Lesson video

Hello, everybody.

I'm Miss Corbett, and thank you so much for learning with me today for the lesson, Introducing adjectives to describe people who help us.

Now, one of my favorite things to do, once I read a book, is use the book to write something descriptive.

And that's what we're going to be doing today about the characters in "A Superhero Like You." So for this lesson, you will need a few things.

The first thing you will need is a copy of the book, "A Superhero Like You," by Dr.

Ranj.

Have you got that? The second thing you need is a pencil or a pen, something to write with.

And the third thing you need will be some lined paper to write on.

The book, a pen or a pencil, and something to write on.

Can you go and get those things now? Pause the video.

Let's check, have you got the book? Great job! Do you have a pen or a pencil? Fantastic! And do you have something to write with? Amazing! 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 keywords 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're 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 have our 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 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 got them.

The nouns are shopkeeper, 'cause 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 got shopkeeper and soldier.

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

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

(gasps) There's our keyword, 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 turn, then your turn.

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 add 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 don't know 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 maybe 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 around, 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 danced 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 solved 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 wrist 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 paw 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 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 our 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 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-ind.

Kind.

Then, we count the number of sounds it has.

K-i-nd, 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.

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

I wrote a kind teacher.

You've practiced 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.