printed so that they're slanted.

So it looks like they're leaning to the side.

Or a word written in capital letters, maybe.

All of those things can help us infer meaning, which means, work out extra information from the text.

So let's put that into practise, shall we? Before we start reading, let's just practise our tricky words.

My turn, your turn.

Called, your turn.

Called, your turn.

Fantastic.

His, we've already done that one today.

His, your turn.

Brilliant.

Who.

My turn, who.

Your turn.

Fantastic.

When, your turn.

When, your turn.

All, your turn.

All, your turn.

And finally, would.

Your turn.

Would, your turn.

Brilliant job.

So those are our tricky words that we are going to come across in the text today.

Remember, we can't sound those words out, so when we see them, we're going to say them.

Now let's begin reading our story.

As we read, I would like you to think about this big question.

What can we find out about Tiger? So as we're reading, be thinking, what does this tell me about Tiger? So let's go.

Are you ready? Reading finger under the first word.

Once, a long time ago, all the stories told in the jungle were called Tiger stories.

There was Tiger and Elephant, Tiger and the Sun, Tiger the Great and so on.

Tiger simply knew and had all the best stories.

"Am I not the best storyteller in the jungle?" he would say and all the other animals would reply, "Oh yes, you are the best." Go on, do that with me.

Be the other animals with me ready? Oh yes, you are the best.

Let's find out what else we're going to read about Tiger.

Whenever Tiger heard this, he would stick his chest out proudly.

Go on, do that with me.

Stick your chest out proudly.

Fantastic.

Whatever Tiger heard this, he would stick his chest out proudly.

Every night, he would stand tall outside his cave, telling his stories to anyone who would listen.

When the animals clapped and cheered him at the end.

Go on, should we do that? Let's clap and cheer him.

He would grin with delight.

Let's be Tiger, grinning with delight.

Ready, do that with me too.

Fantastic.

So when the animals clapped and cheered him at the end, he would grin with delight.

Now then, we are going to make some inferences about Tiger.

What can we learn about Tiger from what we've just read? Now here is a statement.

Tiger loves being the best storyteller.

Do you think we can infer that? Do you think we can work that out? Tiger loves being the best storyteller.

I wonder if you agree or disagree with that statement.

I wonder if you can find any clues in the text about what Tiger says or does to help you work out whether you agree or disagree.

So I would like you to go back to the text, reread it, and look for some clues about what Tiger says or does that can make you infer that he loves being the best storyteller.

And you can use this sentence stem to help you frame your answer.

I agree.

Or I disagree with the statement because in the text it says.

So pause the video now and have a go at that.

Brilliant job.

You're back, well done for having a go.

So we are trying to work out whether we agree that Tiger loves being the best storyteller.

And we're looking for some clues in the text to help us work that out.

So I wonder what you found.

Now, go on, tell me whether you agree or disagree with that statement and say why, go on tell me at your screen now.

Ah, okay.

So it sounds like most of you agree with that statement, you agree that Tiger loves being the best storyteller.

And some of you gave me some great reasons why, you found some clues in the text.

So should we have a look at one? This is one clue, isn't it? And it's about what Tiger says.

What does he say? Am I not the best storyteller in the jungle? Now because he says that, that tells us that he does love being the best storyteller, because it tells us that he's looking for praise, isn't he? He's looking for compliments.

He's looking for people to tell him how good he is.

So that's one clue we found in the text.

Let's have a look for some more clues.

What else makes us think that Tiger loves being the best storyteller? It's what he does, isn't it? So look at all of these things that he does that tells us how much he loves being the best storyteller.

First, he sticks his chest out proudly, doesn't he? Next, He stands tall, outside his cave telling his stories to anyone who would listen.

And last of all, what's the last thing he does? Go on, tell me to your screen.

Fantastic, well spotted.

He grins with delight, doesn't he? When they all clap and cheer him.

So those are all clues in the text that make us think that Tiger does love being the best storyteller and well done because by finding those clues about what Tiger says and does you have just inferred some information about him.

You've just worked something out about him that wasn't written on the page.

Now, then I have two more statements for you.

Tiger wants to eat the other animals and the other animals want to please him.

Those are the statements in the green boxes on your screen.

Now, which one of those do you most agree with and why? I would like you to pause the video, go back to the text again and try and find some clues in there to help you decide which one of those statements you should most agree with and why.

And then get ready to tell me your answer in a full sentence.

I agree with the statement, mm, because in the text it says so go back to the text now and try and find some clues to help you answer this question.

Pause the video and do that.

Brilliant effort.

Well done, you're back.

Now go on then, so tell me, which of those statements do you most agree with and why? Tell me to your screen now.

Fantastic, well, none of you agreed with that first one.

You all disagreed with this statement.

Tiger wants to eat the other animals.

Well done you're right to disagree.

It doesn't tell us that anywhere in the text, does it? Nowhere does it tell us that Tiger wants to eat the other animals.

In fact, we know that he loves their attention, doesn't he? So you did agree with the second statement.

The other animals want to please him.

Now, shall we take a look at the clues that you found to prove why that is true? So go on then.

How do we know that the animals do want to please him? What do they do? It's something that they do, isn't it? Tell me what it is.

Tell me to your screen now.

They.

Fantastic.

They clap and cheer him at the end.

Don't they? So whenever he told stories, the animals clapped and cheered him at the end, that tells us that the other animals do want to please him.

Fantastic job.

Now then, we are going to carry on reading the story, but this time you have a different question.

This time, your question is, what can we find out about Anansi? So be thinking about that question as we read.

Reading finger under the first word.

Read with me, let's go.

Fed up with the situation, Anansi decided he would, oh, I don't know this word, help me out, what can I do? I can look at the letters, make the sounds and blend them together, can't I? Do that with me.

T-R-I-CK Trick.

Fed up with the situation, Anansi decided he would trick Tiger out of all his stories, Anansi went to Tiger's cave.

"Oh Tiger." he called in a sing-song voice.

Do that with me, go on.

Oh Tiger.

Tiger came prowling out of his cave and growled.

"What do you want?" Go and put on your best growling Tiger's voice for me and say that with me again.

What do you want? Brilliant.

Now let's see what we can infer, what we can work out about how Tiger feels about Anansi.

So this is your statement.

Tiger does not like him very much.

What do you think? Is that true or false? Do you agree or disagree with that statement? So I would like you to go back to the text and have a look for clues that help you work out whether that is true.

What do you think Tiger does not like him very much.

Do you agree or disagree? Where are the clues in the text that can help support your answer? So pause the video now and have a look for those.

Fantastic, go on, I would love to hear your thoughts.

So tell me first, if you agree or disagree with that statement, tell me to your screen now.

Very interesting.

So nearly all of you agree.

You agree that Tiger does not like him very much.

And how do we know? What is it in the text that tells us that? Is it something Tiger says? Let's have a look.

Now go on, you tell me what is the evidence, what are clues in the text that tell you Tiger does not like him very much? Oh, well done, really well spotted.

Some of you have found the clue that tells us what he says.

Now, what does Tiger say? He says, "What do you want?" Now, remember I told you when we did our strategy check, that we can sometimes look for words in italics.

And italics, mean the word is slanted.

So it's leaning to one side like the word you.

And that means that we emphasise it more with our voice.

So we say it like this.

What do you want? Now that tells us that that Tiger is not happy to see Anansi.

So we know that that tells us, what he says there tells us he does not like him very much.

What else tells us that he doesn't like him very much? Can you find something that Tiger does? Go on, what does Tiger do? Tell me at your screen now.

He.

Fantastic.

Really well spotted in the text.

He came prowling out of his cave and growled.

So the fact that he growled tells us that he was very grumpy and unhappy to see Anansi, and also the verb prowling.

Now prowling means to creep almost as if you're hunting.

So it's like, he's searching for his prey.

Almost like he sees a Nancy as his prey.

Anansi is something that he wants to hunt.

He wants to get rid of him.

So those things tell us that Tiger does not like an Anansi very much.

So which of these words best describes Anansi and why? Jealous, greedy, or mischievous.

Mischievous means having fun by doing things that we shouldn't.

So which of those words would you choose to best describe Anansi.

I would like you to have a think about that and go back to the text and find some clues to support what you think.

So pause the video now and do that.

Well done.

You're back.

Good effort, I would like to hear your thoughts.

So tell me in a full sentence.

I think Anansi is mostly, mm, because in the text it says.

Go on tell me to your screen.

Okay, lots of different ideas.

So should we have a look some of the clues in the text to back up what we think? Now some of you said that Anansi was mostly jealous and that's because he wanted the stories for himself.

And some of you thought he was greedy.

And again, that's for the same reason, because it says in the text, look, he wanted the stories for himself.

And some of you thought he was mischievous because he wanted to trick Tiger.

So it could be any one of those things.

There's evidence in the text for all three.

So I think Anansi is a mixture of all three.

He's jealous, he's greedy and he's mischievous.

well done, for finding those clues.

Now your last question today, which character would you most like to meet? Tiger or Anansi? And why? So pause the video and have a think about that.

And get ready to tell me in a full sentence.

I would most like to meet, mm, because.

So pause the video and have a think.

Now I am really interested to hear your thoughts on this one.

So tell me in a full sentence.

I would most like to meet, mm, because.

Tell me to your screen now.

Really interesting.

So most of you say that you would rather meet Tiger, because you think Anansi might trick you.

Also, we know that Tiger is very honourable, don't we? He keeps his word.

He keeps his promise and gives Anansi all of his stories.

We also know that Tiger doesn't like Anansi much and that tells us that he is a good judge of character.

He doesn't like him with good reason.

Anansi is a trickster.

But some of you say that you would like to meet at Anansi because you think he's very clever and you'd like to know what trick he would play next.

And I kind of agree with you that I would like to find that out too.

And that brings us to the end of our lesson today.

I hope you've enjoyed reading the story with me and making inferences to work out a bit more about characters, about what they're like and about how they feel from what they say and what they do.

Well done, you've worked really hard on that today.

See you in lesson six.