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
(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
(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
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Times Tables Division
Practise using facts in each of the times tables to support the division of pairs of numbers when solving a range of problems
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Football Teams
Investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions
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School Letters
Practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes
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Living Things and Habitats
Identify, group and compare some of the different plants and animals that live in a variety of habitats around the world