Lesson video

Hi, there.

It's me, Ms. Chu.

And in today's lesson, we are going to be publishing a non-chronological report.

Now, when we finish a piece of writing, doesn't ever just stop there.

We always want to showcase our writing in the best possible way, and publishing really supports us to do that.

So when you're ready, let's get publishing.

Today's lesson outcome is I can publish a non-chronological report.

The key words are, get ready to say them: "visual aid." Your turn.

"Caption," and "layout." Great job.

A visual aid is a graph, chart, image or diagram that enhances understanding in nonfiction texts.

A caption is a brief description that goes with, accompanies an image that gives extra context to the image.

The layout of a text refers to the way the information is organised on the page.

In this lesson, we are going to be creating a diagram and caption, and then we're going to publish our whole report.

So let's start to create a diagram and a caption.

First, let's recap the features of a non-chronological report.

A non-chronological report can have four paragraphs.

It will have an introduction, it will have a section on whatever, but in this example, it's on the appearance.

Section two, again, could be on something that you've chosen, but in this example, we've chosen habitat.

And then finally, it's the conclusion.

And in a non-chronological report, there are linguistic devices too.

What are they? Well, subject-specific vocabulary, fronted adverbials, such as formal, viewpoint, and fronted adverbials.

Of course, a formal language and tone.

Which of the following are features of a non-chronological report? Does it have fronted adverbials of cause? Does it have an introduction? Does it have dialogue between two characters, or does it have subject-specific vocabulary? Pause the video and have a think about what the features are.

Okay, get ready to point in three, two, one.

Front adverbials of cause, an introduction, and subject-specific vocabulary.

Well done.

Visual aids such as diagrams, graphs, charts, or images enhance understanding in a non-chronological report.

That means they help to support with the understanding of the information in the report.

So here is an example of a visual aid.

This is a graph.

And then these two are diagrams. Let's now learn to draw an anglerfish using basic shapes.

You will need these materials: plain paper, lined paper, pencils, erases, and you can use markers or coloured pencils, but you don't have to.

This is optional.

These are some images of anglerfish that you will base your diagram or your drawing on.

They have distinctive features.

So things that you will definitely have to include in your diagram is the bioluminescent lure, a large mouth, sharp teeth, and a rotund body shape.

These are the distinctive features that let everyone know that this is an anglerfish.

First, we need to start by sketching an oval for the body.

Then you're going to add a smaller oval for its mouth.

Then I'd like you to sketch in the fins and tail using triangles and emphasise the jagged edges of the fins and the tail.

After you have put in all these shapes in the right parts or areas of the fish, I would like you to rub out the overlapping lines.

After you have done this, you're going to draw the long, sharp teeth and illicium extending from the fish's head.

Add details like the eyes, the texture of the skin, and other defining features.

And you should get a diagram like this, or similar to this.

This is my diagram of the anglerfish.

Then I would like you to label the distinctive features with a ruler.

I want you to label the bioluminescent illicium, the large mouth, and the dark, mottled skin.

Now, we're moving on to the caption.

A caption describes what is in an image.

The caption should highlight the anglerfish's distinctive features.

So you might want to use these sentence scaffolds to help you to write your caption.

You might want to to say, "This anglerfish lives in mm.

Its glowing lure helps it mm.

With its large mouth and sharp teeth, this fish mm." Captions should be written in full sentences.

So you can use these sentence scaffolds or you can come up with your own sentence.

Let's practise saying a caption aloud.

I've got this sentence scaffold to help me to structure my caption.

"It's mm illicium extends mm." So I'm thinking of an adjective probably before the illicium.

I want to describe what the illicium looks like.

Extends, and maybe I would wanna give a position of where the illicium, it extends from its head.

And it is able to camouflage where? Okay, so that's gonna help me to say my caption aloud.

I've got the sentence scaffold.

I know what I'm gonna say.

I'm gonna say it now.

"Its bioluminescent illicium extends from the top of its head, and it is able to camouflage effectively with its environment." So I've said two ideas there.

One about the feature of the illicium.

The second is the feature of its skin.

Now, it's your turn to say the caption.

You may use my sentence to help you to structure, or you can use new sentence scaffold.

"It's mm lure dangles mm and it mm." Okay, so that one is a little bit more broad.

You may use that one to say your own.

Or you can use the one that I just said to help you to say yours.

Pause the video and have a go.

Let's look at what you could have said.

You could have said, "Its bioluminescent lure dangles to attract prey." This time, you're talking about the purpose of the lure.

"And it has a large mouth to swallow its prey." This time, our second idea is about a different feature of the anglerfish.

It's about the purpose of it having a large mouth as opposed to the mottled skin, which helps them to camouflage.

Now, you're going to watch me draw a diagram, label it, and write a caption.

I'm going to use the success criteria here to help me.

Let's read it and check what I need to do.

I have chosen a picture of an anglerfish to base my diagram on.

I have sketched the outline of my anglerfish using the shapes that I had discussed previously.

I have added detail to my diagram.

I've labelled my diagram.

And finally, I have written a caption for my diagram.

Are you ready to watch me start my diagram and caption? Give me a thumbs up if you're ready.

Great, let's get going then.

So I need to start by sketching an oval for the body.

Now, I know that I can't make it the entire size of my paper.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to fold my paper in to quarters, just so I know that it cannot be bigger than this section or this quarter of the paper.

And I've got my lines there.

So I'm going to start by sketching the oval for the body.

And then I need to add a smaller oval for its mouth.

And then I'm going to sketch in the fins.

So I've got my triangle there.

Another one for its tail.

And then maybe I'll do one like this.

Okay, and then I'm going to rub out any overlapping lines.

Okay, now that I've finished rubbing out my overlapping lines, I don't know if you've noticed, but I've actually changed the shape slightly of its tail.

And that's fine because you can edit as you go along according to how your anglerfish picture looks like.

Okay, so I'm looking at an image that I've got from the internet, and I now, I'm going to draw in the long illicium, okay? So I know that it's coming from the top of its head, and I'm actually gonna make it go like this.

And I'm going to draw the esca, and then I'm going to make it come down.

And remember, if there are any lines that you don't want in there, just rub them out as you go along.

Perfect.

So there is my illicium.

I'm going to draw in its eye on this side, and then it's gills.

And then now, I'm going to draw in its large mouth like this.

Draw in.

I'm going to rub out this part, because I'm going to make it go in this way.

It's starting to look a bit more like a fish now.

And then down here, there's like a little fin, so I need to draw that in as well.

Here, you notice I'm not pressing too hard on the paper, just in case I need to rub something out.

And now I'm just gonna add in the detail.

Maybe I need to make the body a bit more rotund.

It's a bit rounder here.

And have its fin like this.

Its tail.

And then I might want to draw some lines on its body, or I might want to just shade in some dark patches.

Remember, it has dark, mottled skin.

So that means it has some patches of darkness in its scaly skin.

Could do that.

And then just make that so I could put the teeth in.

What do we think of the teeth? Could make them a bit sharper.

Just finalise the mottling, the gills.

Now we can start to just make it a bit darker now that we're happier with the basic outline of our fish.

We can just start to press a bit harder with our pencil when we're happy with our diagram.

Okay, and then when we finished the adding in the details, we can start to label it.

So with my ruler, I'm going to draw a line out from its illicium.

I need one for its mouth, and I want one for its skin.

And here I'm going to write, so I need to check my spelling of bioluminescent.

Illicium.

Il - two ls.

Illicium.

And then here, I've got my large mouth for swallowing.

Prey twice its size.

And then here I'm going to write dark, mottled.

Oops, not skim - skin.

Skin.

Great, so I'm happy with my drawing, my diagram.

And now I'm going to move on to the caption.

For my caption, I need to describe and highlight the key points that I've drawn.

So I'm going to definitely talk about the bioluminescent illicium, but do I want to say where it is, or do I want to say what the purpose of it is? I think I'll go with purpose.

So I know I have to, it's in full sentences, so I need to start with my capital letter.

It's bio-lu-me, I'm breaking.

Lu-mi-ne-scent.

Oh, and I've drawn the lines in, by the way.

Lure.

You can draw your lines in, or you can get lined paper.

Dangles to what? What is it for? To attract prey.

And I'm going to say, and it has, shall I talk about its large mouth? Or shall I say something about its mottled skin? I'll say it has dark, mottled skin to camouflage effectively with its environment.

Full stop.

Let's just read that caption to make sure it makes sense.

"Its bioluminescent lure dangles to attract prey, and it has dark, mottled skin to camouflage effectively with its environment." Now, it's your turn.

I would like you to get some lined and plain paper.

Choose a picture of an anglerfish from a book or the internet and draw the diagram, label it, write the caption using the success criteria below.

Pause the video.

And I cannot wait to see your diagram and your caption at the end of this task.

Okay, let's check that I have done what I was meant to do.

I've chosen a picture of an anglerfish.

Yes, I did.

I have sketched the outline of my anglerfish.

Yes, I definitely did.

Did I add detail to my diagram? Yes, I added detail in terms of adding dark patches to its skin.

Have I labelled it? Yes, definitely.

And have I written a caption? Yes, I have.

I would like you now to check that you have done those things.

Pause the video and then press Play once you have finished.

Okay, now we are on to the second part.

We have drawn our diagram and we have written a caption for the diagram.

Now, we're going to publish our reports.

To publish a piece of writing means to produce a final best version that becomes available to everyone.

It is important to use neat, joined handwriting when publishing so that it is visually appealing to the reader.

Visual aids in the form of diagrams make the information easier to understand and remember the information.

Captions clarify visuals by highlighting the key points in the diagram.

This is an example of the layout of a non-chronological report.

We have the title of the report, which tells us what the whole report is about.

We have a subheading to introduce the first section, which is usually definitely almost always the introduction.

Then we have section one.

We might wanna have a diagram for section one.

The diagram doesn't always have to be with the first section.

It could be in the second section, but we always need a caption to go with our diagram.

We have our subheading for section two, then section two, and then we might want to draw another diagram for section two and write a caption.

And finally, in our report, we have our conclusion.

Which of the following examples shows the layout in an appropriate way for a non-chronological report? Is it (a), you start your report with section one, and then in the middle of the report, you have the title and then you have the introduction? Or is it (b), the introduction goes first, the title, and then section one? Or is it (c), you have the title of the report, the introduction, and then section one? Pause the video and have a think about which of these is an appropriate way to lay out a non-chronological report.

Get ready to point with me in three, two, one.

It is C, yes.

We always start with the title of the report to tell us what the whole report is going to be about.

And then we introduce the sections of the report.

So that's our introduction paragraph.

And then that's when we start going into our different sections in more detail.

Well done.

Let's design the layout of our non-chronological reports on a piece of lined paper.

Start with the title and introduction, then place your diagram on your lined paper to plan where each of the sections will go, and then you're going to have to write around the diagram and the caption.

Here is the success criteria to help us.

I have drawn a diagram and written a caption.

So we've done that one already.

I have designed the layout of my report, so you're gonna have to move some things around on a lined piece of paper just to allow for appropriate spacing for each section.

I have used neat, joined handwriting to publish my report.

I have checked the spelling of subject-specific vocabulary.

Now, you're going to watch me publish the beginning of a report using this layout as a template.

I'm also going to use the success criteria because that will really make sure that I'm being effective and successful in this publishing task.

When you're ready, I'm going to start.

Now, I'm going to check the layout of my report.

I've got some lined paper that I've taken from my exercise book, and I'm just gonna work out.

It's quite a big diagram actually, so I could put it here and have my title here and my introduction here.

Or I could just maybe have it down here, and then I could start to write my second section here.

But I think what I'm gonna do is I'm not going to stick it down just yet.

I'm just going to start with the title and then the introduction and then see how much space I have before starting section one.

So I'm going to start with my title.

I'm going to get my pen to do this.

The Anglerfish.

That's what this report is about, the anglerfish.

And I'm going to underline it with my ruler.

And I'm going to start with my introduction here in, oops, Introduction.

I shouldn't have joined my first letter.

So that was a mistake that I hope no one notices.

Maybe if I do this, that will be better - Introduction.

And then I'm going to start my introduction here, and let's see where my next section can go after I've written my introduction.

Okay, so I've just written the title, the subheading introduction, and I've written my introduction here.

I just need to check now, have I used neat, joined handwriting? Mostly, I'm happy with my handwriting here.

I made a mistake here and I just put one single line through it, so that doesn't look too bad.

If that happens, you can just do that as well.

And then I just need to check the spelling.

Atlantic, Atlantic.

I think I've put a K there and I shouldn't.

So I'm just going to just neatly, again, put a line through it like that, or maybe two lines through it so that the person who's reading this can see that it's not meant to be there.

And then let me just check my other vocabulary.

Yeah, I'm happy with that.

So now I need to take my diagram, because I'm going to position it on my report somewhere so I know I can start my second section, maybe section one somewhere around here.

Or I can move it over here, or I can have it in the middle and start my section down here.

I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to put it here.

Let me get my glue, stick it down, and then I can start writing the second section.

And this is where I've chosen to put it.

So I'm going to stick it down here, and then I'm going to start my subheading over here.

This is where I'll start.

I need a capital letter to start my subheading.

What is the appearance of anglerfish? Question mark, because that is a question.

I'm using a question as my subheading.

I need to underline it now with a ruler.

What is the appearance of anglerfish? And then I'm going to start my actual section over here.

And I'm going to indent as well.

I'm gonna try and indent anglerfish, can only fit one word in there.

Display a mesmerizingly bizarre appearance with ingenious, just literally copying it from the report that I've already written.

Adaptations.

I can't fit it all in.

I'm going to just go on the next line.

For deep sea life, full stop.

Intriguingly, intriguing, g-, -ing, -ing.

I missed the I, -ing.

Ly, comma.

They have rotund.

So this is when we're going into the appearance now to go with this.

Rotund bodies with expandable stomachs.

Ooh, can I fit it all in? So that, I'm gonna carry on there.

So that these creatures, I could put creatures down here.

Creatures can, and I'm going to actually leave a line here - can, and I'm gonna start consume over here.

Consume.

And you see that.

Prey much larger than their own size.

Just so that people do not get this writing mixed up with this one, I'm actually gonna draw a border around my diagram and caption.

So I'm going to draw a border like this, just to make it obvious that this is the diagram and this belongs in this section here.

And so this part, this writing is relating to this diagram.

It's the caption, and then this is part of this section here.

Now, remember, you don't have to have your diagram as big as mine.

You can have it half the size or even a third of the size.

Or if you've drawn it the same size as mine, you can start your section first and then stick your diagram on the next page and continue section two here.

Or you can have the diagram first and then start your next section.

It's completely up to you how you like to lay out your report.

As long as you start with the title first and the introduction, the rest of it is up to you how you want it to look.

Okay, now it's your term.

You're gonna get some lined and plain paper if you need more plain paper, but you definitely need lined paper.

You're going to use the finalised and edited outcomes of your non-chronological reports, and you're gonna use this success criteria to help you to publish.

Are you ready? Can I get a big thumbs up if you are ready to start publishing? Yes, I can see your big thumb is up.

Okay, pause the video and start publishing.

Okay, now I'm going to check that I've published my report according to the success criteria.

Have I drawn a diagram and caption? Yes.

Designed my layout.

Yes.

Have I used neat, joined handwriting? I have done it to the best of my ability.

And I did check.

I remember I went through and I checked the spelling of all my subject-specific vocabulary.

Okay, now it's your turn.

Pause the video and I want you to just check each one of those things, and then you can press Play once you've finished.

To summarise, visual aids and captions are useful in providing visual support, making the information easier to understand and remember for the reader.

The layout helps to organise facts and information logically, allowing the reader to navigate through the report easily.

Neat, joined handwriting is important when publishing a non-chronological report.

A published report should be visually and linguistically appealing to the reader.

I have loved publishing my report today, and I hope that you really enjoyed this lesson too.

Goodbye.