Lesson video

Hello everyone, I'm Miss Corbett and thank you so much for joining me today.

I'm really excited to get started on today's lesson which will be exploring the idea of a superhero and making predictions.

But for this lesson you need your own copy of the book A Superhero Like You by Dr Ranj.

You need to make sure that your copy looks just like mine.

Can you pause the video and go and get your copy? Off you go.

Fantastic.

Now we are ready to get started.

Let's get started with our lesson.

By the end of today's lesson you will be able to make a prediction about a book using what you know about superheroes and using the front cover.

So for this lesson, remember, you will the need the copy of your book, and you'll also need your listening ears.

Can I see them? Your looking eyes, and your thinking brains.

You will also need somebody to talk to.

Let's get started.

Here are our keywords for the lesson.

These help us get through our lesson together.

Don't worry if you don't know what they mean right now because they will all come up in our learning together.

My turn, your turn.

Let me hear you.

Title.

Title.

Author.

Author.

Describe.

Describe.

Prediction.

Prediction.

And, fiction.

Fiction.

Fantastic joining in.

Let's go through one more time, a bit quicker.

Title.

Author.

Describe.

Prediction.

Fiction.

Well done for joining in so brilliantly.

So here is our lesson.

We will be looking at the front cover, talking about what a superhero is, and then we will make a prediction.

We will start by looking at the front cover.

We are going to be starting our English lesson now.

In English lessons, we like to learn through books because books can help us to do so many things.

They can help us to communicate, which means speak and understand each other.

They can help us to learn to read, to learn to write, and imagine.

It can also help us to learn more about the world.

Let's have a look at the book that we are going to be learning about now.

Have a look at the front cover.

You might look at the front cover that you have in front of you.

Hm.

You are going to pause the video and say everything that you can see on the front cover.

You are going to say it in a full sentence.

I can see.

Pause the video and off you go.

I heard so many great things that you can see on the front cover.

I'm going to tell you what I can see on the front cover.

I can see the title, which is the name of our story.

The title of this book is A Superhero Like You.

Can you say that? Well done.

Let's see what else I can see.

(gasping) I can also see lots and lots of illustrations.

Illustrations are the drawings or the pictures that we can see.

I can also see the author, one of our keywords.

I told you they would come up.

The author is the person who writes a story and thinks of the ideas in the story, and this author is Dr Ranj.

Finally, I can see the name of the illustrator.

The illustrator's name is Liam Darcy and Liam Darcy is the person who has drawn all of these fantastic illustrations.

I want you to now have your front cover in front of you so you can see it.

I would also like you to get your pointing finger because you are going to point to the different parts of the story.

I've got my front cover here.

Can you point to the title? Off you go.

Well done if you managed to point to the title.

A Superhero Like You.

Can you get that pointing finger ready and point to the illustration? Let me see.

(gasping) Well done, the illustrations are taking up most of our front cover because the illustrations are our drawings.

Ready for the next one? Pointing finger ready? Point to the author.

Hm.

Let me see.

Well done, the author is the person who wrote the story, Dr Ranj.

And finally, get that pointing finger ready, point to the illustrator.

(gasping) There is the illustrator, Liam Darcy, the person who drew the pictures.

Fantastic.

I couldn't trick you, well done.

Now, Dr Ranj is the author of this book.

Dr Ranj is a real-life doctor, so his main job is to be a doctor.

And looking at the front cover, the doctor on the front cover actually looks just like him.

Hm, maybe that will help us to understand what this book might be about.

Remember, the author is the person who writes the words in a book.

I wonder, can you think of any authors that you know? Maybe books that you've read at home or at school.

Pause the video and share any authors that you know.

Off you go.

I heard so many.

I'm going to share some authors that I know.

Hm, here are some front covers of some books written by some authors that I know.

Do you know the authors of any of these books? Have a little look.

Hm.

Let's see if you were right.

I can see The Gruffalo.

The author of The Gruffalo is Julia Donaldson.

This is one of my favourite books, the next one, Clean Up! All about a little girl named Rocket and the author of this book is Nathan Bryon.

Then I have The Cat in the Hat, which was one of my favourite stories when I was a little girl, by Dr Seuss.

And finally, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The author of this book is Eric Carle.

Maybe you named those authors or maybe you named some other ones as well.

Remember, an author is the person who writes the words in the book.

Fantastic listening everybody.

Let's check if you've been doing that listening.

What is an author? Is an author what the book is called? An author is the person who draws the illustrations? Or, is an author the person who writes the book? Pause the video and say to the person nearby, what is an author? Off you go.

Well done if you remembered that an author is the person who writes a book.

The author isn't what the book is called, that is the title.

Well done.

And the author is not the person who draws the illustrations, that is the illustrator.

Fantastic.

Now I'm going to talk to you about an author who I really like and talk to you about their books.

Are you listening? I love the book Paddington, have you heard of it? I love the book Paddington by the author Michael Bond.

I really like it because I enjoy listening to the adventures that Paddington and his family go on.

So that's my author who I really like.

Now it's your turn to think about a book that you have enjoyed and talk about it to the person nearby.

Firstly, you're going to name the title and the author.

Then, you're going to explain why you like that story using the word because.

And finally, you're going to listen to somebody else's ideas.

So, you will say, I love the book mm by the author mm.

Then you will explain why you like it.

I like it because.

And then, very importantly, listen to somebody else's idea so you can hear some recommendations of other books and authors.

Pause the video and off you go.

Fantastic.

I loved hearing all of your ideas from all of the authors that you know, and I love that you listened to other people's.

Here is what I heard.

I heard, I love the book Superworm by the author Julia Donaldson.

I heard the explanation, I like it because it reminds me of minibeast hunting in the park.

(gasping) I love that you linked it to your own experiences.

I wonder, did you manage to name the title of the book and the author? Well done if you did.

Now let's move on to the next part of our lesson, thinking about, what is a superhero? How exciting.

The title of this book is A Superhero Like You.

Well done.

So that is why we are going to think about, what is a superhero? First, can you think of any superheroes that you know? Hm, pause the video now and think of as many as you can.

Off you go.

Wow, I heard so many different types of superheroes, and don't worry if you didn't know any because by the end of this lesson you might do.

Superheroes often look a certain way and have some similarities, which means things that are the same.

Let's have a look at some superheroes that you might recognise.

These are some illustrations of some superheroes and I can see some similarities between them.

Most of them are wearing a mask to cover their identity.

They are all wearing a costume to show their superhero powers.

They're also standing in a particular way.

They are standing so they look brave and strong and powerful.

I wonder if you could stand like this.

Well done, I can see a whole load of superheroes.

So that's your stance or your body movement.

And, they might have some special powers as well.

(gasping) I wonder what power you would like to have.

Let's have a look at the word superhero then to see what it actually means.

Super, which is the first part of the word, means to go above, over, or beyond, something big, or over, or beyond.

And hero is somebody who can be described as brave or courageous, or someone who has done something amazing.

So when we put those two words together to make one word, superhero, it means someone who does something amazing and may have superpowers.

Hm, from the superheroes that we know, we know that superheroes with superpowers are fiction, (gasping) another one of our keywords.

Fiction means they have been made up and do not happen in real life.

So we might have someone who does something amazing, but they don't have special powers.

So this means that we superheroes we see in books, films, and comics are fiction, or made up.

So, a true or false for you.

You can give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

Superheroes are fictional characters.

I'll give you a bit of time to think.

I'm going to count down from five.

Show me your thumbs up or thumbs down for true or false.

Superheroes are fictional characters.

Five four three two one.

(gasping) Well done if you have your thumbs up, superheroes are fictional characters, which means they are made up.

So, superheroes, even though there are some similarities, can be described in different ways.

There's another one of our keywords.

When we describe, that means we are adding detail to something.

Can you say that word? Describe.

These words are called adjectives, which you might learn about really soon.

Let's have a look at some of those adjectives.

I'm going to read them and I'd like you to repeat them.

Brave.

Helpful.

Strong.

Caring.

Resilient, which means we never give up.

Powerful.

And unstoppable.

(gasping) I wonder which was your favourite describing word.

So, we just listed some describing words to describe a superhero, someone amazing who does something fantastic.

Which words out of these would you use to describe a superhero? Lazy, helpful, brave, or selfish, which means they only care about themselves.

I'm going to say them one more time and then choose two words that you would use to describe a superhero.

Lazy, helpful, brave, or selfish.

Pause the video now and share the two words that you would use to describe a superhero.

Off you go.

Let's see if you were right.

I would describe a superhero as helpful and brave.

Superheroes like to help other people and make things better, and they are often brave because they have to keep going and sometimes fight against somebody, don't they? I wouldn't describe a superhero as lazy because they're always on the move, trying to be helpful.

And I definitely wouldn't describe a superhero as selfish because they don't just think about themselves, they think about everybody else.

Well done if you got helpful and brave.

Now I am going to use two adjectives to describe superheroes.

Are you listening? Superheroes are caring and brave.

My two adjectives to describe are caring and brave.

Superheroes are caring and brave.

Well done.

Now, you are going to listen to the describing words or adjectives that I say.

You're going to choose two of them to describe superheroes in a sentence.

Superheroes are mm and mm.

Then you're going to listen to somebody else's description of superheroes and see if it's the same or different.

So, superheroes are.

Get your listening ears ready.

Brave.

Caring.

Selfish.

Lazy.

Unhelpful.

Helpful.

Unstoppable.

Boring.

Mean.

Kind.

And resilient.

(gasping) Which two are you going to choose? Superheroes are mm and mm.

Pause the video and off you go.

Let's see if you chose two adjectives to describe the superheroes.

I heard superheroes are helpful and unstoppable, and I heard superheros are caring and resilient.

(gasping) Did you manage to describe superheroes? And, did you listen to somebody else's description? Well done if you did.

Let's move on to the final part of our lesson, making a prediction.

The front cover helps you to make a prediction of what a book might be about.

There's our final keyword, prediction.

Well done.

A prediction means making a guess about something using what we know.

So not just a guess from my head, using the information that we know.

And we can use the front cover to help us with those predictions by looking for clues.

The title of the book and the illustrations can help us to make a prediction.

We can also use what we know about the topic to help make a prediction, which is why we've been thinking about superheroes and the name of the author, Dr Ranj, as well.

But we know that the title and the illustrations can help us to make a prediction.

So, let's see if you can remember.

Which parts of the front cover can help us to make a prediction? Is it the title? The author's name? Or the illustrations on the front cover? There are two things that can help us.

Pause the video and have a think, off you go.

Well done.

So we know that to make a prediction using the front cover, we can use the title and the illustrations.

So let's have a look at those to make our prediction today.

We know that the title of the book is A Superhero Like You, which is why we've talked about superheroes.

And we know now that the word superhero is a fictional, or made up idea.

However, the title is A Superhero Like You, which may mean that people like you (gasping) get to be superheroes.

(gasping) That sounds very exciting.

Have a look at the front cover again.

What do you notice about the people in capes on the front cover compared to the superheroes that we have seen so far? What do you notice about them? Pause the video now, have a look at your front cover, and speak to the person nearby.

Off you go.

(gasping) I have noticed the same thing.

They aren't wearing costumes like the superheroes we've talked about so far, the fictional ones, they're wearing work clothes.

I can see a firefighter's outfit, I can see, maybe, an air ambulance pilot's outfit, and a doctor.

Hm, and I can see people in green as well, I wonder what they do.

But they're all wearing capes, so they all look like superheroes.

Hm, I think that can help us make our prediction.

I am going to make a prediction using the front cover.

I predict that this book will be about different superheroes.

I think this because I can see lots of people and the word superhero is in the title.

So I've said my prediction and I've explained why using the title and the illustrations to help me.

Now it's your turn.

You are going to make a prediction about what you think the story will be about.

Then you will explain why you think this using because.

And finally, you will listen to somebody else's prediction and see if they're the same or different.

Remember, a prediction is just your idea, it's a guess, so it doesn't matter if your prediction is different to somebody else's.

So you will say, I predict that.

Then you will explain why.

I think this because.

Pause the video and make your prediction.

Off you go.

I heard some fantastic predictions.

I heard, I predict that this book will be about helpful people.

I think this because I can see a doctor and superheroes are helpful.

What a fantastic prediction and explanation.

Was your prediction similar, the same, or different to the other person you spoke to? Hm.

Fantastic.

Well done today.

I've loved learning with you today and today we have learnt that superheros are fictional characters that may be described as brave, strong, or powerful.

We've also learned that superheroes are known for having a certain type of appearance, so what they look like.

And finally, we've used all of that information to make a prediction, and we've also used the front cover and the title to help us.

Thank you so much for learning with me today and I really hope I'll see you again soon, bye.