English Year Four Planning Term One
Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Four in Key Stage Two covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes
Theme One
Roald Dahl
Explore the structure and content of a narrative story by a significant children’s author, practise adding suffixes to different word roots and extend sentences using conjunctions and fronted adverbials
(A) Story Characters
Research and model different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories, practise identifying words with irregular past tense spellings and write sentences using conjunctions
(B) Story Places
Investigate narrative techniques used by authors to describe story settings, practise building words by adding the suffix ed to words with stressed final syllables and extend sentences using conjunctions
(C) Story Changes
Explore ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant author, add the suffix ing to words with stressed final consonants and extend sentences using conjunctions and fronted adverbials
Theme Two
Weather
Practise writing recounts and newspaper reports about school weather events, select figurative language to compose poems about the weather, explore how to change words using prefixes and model how to use commas to add fronted adverbials to sentences
(E) School Storms
Read and analyse the structure and content of recounts about the weather and write sentences from different viewpoints, practise adding prefixes to word roots and extend sentences using fronted adverbials and conjunctions
(G) School News
Investigate the structure and format of journalistic writing used in newspaper reports about current events, practise building words by adding the prefixes inter and super to different word roots and write fact and opinion sentences using fronted adverbials
(H) School Newspaper
Plan and write newspaper reports about events that might happen at the school using journalistic language, identify word roots that can be changed by different prefixes and use commas to add fronted adverbials to sentences
(F) Great Flood
Compose and edit an informal recount about a significant weather event that could happen at the school, identify root words that can be changed by adding prefixes and use commas to add fronted adverbials to show when, where or how something happened
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Grams and Kilograms Measurements
Practise measuring, recording and calculating measurements in mass when working with and converting units in grams and kilograms
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World Animals
Identify and record how to use the correct determinants before nouns in sentences about animals that live in different habitats around the world
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Determinants Vowels and Consonants
Investigate and record how to compose sentences when using the correct determinants before nouns to match their initial vowels or consonants
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Weather Events
Investigate how to add and punctuate fronted adverbials in model sentences explaining when, how or where something happened in the weather