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

(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

(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

(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

  • Valentine Gifts

    Valentine Gifts

    Investigate and practise different techniques to shape and combine materials when producing models to make gifts to give to someone special for Valentine’s Day

  • Valentine Boxes

    Valentine Boxes

    Practise using nets of cube and cuboid shapes and a range of materials to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts for someone special

  • Flower Bouquet

    Flower Bouquet

    Produce a bouquet of paper flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day by shaping and combining a range of different materials

  • Valentine Hearts

    Valentine Hearts

    Design and produce Valentine’s Day card designs using layers and combinations of different shapes and materials