Lesson video

Hello storytelling superstars.

It is me Ms. McCartney, and I am really excited for our lesson today because we are going to write the fourth and final paragraph for our explanations about our fantastical creatures.

Our fourth paragraph is all about steering.

Shall we get started? In 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.

You will also need our boxing up plan that we created together in lesson six and our writing from lesson eight and lesson nine.

Because we are going to put our writing all together at the end of today's lesson and perform our explanation.

We are going to start with the spelling activity.

Then we are going to complete our fourth and final paragraph for our shared write.

We are then going to edit our writing, just like we are authors and then perform our explanation to help our listener learn about how our fantastical animal flies.

Let's get started with our spelling.

Today we are going to be recapping the suffixes -ness and less.

Now you have got an example on your screen.

Kindness, I have hidden some letters in my grid and they make words that have the suffix -ness or less.

Now I have got two clues on the screen for you.

The first clue is without hope.

What word with the suffix -ness or less means without hope? Your second clue is partial or no light so only a little tiny bit of light or no light.

What words could describe that that ends with the suffix -ness or less.

Pause your video now to hunt for the words.

Brilliant, come closer to the screen and whisper the two words that you found in our grid.

Oooh brilliant, now the first word was hopeless and that means without hope.

And our second word was darkness.

Fantastic work everybody.

I am now going to give you a bit of a spelling challenge.

I would like you to now create your own grid and hide some letters in there that could make a word with the suffix -ment.

Say, for example, I have the word enjoyment.

I've given you some other examples, excitement, amusement and achievement.

Can you create your own boggle board? So hide those letters in your grid.

And you could ask somebody whether it's a parent or carer, a friend or somebody at school, if they can find the words in your grid with the suffix meant.

Pause your video now to create your boggle table.

Brilliant, I think that whoever you show your grid to is going to be so excited to find all the different words.

Can you hold up your grid so I can have a little look and see if I can see any words.

I can definitely see the word amusement in one of our learner's grids.

Well done, everybody.

We are now going to create our shared write together.

I cannot wait.

Make sure you have got your piece of paper and your pencil ready.

We are now going to write our fourth and final paragraph in our explanation.

We are going to write about how our fantastical character steers.

I have written my toolkit at the side.

I need to include technical vocab so words about flying.

I need to make the relationship between cause and effect really clear.

I need to use my subordinating conjunctions to help me do that.

And I need my present tense verbs.

Can you pause your video and write down your toolkit at the side? Excellent Now I would like you to get your boxing up plan and read through your steering summary.

I'm going to read through mine as well.

Pause your video now and read through your steering summary.

Fantastic I am going to start by thinking about why my fantastical character might need to steer.

So I'm going to say, flying unicorns steer Flying unicorns steer when they need to I'm going to say they steer when they need to save somebody.

Why might your animal need to steer? Perhaps they're looking for a yummy meal.

Perhaps they are looking to find the greenest grass possible.

It is up to you.

Write down your idea.

Flying unicorns steer when they need to save, save, split digraph, save somebody.

Okay, fantastic.

Now I'm going to think about the first thing that my flying unicorn needs to do to steer.

I am going to say when a unicorn changes What do they change the shape of? Can you remember? Brilliant Changes the shape and angle of their wings When a unicorn changes the shape When a unicorn changes the shape and angle of their wings they can steer When a unicorn changes the shape and angle of their wings that is my subordinating clause.

They can steer, that is my main clause.

Let's have a little look at my toolkit.

I have used some technic technical vocab wings and steer.

I have also started to think about the cause and effect what happens when they do change the shape and angle of their wings.

And I've also used my subordinating conjunction when.

Let's think about the next sentence.

They also change my present tense there They also change the shape of the Can you remember? Well done, their tails.

And remember there are a few different ways to spell their, but we are using their to show possession because the tail belongs to the flying unicorn.

So we need this spelling of their.

They also change the shape of their tails.

What happens next? They push what do they push against? Brilliant, they push against the air to change direction.

Can you remember which direction your animal can fly in? Well done, up and down and side to side.

I am going to use the language North, South, East and West.

They push against the air to change direction.

As they travel, they can move from North to South and East to West.

Fantastic.

I am going to finish with a summarising sentence now.

I am going to say, flying unicorns flying unicorns use their /w /i /ngs wings to flap, glide and What's the final one? Well done, and steer.

I'm going to read through my fourth and final paragraph now.

Flying unicorns steer When they need to save somebody.

I really like that idea.

When a unicorn changes the shape and angle of their wings, they can steer.

Brilliant.

I've got my present tense verb, steer.

They also change oooh lets just get that straight.

They also change the shape of their tails.

They push against the air to change direction.

As they travel, they can move from North to South and East to West.

Now here I've used a subordinating conjunction, but I haven't used a coma after my subordinating clause.

So as they travel, is my subordinating clause.

As they travel, they can move from North to South and East to West.

Flying unicorns use their wings to flap, glide and steer.

I am super happy with my final paragraph.

It is now time for you to write your steering paragraph.

I really hope that you enjoyed writing your fourth and final paragraph all about steering.

I know that I really enjoyed writing mine.

It is now time to edit our writing.

And you have two jobs when you are editing today.

The first job is to edit our fourth and final paragraph.

So I would like you to check that your punctuation is in the right place.

I would like you to check that and make sense and check against your toolkit to make sure you've used technical vocab words about flying.

That you've really made the relationship between cause and effect really clear that you've used subordinating conjunctions and that you have used present tense verbs.

So that is job number one.

Then I would like you to get all of your pieces of writing, just like I have here and to read them all through, to make sure that your writing makes sense, all together.

And you can use the same toolkit that is on my screen.

Pause your video now to edit your writing.

Excellent.

I would now like you to have a go at performing your explanation.

So I have got my pieces of paper in front of me, but I'm going to try and have really good eye contact with my listener which is you.

And then I'm going to speak really eloquently.

So I'm going to get my magic microphone.

Mine is spotty and sparkly.

What does yours look like? Oooh, we have some strippy ones, fantastic.

Get your microphone.

You can use your paper to help you and perform your explanation.

I'm going to perform my introduction to show you how it's done.

Have you ever seen a flying unicorn.

Flying unicorns move through the air by flapping, gliding and steering.

Did you notice that when I was performing my explanation, I used my hands to help me.

One of them was holding my microphone but I used my other hand to help me.

And I also put emphasis on different words So I said some words differently to make my voice change, to engage my listener.

I would like you to pause the screen and practise speaking your explanation now.

You have done such a wonderful job.

I am so proud of you.

I think I'm going to give you a round of applause and you can give yourself a round of applause as well.

You now know how to write explanation texts.

I wonder if you could write an explanation text about something else.

I think that would be a really, really wonderful idea and would develop your storytelling skills even more.

Well done, everybody.

I would love to see some of your writing.

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 #LearnwithOak.

I am super proud.

Well done everybody.