Lesson video

Hi everyone.

My name is Ms. Royalle and welcome to this lesson, where you are going to be planning and writing the introduction of an information text about your chosen author.

During this lesson, you will need to access the information about your chosen author, which you can find in the additional materials section.

For this lesson, you need to be listening and looking carefully.

There'll be tasks where you need somebody to talk to and you will also need a piece of paper and pen or pencil for writing your introduction.

I hope you are feeling excited and ready to learn and write.

Let's get started.

The learning outcome for today's lesson is I can plan and write the introduction of an information text about an author.

Here are our key words for today's lesson.

Let's practise saying them.

My turn, your turn.

Introduction, statement, question, command, exclamation.

Great job well done.

You'll be hearing these words lots throughout the lesson and we will be looking at their meaning.

There are two parts to today's lesson.

In the first part, you will be planning the introduction, and in the second part you will be writing the introduction.

So let's begin with planning the introduction.

You are going to write an information text about your chosen author, Atinuke, Roald Dahl, or Ibtihaj Muhammad.

You have already chosen which author you are going to write about.

Your information text will be structured into three sections, introduction, childhood and inspiration, and jobs and books.

In this lesson, we are planning and writing the introduction.

Your information text will need a heading before your introduction.

The heading should do all of these, include the name of your chosen author, be centred in the middle of your page, and be capitalised and underlined.

Here is an example All About Atinuke.

This includes the author's name and all of the words have begun with a capital letter.

It it's centred in the middle of the page and it is underlined.

Let's check your understanding.

How should you lay out your heading on the page? A: It should be centred in the middle of the page.

B: It should be on the left hand side of the page.

C: It should be capitalised and underlined.

Pause the video and select all of the correct answers.

The answers are A and C.

Well done.

The heading should be centred in the middle of the page and it should be capitalised and underlined.

The introduction has two important purposes.

It's it introduces the author and engages the reader, and it provides general information and outlines the text.

You need to begin with the subheading introduction.

This should be aligned to the left hand side of the page and underlined.

Then you will write your introduction.

I will read this model about Atinuke to you.

Have you ever heard of "Anna Hibiscus" or "Amazing Africa?" Atinuke is the wonderful author of these creative children's books.

She uses her imagination to transport readers to vibrant settings and takes them on exciting journeys.

Read on and you'll learn all about Atinuke's fascinating life.

True or false.

The introduction should go into great detail about the author's life.

Pause the video and select your answer.

That is false.

Well done.

The introduction should introduce the author and engage the reader by providing general information.

Let's look at the linguistic features of the introduction.

There are four main sentence types, a statement.

This is a simple sentence that expresses a fact or an opinion and ends with a full stop.

A question: This is a simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer and ends with a question mark.

A command: This is a simple sentence that tells someone to do something and can end with an exclamation mark.

And an exclamation: This is a simple sentence that expresses strong emotion or surprise.

Let's look at how the different sentence types appear in this model introduction.

If we take a look at the first sentence, have you ever heard of "Anna Hibiscus" or "Amazing Africa"? We can spot that this is a question.

Using the second person to ask the reader a question is a great method for engaging them in the introduction.

Following the question, we have statements.

Atinuke is the wonderful author of these creative children's books.

She uses her imagination to transport readers to vibrant settings and takes them on exciting journeys.

The statements that follow the question, introduce the author and give general information about them.

And let's take a look at our final sentence.

Read on and you'll learn all about Atinuke's fascinating life.

This is a command because it begins with an imperative verb.

Instructing the reader.

Read on.

It is also an exclamation.

Now commands are not always exclamations, but they can be as a form of expressing strong emotion.

Let's check your understanding.

Match the sentence types to their definitions.

For sentence types we have A, a statement.

B, a question, C, a command, D an exclamation.

The definitions are a simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer and ends with a question mark.

A simple sentence that expresses a fact or an opinion and ends with a full stop.

A simple sentence that expresses strong emotion or surprise and a simple sentence that tells someone to do something and can end with an exclamation mark.

Pause the video and match the sentence types to their definitions now.

Let's take a look at the answers together.

A statement is a simple sentence that expresses a fact or an opinion and ends with a full stop.

A question is a simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer and ends with a question mark.

A command is a simple sentence that tells someone to do something and can end with an exclamation mark.

And an exclamation is a simple sentence that expresses strong emotion or surprise.

Well done for showing a great understanding of the different sentence types.

It's now time for your first task.

Plan the key information you need for your introduction and orally rehearse your sentences.

First, bullet point key words for the following things.

Books written by the author you've chosen for an engaging question.

Statements providing general information about the author, including adjectives to describe them and their stories.

And a command or exclamation to encourage the reader to read on.

Now remember these are notes, so you do not need to write out all of these different sentence types.

You just want to include the key words you are going to use in them.

Once you have done this orally rehearse turning your notes into full sentences with your partner.

Pause the video and do the task now.

Welcome back, well done for planning the key information that you need for your introduction and orally rehearsing your sentences.

You did a great job.

I'm going to show you an example of this being done for Atinuke now.

"Too Small Tola" and "Anna Hibiscus." These are books written by the author for an engaging question.

Creative author, colourful and imaginative, vibrant settings and characters, takes reader on journey.

These are all keywords that can be included in the statements about Atinuke and read on, fascinating light.

These are the keywords that will be used for the command.

Here is an example of these notes turned into sentences.

I will read them to you now.

Have you read "Too Small Tola" or "Anna Hibiscus" stories.

Atinuke is the author of these colourful and imaginative children's books.

Her stories involve vibrant settings and characters and they take the reader on an exciting journey.

Read on to find out more about the fascinating life of Atinuke and what inspired her storytelling.

Whether you have taken notes and orally rehearsed sentences about Atinuke, Roald Dahl, or Ibtihaj Muhammad, well done for planning and orally rehearsing your introduction.

It's now time for the second part of the lesson, where you are going to be writing the introduction.

When we write, we always try to do these things.

Plan and say each sentence before we write it.

Use punctuation where we know the rules.

Showcase each sentence type we know.

Write letters neatly on the line in joined handwriting.

Use spelling strategies to spell words accurately.

And check and improve our writing when we think we have finished.

Here is the success criteria for your writing today.

I will read it to you.

I have written the heading and the subheading introduction.

I have engaged the reader with a question and introduced the author with a statement.

I have written in the third person to provide general information about the author, and I have ended my introduction with a command or exclamation.

I am now going to model using my notes to write the introduction of my information text, and we will check this against the success criteria.

Okay, so I have my notes for my introduction here with me to support me with my writing.

And over here I have my success criteria.

I have already written my heading, All About Atinuke, and I have made sure it is centred in the middle of a page and underlined.

Okay, what comes next? Which section am I writing? I'm writing my introduction, so I need a subheading for my introduction.

Now that does not come centred.

It comes aligned to the left hand side of the page.

So I'm going to write introduction, and I'm going to underline that with a ruler.

Let's look at my success criteria.

I have written the heading, yes, and the subheading introduction.

Brilliant.

I can already tick that part.

So I am now going to begin writing my introduction section and I'm going to use my notes to support me.

Now let's go back to my success criteria.

It says I have engaged the reader with a question and introduce the author with a statement.

So I want to engage the reader with a question using this information.

These are two of the books Atinuke has written, "Too Small Tola" and "Anna Hibiscus." I want to ask the reader a question about these books.

Could I say, have you ever heard of, have you ever read? Okay, let's go with, have you ever read "Too Small Tola" or "Anna Hibiscus?" Anna Hibiscus.

Okay have you ever read "Too Small Tola" or "Anna Hibiscus?" Now that's a question.

So which piece of punctuation do I need? I need a question mark.

Great.

So I have engaged the reader with a question, but now I need to introduce the author with a statement.

So I want to include the author's name and I also want to describe the author.

So Atinuke is the creative author, who wrote these colourful and imaginative books.

That could work.

Okay.

Atinuke is the creative author of these colourful and imaginative and I think I want to say children's books.

Full stop to end my statement.

Atinuke is the creative author of these colourful and imaginative children's books.

Great, I now have a question to engage a reader and I have introduced the author with a statement, so I can tick this part, and I'm going to tick these notes off.

I now want another statement to provide some more general information about the author.

I have the notes, vibrant settings and characters.

So her stories contain vibrant settings and characters and she takes the reader on a journey.

That's great 'cause it's a compound sentence too.

Let's give that a go.

Her stories include vibrant settings and characters and she takes the reader on a journey.

Brilliant.

So I can tick this and this off.

Let's see, I have written in the third person to provide general information about the author.

Well, yes, I have the third person pronoun her and she.

Her stories include vibrant settings and characters and she takes the reader on a journey.

Oh, I forgot a full stop at the end of my statement, so I can now tick that part of my success criteria.

Okay, let's go to the last part.

I have ended my introduction with a command or exclamation.

Back to my notes.

I have the key words read on, fascinating life.

Okay, so read on will be how I begin my command.

I need to begin it with an imperative verb.

So read on to find out about Atinuke's Fascinating life or oh, I tell you what, instead of find out, I think I'd like to use the verb discover.

Read on to discover more about Atinuke's fascinating life.

Okay, let's end with that.

Read on to discover more about.

How about the fascinating life of Atinuke.

Yes.

I'd like to phrase it that way.

Read on to discover more about the fascinating life of Atinuke.

And I think because I would like to express strong emotion with this command.

I'm also going to end it with an exclamation mark.

I have ended my introduction with a command or exclamation.

Well, my command is also an exclamation, so I can definitely take that.

Great.

Now it is your turn to write the heading and the introduction section of your information text about your chosen author.

Use your notes to support you.

Here is the success criteria for you to refer to.

Once you have finished, read back your work to check for any errors and mark your work against the success criteria.

Pause the video, do your writing now and come back and press play when you are ready.

Welcome back, you have worked so hard on your introduction and I am really proud of how well you managed to include all of the different sentence types.

Let's take a look at a model example about Atinuke.

So at the top here in the middle of the page, we can see the heading All About Atinuke.

And below that, on the left hand side we can see the subheading, introduction, and both of these have been underlined, so I can tick that first part of my success criteria.

I have written the heading and the subheading introduction.

The second part of the success criteria says I have engaged the reader with a question and introduced the author with a statement.

If we take a look at the first two sentences here, we can see a question first.

Have you ever heard of "Anna Hibiscus" or "Amazing Africa?" And this is followed by the statement Atinuke is the wonderful author of these creative children's books, so we can tick that.

The next part of the success criteria says, I have written in the third person to provide general information about the author.

While we have two segments here that do that.

Atinuke is the wonderful author of these creative children's books.

She uses her imagination to transport readers to vibrant settings and takes them on exciting journeys.

Both of these statements provide general information and are written in the third person, so we can tick that.

And the final part of the success criteria says, I have ended my introduction with a command or exclamation or the final sentence says, read on and you'll learn all about Atinuke's fascinating life.

This begins with the imperative read and it ends with an exclamation.

So this is actually a command and an exclamation, so we can tick that.

Well done for writing a wonderful introduction section about your chosen author.

I am really proud of how hard you've worked.

We've now come to the end of our lesson, so let's go over a summary together.

The purpose of the introduction is to engage the reader, introduce the author, and provide general information.

An information text begins with a heading about the whole text and a subheading for the introduction.

There are four main sentence types, a statement, a question, a command, and an exclamation.

Using a variety of sentence types in your introduction helps to engage and inform the reader.

And the text is mainly written in the third person to inform the reader with the use of some second person to engage them.

Well done for planning and writing the introduction of an information text about your chosen author.

I have really enjoyed teaching you.