Lesson video

Hello everybody, it is so wonderful to see you today.

My name is Miss McCartney and I am so excited to be learning with you.

In today's lesson, we are going to be making inferences about our story by finding clues in the text.

I wonder if you can remember the name of our story? Whisper to your screens now.

Fantastic, our story is called, The Eagle Who Thought He Was A Chicken.

In our lesson today, you will need three things.

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 pause the video now and go and collect anything to help you to do your best learning today, do that now.

Fantastic.

In today's lesson we are going to explore a new spelling activity, check that we have our reading strategies ready in our brains for when we read together and then we are going to hunt in our story for clues to make inferences.

Let's start with our spelling rule.

Today, we are looking at something called contractions.

Can you say contractions? Your turn.

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Now contractions are informal shortened words that have an apostrophe to show where a letter or letters would be if the words were written in full.

Let's have a closer look at what that would look like.

We have got the tricky word, should.

And the antonym of should is should not.

Now antonym means the opposite.

Should not, your turn.

Now, should not can be shortened into the contraction, shouldn't, my turn, shouldn't, your turn.

Wonderful pronunciation.

Let's have a look at another example.

We have got the tricky word, I heard some of you say it, well done.

Would, and the antonym of would, hmmm, would not, fantastic.

Hmm, so I wonder what the shortened contraction of would not might be? I can see some of you smiling because you already know it is wouldn't.

Let's have a look at the words shouldn't and wouldn't.

Which letter does the apostrophe replace? Which letter does the apostrophe replace? Show me a thumbs up if you know the letter.

Well done, the letter is O.

The apostrophe replaces O.

What I would like you to do now, we have got some words, could not, your turn.

Brilliant.

Did not, your turn.

Cannot, your turn.

I would like you to pause the video and write down the shortened contractions of these words.

Okay, now that everybody has had a chance to write down their contractions, let's check them.

Could not, the contraction of could not is couldn't and the apostrophe replaces which letter? Fantastic, the O.

Okay, did not, our contraction is, everybody shout it, didn't.

Well done and our apostrophe replaces the O again.

Let's check our last word, cannot.

Our contraction is can't.

Fantastic.

Hmm, can you check which letter the apostrophe replaces in cannot? Oh, it's different this time, well done.

We have got two letters, N and O.

Fantastic learning everybody, well done.

I would like you to put your wonderful learning into practise now.

Write down a sentence with one of the contractions that you have learnt today.

Miss McCartney's example is, the chicken couldn't believe that he was actually an eagle.

Pause the video now.

Well done everybody, let's get ready for our reading.

The first strategy check that we need to make sure we are prepared for is using our magnet eyes.

When we are reading our magnet eyes need to be following the words.

Secondly, we need to make sure we are doing good listening, especially paying attention to those words that we might not know how to say.

And we need to have our finger ready to read along on the screen.

Okay, today, we are going to be answering the question, what can we infer from mother hen's actions? So I'm going to read a bit of the story now.

When the two new eggs arrived in her nest, she did not say anything to the rest of the family.

She definitely knew they weren't there this morning.

This morning there were two, now there were four.

How wonderful it would be to have more chicks in the family.

When the mother hen perched on top of the eggs, she knew they were different.

The eggs were larger, warmer and firmer.

Still, she did not tell anyone that the eggs had appeared as if by magic.

The mother hen perched on the eggs to keep them very warm and stared up at the blue sky wondering what her new chicks might be like.

Perhaps they would be rainbow coloured, perhaps they would lay golden eggs, perhaps they would have eyes of jewels.

The mother hen chuckled to herself and could not wait for her chicks to meet their brothers and sisters.

Wow, it's so exciting to find out some more about the mother hen in our story.

Now today, we are going to be making inferences, so we need to remember what we have just read and hunt for clues to help us to draw conclusions and form opinion.

Now, I have a statement.

It says, the mother hen was optimistic, your turn, optimistic, the mother hen was optimistic about the arrival of the two new eggs.

Hmm, now the word optimistic means hopeful that things will work out well.

So do you agree or disagree that the mother hen was optimistic about the arrival of her new eggs? You can use the sentence stem, I agree or I disagree with the statement.

You can also say, in the text, it states, therefore, I can infer that and finally, you can use the sentence stem, further evidence to support my opinion is.

Pause the video now and make a decision about if you agree or disagree with that statement.

Fantastic.

I am going to tell you my answer.

In the text, it states that the mother hen was looking up to the blue sky and she was excited and imagining what her new chicks were going to be like.

Therefore, I can infer that she was optimistic.

She was really hopeful that the eggs would produce something amazing.

Let's carry on and read the next section of our story.

When the egg began to hatch, the mother hen couldn't watch.

Oh, there's one of our words.

She turned her head and smiled at all of her other children.

She felt very lucky indeed.

Closing her eyes, she knew she was finally about to find out what kind of creature had been inside the whole time.

A foot emerged first, followed by a grey fluffy bottom and finally, a pair of piercing eyes.

Ah, thought the mother hen, this is just a grey chicken.

Mother hen couldn't help feel a tiny bit of disappointment in her heart.

She thought that perhaps this chick would be magic.

Nevertheless, she waddled over as quickly as she could.

She pulled sharp pieces of shell from the chicks fur, made some comforting clucks and called the chicks brothers and sisters over.

Oh, poor mother hen, she was so excited and now she's a little disappointed.

Let's see if we can make some more inferences about her.

We have the statement, the mother hen could be described as self-interested.

Oh, I can see some confused faces who need some more information about what self-interested means.

Self-interested means you are selfish and you only think about yourself.

Hmm, the mother hen could be described as self-interested.

Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Can you use a sentence stem, in the text it states, therefore I can infer that to give me the clues that you have used.

And finally, you could use the sentence stem, further evidence to support my opinion is.

Pause the video now to make your decision about agreeing or disagreeing with the statement.

Well done.

I could see some people thinking really hard about the evidence and the clues they were going to use.

I disagree with the statement because in the text it says that even thought the mother hen was disappointed, she waddled over quickly and she pulled the sharp pieces of shell from her chicks fur.

So I don't think she's thinking about herself, I think she was looking after her chick.

I am so impressed with everybody's inferences today.

Let's read the next part of the story so we can develop our inference skills even more.

The mother hen was busy tending to her nest when she heard a commotion of clucking outside.

Clucking to herself, she waddled as fast as she could to investigate the source of all the noise.

At first, she saw her chicks jumping and squawking at the sky.

She tilted her head to find out what they were looking at.

Hmm, her heart dropped into her stomach.

Her son was riding on the owl's back.

The owl had always been such a kind neighbour.

How could he be so irresponsible? The mother hen's heart started to beat rapidly and her whole body started to shake.

Her chicks gathered around her and were now silent but still staring up at the sky.

She could not look up at her son up so high any longer.

She buried her head in her children's feathers to hide the tears that leaked from her eyes.

Poor mother hen is so concerned about her son riding so high on the owl's back.

Our next statement to explore says, the mother hen felt enthusiastic about her son's adventure in the sky.

My turn, enthusiastic, your turn.

Wonderful.

Enthusiastic means showing intense and eager enjoyment.

Hmm, was the mother hen showing intense and eager enjoyment about her son's adventure in the sky? You can use our sentence stems, I agree or disagree with the statement.

In the text it states, therefore, I infer that and our last one, further evidence to support my opinion is.

The mother hen felt enthusiastic about her son's adventure in the sky.

Pause your video now to make your important decision.

Fantastic everybody.

In the text it states that the mother hen's heart started to beat rapidly and her whole body started to shake, therefore, I can infer that she was really scared and not enthusiastic about her son's adventure in the sky.

Further evidence to support Miss McCartney's opinion is at the end, the mother hen buried her head in her children's feathers so they didn't see her crying.

So she was really upset and not enthusiastic about her son's adventure.

I am so, so impressed with everybody's inferences today.

I would like you to point your fingers at yourself, wiggle them and send some shine to yourself to celebrate.

Oh, that makes me feel all warm and happy.

I am going to set you your final task of today.

You have the question, what else can you infer about the mother hen? So I want you to think back to all three sections of the story and hunt for clues that tell us more about mother hen and then you are going to write down the sentence, I would or I wouldn't like to meet the mother hen because.

There is one of our contractions again, wouldn't.

Pause the video now to write your sentence about whether you would like, or wouldn't like to meet mother hen.

I am so proud of the work that all of our learners have completed today and I hope that you are really proud too.

Take a moment to think about your learning and look at the work that you have done.

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