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

  • Calculation Solutions

    Calculation Solutions

    Use standard written methods of addition and subtraction to check calculated sums using inverse operations and solve problems with multi-step solutions

  • Number Races

    Number Races

    Identify and practise how to use the correct standard written number calculations when adding and subtracting different pairs of four and five digit numbers

  • Family Party

    Family Party

    Explain and model how to use standard written addition and subtraction calculations to select items needed for a family celebration to match a specific money budget

  • Robot Factory

    Robot Factory

    Practise using standard written addition and subtraction calculations to solve different number word problems about products that could be made by robots in a factory