English Year Four Planning

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

  • Giant Fruit

    Giant Fruit

    Plan and write a narrative story based on a work of fiction by a significant author, build words by adding the suffix ly to roots and extend sentences using fronted adverbials

  • Special Places Poetry

    Special Places Poetry

    Create descriptive images to use in poetry describing some of the different places that can be found in the local community

  • Radio Commercials

    Radio Commercials

    Practise using persuasive language to write newspaper adverts and radio commercials to sell houses in the school’s neighbourhood

  • Estate Agents

    Estate Agents

    Compose and edit adverts using persuasive language to sell a range of different houses as estate agents

  • Friendships

    Friendships

    Practise planning and composing a narrative story based on reading describing a personal issue or dilemma about school life

  • Story Changes

    Story Changes

    Explore different ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant children’s author

  • Story Places

    Story Places

    Investigate some of the narrative techniques that can be used by authors to describe story settings

  • Roald Dahl Story Characters

    Roald Dahl Story Characters

    Research and model different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories

  • School News

    School News

    Investigate the structure and format of journalistic writing used in newspaper reports and stories about current events

  • School Issues

    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

  • Great Flood

    Great Flood

    Compose and edit an informal recount about a significant weather event that could happen at the school

  • Story Reports

    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

  • New Start

    New Start

    Explore how to prepare for and deal with some of the new events and special occasions that someone might experience in life

  • Viking Settlement

    Viking Settlement

    Explore how the Vikings settled and built communities in Britain in the past by referencing their culture and traditions

  • Changing Seasons

    Changing Seasons

    Investigate changes that can happen to the natural world during the four seasons of the year and reflect on similar changes that can occur in people’s lives

  • Chinese Dragons

    Chinese Dragons

    Select and combine different mouldable and other materials to create masks representing dragons that can be worn during a performance dance