English Year Four Planning Term Two

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

Robots

Investigate the structure and narrative content of a fantasy story, write texts to explain how everyday machines work, practise using apostrophes to indicate possession and compose sentences using fronted adverbials

(A) Story Reports

Investigate how authors describe and use characters in a fantasy story, use apostrophes to show possession to punctuate descriptive phrases and practise punctuating sentences

  • Angle Observations

    Angle Observations

    Identify, locate and classify examples of right, acute and obtuse angles that can be observed in a range of different shapes, objects and locations

  • Story People

    Story People

    Explain and model how to compose and convert sentences between the first and third person to illustrate the actions and thoughts of characters in different stories

  • Pied Piper

    Pied Piper

    Investigate the language style and structure of a narrative poem to retell the story using prose and other poetry styles

  • Story Sales

    Story Sales

    Produce radio commercials and posters using persuasive language based on traditional stories to sell food snacks