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

  • Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

    Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

    Explore how and why the Ancient Egyptians constructed and used different pyramids and tombs to reflect their beliefs about the afterlife

  • Earthquakes

    Earthquakes

    Investigate and record some of the different causes and effects of earthquakes on locations around the world

  • Shape Locations

    Shape Locations

    Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.

  • Shape Symmetry

    Shape Symmetry

    Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties