English Year Four Planning Term Three
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
Communities
Investigate stories that raise issues about friendships and relationships, create adverts using persuasive writing, compose poems using figurative language, practise adding suffixes to word roots and use expanded noun phrases to describe different communities
(A) School Issues
Explore the narrative structure and characters that feature in a story about school and friendship, add suffixes to word roots and write sentences with more than one clause
(B) Friendships
Practise planning and composing a narrative story based on reading describing a personal issue or dilemma about school life, investigate how to add suffixes to word roots and extend sentences using fronted adverbials
(C) Estate Agents
Compose and edit adverts using persuasive language to sell different houses as estate agents, investigate the spellings and meanings of of words that are homophones and practise selecting powerful adjectives to use when writing expanded noun phrases
(D) Radio Commercial
Practise using persuasive language to write newspaper adverts and radio commercials to sell houses, explore and use spellings of words that are near homophones and practise writing expanded noun phrases
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Space Race
Explore how the space race in the 1950s and 1960s heralded a number of technological, cultural and political changes and advancements in the world
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Moses
Explore and record the life and achievements of Moses from the Old Testament in the Christian Bible and his impact on the development of Christianity
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Number Thousands
Compare, order and sequence different sets of four digits numbers by using the place value of their numerical digits including counting in steps of thousands