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

(E) Special Places
Create descriptive images to use in poetry to describe different places in the local community, identify and record the double meanings of words that are homonyms and build expanded noun phrases using powerful adjectives and prepositions
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team
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Summer Art Projects
Develop and refine art and design skills when modelling, sketching, sculpting and painting to produce art work on the theme of the summer
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Design Challenges
Practise working with a range of different materials and construction techniques to create products to match selected success criteria