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Making Memories

Year 4

Year Group: 4

Term: Spring 1

Text Type and Outcome:

Non-Fiction: Explanation text: The Digestive System

Model Text: Why do people fart?

Practice Write: Why do people burp?

Assessed Write:  How is food digested?

Core Text:
Neil Gaiman: Unfortunately the milk


 

Weeks:

3

Audience and Purpose:

Purpose: To inform

 

Composition

 

•To compose sentences using a range of sentence structures.

•To orally rehearse a sentence or a sequence of sentences.

•To improve my writing by changing grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency.

•To use  a range of sentences which have more than one clause. 

•To use appropriate nouns and pronouns within and across sentences to support cohesion and avoid repetition. 

Grammar and Punctuation

Overlearning

 

Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions (Y2/3)

Present tense verbs, continuous form of verbs – progressive and perfect (Y2/3)

Adverbs to show time and cause (Y3)

Questions / Exclamations/ Statements (Y2)

 

Age Related Learning

Commas after fronted adverbials

Transcription

 

Spelling

 

Week 1 –Suffix es for plural nouns and present tense verbs

Week 2 –Suffixes ed, ing, er, est – words ending in y

Week 3 –Suffixes ed, ing, er, est – words ending in e

Week 4 –Suffixes ed, ing and when to double the last letter

 

Handwriting

Unit 11 Revising parallel ascenders.

Unit 12 Revising parallel ascenders and break letters.

Unit 13 Relative size of letters.


 

Features

Title – what text is about – why and how

Opening paragraph about the subject 

Clear, simple points about the subject including how or why it occurs

Use of technical vocabulary

Use of conjunctions  

Adverbs for time including fronted adverbials

Present tense including continuous form

Summary paragraph

Diagram with scientific labels

After introduction, in chronological order

Question to engage the reader

Speaking and Listening

Pick a body part and spin a wheel to say a statement, exclamation, command or question about that body part. 

 

Talk for 1 minute about …. the stomach, heart 

Rapid Writes

Riddle: What am I? E.g. I am always beating, I pump blood around the body.

 

Using conjunctions and progressive tense: As the food is travelling through the colon, …. Pupils are given conjunctions (as, when, while, after, before, if) and verbs to write own sentences.

Tier 2 Vocabulary

imperative

consequently

components

essential

therefore

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

Explanation how teeth are used to eat in the mouth. E.g. First, food is cut using the incisors. Next, …

Concluding paragraph in science explaining how/ why some foods stained the egg using conjunctions. 

Biography of an artist

 

Year Group: 6

Term: Spring 1

Text Type and Outcome:

Narrative:  Diary Entry child left something under pillow

Model Text: Went out to get milk and met Aliens

Practise Write: “ and met Pirates

Assessed Write: “ + choose from Monsters, goblins, witches and wizards, dragons.

Core Text:
Neil Gaiman

Fortunately the Milk

Weeks:

3

Audience and Purpose:

Read your adventure to another child in Y4

Purpose: To inform and entertain

 

Composition

•To compose sentences using a range of sentence structures.

•To orally rehearse a sentence or a sequence of sentences.

•To write a narrative with a clear structure, setting and plot.

•To improve my writing by changing grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency.

•To use a range of sentences which have more than one clause. 

•To use appropriate nouns and pronouns within and across sentences to support cohesion and avoid repetition. 

Grammar and Punctuation

Overlearning

Past tense verbs, continuous form of verbs – progressive and perfect (Y2/3)

Expressing time and cause using adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions (Y3)

 

Age Related Learning

Appropriate choice of noun or pronoun

Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme  

Transcription

 

Spelling

Week 5 –Suffixes ly, ful, less, ment

Week 6 - ul sound

Week 7 - Homophones and near homophones

 

Handwriting

Unit 14 Proportion of letters.

Unit 15 Spacing between letters.

Features

1st person including feelings. 

Past tense including continuous verbs

Describe specific people and events

Adverbs of time

Conjunctions

Paragraphs - Chronological Order

Powerful adjectives, verbs and adverbs

Structure

P1: Introduction (excuse ) I went out to get milk but…. 

P2 Build up: Describe character and setting

P3: Problem: What they wanted to do (Hurt you? Eat you? Kidnap you? Trick you? Steal from you)

P43: Resolution: How you got away.

Speaking and Listening

Hot Seat: Dad and give well structured description of who he met with question prompts. 

Role Play with props: Dad meeting … Structure of problem and resolution: Pick a problem scenario out hat. 

Fortunately / unfortunately – alternate sentences

Rapid Writes

Short character description of who you met in 5 fabulous sentences (Prepositions and adjectives)

 

Professor Steg doesn’t call things as they are – describe objects without saying what they are. Guess each others. 

Tier 2 Vocabulary

desperate

inquisitively

menacing

hovering

stomped

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

Explanation how teeth are used to eat in the mouth. E.g. First, food is cut using the incisors. Next, …

Concluding paragraph in science explaining how/ why some foods stained the egg using conjunctions. 

Biography of an artist

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