Lesson video

Hello, I am Ms. Corbett, and thank you so much for choosing to learn with me today.

Today's lesson is called "Writing Captions About People Who Help Us," which is so exciting 'cause it means we're going to get our writing hands ready and start writing.

For this lesson, you will need to make sure you have a copy of the book, "A Superhero Like You," by Dr.

Ranj.

And your copy needs to look just like this.

Could you go and get it for me? Pause the video.

Have you got it? Fantastic.

Could you put it down in front of you? You will also need those listening ears.

Have you got them? Those looking eyes, and your thinking brain.

As well as that, you will need something to write with and to write on.

It would be great if you could have some lined paper.

Maybe you need to pause the video again and go and get those things now.

Off you go.

Pause the video.

Great, let's get started on our lesson.

Off we go.

Here is the outcome for today's lesson.

"I can name and write captions for people who help us in the community." So by the end of this lesson you will have written your very own caption.

And don't worry if you don't know what that means 'cause we're going to learn about it today.

Our key words are going to help us with our learning.

These key words will come up again and again throughout the lesson, so we are going to get started.

Remember, don't worry if you don't know what they mean 'cause I will remind you when they come up, and you will by the end of this lesson.

First, my turn, then your turn.

Caption.

Noun.

Common noun.

Proper noun.

Capital letter.

Well done.

Should we do it one more time a bit quicker? Off we go.

Caption.

Noun.

Common noun.

Proper noun.

Capital letter.

Amazing.

Well done.

The first part of our lesson is going to be asking the question, "What are nouns?" Then we will write our caption.

We know that rereading a story really helps us to remember the plot, which means what happens in the story, as well as notice some extra detail in both the text, the writing, and the illustrations.

So you are going to listen to the story again, "A Superhero Like You." But whilst you are listening, I would like you to try and remember all of the people who are in the community and help in this book, including the ones that peep up in the illustrations.

So you are going to listen to the whole story without stopping.

Make sure you have someone who can read it to you.

Can you pause the video now? Happy reading.

Off you go.

I really, really hoped you enjoyed listening to the story again.

I know I enjoyed, really, really enjoyed reading it again as well.

So can you remember who are the people in the community who have jobs that help us? I wonder if you can list as many as you can.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Wow, you remembered so many, and you didn't even peek through the book.

Fantastic.

Well done.

Now all of the words and the names that you just listed are nouns.

(gasps) One of our key words? My turn, your turn.

Nouns.

Let's have a look at some of them.

A carer, those who care for people.

Firefighter, air ambulance pilot, vet, scientist, and doctor.

Did you name any of those? All of those are naming words, which means they are nouns.

Well done.

Oh and one more, teacher.

Fantastic.

What I am.

Nouns are naming words.

Can we repeat that? Nouns are naming words.

Well done.

They name people, places or things.

My turn, nouns name people, places or things.

Well done.

People, places and things.

So anything that is a thing, a place or a person is a noun.

Well done.

These nouns that we're focusing on are all people.

So the ones that we've listed already and we have a few more to look at.

Postal workers, dentists, and nurses.

Hmm, I wonder.

Can you think of one more person who helps us that we haven't mentioned just yet? I'm going to give you five seconds to think.

Five.

Fantastic.

You could have had police officers, or soldiers, or shop workers.

Really good job.

And these are all nouns.

Nouns are people, places and things.

Well done.

But there are different type of nouns, which is where our other keywords come in.

Common nouns, there it is, name people, places and things, but they don't name specific people, places and things.

So they do not need a capital letter.

So common nouns are the people who help us 'cause we're naming doctors, nurses, soldiers, police officers, but they don't have a specific name.

We don't know their name.

So that means they are common nouns.

Well done.

So for example, a vet is a common noun.

Doctor, scientist, recycling truck driver or carer.

These all common nouns 'cause they don't have a specific name but they're naming people.

Let's look at some sentences, and I want you try and spot the common nouns of the people who help us.

There might be some other nouns there, but I just want you to spot the common nouns for the people who help us.

I'm going to read you the sentence.

"The vet helps the animal." Can you get your pointing finger ready? Where is the common noun for the people who help us? Can you point to it for me? I'm going to give you five seconds.

Are you pointing? Well done if you are pointing to vet.

Because the vet is the naming word, the noun of a person who helps us.

Ready for the next one? "A teacher gave her class a round of applause." Hmm, which is the common noun of the people who help us? Could you point to it now? Five seconds.

Well done if you are pointing to teacher.

A teacher is a common noun, and a teacher is a naming word for a person who helps us in the community.

One more sentence.

"The firefighter worked with his team." Okay, are you ready? Are you ready? Point to the proper, common noun, sorry, getting ahead of myself, for the person who helps us in the community.

Pointing now.

Five seconds.

Well done if you got firefighter.

The firefighter is our common noun.

We don't know with their specific names, so all of these are common nouns.

But there are different types of nouns.

We know common nouns.

Let's have a look at another type of noun.

Proper nouns, (gasps) another one of our keywords.

Proper nouns named specific people, places and things.

And we know that we are focusing on people today.

So can we say proper noun? Well done.

Let's have a look.

And proper nouns always need capital letters to show that they are specific people.

Capital letter.

Well done.

Let's have a look.

Dr.

Ranj.

(gasps) Dr.

Ranj is the author of "A Superhero Like You" and a real life doctor.

Now because it doesn't just say doctor, and it's a specific name, it needs a capital letter.

There it is, Dr.

Ranj, so we know it's a proper noun.

Well done.

Ready for the next one? Postman Pat, (gasps) a specific name of something.

So that means Postman Pat is a proper noun.

(gasps) But I can't see any capital letters.

Fingers crossed we'll get them.

(gasps) There they are.

And one more.

Lily, the specific name of the character in the book.

Lily.

But what does Lily need? A capital letter.

Well done.

So you are a proper noun.

You are a specific person, so that's why your name always has to start with a capital letter because you are a proper noun.

Well done.

So true or false? Let's see if you've been listening.

Show me your thumbs up or your thumbs down.

True or false? Proper nouns always need a capital letter.

Is that true or false? I'm going to give you five seconds.

Five.

Well done if you are showing me a thumbs up because proper nouns always need a capital letter even if they aren't starting your sentence.

Well done.

Now it is your job to try and sort the nouns into the correct columns.

You have got common nouns and proper nouns.

So I'm going to show you some and you're going to decide are they a common noun or are they a proper noun, a specific name of someone? Are you ready? Fireman Sam.

(gasps) Hmm, I can see some capital letters that might help me.

Teacher.

Nurse James.

Shop worker.

Okay, you are going to pause the video and decide if these nouns are common nouns or proper nouns.

Pause the video and off you go.

Well done.

Let's see how you got on.

Let's see.

Are we ready? So, hmm, Fireman Sam is a proper noun.

I know that because Fireman Sam is a specific name of somebody.

There's only one Fireman Sam, so it needs a capital letter.

Let's have a look for the next one.

Teacher, is that a common noun or a proper noun? (gasps) It's a common noun because it's not a specific name but it is still a naming word.

Nurse James, what do you think? Hmm.

Proper noun because it has a capital letter because it's the specific name of someone.

And shop worker.

Hmm.

It's not the specific name of someone, and it doesn't have a letter, so I think it's a common noun.

Well done.

I really hope you managed to get all of those.

And now we're going to move on to writing our own captions.

We are getting ready to write.

We know that it is really important to warm up our hands before we write.

This is because your hands and your wrists get stronger when you exercise them, just like any other muscle in your body.

Making your hands and your wrist stronger will help you to hold your pencil using your tripod grip, which means your handwriting will nice and neat and your pen or pencil will be comfortable in your hand.

So let's do a couple of warmups for our hands before we start writing.

I would like you to get one hand here and one hand here, and I would like you to bang a silent drum.

Well done.

Now I would like to get your fingers like this and play a silent piano.

Fantastic.

And one more.

We are going to get our hands like this, and we are going to strum a silent guitar.

Well done.

Do you think your hands are feeling ready? Put them and stretch up here.

Stretch down here.

And I want you to clap three times.

(claps) I think we are ready to write.

We are going to write.

When we write, we know there are lots of things we have to try and do and remember.

We need to write our letters neatly on the line so somebody can read it back.

We need to try and form our letters correctly.

We need to use our phonics to sound out and spell words.

And, once we finished, we read our writing back to check.

Do you think you can do that today? Fantastic.

We know that all of these words are common nouns, which means they are naming words: carer, firefighter, air ambulance pilot, vet, scientist, doctor and teacher.

They're some of the ones from the story.

Today we will be writing a caption.

(gasps) There's our key word, caption.

We will be writing captions about people who help us.

And as they are people, our caption will be a noun.

Well done.

We will use common nouns because we do not know the name of the people we are talking about.

So we will be naming the job instead, which means it's a common noun.

Do you know the names of any people who have a job that helps a community? So we don't know the names of the people in the story, we just know them as firefighters, doctors.

But I wonder if you know anybody in real life who has these jobs.

Could you pause the video and try and name them? Off you go.

Pause the video.

Wow, it's so exciting to hear that you know some people who have those really helpful jobs in our community.

Now the people you name there are proper nouns because they are real people.

We are going to be writing common nouns because we don't know their names.

So we are writing a caption.

(gasps) Now we're going to hear about what a caption is.

A caption is a word or a group of words that something, like a picture.

So here we have got our photo of a scientist, and here we have got our caption, which is the label underneath telling us what it is.

That's quite useful.

Why do you think captions are useful for people? Could you pause the video now and have a think? Captions are useful because? Pause the video.

Well done.

I'd love to hear some of your ideas.

Let's have a look.

Captions are most used in non-fiction books, things about real things.

Here's another caption.

Here's in my picture, and the caption is a teacher in England.

So that's a group of words telling us who it is and where they are.

England has a capital letter because it's a proper noun.

Captions are used to label or explain an image.

The image might be a photo, a drawing, or a diagram.

A caption might be one word or a group of words.

We're going to be writing a one-word caption today.

So have a think.

I want your true or false.

Captions are used to label words.

Hmm, to caption label words, or do they label something else? Could you have a think? I'm going to give you 10 seconds, and show me true or false.

Captions are used to label words.

10 seconds.

Five.

Well done.

(gasps) That is definitely false because captions aren't used to label words.

Captions are used to label pictures, photos, drawings or diagrams, and that's what we are going to be doing today.

You are going to write a caption about a job that helps the community, but you get to choose which job.

It might be a soldier, a shopkeeper, a police officer, a nurse, a dentist, or a postal worker.

Or it might be another one that we've seen earlier in the lesson or one that you spotted in the book.

Can you have a think? You might want to pause the video and say, "I am going to choose." Pause the video.

Well done.

I love your choices.

Really, really good job.

I wonder which one you are gonna to choose.

I can't wait to see it in your writing.

When we write words, we should say the word.

So have the word in your head.

My word is dentist, so I'm going to say it.

Dentist.

Sound the word out.

Ooh, a long word, dentist.

Duh, eh, nn, tuh, ih, ss, tuh, dentist.

Count the number of sounds.

Duh, eh, nn, tuh, ih, ss, tuh.

Dentist, seven sounds.

Then you write the word, so I would write it.

Duh, eh, nn, tuh, ih, ss, tuh.

Then before you move on, read the word back by sounding it out to check.

I think you can do that today.

Do you think you can? Fantastic.

So we are going to get started with our writing.

We are going to try and write a caption that is a noun.

And our success criteria helps us know what we need to include.

So our caption must be a noun.

And you are going to sound out the words you have written.

It's my turn first, and I would love for you to help me.

I am getting ready to write.

Before I write, I need to make sure that I have my line paper to write with in front of me, I have something to write with, and I'm sitting comfortably.

You might also have your success criteria in front of you.

Let's have a look at it.

I have written a caption that is a noun.

That's the one that I've already planned.

I'm going to write the word dentist.

Here I have a photo of a dentist.

You might either have a photo as well, or you might draw your person who helps you.

Let's look at the next part of the success criteria.

I have sounded out the word I have written.

It's so important that we sound out our words, especially for longer words like dentist.

Let's do that first.

I'm going to say the word, and I'd like to say it back to help me, dentist.

(gasps) Now I'm going to stretch it out so I hear all the sounds.

Dentist.

Can you do that for me? Now I'm going to segment each sound.

Duh, eh, nn, tuh, ih, ss, tuh.

Dentist.

Could you do that with me? Duh, eh, nn, tuh, ih, ss, tuh.

Dentist.

(gasps) Okay, I think I'm ready to write.

I'm going to write the word dentist.

I'm going to do the first bit first.

Duh, eh, nn.

Can you say the sounds with me? Duh, eh, nn.

Den, tuh, ih, ss, tuh.

Dentist, so tuh.

What's my next sound? Duh, eh, nn, tuh.

Ih, well done.

Duh, eh, nn, tuh, ih.

Ss, dentist.

What's my final sound? Duh, eh, nn, tuh, ih, ss, tuh.

Another tuh, letter T at the end.

There is my word dentist.

I've written it underneath my photo because that is where my caption is going to go to label the photo.

Let's check my success criteria.

I have written a caption that is a noun.

A noun is a naming word.

Dentist is my noun, and I have written it as a caption so I can give that a tick.

I have sounded out the word I have written.

Thanks to all of your help, we sounded that long word, dentist, out together.

I'm going to give that a tick.

If you have chosen a person who helped you that's quite difficult to found out, maybe you'll have a word bank to help you.

I have finished.

Thank you so much for helping me.

And now it's your turn.

Now you are going to choose a job that helps with community and write a caption for it.

Like I said, you might have a photo to stick in, or you could do a drawing.

And then underneath, write your caption.

Don't forget to check your success criteria.

Pause the video and happy writing.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

What amazing writing.

And I can see so many brilliant captions.

Let's check.

You have chosen a job that helps the community, and you have written a caption for it.

You can see an example of mine here.

There is my photo, and underneath you can see the word duh, eh, nn, tuh, ih, ss, tuh, dentist.

So have I written a caption that is a noun? Yes.

And have I sounded it out? Yes.

You helped me.

I would like you to check your success criteria and make sure that you have met it.

If you haven't, that's okay because we are all learning, but you might want to fix it so you can meet it.

Pause the video and check your success criteria.

Off you go.

Well done.

Did you manage to check and meet your success criteria? Fantastic.

What amazing learning.

Thank you so much for learning with me today.

I really enjoyed our lesson.

We now know that a noun is a naming word for people, places, or things.

We also know that proper nouns name specific things and common nouns do not.

Captions label photos, drawings, or diagrams. And you have managed to write your own caption.

Fantastic learning, and I really hope to see you again.

Bye.