Hello, everybody, I'm Miss Corbett and welcome to today's lesson: Writing Facts About Floella Benjamin.

I'm really looking forward to today because one of my favourite things to do is learn from the books that we read.

And Floella Benjamin had a really, has had a really interesting life.

So for this lesson, you need to have your listening ears, your looking eyes and your thinking brain.

As well as that you need someone to talk to and share your ideas with and you need something to write with and write on.

You will also need a copy of the 2020 Macmillan Children's Book Edition of "Coming to England" by Baroness Floella Benjamin.

So you need to go and make sure you have something to write with and something to write on, and sitting in a comfortable place and a copy of the book "Coming to England." Pause the video now to make sure you've got it.

Are you ready? Let me see.

Fantastic.

Can you put all of your things to the side for now so I know you are listening, and we are ready to get started.

Here is the outcome for today's lesson: By the end of this lesson, you will have written facts about Floella Benjamin and these keywords will help us to get there.

First, I would like you to repeat them after me in your loud and proud voice.

My turn, your turn.

Fact, nonfiction, information, joining word, proper noun.

Thank you for joining in with me.

I wonder if you've heard any of those before.

A fact is something that is known to be true or proved and we are going to be retrieving facts, true things about the life of Floella Benjamin Nonfiction is a genre or type of text or book which presents real information, (stumbles word) real events, sorry, information or knowledge.

And information is facts learned about something or someone, in this case, Floella Benjamin.

A joining word is a word that joins words or ideas, like "and" and a proper noun is a naming word of specific things that always has a capital letter.

So now let's move on to the first part of our lesson, Learning from "Coming to England." We have read "Coming to England." What can you remember about it? Maybe you can look at the front cover or through the book to remind yourself.

"I have learned.

." Pause the video now.

Somebody here has learned that it is a book about the life of Floella Benjamin, and it is about her real life so it is nonfiction.

As "Coming to England" is a non-fiction book, it is based on real and true events.

This means we can learn facts and information from the book, which is what makes reading so exciting 'cause it can help us to learn.

A fact is something that has been proven to be true.

Look at these examples: The sky is blue.

I'm just looking outside.

Yes.

Dogs are a type of animal that have four legs.

Yes.

We live on planet Earth.

Those are things that have been proven to be true and we know it is a fact.

So which of these are facts? A: Books are made of paper.

B: I love reading.

and C: My favourite book is "Lulu Gets a Cat." So which one of those is a fact and how do you know? Pause the video now.

Well done if you said books are made of paper, that is a statement of truth, it's something that has been proven.

B and C: I love reading, my favourite book is "Lulu Gets a Cat" are opinions, which is a personal view about something.

So that might vary from person to person.

Rereading a nonfiction book helps us to remember the main parts as well as learn and remember facts and information.

You are going to read the whole book without stopping, and whilst you're listening, think about what you can remember about Floella Benjamin's life.

You might remember some things that other people might not 'cause you might find some parts more interesting than other people do and vice versa.

So I really hope you enjoy listening to the whole book.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic listening.

And I wonder what you managed to remember.

Here are some facts that we have learned about Floella Benjamin.

Here's Floella Benjamin.

Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad or born in the Caribbean islands.

Trinidad is an island on the Caribbean.

Floella emigrated, which means travelled to a new country, to England when she was 11-years-old.

Floella travelled for 15 days on a boat.

Floella and her family were treated unkindly at first.

Floella was honoured by the Queen for her work.

Did you remember any other facts? Well done if you did.

Keep them in your head.

Now I would like you to tell someone at least three facts that you have learned about Floella Benjamin's life.

It might be some of the ones that we just shared and I pulled out, or it might be some ones that you remembered.

Make sure that they are facts, they are statements of truth, real things that happened in her life.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic.

Here are some that I heard.

Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad.

Floella has brothers and she has sisters or siblings.

The markets in Trinidad sold mangoes, comma, sweet potatoes and breadfruit.

Did you remember the same or different facts? Could you show me same or different? Let me see.

Oh, I can see quite a lot of different which shows that we know so many facts about Floella Benjamin and her life.

Answering questions about a book can help us to check our understanding and remember what we have learned.

"Coming to England" is a useful book to learn about the families who emigrate from different countries.

We will write in this lesson, facts about the life of Floella Benjamin.

But first we will make sure we remember them.

Did you know that when facts are written about the life of someone, it is called a biography.

Biography.

Can you say that with me? Biography.

Well done.

So by the end of this lesson, you will have written a mini biography of Floella Benjamin's life.

So now it's your turn.

So before we can write, we need to retrieve the information.

You are going to answer these questions about the life of Floella Benjamin in full sentences, talking with the person nearby.

You may need to look back at the book to retrieve the information and facts.

Your first question is: Which country did Floella Benjamin emigrate to? So where did she travel to? Floella Benjamin emigrated to.

How long did it take Floella Benjamin to travel by boat? It took.

to travel by boat.

And how old was Floella Benjamin when she emigrated? Floella was mm years old.

Pause the video now and answer those questions.

Fantastic answering, everybody.

And I really like that I saw checking through the book because this isn't a memory test.

This is what the books are for, to learn and remember.

So here are the answers.

Let's see if you got them.

Which country did Floella Benjamin emigrate to? Floella Benjamin emigrated to England.

How long did it take Floella Benjamin to travel by boat? It took Floella Benjamin 15 days to travel by boat.

How old was Floella Benjamin when she emigrated? Floella was 11 years old when she emigrated.

Did you manage to retrieve the correct facts to answer the questions? Fantastic.

I think we are ready to write our mini biography, our facts about Floella Benjamin.

We will write facts about Floella Benjamin's life using what we have learned using the joining word "and." A fact can be written as a statement in a sentence.

But when two facts are similar we can join the two ideas together using the joining word such as "and" Have a look at the success criteria for the writing.

"I have used a capital letter and a full stop." "I have used a capital letter for proper nouns, specific names of people, places or things." like "Floella Benjamin" or "England" or "Trinidad." "I have joined two facts together using the joining word "and."" So which of these are proper nouns, so we know that we are ready to meet our success criteria? Remember a proper noun always has a capital letter because it is the specific naming word of a person, place or thing.

Here is your options.

Can you see them closely? Look for those capital letters to help you.

Floella, boat, travel, England.

Pause the video now, find the proper nouns and explain how you know they're proper nouns.

Pause the video now.

Let's see if you got them.

"Floella" is a proper noun as it is the specific name of someone.

So my name, Miss Corbett, would have a capital letter just like yours and just like Floella's.

"England" is a specific name of a place, a country, so that also needs a capital letter.

"boat" is just a name of a thing, a normal naming, a common noun of a thing.

And "travel" is a verb.

That's something that we do.

We can use the joining word "and" to help us to join two similar ideas.

You can fly to Trinidad on a plane.

That's idea one and that is a fact.

It takes nine hours to fly to Trinidad.

That's idea two.

So that's actually some new learning from us because we know that Floella travelled by boat.

But as that was a long time ago, we now know that you can fly to Trinidad on a plane, idea one, then link to that idea, it takes nine hours on a plane to fly to Trinidad or from Trinidad to England.

Let's join those two ideas together.

The second idea is related to the first because it's adding to what we already know.

So we are going to join them together with the joining word "and." But have a look.

The punctuation has changed.

What has happened to the end of the punctuation of idea one and the start of the punctuation of idea two? Hmm.

The first full stop which was next to "plane" has been by "and" because we are not finishing the sentence at the end of idea one and the capital letter starting the second idea, the second sentence, has been removed because it's no longer a sentence on its own.

It's all one sentence.

So let's read it with the punctuation.

Capital letter to start the sentence.

"You can fly to Trinidad on a plane", we're not finished there "and it takes nine hours to fly to Trinidad." Full stop.

So my two ideas, which could be simple sentences on their own, have been joined together using the joining word "and." So which of these facts could be joined together because they are similar? Listen carefully.

Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad.

Trinidad is an island in the Caribbean.

Those two are all both about Trinidad.

So they could be joined together.

Let's keep reading.

Floella emigrated to England when she was 11 years old.

Floella travelled for 15 days on a boat.

Those two ideas are linked as well.

because they're both talking about the how that she travelled, that she moved and how she travelled.

Our final two facts aren't connected.

Floella was honoured by the Queen for her work.

Floella and her family were treated unkindly at first, but maybe you could think of a connecting fact for each of those.

Floella was honoured by the Queen for her work and Floella was an actress.

So look at the facts written as simple sentences.

The first one, Floella emigrated to England when she was 11 years old.

Floella travelled for 15 days on a boat.

Both of those sentences on their own start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.

But these two facts are similar because they're both talking about the time that Floella moved to England.

So we can join them together using "and." Here are my ideas.

I'm going to use the joining word "and." But remember, we said before that the second idea's capital letter is normally replaced but the first full stop is replaced by "and" which has happened.

But in this sentence, the second capital letter starting the second idea, Floella, stays because it is a proper noun because sometimes sentences start with proper nouns.

So we need to look out.

We can't always just take it away.

We need to look carefully to see if it's a proper noun.

So which of these sentences joins the two ideas together correctly? So we have got, the sentence is: "Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad and Trinidad is an island in the Caribbean." That's what the sentence says.

But only one of them is joined correctly.

Pause the video now and figure out which one it is.

C is correct.

A is incorrect because we haven't remembered to take away the full stop after the first idea.

It's one sentence.

So we only need a full stop at the end.

It's also incorrect because we took away the capital letter starting the second idea.

But Trinidad is a proper noun, so needs a capital letter.

B has the full stop in the right place and it has remembered to replace the full stop with "and," but again, Trinidad needs a capital letter.

So C is correct because the first idea has had its full stop taken away and replaced with "and" but it's remembered that Trinidad is a proper noun, so we need to keep the capital letter.

Some of the words that we have learned in the facts may be difficult to spell, particularly the proper nouns.

So we can use a word bank to help us.

We have got the proper nouns "Floella Benjamin." Now, that's her first name and her surname.

So both need a capital letter.

"Caribbean," the name of the islands, "Trinidad" and "England." Then we also have some verbs that might be tricky to spell: "travelled," "honoured," which means she was honoured and awarded by the Queen, and "emigrated." So you have got the word bank to help you.

Now we know our facts, we know how to join them together and we've got a word bank, I am ready to write my fact.

Do you think you could help me? I am ready to write my facts about Floella Benjamin.

With me to help, I have got my success criteria and I've got my word bank of my proper nouns and some verbs which are quite new words for us but also quite tricky to spell.

So I'm going to think of two facts and join them together using the word "and." The first fact that I'm really interested in is that Floella Benjamin emigrated from the Caribbean.

Now I need to think of a fact that relates to that, that links to that.

(gasps) Maybe I could talk about her travelling to England.

So, Floella Benjamin emigrated from the Caribbean and she travelled to England.

(gasps) Do you think we are ready to write? I think we are.

Floella Benjamin, there's one of my proper nouns.

That's how I'm going to start my sentence.

And it's really important we spell her name correctly because it's her name that belongs to her.

Floella Benjamin, capital letter to start my sentence and because it's a proper noun.

Floella, Benjamin is also part of her name but a new word so it also needs a capital letter.

Floella Benjamin emigrated.

Ooh, let's check my word bank.

Verbs: trav-el-ed, travelled, hon-or-ed.

honoured, em-ig-rat-ed.

Emigrated.

There it is, emigrated.

I'm going to copy it.

"Floella Benjamin emigrated." Now here you could either say from Trinidad, which is the specific place that she emigrated from or the Caribbean, which is the group of islands.

I'm going to write the Caribbean.

"Floella Benjamin emigrated from-" Sound it out with me, f-r-o-mm, from the, T-H-E, "Floella Benjamin emigrated from the Caribbean", proper noun 'cause it is the name of a, specific name of a place, "Ca-ri-bbean." "Floella Benjamin emigrated from the Caribbean." Now our task today is to write two facts and join them together.

So I'm not going to do a full stop even though I've finished my idea.

I'm going to use the joining word "and".

"And", now I don't need to write "Floella Benjamin" again because we've already had it.

So I'm going to write "she", "and she." I don't need a capital letter because it is not the start of a new sentence.

Shh with an E spells "she".

"Floella Benjamin emigrated from the Caribbean and she travelled", "travelled," there's our verb.

Can you see? t-r-a-ve-lled, "travelled." t-r-a-v-e-ll, two Ls, then our ED ending.

"and she travelled to.

." (gasps) I need a new line, "to England." (gasps) Have a look for me.

Can you see England? Can you point to it for me? Oh, thank you so much for helping.

'Cause I was looking for an "i", but then I remembered England begins with a letter E.

e-ng-l-a-n-d, England.

Okay, I think I'm ready to check my success criteria.

I have used the capital letter and a full stop.

Can you read it with me and check? Capital letter, "Floella Benjamin emigrated from the Caribbean and she travelled to England." What's the end of my sentence? What do I need? A (gasps) full stop.

That's why it's so important to read it back.

I have used a capital letter for proper nouns.

We've used quite a few proper nouns.

Let's check.

The specific names of people, places and things.

"Floella Benjamin," I've got them.

"Caribbean," "England." I've remembered them all.

Thank goodness.

I have joined two facts together using the joining word "and." Can you spot the word "and" for me? (gasps) There it is! And have I got my two facts either side? "Floella Benjamin emigrated from the Caribbean and", that's my fact one, "she travelled to England." (gasps) I have.

I can't wait to see the facts that you are going to write.

Thank you for helping me with mine.

And now it's your turn.

You've helped me, so now you are going to think of two related facts and join them together using the joining word "and." Use the word bank to help you.

And don't forget to check your success criteria.

Pause the video now.

Brilliant fact writing.

Really well done.

Here is an example: "Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad and Trinidad is an island in the Caribbean." So let's check.

I have used a capital letter and a full stop.

I'm going to put my finger on the first start of the sentence and I'm going to go across to the end, check my full stop is in the right place.

Capital letter, "Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad." That's the end of my first idea, but I've got the joining word "and" so I don't need a full stop just yet, "and Trinidad is an island in the Caribbean." Full stop.

I have used a capital letter for proper nouns.

Again, "Floella Benjamin," both of those need a capital letter at the start, "was born in Trinidad", a specific name of a place, so that needs a capital letter, "and Trinidad," there it is again with a capital letter, "is an island in the Caribbean," again with a capital letter.

And I have joined two facts together using the joining word "and." I would like you to look at your writing and double check that you have met your success criteria.

Make sure that you have used "and" to join those two ideas correctly.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic checking and great fact writing.

What a brilliant lesson.

We know that a fact is a statement of truth.

For example, Floella Benjamin was honoured for her work by the Queen.

"Coming to England" is about Floella Benjamin's life, so it can be used to learn information and facts.

And we've learned so much about her life.

Two facts can be joined together using the joining word "and".

Two complete ideas can become one sentence by placing "and" in between them.

A proper noun is a type of noun that needs a capital letter.

Thank you so much for learning with me today and it's really shown how much we've learned.

Well done and I hope to you again soon.

Bye.