Lesson video

Hello, everybody.

I'm Ms. Corbett.

And welcome to today's lesson, Character description of the wolf in "The Three Little Pigs." We are going to be getting our imaginations going on our descriptive vocabulary generated to describe that sneaky, pesky wolf.

So, for this lesson, I need you to have your listening ears, your looking eyes, and your thinking brain.

As well as that you will need something to write with and something to write on.

It would be great.

So, you can do your neatest handwriting if your paper was lined and that you were sitting somewhere comfortably.

It would also be great if you could have the success criteria nearby to help you, and somebody nearby to talk to and to help you with your writing too.

Can you pause the video to make sure that you have something to write with and something to write on? Pause the video now.

I think we are ready to do some excellent descriptive writing.

Let's get started.

And here is the outcome for today's lesson.

I can join two ideas together to describe the wolf, and these keywords will help us to get there.

Can you repeat them after me in your loud and proud voice? Character, personality, appearance, adjective, joining word.

Thank you so much for joining in with me.

Let's have a look at what some of those words mean.

We know that a character is a person or animal in a story.

Your personality are the special qualities that make a character themselves.

Someone's appearance is what someone or something looks like.

An adjective adds detail to a noun, and we are going to be thinking of adjectives to describe the wolf.

And a joining word is a word that joins words or ideas.

Let's get started with the first part of our lesson, describing the wolf.

We know that re-reading a story helps us to remember the plot as well as notice details in the text and illustrations.

And it's really important to spend time just enjoying stories together.

Let's read the whole story without stopping.

Listening ears at the ready.

"The Three Little Pigs." Once upon a time, they're lived three little pigs who are feeling bored and tired of their countryside home.

The same birds sang in the trees and the same cows moved in the fields each day.

They decided they would leave home and build their own homes.

They were excited to start their new adventure.

Early one morning, the first little pig built his house out of light golden straw, and he finished it quickly.

"This will keep me safe," he said proudly.

However, a sneaky hungry wolf was watching.

The wolf knocked on the door and said, "Little pig, little pig, let me come in." "Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin," the little pig replied.

"And I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in," growled the wolf.

He huffed and puffed.

And with a mighty blow, the straw house tumbled down.

The little pig squealed and ran to his brother's house.

Later that day, the second little pig finished building his house out of sturdy brown sticks, and he thought it would be safe.

But the cunning, clever wolf was not far behind.

The wolf knocked on the door and said, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in." "Not by the hair on our chinny chin chins," the little pigs replied.

"Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in," roared the wolf.

He huffed and puffed, and with an enormous breath, the stick house tumbled down.

The two pigs screamed and dashed to their sister's house.

Just before sunset, the third little pig finished building her house out of strong red bricks, with a tall, smoky chimney.

The ravenous wolf knocked on the door.

"Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in." "Not by the hair on our chinny chin chins," the pigs yelled.

"Then I'll hof and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in," barked the wolf impatiently.

So, he huffed and he puffed, and he huffed, and he puffed some more.

But the brick house did not move a single inch.

Finally, the wolf had an idea.

"I'll climb down the chimney and get those foolish pigs," he thought.

Luckily, the third little pig was not as foolish as the wolf had thought.

She was clever and very well-prepared.

She boiled a big bubbling pot of water in the fireplace.

When the wolf slid down the chimney, he landed with a splash in the scolding, hot water.

"Ow!" he howled.

And he ran far, far away, never to be seen again.

From that day on, the three little pigs lived happily ever after in their safe, cosy, brick house.

They never saw the wolf again.

The end.

Thank you so much for listening and for joining in in some parts too.

These are all characters in "The Three Little Pigs," the three pigs and the wolf.

And these words are nouns because we know that a noun is a person, place, or thing, pigs and wolf.

One character in the story is the wolf.

And in this lesson, we will describe him.

The wolf wants to eat the pigs, so he decides to sneak up on them whilst they are building before blowing down their houses.

Here is how he is specifically described in the story.

Cunning, sneaky, ravenous, which means so, so hungry, clever.

And the illustrations can help us to describe or show what he looks like, his appearance, and we can look at him closely.

Can you try and identify the adjectives? Remember, adjectives is one of our keywords.

An adjective describes or adds detailed to a noun.

Listening to the options, A, clever, B fur, C, teeth, D, sneaky.

Two of those words are adjectives and two of those words are nouns.

Pause the video now to find the adjectives.

Well done.

If you spotted clever, the clever wolf, or sneaky, the sneaky wolf.

Fur and teeth are both nouns because they are things.

These adjectives will be describe the wolf's personality, feelings, and character traits.

Let's have a think about his personality and how he feels about something.

He's cunning, greedy, persistent, which means he's not giving up, impatient, because he just really wants to eat one of those pigs, ravenous, because he's so hungry.

They tell us about how the wolf behaves and gives more detail about his character.

And ravenous, for example, means very hungry, which is a feeling rather than something to his personality.

Here are some explanations of those objectives.

The wolf was ravenous because he hadn't eaten for days.

The wolf was persistent because he kept trying to blow all of the houses down.

The wolf was cunning because he planned to eat the pigs and snuck upon them.

When we describe a character's appearance, we describe what they look like.

So, let's look carefully.

The wolf is enormous, especially compared to the pigs.

He's furry.

He has stained teeth.

Ugh.

He has sharp claws.

And the adjectives there are stained to describe the teeth and sharp to describe the claws.

And he has padded paws.

And padded is our adjective to describe the paws.

Can you think of any more words to describe the wolf's appearance? So, what the wolf looks like.

You could think about what colour he is.

You could think about his ears, his eyes, his tail.

Pause the video now and think of some words to describe the wolf's appearance.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

I heard pointy ears, fluffy tail, huge paws.

I would like you to match the adjectives that describe the wolf's appearance and personality.

So, one of these adjectives describes the wolf appearance, and one describes his personality.

We've got greedy and we've got enormous.

Pause the video now to decide.

So, greedy describes his personality.

Greedy, as a part of his character.

And enormous can describe what he looks like.

Well done if you got that.

We know that using two adjectives to describe a noun creates an expanded noun phrase.

Can we say that together? Expanded noun phrase.

Two adjectives must always be separated by a comma.

Here is an example.

Sharp, yellow teeth.

My two adjectives are sharp and yellow.

My comma is separating my adjectives.

Sharp, yellow.

And my noun is teeth.

Sharp and yellow are describing the teeth.

Here are some other expanded noun phrases describing the wolf's appearance, what the wolf looks like, soft, grey fur, bright, red collar, hot, stinky breath, bloodshot, veiny eyes.

We can add a description of the wolf's personality or his feelings to create a simple sentence.

The cunning, that's his personality, the cunning wolf had stained, yellow teeth, and that creates a whole sentence.

I'm going to choose an adjective to describe the wolf's personality or his feelings.

The impatient wolf.

Now, I will turn this into a sentence by describing the wolf's appearance with two adjectives.

How many adjectives? The impatient wolf had soft, grey fur.

I'm going to say that sentence again with a capital letter and a full stop.

Capital letter.

The impatient wolf had soft, grey fur.

Full stop.

Now it's your turn.

You'll choose an adjective to describe the wolf's personality or his feelings.

The wolf.

Think about sly, ravenous, sneaky, greedy.

Pause the video now.

The wolf.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

Now you will turn that into a sentence by describing the wolf's appearance as well with two adjectives.

Capital letter.

The wolf, that you've just described, had comma.

Soft, grey fur, hot, stinky breath, a red, round collar.

You are going to put that into a sentence.

Capital letter.

The wolf had comma.

Full stop.

Pause the video now.

Brilliant description.

Now, I want you to do that all over again.

Think to think of another sentence.

A different adjective to describe the wolf's personality, the wolf, then, two adjectives to describe his appearance, had.

Pause the video now and say your second sentence.

Off you go.

Brilliant job.

Now you have your two sentences.

You're going to put them together to plan them out loud.

You will try to say the sentences.

Then, you will try and say the sentences in your silliest voice.

Then, say the sentences, including your capital letters, commas, and full stops.

Then, I'd like you to tell somebody else your sentences and whisper your sentences to your pencil to show that you are ready to write.

Capital letter.

The wolf had comma.

Full stop.

And again.

The wolves had comma.

Full stop.

Pause the video now and say your two sentences in all of those ways.

So, you've said them so many times, off you go.

Brilliant.

I love how many times you managed to say them so they are stuck in your head.

Here's some examples.

The ferocious wolf had bloodshot, veiny eyes.

The clever wolf had sharp, curling claws.

Full stop.

Now we are going to move on to the second part of our lesson, writing a descriptive compound sentence.

We know that a simple sentence is one idea that makes complete sense.

Here are some different examples of simple sentences.

The terrifying wolf had red, bloodshot eyes.

The wolf had hot, smelly breath.

The frightening wolf had curling toenails.

He had sharp teeth.

Each sentence starts with a capital letter, ends with a full stop, includes a verb, which in these examples is had, and make complete sense on their own.

So, can you spot that simple sentence? Is it A, furious wolf? Is it B, capital letter, The wolf? Or is it C, capital letter, The hungry wolf huffed, full stop? Which is the simple sentence and how do you know? Pause the video now.

Let's see.

Well done if you said the hungry wolf huffed.

It starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, it makes complete sense on its own, and it includes a verb, something that we do, huffed.

We can also write sentences about two ideas.

We can use a joining word to help us join the second idea to the first idea.

So, here's a simple sentence.

Capital letter.

The impatient wolf had red, bloodshot eyes.

Now, I have taken away my full stop 'cause I'm not finished with my sentence.

I'm using a joining word, and.

And the wolf had soft, grey fur.

Full stop.

Both ideas are joined together with the joining word, and.

My first idea was, the impatient wolf had red, bloodshot eyes.

That makes sense on its own.

My second idea was, the wolf had soft, grey fur.

That makes sense on its own.

And both ideas are related.

They're linked to each other.

So, I have joined them together to make one sentence using the joining word, and.

We call this a compound sentence.

Have a look at this compound sentence again.

The impatient wolf had red, bloodshot eyes and the wolf had soft, grey fur.

Both ideas in the sentence are related because they're both describing the wolf.

We can make the sentence sound less repetitive by using he instead of the wolf.

So, at the moment, I've got the impatient wolf had red, bloodshot eyes and the wolf had soft, grey fur.

We don't need to say the wolf twice.

I'm going to swap out my second the wolf for he.

The impatient wolf had red, bloodshot eyes and he had soft, grey fur.

Both ideas still make sense on their own.

The first idea, the impatient wolf had red, bloodshot eyes, second idea, he had soft, grey fur, and they're joined together using the joining word, and.

So, get your thumbs ready.

Is this true or false? Both ideas in a compound sentence need to make complete sense on their own.

So, if you are reading this one idea at a time, do they make sense on their own? Is that true or false? I'm going to give you five seconds to decide.

And zero.

That is true.

They have to make sense on their own.

We'll join our two simple sentences that you've already planned to create one compound sentence.

You have already chosen an adjective to describe the wolf's personality or his feelings.

For example, the sneaky wolf.

Then, you will describe the wolf's appearance with an expanded noun phrase.

The sneaky wolf had sharp, stained teeth.

That might be your first sentence that you planned.

But then you will take away that full stop because we are not finished and use the joining word, and, to join two complete ideas together.

And, here's my second idea, he had, so I've taken away my other description of his personality, he had enormous, padded paws.

Now I finish my sentence.

I have my two ideas joined together with the joining word, and, and I've ended with a full stop.

And remember, use he instead of repeating the wolf.

Here is our success criteria for today's lesson.

We will put a comma between two adjectives in our expanded noun phrases.

We will make sure each idea in our compound sentence makes complete sense.

We will use the joining word, and.

And we will use a capital letter at the start of a sentence and a full stop at the end.

Capital letter.

The wolf had comma and he had comma.

Full stop.

Let's have a look at this example.

Capital letter.

The ravenous wolf had hot, stinky breath and he had long, crusty toenails.

Full stop.

Have we put a comma between two adjectives? Yes, we have.

Hot, stinky breath, long, crusty toenails.

Have we made sure each idea makes complete sense? The ravenous wolf had hot, stinky breath.

He had long crusty toenails.

Yes.

Have we joined those two ideas using the joining word, and? Huh, can you point to the joining word, and, in my sentence for me? There it is.

And we've used the capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end.

Now we've looked at the success criteria and an example.

I think you are ready to help me with my writing.

Off we go.

I am ready to write my sentence.

I know I'm ready 'cause I have my lined paper, something to write with, and my success criteria.

I'm going to say my sentence one more time with my punctuation.

Capital letter.

The sneaky wolf had sharp, dirty claws and he had soft, grey fur.

Full stop So, my first word is the.

I'm starting my sentence so I need a capital letter.

The sneaky.

Can you sound out sneaky with me? S, n, it's E-A for ee, k.

And I know that i at the end is spelled with a Y.

The sneaky wolf W-O-L-F for wolf.

The sneaky wolf had, h, a, d, sharp.

Can you sound out sharp with me? Sh, a, r, p, sharp.

The sneaky wolf had sharp, dirty.

Can you sound out dirty for me? Dirty, d, i, r, t.

Which i is it? The same one, a letter Y.

The sneaky wolf had sharp.

Huh, what have I forgotten to separate my adjectives with? A comma.

The sneaky wolf had sharp, dirty claws.

K, l, a, w, s, claws.

The sneaky wolf had sharp, dirty claws.

Have I finished? No.

I need to join another description, and.

My joining word.

And.

A, n, d, and.

I'm not going to do the wolf 'cause that would be too repetitive.

So, I'm going to write he.

And he, H with an E spells he.

He h, a, d, had, I've already written that, soft, grey, fur.

Soft.

Can you say the sound in soft for me? S, o, f, t, soft.

I'm not going to forget my comma this time.

He had soft, grey, g, r.

Now, my ey spelling is quite a rare spelling of ey here.

It's E-Y.

He had soft, grey fur.

F, ur.

And the U-R spelling of ur.

The sneaky wolf had sharp, dirty claws and he had soft, grey fur.

I finished my sentence, so I need a full stop.

Let's check my success criteria.

Have I put a comma between two adjectives? I have.

Thank goodness I went back to check.

Have I made sure each idea makes complete sense? The sneaky wolf had sharp, dirty claws.

Yes.

He had soft, grey fur.

Yes.

And I've joined them together using and.

I remembered that I don't need a full stop after my first idea or a capital letter to start my second.

But I do have a capital letter at the start of my sentence.

The sneaky wolf had sharp, dirty claws and he had soft, grey fur.

A full stop at the end.

Thank you for helping me with my writing.

Now it's your turn to do yours.

Now you've helped me with my writing, you are going to write a descriptive compound sentence describing the wolf.

Capital letter.

That wolf had comma and he had comma.

Full stop.

Don't forget to check your success criteria.

Pause the video now.

Wow, what brilliant writing.

Here is an example that I have seen.

Capital letter.

The sneaky wolf had bloodshot, veiny eyes and he had heavy, enormous paws.

Full stop.

We have separated our two adjectives in our expanded noun phrases with a comma.

We have made sure that each idea makes complete sense on its own.

And we have used the joining word, and, to join those ideas together.

We have also used a capital letter at the start of our sentence and a full stop at the end.

What a brilliant writing.

Thank you so much for learning with me today.

We have learned that adjectives can be used to describe a character's personality, such as cunning wolf.

We've also learned that adjectives can be used to describe a character's appearance, such as furry wolf.

And when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, you need to separate them with a comma.

And two ideas can be joined together using and to form one compound sentence.

And using and connects those two ideas together.

Thank you so much for learning with me and what brilliant descriptions you've written.

I hope to you again soon.

Bye.