To use different sentence types

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How Coyote Brought Fire to the Earth (2)

﻿Hello everyone, my name is Miss Barron. Today we are going to learn to use different sentence types. So, first we are going to think about this new learning. We are going to learn what the different sentence types are, how to spot them, and how to use them ourselves. And as we go, you are going to have a go at writing the different sentence types. And finally, you're going to put what you've learned into practise with a poem. So in today's lesson, you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper to write on and a pencil to write with. Pause the video now and go and get those things if you need to. Fantastic, you're back and ready to begin the learning today. So let's begin by thinking about the different sentence types. What are they? So to start thinking about that, let's begin with an odd one out activity. I'm going to read the four sentences on your screen. And as I read them, I want you to start thinking about which one you think is the odd one out and why. Sentence one, The story bat chased Hummingbird out of the cave. Sentence two, What a hero Hummingbird was! Sentence three, Hummingbird was brave, daring and heroic. Sentence four, Brother Badger dug deep into the ground. So which one of those do you think is the odd one out, and why? Pause the video now and have a think about that. Brilliant, you're back. I'm really interested to hear your thoughts on this one. So tell me to your screen. I think the odd one out is, because, tell me your screen. I'm hearing lots of interesting different responses there. So some of you said that you think sentence three is the odd one out because it's the only one with adjectives. There are three adjectives in sentence three out there, did you spot them? Brave, daring and heroic, all used to describe Hummingbird. Some of you thought that sentence four was the odd one out because it's the only one to have two examples of alliteration. Now alliteration is when we have words next to each other that begin with the same letter. So we can see brother Badger is an example of alliteration, two words next to each other that both begin with the letter B, and dug deep, two words next to each other that both begin with the same letter. So you're right, that one could be the odd one out for that reason, just like sentence three could be the odd one out for being the only one with adjectives. Some of you said that you thought sentence two was the odd one out because it's the only one that doesn't end in a full stop. Have a look at the punctuation at the end of sentence two. Have you seen one of those before? It's called an exclamation mark. And I'm going to be teaching you how we use them today. And so you're right again, that could be the odd one out too for that reason. Now that is the reason that I want to focus on today. I want to have a look at what all of the other sentences, sentence one, sentence three and sentence four have in common, because they are all the first type of sentence that we are going to learn about today. They are all statements. Now let's practise saying that word, my turn your turn, statements. Your turn. Fantastic. My turn again, statements. Your turn, brilliant. Now what is a statement? Statements tell the reader a fact or idea about a single topic. They must always end with a full stop. So you can see a picture of her Hummingbirds on your screen. Let's have a look at a statement about Hummingbird. That's my example in green. Hummingbird snatched the stories in her beak. Now that is a statement because it tells the reader a fact about a single topic and ends in a full stop. So our single topic is Hummingbird. And my facts about her is that she snatched the stories in her beak, so it tells the reader what she did, and it ends in a full stop. So I would like you now to pause the video and write a statement of your own about Hummingbird. You can see the sentence them, in grey, at the bottom of your screen there, Hummingbird, and make sure your statement ends in a full stop. So pause the video now and write your statement. Brilliant effort. You're back now, I can't wait to hear your statement about Hummingbird. So tell me to your screen. Tell me your statement now. I'm hearing lots of different creative statements about Hummingbird. I heard somebody say Hummingbird has beautiful feathers. I heard somebody say, Hummingbird has a long, sharp beak. I heard somebody say, the humans were so lucky to meet Hummingbird. Brilliant. Those are all statements. They all tell us facts about a single topic, the single topic being Hummingbird. And they all end in, go and do it with me, full stops. Brilliant. Now then, now that we know what a statement is, I wonder if you can spot the mistake in this statement. Let's read it together, the sentence in white. The story bat zoomed after her! Now we've read it, but you also need to take a close look at it to spot the mistake. Where is the mistake in that statement? Pause the video now and have a think about that. Fantastic, you're back. Did you spot it? Go and tell me to your screen now, using your sentence then. The mistake in the statement is, tell me to your screen. Well spotted. You spotted that the mistake in that statement is the exclamation mark on the end. We now know that statements always end in full stop, don't they? So that exclamation mark at the end is wrong. Well done. Now then, let's move on to our next sentence type. We are now going to learn about questions. Questions are another sentence type. So how do we spot and write questions? Well, let's have a look. Question starts with question words. For example, who, what, why, when, how. There's all sorts of question words, and usually need an answer. For example, if I ask the question, where are we going tomorrow? Then I'm going to want an answer, aren't I? But not all questions need an answer. Sometimes we ask ourselves questions, don't we? For example, I might ask myself, what should I do later? And that won't have an answer with it because I'm just asking it to myself. And sometimes story characters do the same thing. Sometimes characters in story might ask themselves questions. For example, Hummingbird might ask herself, how am I going to get the stories back? Those questions don't need answers, but most questions do, most of the time, we ask a question to get an answer, don't we? And another big clue is that questions always end in a question mark. What do they always end in? Brilliant, a question mark. Fantastic. So you can see a picture of the human chief on your screen. Let's have a look at a question that human chief asks. He asks, "Will anyone bring us some stories to stop us being bored?" So you can see that my question begins with a question word, "will", it ends with a question mark. And did you hear that my voice goes up at the end when I ask it? So when we ask questions, our voice always goes up at the end. So that is my question in role as human chief. I would like you now to write a question either that human chief might ask or a question that you would like to ask human chief. If you could meet him, what would you ask him? So pause the video now and write your question. Fantastic. So go on, I would love to hear your question. Tell me to your screen, say, my question is. Lots of different questions. I heard some of you say, what's it like to be a human chief? That's a really interesting question. I would like to ask that too if I got to meet him in chief, I had somebody say, why do you wear feathers in your hair? Another really interesting question. I also had somebody say, why have you got face paint across your face? Great question. All sorts of questions that we could ask human chief if we ever got to meet him. So brilliant job there. Now you know what a question is, can you spot them as sake in this question? Let's have a read. Are you ready to catch the stories. So we've read it. We need to take a close look at it to to spot the mistake. So go on pause the video and have a think. This is not a question because, where's the mistake? Pause the video. Okay go on and you're ready to tell me what you think is the mistake. So tell me to your screen now, say, this is not a question because, well spotted. Because it doesn't have a question mark on the end, does it? It has a full stop. And we know that questions always have question marks on the end. Fantastic. Well done. So now we've learned about two different sentence types, haven't we? We've learned about statements. Now let's just recap what a statement is. A statement is a fact or idea about a single topic and always ends in a, go and say it with me, a full stop. Brilliant. And questions start with question words. We usually expect an answer and they always end in a, tell me to your screen, a question mark. Fantastic. So now we're ready to move on and find out about the next two sentence types. There are four all together. So the next sentence type we are going to learn about are called exclamations. Now say that with me because it's quite a long word, so my turn first. Exclamations. Your turn. Fantastic. Let's do it in a deep voice now, exclamations. Your turn. Let's do it in a robot voice now, ready? Exclamations. Your turn. Fantastic job. What are exclamations? How do we spot them and how do we use them? Exclamations usually starts with "what" or "how." They show strong feeling that's really important. They show strong feeling. For example, shock, anger or excitement. Exclamations must have an exclamation mark. Do that with me. Exclamation mark. Fantastic. So let's have a look at an example of an exclamation here are mine. What a dark cave! So that's inside story bat's cave, isn't it? Now notice, it starts with "what." Remember I said that exclamations usually starts with "what" or "how". So "what" is the first word in that exclamation? And it ends with an exclamation mark. And it shows strong feeling, doesn't it? It shows shock. Gosh, what a dark cave! So that's my first exclamation. My second is, How fast evil story bat flew! So it starts with the word how, doesn't it? And it ends with an exclamation mark. And it shows strong feeling. It shows surprise, doesn't it? How fast evil story bat flew! So those are my examples. Now it's your turn. I would like you to write two exclamations, either about story bats, or about the guardian in your new story. So maybe it's the Sugar Plum Fairy, maybe it's the gold finger giants, maybe it's the ice giant in the clouds, whichever your guardian is for your new story. So pause the video now and write your two exclamations. One, beginning with the word "what" and the other beginning with the word "how". And remember, both of them need to end in excrement marks. Fantastic. So do that now. Great job. So I can't wait to hear your exclamations. Tell me your favourite one to the screen now. Say, my favourite exclamation is, tell me to the screen. Fantastic. I had all sorts of different ones there. Some about story bat and some about the other villains, monsters, or guardians in your stories. Can you spot the mistake in this exclamation sentence? Where was the entrance of the story cave! Let's read that again. Where was the entrance of the story cave? Have a think about that. Where is the mistake? This is not an explanation because, pause the video and have a think about that. Fantastic. Well done for thinking hard about that one. So go on, tell me to the screen. This is not an explanation because, tell me your thoughts. Well done. You spotted that even though it does have an exclamation mark at the end, it's not an exclamation because it starts with a question word. It starts with "where" and "where" is a question word, isn't it? Which means that this would be a question. If it had a question mark on the end. Where was the entrance of the story cave? That's the question. I'm asking something and I want to find out an answer. So it can't be an exclamation, can it? Even though it has an exclamation mark on the end. Well spotted. So now we have learned about statements, questions and exclamations. We are ready to move on to our fourth and final sentence type, commands. So let's just practise saying that word. My turn first, commands. Your turn. My turn again, commands. Your turn. Fantastic. What are commands? Commands tell someone to do something. They start with an imperative verb. And imperative verbs are verbs that tell someone to do something. So let's have a read of the imperative verbs in grey on your screen and do the action with me. Are you ready? Say them with me with the action, run, hide, throw, catch, get, help. Fantastic. Those are all examples of imperative verbs, telling someone to do something. And commands are always punctuated with a full stop. So let's have a look at my example. Run through the tunnel as fast as you can. That is my command telling someone to do something. The imperative verb at the beginning is, run. So what are they being told to do? They're being told to run through the tunnel as fast as they can. And you can see it ends in a full stop. So it's your turn now. I would like you to write a command sentence of your own about something and your story. It could be about one of your characters, it could be about something that happens. So pause the video now and write your command sentence. Fantastic. You're back. Go and tell me your command sentence that you wrote. Tell me your screen now. I'm hearing all sorts of different commands there. I heard somebody say, fly up the mountain. I heard somebody say creep through the clouds. I heard somebody say, dash through the meadows. And I heard somebody say, dig down deep. Fantastic. Those are all commands, aren't they? All telling somebody what to do. So let's see if you can spot the mistake here. This is not a command, there's a mistake. Let's read it. How are we going to escape. What's the mistake in that sentence? Pause the video now and have a think. Brilliant, you're back. Go on and tell me what you think. Say, this is not a command because, you're right. It's not a command because it's a question, isn't it? It starts with the question word "how," and they're asking a a question, How are we going to escape? That's not telling somebody to do something. Well spotted. Now I have a challenge for you. You can see all sorts of different sentence types in that table in front of you. But they are all mixed up. Most of them are in the wrong coloured boxes. So I would like you to sort them. I would like you to draw four boxes on your piece of paper and label them, commands, exclamations, statements and questions. So label each box with a different sentence type heading. And then I would like you to sort those sentence types in the table correctly, into the right box. So pause the video now and have a go at that. Now then let's have a look at the sentences that you should have sorted in your boxes. So let's start with the commands. There are two command sentences, Throw them to Badger, and, Catch the stories in your paws. Both of those start with imperative verbs and tell somebody what to do. And they both end in full stops, don't they? Now, let's have a look at the statements. This tunnel is so long. Rabbit ran for her life. Evil bat guarded all the stories. Those are all statements because they are facts or ideas about a single topic, and they all end in full stops. Let's have a look at the question. There was only one wasn't there, Who will help us? Now, that is a question asked by the humans, isn't it? It starts with a question word "who" and ends with a question mark, and we know they're expecting an answer. And finally the exclamations. How lucky we are to have stories now! Starts with "how", shows strong feeling. They feel really grateful, thankful, don't they? And ends in an exclamation mark. What a scary cave! Starts with the word "what", has an exclamation mark on the end, and shows the strong feeling of fear, doesn't it? What a scary cave! And then finally, How dare you steal my stories! Starts with "how", ends with an exclamation mark, and shows the strong feeling of, go on tell me, what's the feeling there? Well done. It's anger, isn't it? How dare you steal my stories! Brilliant job. So those are those sentences sorted into the different types. So now that you know what the four sentence types are, you've practised spotting them, you have practise writing them, and you practise sorting them, you are ready for your independent challenge. I would like you to write a list poem, using the four different sentence types about your new story. So, here's my list poem. I'm going to read it to you. And we'll talk about how it's a list poem, and how I've used the four different sentence types in it. So listen, carefully. Stop. Give me back my stories. How dare they take them from me! What can I steal and keep for myself now? They haven't seen the last of me yet. So you can see that I've colour coded my lines in my poem. The first line, Stop. Give me back my stories. Now those are commands, aren't they? "Stop", that is a one word command. "Stop" is the imperative verb. It's telling somebody what to do. And, "Give me back my stories", again, that's the command, telling somebody what to do. It starts with the imperative verb, "give", and both of those end in full stops. So I've got two commands in my first line. My next slide, How dare they take them from me? Now that is an exclamation, isn't it? It starts with the word "how", it ends in an exclamation mark, and it shows the strong feeling of anger, doesn't it? How dare they take them from me! Now, my next slide is a question. How do I know it's a question? It starts with the question word "what", but really importantly, I can see it ends with a question mark, and let's have a read of it. What can I steal and keep for myself now? We know that that's his angry bat asking himself a question. And then my final sentence is a statement. They haven't seen the last of me yet. That is an idea about a single topic, the topic being bat. So that is my list poem. And the reason it's called a list poem is because it lists different sentence types, one by one with each line. So I would like you now to have a go at writing your own list poem. The sentence types don't have to be in the same order. It's up to you which order you write them in. But I would like you to write a poem that uses all four sentence types in there somewhere, about your story. So pause the video now and have a go at that. Fantastic efforts, having you go at writing that list poem. Now keep it safe somewhere because I may check you know, at the end of this unit in lesson 10, how you can share it with me. I would love to read it. So keep it somewhere safe until then. Now before we finish today, I have one final question for you to consider. And that is, If you could meet one of the characters in your story, who would it be, and what question would you ask them? So you might like to use these sentence stems to help you frame your ideas. I would most like to meet, because, and my question would be. So for example, in my story, I would say, I would most like to meet angry story bat because I'm really interested to find out why he stole the stories. So my question would be, why did you steal all the stories? So that's my example. Pause the video now and have a think about that for your story. And that brings us to the end of our lesson today, learning about the four different sentence types. Why not carry on practising writing those? You might like to write some more sentences about your story using those four different sentence types that you've learned today. I will see you in the next lesson, in lesson five. Until then, keep telling stories. Bye.

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