To answer questions on a text

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Into the Forest by Anthony Browne

﻿Hi there, my name is Mr. Byrne-Smith. In today's lesson, we're going to be doing some reading together. Now this is lesson four of five. So please go and watch one, two, and three if you haven't done already. In today's lesson, we're going to be analysing the text. So we're going to be reading a little bit more, I'm going to be answering some questions on what we've read. So come along, let's make a start it's going to be really fun. Here's the agenda for today's lesson. First we'll have a quick introduction of the lesson then we'll read the text, the final part of the text. After that, we'll do some text analysis before finally responding to the text. In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and of course your brain. If you need to get any of these things, pause the video now. Okay, let's introduce today's lesson. First I need your help ordering these pictures. So we have the child meeting the golden head girl, the child running through the forest with the red coat on, the peculiar pair of children sitting by the fire, the child coming across the coat hanging from a tree, the child meeting a boy with a cow, and then finally the child knock knock knocking at the door. So let's put these in order, pause the video now. Okay, so first we have the child meeting boy with the cow then the golden head girl, the peculiar pair of children by the fire, the coat hanging on a tree, running through the forest in confusion, finding grandma's house. Now we can look at a piece of punctuation called an ellipsis. Ellipsis. Ellipsis. An ellipsis looks like this, three dots, and it does one of three things. It either build suspense, it indicates dialogue trailing off, so somebody speaking, and that speech trailing off or stopping, sometimes being interrupted. Finally it can indicate missing words so it can indicate where words have been removed from a piece of text. Let look at some examples just to make this a bit clearer. So for suspense we have "The small child opened the strange looking door..." This does a really good job of building up the tension. We really want to know what happens next but we're going to have to wait just a little bit longer. Trailing off. "He stood there in shock, ""I can't believe what I'm..." he stuttered" and you can see that the person speaking here has trailed off they've stopped speaking for whatever reason they're shocked, they're scared, they've stuttered into silence. Finally, we have, "They ate the cakes, which contained jam "before leaving the house," which has become, "They ate the cakes... before leaving the house" and you can see that the ellipsis has replaced the words I removed "Which contained jam". They're words that I thought were unnecessary so I took them out and I put an ellipsis in their place just to make it clear that there had been something there that has now been removed. Okay, let's read the final installation, the last part of the text. "I knocked on the door and a voice called out "Who's there?" "But it didn't really sound like Grandma's voice. ""It's me have brought a cake from Mom." "I pushed the door open a little. ""Come in dear" the strange voice called. "I was terrified. "I slowly crept in. "There in Grandma's bed was... "Grandma! ""Come here love" she sniffed. "How are you?" ""I'm all right now," I said. "Then I heard a noise behind me and turned round... "Dad! "I told them everything that had happened. "We all had a hot drink "and I ate two pieces of Mom's delicious cake. "Then we said goodbye to grandma "who was feeling much better. "When we got home, I pushed open the door. ""Who's there?" A voice called. ""It's only us," We said. "And mom came out smiling". Okay, and that's the end of the text. A fantastic story, I think you'll agree. Beautifully illustrated. Some of the loveliest demonstrations going on within the boundaries of very, very skilled and capable author illustrator, as you will have seen. Let's do some analysis of this last piece of the text. So let's do some text analysis. Before we dive in, let's remind ourselves how we answer questions on the text. First, we identify the keywords in the question, then we skim and scan the text and pictures for any key information will help us answer. Finally, we search the text and pictures for hidden clues, clues, which are a little harder to find. So first let's look at this page. Now this page contains just one picture, very large picture it takes up almost entire page. Beneath the picture, there's the word, "Grandma!". The question is, "Why do you think Anthony Browne has chosen "to use only one word on this page?" Now I'd like you to answer this question and I'd like you to try your best to expand on your answer. So it'll put together a clear and complete answer, using full sentences of course. Pause the video now and have a go! Okay, I've had a go and this is what my answer looks like. "I think Anthony Browne has only used one word "because he wants us to know that "this is an important moment in the story. "Also it means he draws our attention towards the picture "which tells us a lot about what is happening "at this point in the story. "The child has been thinking about and searching "for Grandma this whole time "and finally that found grandma this is a big deal "and Anthony Browne wants to make that very clear to us. "This is an important point in the story". Let's considered this picture. This is a picture of the child's father. This is the child's father greeting the child after that time in the forest. Now, how does the child's dad feel about seeing them again? And how do you know? Now we only have a picture to work with here, we have no text, so we need to do some detective work. How's the child's dad feeling about seeing them again? And how do we know? Pause the video and have a think. Okay, so I've noticed a few things here. I think in the simplest sense, the child's dad is feeling happy. I think I could probably do better than that but that's a good starting point, happy. If I wanted to build on that I might say delighted, overjoyed, over the moon, but more than anything, just happy. Let's delve into just how I know that to be the case. There are quite a few signs in this picture explaining to me how the child's father is feeling. The first one is that, a smile. It sounds simple, but actually it's the biggest clue. People smile when they're happy. Child's father is smiling and therefore I'm guessing he's pretty happy. Next, we have the fact he's standing up, he's standing up to greet his child. If somebody comes in the room that you're not that interested about, somebody that you're not that keen on, you're probably not going to stand up to greet them. This instance, the child's dad is standing up so I think he's pretty excited about seeing their child. Arms outstretched, perhaps with joy, perhaps going in for a hug who knows, but both of those options suggest that he's happy to see his child. And then finally we have the sheer size of the, that. So Anthony Browne has chosen to the dad as big as possible, filling almost the entire frame. Now I wonder if you spotted something slightly peculiar going on here somewhere around the edge of this picture, the hands they're bursting out. I think this is an indication of just how happy he is, he's bursting out the image. That's the extent of his joy. So I think one final indication the dad's pretty pleased to see his child. Next picture, ""Come here love," she sniffed. "How are you?" ""I'm all right now," I said. "Then I had a noise behind me and turned around..." We're going to think about that ellipsis I wonder if you spotted it. Now why do you think Anthony Browne has used an ellipsis here at the end of this page? Which of our three ellipsis techniques do you think he's making use of? Pause the video and have a think. Okay, now I've had to go answering this question. "Anthony Brown has chosen "to use an ellipsis to build suspense. "This means he is trying to build up the tension "so that the reader feels excited about what might "be on the next page." Because of course the reader doesn't know this is a really good way of building up the tension and making the reader want to turn that page and find out. I wonder if you could remember another instance in this story where that type of ellipsis has been used. I'll let you have a little think before I reveal to you on this page! There is down in the bottom just before the child went into grandma's house for the first time. So a very similar kind of usage of the ellipsis, equally effective, just as effective. Now let's look at this picture which is a very typical picture from the story. And if you look carefully around the outside of this picture, you'll notice what we refer to as a frame. This picture is framed. It has a thin black line going around the outside within which the picture is contained. So it's not spilling out, there's nothing around the outside apart from blank space sometimes these blank spaces is where the text goes, not always, but sometimes. This instance the picture is very clearly framed. I'm highlighting it just to make it extra clear. Now this is a technique used by lots of illustrators, especially in picture books. The thing about a technique like this is that you can play with the technique. You can break the rules and when you break the rules, it can often mean something, you can deliver a message by breaking these rules. That's a few examples of framing in this book. Here, we have some examples, look carefully at each of these, sometimes the frame is faint, sometimes it's quite bold and thick, sometimes it's barely visible sometimes everything is contained within it, sometimes things are starting to poke out as we saw in the previous page with the dad and his hands. So why do you think on this very last picture Anthony Browne has chosen to illustrate the last image without a frame? And this is the image of the Mom and it's not framed at all, there's no frame. Now this is a choice Anthony Browne has made this choice for a reason. Every other image has had some sort of frame, whereas this one doesn't, why do you think that is? Now I don't know the answer, there is not necessarily right and wrong answer to this. I have a few ideas which I'll share in a second, but I don't know the answer. So you too have a think, maybe you've got some up your sleeve. Pause the video now and have a think. Okay, so this is a tricky one. I think part the reason why Anthony Browne has chosen to illustrate this image without a frame is because this is the last image in the story. So in a sense, there's some sorts of completion here and Mom is kind of broken free of the frame and the child has sort of broken free of all of that worry and concern and this loving hug that the mom is delivering isn't restrained at all by a frame around the outside. It's completely free and it's completely accessible for the child. Now that's just my idea and I'm not saying that that's the right answer. I don't think there is a right answer. I wonder what idea you came up with. Time to respond to the text. How do you think the story should end? The ending is quite distinct in this story, there were a few moments where you feel as though something else is going to happen and then everything's okay. That happens again and again and again. Are you pleased with that? Are you pleased with how the story ended? If you were the author, how would you have ended it? I'd like you to have a careful think about this, perhaps write some of your ideas down. Pause the video now. Okay, congratulations! That's the end of the lesson. We've done lots, we had a quick introduction, then we read the text, we've done some analysis of texts and pictures and finally we responded to the text. So well done! That at the end of the lesson, you worked very hard and you've completed the lesson.

To answer questions on a text

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