Lesson video

Hello everybody it is me Miss McCartney and in today's lesson we are going to be creating a boxing up plan together.

Now we are still going to be explaining about flying.

But today we are going to create our very own fantastical character.

I wonder what that might mean.

Let's get on with our lesson and find out.

For our lesson today, you will need a piece of paper or something to write on, a pencil or something to write with and your wonderful creative brain.

If you need to go and collect anything to make sure that you are prepared, pause your video now.

Excellent.

Now that we are ready, let's see what we are going to be learning today.

We are going to start with a spelling activity then we are going to create a new explanation character and we are going to complete our boxing up plan together.

Let's get started with our spelling.

We are recapping that -'l' sound today, spelt 'il'.

Can you make the -'il' sound, your turn? Brilliant.

Now an example of a word that has the 'l' sound, but spelt with an i and an l is pencil.

So, what I would like you to do, you have a grid on your page with lots of different letters in it and I want you to hunt for some words that have the -il spelling.

Now, I've given you some clues to help you and I am going to read them out.

One of the words that I have hidden means the opposite of good.

One of the words that I have hidden is the very middle of your eye.

Another word means the remains of a prehistoric bird or plant.

And the final one is a hole in your nose.

I would like you to hunt for those words.

Write them down.

And then we're going to check afterwards to see if you found them all.

Pause your video now to complete your task.

Excellent.

If you managed to find them all, well done, and if you didn't, that's okay because we are going to go through them now.

Should we have a little look? Hey, the first word was evil, the opposite of good, evil.

The second word was pupil, in the middle of your eye is your pupil.

Pupil is also another word for student.

So I could say you are wonderful students or you are wonderful pupils.

The third word was fossil.

I am sure that you've seen a fossil before.

And the fourth word was nostrils, the hole in your nose, well done.

If you didn't find all of those words, that's okay.

But you can write them down now.

So pause your video if you didn't find all the words.

Brilliant.

Now that we have recapped our spelling rule, we are getting to the really exciting part of our lesson.

Today, we are going to be creating a new character that flies and our character is going to be a fantastical animal and that means they're not real.

They might be an animal or a figure that you find in a story book.

Now Miss McCartney has had a go at drawing some examples.

Luckily, I am sure that you are much better artists than me and I cannot wait to see your drawings.

So I have drawn a flying unicorn.

I could write my new explanation text all about a flying unicorn, or about a fairy or a dragon, because they all have wings.

I would like you to have a little think now and use the sentence stem.

My explanation will be about the fantastical animal and then tell me your animal.

So I would like you to pause your video now and practise your sentence.

Brilliant.

I would love to hear some of your ideas.

Can you come a little bit closer and whisper what your fantastical animal is? Ooh, I heard someone say that their fantastical animal is going to be a flying dinosaur.

What a great idea.

It is now time for you to draw your fantastical animal.

Pause your video now and draw your fantastical animal.

Brilliant, hold it up to the camera so that I can have a look.

Wow, I can see some dragons that are really fierce looking and some fairies that are really colourful.

Well done everybody.

We are now going to box up our explanation.

We are going to explain how our characters fly, just like in our example text except you are going to use your fantastical animal.

We are still going to have three main sections.

We are going to write about flapping, gliding and steering.

Can you say that, your turn? Flapping, gliding and steering.

Fantastic.

I will see you in just a second to start our boxing up plan.

Okay, we are going to do our boxing up plan together and we have two columns.

We have got the names of our paragraphs here and we are going to write our summaries here.

So we are going to have an introduction, flapping, gliding and you know that the last one is steering.

What I would like you to do is to draw your boxing up plan.

I'm going to show you the titles one more time, introduction, flapping, gliding, steering.

Can you pause your video and write down your first two paragraph titles? Brilliant.

Now I would like you to write down your second two paragraph titles.

Pause your video now to write down your second two.

Brilliant.

Now that we have drawn our boxing up table, we are ready to write our summaries.

In lesson five of unit nine, we learnt all about summarising in our reading lessons so we can use those skills today.

Now I am going to write about a flying unicorn.

Can you write at the top of your table what fantastical animal you are going to be writing about? Pause your video now.

Excellent.

Okay, in my introduction, I'm going to start with a question to grab my readers attention.

I'm going to say, have you ever seen a flying unicorn? What question could you ask to grab your reader's attention and give them the really important information about what fantastical animal you will be talking about? Pause your video now to write down your hooking question.

Brilliant.

Now I'm going to write a sentence to tell my reader what I will explain.

So I am going to write flying unicorns move through the air by, and now I'm going to use a common list flapping, that's the first thing they do.

What's the second thing they do? Whisper to your screen.

Gliding.

Well done.

By flapping, gliding and what's the final movement? Shout it to your screen.

And steering, well done.

Okay.

And that will tell my reader all about my explanation and give them a clue about what they're going to find out.

I would like you to pause your video now and write down your sentence explaining what you will explore.

Brilliant.

So I have finished my introduction.

I'm going to start with a question.

Have you ever seen a flying unicorn? Flying unicorns move through the air by flapping, gliding and steering.

Okay, let's move on to box number two, flapping.

What is the first thing that my animal needs to be able to flap their wings? Can you whisper your idea to your screen? Fantastic.

So I am going to write flying unicorns have, now I am using a present tense verb here, because my explanation is going to be written in the present tense, flying unicorns, unicorns have strong, strong chest muscles.

Now muscles is a bit of a tricky word.

If you want to use muscles in your writing, you can have a look at how I've spelt it.

Flying unicorns have strong chest muscles.

What's the next Important point? Ooh, I can remember when, I'm going to start with my subordinating conjunction, when unicorns flap their wings.

When unicorns flap their wings, their wings, what do they push against? Well done, their wings push against the air.

Perfect.

I'm going to write one more summary sentence.

This enables, this enables them to move, do they move up or down when they start flapping their wings? Well done, up.

This enables them to move up.

Fantastic, brilliant.

Okay, I'm going to add a little bit there, move up through the air.

Okay it is now your turn to have a go.

Can you pause and write down the three stages that your fantastical animal will need to do to be able to fly? Excellent work everybody.

We may have slightly different sentences but we have our key words of wings, push, air.

Those words are really important.

Okay, let's think about gliding now.

Gliding.

What do flying creatures need to do to glide? Whisper to your screen? Excellent.

They need to tilt their wings.

I'm going to say flying unicorns tilt, -ilt, flying unicorns tilt their wings.

And I'm going to say and feathers.

Flying unicorns tilt their wings and flap feathers to glide.

Okay.

What do they do next? So flying unicorns tilt their wings and feathers to glide.

I know I can use my idea from up here, the wings push.

Again I have got a verb in the present tense 'cause my whole explanation is going to be in the present tense, the wings push against the air.

Okay, and then I'm going to summarise with my last point.

Unicorns can fly without flapping their, now their is a homophone, there are different ways to spell their.

But I am talking about their wings and they belong to the unicorn so I need this spelling of their.

Unicorns can fly without flapping their wings.

Okay, fantastic.

Can you write your sentences to summarise how your animal flies? Excellent work everybody.

And now we are going to move on to steering.

Okay, the first thing they need to do, can you remember whisper to your screen? Brilliant.

Change the shape of their wings and tails.

So flying unicorns change, another present tense verb, flying unicorns change the shape and angle of their, the same spellings I'm talking about their wings and angle of their wings.

Okay, I'm going to say, they also change the shape, split diagraphs, shape, they also change the shape of their tails, -ails, tails.

Fantastic.

And I still need them to push against the air.

So I'm going to write they push their tails and wings against the air.

Brilliant.

Is there anything else that I want to say? I might add one more thing, I might say, they can move up and down.

And, can they move in any other direction? Well done.

And side to side.

Okay, I think I've summarised steering really, really well.

I would now like you to pause your video and summarise steering for your animal.

Excellent.

Now I'm going to read through my work to check that it makes sense.

Have you ever seen a flying unicorn? Flying unicorns move through the air by flapping, gliding and steering.

I think that's really clear.

So my reader will know what my explanation is about.

Flying unicorns have strong chest muscles.

When unicorns flap their wings, the wings push against the air.

This enables them to move up through the air.

I think I have spoken about the claws.

So they have their strong chest muscles, and they flap their wings and the results, the effect is that they are able to fly through the air.

Brilliant.

Flying unicorns tilt their wings and feathers to glide, the wings push against the air, unicorns can fly without flapping their wings.

Brilliant summary.

Okay, flying unicorns change the shape and angle of their wings.

They also change the shape of their tails.

They push their tails and wings against the air.

They can move up and down and side to side.

I would now like you to pause your video and read through your summary.

I hope that you really enjoyed creating your boxing up plan.

I know that I did.

I would love to see some of your plans.

If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter tagging @OakNational and @TeachTMcCartney, that's me.

Hashtag LearnwithOak.

You have done a such a wonderful job.

We are going to read as writers in lesson seven and then write our recycled explanations in lessons eight, nine and 10.

I cannot wait.