Lesson video

Hi everyone, Miss Van Vliet here again, ready for lesson four in our reading unit on "Exploring the Deep".

So we've got today's lesson where we're going to read a little bit more of the book and answer some questions.

I've been enjoying it so far, I've learned loads.

I did not know much about deep sea creatures and these types of fish.

So I have learned quite a lot, which I thought was really good.

So, when you're ready, let's get started with our lesson.

Great so today our learning objective is to read a text and to answer questions.

So we're going to recap some of the features, we're going to look at some key vocabulary, and then we're going to read the text and answer some questions.

You will need exercise book or paper, a pencil, and your reading brain.

So if you need to, pause the video to get your paper and pen, do that now please.

Great so, you should have everything ready in front of you and have your reading brain switched on.

So let's recap some of those features of a nonfiction text.

So we are reading a nonfiction text, it's "Exploring the Deep".

And what do you remember are some of the features, well how, why do we know this is a nonfiction text and not a fiction like a novel or a chapter book? How do we know? What is key, what are some of the features that we have been looking at? And we had a couple of pages that we looked at inside.

We also looked at the, overview.

So we looked at a page like this.

We know it looks different to a chapter book, why is that? Can you remember? Take some thinking time, what features list them, tell them, say them, write them.

Okay let's go through them together.

So it's got a glossary, glossary.

It's got an index page.

It's got a contents page.

It's got lots of fact boxes.

It has key words in bold.

Why are they in bold again? Do you remember? Oh cause then they're defined in the glossary.

Remember the keywords are then defined in the glossary.

Has pictures with captions, or diagrams or photographs.

And it uses lots of facts and information.

All of these things are features of a nonfiction text and they make this, feel very different to a fiction text.

Great, oh do you remember, which one is which? I know this is the third time I think we're looking at this in the space of the five lessons, but just to really blueprint in our brain.

Just point to it for me, which one is which.

Do you remember? In five, four, three, two, one.

A glossary is a page that defines key words from the text.

It is found in the back of the book.

So glossary is definitions, in the back.

Content page is a page in the front of the book that tells you where specific information can be found.

So contents front, where specific information to be found.

Index page is at the back of the book, and it lists key words and where it can be found in the book.

So it has those key words and lists where you can find that information.

So we've got glossary, contents page and index page.

Now you are all masters at understanding what those three pages are, well done.

Okay some key vocabulary that's going to come up in today's lesson that you might not know what they are.

So, a pelican and a pelican is a bird, and it's famous for having that really big jaw that can eat and put a lot of fish in it.

So this can go all the way out, and that is a picture of a pelican.

Temperate, temperate.

Temperate means moderate.

So mild seasons where it doesn't get super hot or super cold.

England is a temperate country, cause here we go, have a look at this map.

And you see the red, bit down there, that's not temperate, that's the tropics.

And then you get the subtropics with a yellow line just above it.

And then above that, you get the temperate regions.

So do you see North America, and most of Europe and then Asia, bits of Asia as well, Russia.

Those are all at temperate regions where it's mild.

So we don't get super, super cold or super, super hot.

Okay we're going to read the text now and answer some questions.

Before we do that, a reminder quick recap how do we answer? We underline key information in the question.

We skim and scan the text for those key words.

And then we read around the keywords to find.

So, I get my question, I underlined my keyword, I look at the text, I skim and scan to find that key word, there is there is.

Then what I do is I read around that key word to check if I can answer the question.

Okay, "Monsters of the Deep", and this is the vampire squid.

Another strange-- Oh sorry, "Monsters of the Deep", it's not the vampire squid, it's the other bit.

So another strange creature that lives in the deep is the gulper eel.

It lives in depths of up to 1800 metres and grows up to 180 centimetres long.

The gulper eel gets it's name from its gigantic mouth.

It's jaw is very loose and can open wide enough to swallow fish, much bigger than itself.

It's lower jaw can stretch like a pelican's to store it's food, and it's stomach can grow to fit these large meals.

Woo, so we've got the gulper eel, the gulper eel can get quite big 180 centimetres long.

And it's got that cool thing where it can lower it's jaw and stretch.

And that's like a pelican, and we just saw the picture of the pelican.

You know, where it has lots of food in it.

Again, if you want to pause the video and read it yourself, do that.

Okay so the question is, why is the eel called the gulper eel? So remember our strategy, of answering questions is underlining the key word, then going to look for it, in the text and then you skim and you scan, you find it in the text and then you read around it.

Now it's a bit tricky on a, screen like this.

So you might need to scroll back, and find the page, where we read it and then pause it there.

You might want to write the question down in your book so you have the question and then you have the text on the screen.

I know it's a little bit frustrating, but you can do it, you can.

Okay, so answer this question.

So pause the video, answer that question now.

Great, so my answer, let's have a look is, gulp means to swallow large mouthfuls.

The gulper eel has a gigantic mouth, so it can eat large mouthfuls.

Let's all gulp So when you're gulping something down and, you might gulp down a big glass of squash after you've been outside in the sun.

When you're really hot and you're really thirsty, you're gulping it down, you drink it really, really fast.

And the gulper eel is called the gulp eel because it can swallow really large mouthfuls.

Great let's move on.

Okay "Monsters of the Deep", but the vampire squid.

So habitat, most tropical and temperate regions at depths of up to 900 metres.

Size, 15 centimetres long.

Diet, jellyfish and shrimp.

Special skills, the vampire squids arms, are covered with sharp spikes that look like a vampire's teeth.

It is also covered, all over with photophores.

It can turn these lights, on or off.

When they're off, the vampire squid is completely invisible in the dark.

Ooh, photophores, do you remember when that came up in the previous lesson? There is.

And the photophore was those light emitting organs.

Remember photo means light.

And so photophore is a light organ, and the vampire squid has got the ability to turn them on or off.

And when they're off, no one can see him.

Okay, the next question for you is, What does invisible mean? How does the octopus become invisible? Again, think of our strategy, finding the text, read around it.

And so can you please pause the video, and answer the question now.

Good, so you should have an answer in front of you.

Here's my answer.

Invisible means not to be seen.

The octopus has photophores and it can turn these on or off.

When he turns them off, he becomes invisible.

So remember the octopus has those cool photophores and means he can turn them off.

And when he turns them off, he becomes completely invisible, because remember the sunlight can't really reach down that deep.

How cool is that? And be able to turn, to be able to like have your lights, and where you have a light switch on you in your body, you can turn it off and on.

Great so let's move on.

Next question, why is this squid called the vampire squid? Again, read to find the key words.

Look for keywords in the text, and then if you need to go back, scroll back to the text and pause the video there, so you have the text on the screen in front of you.

So pause the video and answer that question now.

Great, so here is my answer for that.

And I wrote the vampire squids arms covered with sharp spikes that look like vampire's teeth, which is why it is called the vampire squid.

So his arms, just like the tentacles, the arms of the squid are covered in sharp spikes.

They look like, you know, vampire teeth how those, pointy and triangular teeth.

And that's what it looks like, and that's why it's called the vampire squid.

Another cool fact that I didn't know, that I've learned from this text.

Oh, so why is this section titled "Monsters of the Deep"? Why do you think we called it "Monsters of the Deep"? Why don't we have a look, on our page, why do you think, this page is called "Monsters of the Deep"? So, pause the video, and answer that question now please.

Great, so why do you think it's called "Monsters of the Deep"? Well this is what I came up with, I said the animals have strange appearances and are dangerous.

They look a bit like monsters! You know when you're imagining a monster, if you had to make up a monster, you'd kind of imagined them, to look a bit like that wouldn't you.

And, I think it's a really suitable, title for this section cause they are.

I mean the next page along as well.

Whew, okay, so that's why it's called "Monsters the Deep".

So now what I'd like you to do, is to think about the similarities and the differences between the gulper eel and the vampire squid.

So, to do that, I thought you could do a Venn diagram, so you would draw one circle and then you would draw another circle, but have them overlap like I did on the screen there.

And then what you would do, is you'd have your information on the gulper eel on one side and your information on the vampire squid on the other side.

And then in the middle, you can have information that is, a similarity.

So the differences on the outside of the Venn diagrams, sorry, in the Venn diagram, but, on each part, and then their similarity go in the middle.

So, pause the video and answer that question now.

Now again, I know you probably can't remember what we read cause it was a couple of slides, a couple of minutes before, so what you could do is just scroll along and just pause the video on the information of the gulper eel, write it down, then go to the vampire squid, write it down.

And then you can see if there were any that you had that were the same.

So try and do that now.

I know it's a little bit fiddly, but you can do it.

So have a go, and pause the video.

Great, so I hope you have a Venn diagram now that's filled with lots of information.

I did mine earlier so let's have a look at what I came up with.

So here we go, we've got the gulper eel and the vampire squid, And the similarity is that they both live in deep oceans, but the gulper eel can reach depths of up to 1,800 metres, and the vampire squid can reach depths of up to 900 metres.

The gulper eel grows up to 180 centimetres long, and the vampire squid can eat jellyfish and shrimp.

A gulper eel has a huge jaw, like that pelican jaw that we saw, and the vampire squid can turn the lights on and off.

I just think that is the best fact, so far.

And so you might have some of your answers and you can tick, if you have the similar ones to me or you can add to it and change anything.

So just check that you've got your Venn diagram filled with similarities and differences between the gulper eel and the vampire squid.

And that brings us to the end of today's lesson.

We have recap the features, we have looked at key vocabulary and we've read some more of the texts, we answered some questions about it.

"Exploring the Deep", such a cool book.

So congratulations, you have finished your reading lesson four of five, on "Exploring the Deep", which is an Oxford University Press book.

And well done.

So this lesson was the last lesson that we read some of the text and the next lesson, lesson five of five, I've got a really exciting task, that I think you'll really enjoy.

It's an independent task, and I think you'll really like it.

So hopefully I'll see you in lesson five.

For now though, it's bye for me, bye.