Lesson video

Hi everyone.

Welcome to our next Jabberwocky lesson.

In this lesson, we're going to explore punctuating speech first and speech second.

So I hope that you're feeling ready to learn.

Let's get started.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil or something else to write with, and your brain.

If you haven't got everything you need, pause the video, go and collect it, and I will see you when you're ready.

We'll start off with a writing warm up.

Then we're going to explore punctuation for writing speech first.

Then we will explore punctuation for writing speeches second, and then we will be practising writing full sentences.

So let's see what our writing warm up is.

You're going so much the verbs to the most appropriate adverbs.

Let's say the verbs.

Muttered, exclaimed, whispered, snapped, snapped would be a great verb if the character was feeling really angry about something.

Let's say the adverbs.

Softly, grumpily, angrily, enthusiastically.

You can pause the video now, and match each verb to the most appropriate adverb, just by writing down the verb, and writing down the adverb next to it.

Pause the video.

Shall we check? So I think we could have muttered grumpily, especially if a character is feeling really grumpy about something, muttered grumpily.

Then exclaimed enthusiastically, how would your character be feeling if they were exclaiming enthusiastically? Would they be feeling happy and positive, or sad and a bit negative? Feeling really happy and positive, wouldn't they? Really excited about something.

Whispered softly, maybe if someone was trying to say something without being overheard.

Snapped angrily, Uh! So cross.

So I think we could use snapped angrily together.

Really good job.

So let's explore writing speech first.

Let's start off with this question.

What punctuation can you see? Take a second now, have a really good look.

What punctuation can you see? I can see some inverted commas, I can see my opening inverter commas, and then my closing inverted commas.

Can you point to them on the screen? What are they? The green punctuation marks.

Good job.

What can you see next? Hmm.

What's that punctuation in pink? That's our capital letter.

What can you see next? Point to the comma.

Well done, and finally our full stop.

It's your turn to punctuate this sentence correctly.

I will read it aloud to you.

It's so good to see you at last his father exclaimed elatedly.

So this makes me think of the end of the poem, where the son has returned home to his father, and his father might say it's so good to see you at last, and then we would write his father exclaimed elatedly.

Elatedly is another word for joyfully or happily.

So just let's look back at those pieces of punctuation.

Opening inverted commas, capital letter, comma, closing inverter commas and full stop.

Your turn, so pause the video and write the full sentence with the correct punctuation.

Pause the video.

Shall we check? So we've got to have our opening inverted commas, give yourself a tick above the inverter commas if you got that, what should we tick next? Our capital letter.

What's the next tech for? Comma, well done.

Give yourself a tick if you've got the closing inverted commas, and now give yourself a tick if you've got the full stop.

well done.

So if we are writing a speech first sentence, how many pieces of punctuation do you have to have? And by speech first, we mean with the speech, what the character says is written first in the full sentence.

So go back to your sentence that you just wrote.

have a really good think.

How many pieces of punctuation do you have to have? Is it one? Is it three? Is it five? Is it seven? Check your sentence and let's say it together.

We have to have five pieces of punctuation.

Let's see.

We've got opening inverted commas, capital letter, comma, closing inverted commas and then our fifth one is a full stop.

Could we change any of this punctuation? Could any of those pieces of punctuation be different? Could we change them? What about the comma? Does it have to be a comma? Have a little think in your head about whether you think it does always have to be a comma, or it doesn't always have to be a comma.

So if we said this sentence, if we wrote this sentence.

"Hello, my son," his father exclaimed joyfully.

Could we have a full stop there? Could we have a question mark there? Or could we have an exclamation mark there? Show me with your thumb if you think we could have a full stop.

We could not have a full stop there.

Could we have a question mark there? Show me with your thumb if you think we could, couldn't.

We couldn't.

He hasn't asked a question.

So we can't have a question mark there.

Could it be an exclamation mark? "Hello, my son," his father exclaimed joyfully.

Could we? Couldn't we? We could, couldn't we? Because we know that the way that this is being said is really loud and happily and really joyfully, because we've used the verb exclaimed and the adverb joyfully.

So we could have an exclamation mark there.

And this is what it would look like.

"Hello, my son!"his father exclaimed joyfully.

What about this one? "Were you scared "his father asked.

I can imagine him saying this when he sees his son returning home, and maybe his son is telling him all about the fights with the vicious.

And he says, "Were you scared " Could we have a full stop? Could we have a question mark? Could we have an exclamation mark like in the last sentence? Hmm.

could it be a full stop? Show me with your thumb.

It couldn't, could it? Because it is not the end of the sentence.

We could not have a full stop there.

Could it be a question? It could, couldn't it? Because he's asking something.

So it's got to be a question mark.

Could it be an exclamation mark? No, it has to be a question mark.

And this is what it looks like.

"Were are you?"his father asked.

Ready for this one? I'll read you the sentence.

"It's good to have you home " the old man murmured kindly.

So murmured is a great verb if you're saying something softly and gently in quite a low volume.

He might be hugging his son at this point.

"It's good to have you home " the old man murmured kindly.

So what must go there? Full stop? Question mark? Comma or exclamation mark? Show me if you think we could have a full stop.

We couldn't, could we? It is not the end of the sentence.

Could it be a question mark? What do you think? It couldn't be a mark, could it? It is not a question.

Could it be a comma? Yeah, it's got to be a comma, hasn't it? It probably isn't going to be an exclamation mark, because it's not something that is being said loudly or with lots of excitement.

It's something that's being said very softly.

So we've got to have a comma there, and that's what it looks like.

"It's good to have you home," the old man murmured kindly.

So let's do some true or false.

I haven't got the speech sentence written, but I've got my punctuation just to remind us.

So inverted commas, capital letter, then the speech, then there's a gap there, I can see the arrows pointing and then closing inverted commas.

True or false? You can sometimes have a full stop here.

Look at where the arrow is pointing.

Hmm.

True or false.

What do you think? One, two, three it's false.

You can never have a full stop there because it's not the end of the sentence.

Point to the full stop in the sentence, on the screen.

Well done.

That's the end of the sentence.

So we could never have a full stop there.

You can sometimes have a question mark here.

Look at where the arrow is pointing.

Could you sometimes have a question mark? Hmm.

What do you think? Do you think that's true or false? Should we say it together? One, two, three.

It's true.

But only if the character has asked a question.

Ready for the next one.

If you're using a loud verb instead of said, for example shouted, or exclaimed, you should have an exclamation mark here.

Do you think that is true or false? Hmm.

Let's say it together.

One, two, three it's true.

Because this gives the reader a little bit more detail about how the character spoke, and it means that the reader can hear more accurately how the character is speaking.

Now we're going to explore speech second.

So, sometimes the speech might come second in a sentence.

Look at that first sentence.

"It's good to have your home," the old man murmured kindly.

And now look at the next one.

The old man moment kindly, "It's good to have you home." Can you point to what the character says in that sentence? He says, "It's good to have you home." And that comes second in the full sentence, doesn't it? But in the one, it comes first.

It's the first thing that's written.

So you need to think about what's the same and what's different in terms of the punctuation, because I've used exactly the same words, but I've changed where the speech is written in the sentence, and I think I've used some of the same punctuation and some different punctuation, or punctuation in different places.

Pause the video, and have a really close look at both of those sentences.

Should we check? So these are the things that I thought of that were the same.

We definitely have to have the inverter commas around the speech, what the character says.

Can you point to the pair of inverted commas in the first one? And what is in between those inverted commas? It's good to have you home.

Now point to the pair of inverter commas in their second sentence.

What's in the inverter commas? It's good to have you home.

So we've got to have the inverter commas around what the character says.

The next thing I noticed that was the same is that we have to have the capital letter to start the speech sentence, the speech part of the sentence.

Point to the capital letter in the first one, and point to the capital letter in the second one, We've got capital I for both of those.

So it always has to be opening inverter commas, then your capital letter.

The next thing that's the same is that you could have a question mark or an exclamation mark right where that arrow is pointing to.

So in the same way that if I wrote it speech first, "It's good to have the home," if it was appropriate and correct, if the character had asked a question or said something in an excited way, I could have a question mark there, or an exclamation mark.

And the same is true if I write speech second.

So what's different.

What's different about those sentences.

Have another really good look.

Is the comma in the same place? We use commas in the same way? These are the things that I thought of.

In speech first, you can never have a full stop before the closing inverted commas.

Look at the speech first sentence, look at the comma, and then the inverted commas, where that comma is, we can never have a full stop there as we talked about earlier in the lesson.

But in speech second, you can, because it's showing the end of the whole sentence.

So look at the full stop in the second sentence.

There's full stop in blue.

That can be a full stop before we use the closing inverter commas.

Or as we know it could be an exclamation mark or a question mark.

And there's another difference.

In speed second, you have to have a comma before the speech.

Can you see I've circled it in red.

You've got to have a comma before the speech.

So you're going to practise writing some sentences.

I've given you the speech, for example, I'm so relieved your back.

I can totally imagine his father saying this to him.

I'm so relieved you're back.

I'd let you to write a speech first sentence, and a speech second sentence.

"I'm so relieved you're back!" the old man cried gleefully.

If you do something gleefully, you do it joyfully.

And then speech second.

The old man cried gleefully, "I'm so relieved you're back!" So you've got three sentences to write.

Did you get hurt? Thank goodness you're safe.

I'm so proud of you.

And you've got to write two sentences for each one.

You've got to write one that uses speech first, and one that uses speech second.

I'd like you to pause the video now, and write down your two sentences for each one.

Off you go.

Let us check.

So your words might be different.

So your verbs for set and adverbs might be different to mine, but really just focus on the punctuation.

So have you got this, inverted commas, capital letter, and then your question mark, closing inverted commas, "Did you get hurt?" asked his father worriedly.

You might have had a different verb to asked, and maybe a different adverb, but just focused on the punctuation.

Give yourself a tick if you got that one, and change anything if you need to.

Now speech second would have looked like this.

His father worriedly asked, "Did you get hurt?" Have a really good look on the screen.

That my one, have a really good look at your one.

Do you need to change anything? Can you tick it off? Have a close look.

Okay, well done.

Let's look at the next one.

Thank goodness you're safe.

This is what my speech first one was.

"Thank goodness you're safe," murmured his father calmly.

Again you might have different words to murmured and calmly, that's okay you're just checking the punctuation.

So can you give yourself a tick if you got your inverted commas, capital letter, comma and closing investor commas, and then full stop at the end.

Check it now.

And this is what our speech second would have looked like.

His father murmured calmly, "Thank goodness you're safe." Check yours please to see if you've got the correct punctuation.

If you need a bit more time you can pause, and then I'll see you for the third one.

So the third one, I'm so proud of you.

This is what my one was.

And I've used opening inverted commas, capital letter, and then I got an exclamation mark, point to the exclamation mark.

Well done.

And then I've closed my inverter commas, declared the old man ecstatically.

Can you say that in this style of ecstatically? "I'm so proud of you!" declare the old man ecstatically.

Your turn.

Well done.

So check your punctuation.

If you've got everything you need for that speech first sentence, change it if you need to.

And now let's look at the speech second sentence, The old man exclaimed ecstatically, "I'm so proud of you!" Can you check and change anything you need to, or just give it a lovely tick if you've got it all.

Pause the video if you need a bit more time.

Really well done today.

You've done your writing warm up, you've explored punctuation for writing speech first, you explored punctuation for speech second, and then you practised lots and lots of sentences.

And we will be able to use those sentences when we come to write the ending of our story for the Jabberwocky.

So you must make sure you have those sentences kept safe somewhere so we can use them in that lesson.

Really well done.

If you'd like to, you can share your work with your parent or carer, I hope you have a really lovely rest of your day, and I will see you very soon.