Year Group: Year 4 | Term: Summer 2a | ||
Text Type and Outcome: Persuasive text - Convince your parents to let you have a dog. Model text:- Write a letter to the dinner supervisors to allow them to have more play equipment. Practise write:- Writing a letter to Mrs McKinley to persuade her to allow the school to have a reading dog. Assessed write:- Write a letter as Hal to convince your parents to have a dog. | Core Text: One dog and his boy - Eva Ibbotson | Weeks: 3 | Audience and Purpose: Aimed at Hal’s parents to persuade them to allow Hal to have a dog. To persuade |
Composition •I can orally rehearse a sentence or a sequence of sentences. •I can write a narrative with a clear structure, setting and plot. •I can improve my writing by changing grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency. •I use a range of sentences which have more than one clause. •I can use appropriate nouns and pronouns within and across sentences to support cohesion and avoid repetition. •I can use fronted adverbials. •I can write in paragraphs. •I make an appropriate choice of pronoun and noun within and across sentences. •I use commas after fronted adverbials. | Grammar and Punctuation Overlearning Subordinating conjunctions and commas after subordinate clauses (Y3) Apostrophes for contraction (Y2) Age-appropriate learning Appropriate choice of noun or pronoun Apostrophes to mark singular and plural possession | Transcription Spelling Handwriting Unit 26 - Speed and Fluency Unit 27 - Revising break letters Unit 28 - Print alphabet - presentation | Features Opening statement Opening topic sentence followed by expansion Paragraphs Closing statement Simple present tense Rhetorical questions Emotive language Use facts |
Speaking and Listening Debate: Should school uniforms be worn or not. Would you rather: Have longer school days for 4 days per week or stick with a normal routine (5 days per week). Word tennis: It would be good if ….. | Rapid Writes Speed writing - what do they know about dogs/having a pet? What would you choose? If you could have any pet, what would you choose and why? Jumping conjunctions - write sentences to go with conjunctions | Tier 2 Vocabulary implore enhance assure consider benefit | Reading and Writing across Curriculum Writing a sound collector poem. Explanations and comparisons of cities, villages and towns Comparisons between cities now and in the past Explanations in science investigations |
Year Group: Year 4 | Term: Summer 2b | ||
Text Type and Outcome: Writing a letter in role (recount) Model Text: Letter from a holiday Practice Write: Write to Grandparent about Hal’s first meeting with Fleck Assessed Write: Letter from Hal to his friend Joel | Core Text: One Dog and His Boy - Eva Ibbotson | Weeks: 3 | Audience and Purpose: To feature in the end of year newsletter. To entertain and inform |
Composition •I can compose sentences using a range of sentence structures. •I can improve my writing by changing grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency. •I use a range of sentences which have more than one clause. •I can use appropriate nouns and pronouns within and across sentences to support cohesion and avoid repetition. •I can use noun phrases which are expanded by adding modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases. •I can use fronted adverbials. •I can write in paragraphs. •I make an appropriate choice of pronoun and noun within and across sentences. •I use commas after fronted adverbials. | Grammar and Punctuation Overlearning Subordinating conjunctions and commas after subordinate clauses (Y3) Past tense verbs, continuous form of verbs – progressive and perfect (Y2/3) Age-Appropriate learning Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme Commas after fronted adverbials | Transcription Spelling Handwriting Unit 29 - End of unit check Unit 30 - Capital letters: presentation | Features set the scene (orientation) chronological order detail to engage the reader closing statement (reorientation) past tense first person expanded noun phrases fronted adverbials |
Speaking and Listening Memory games:- I went to my grandmas and I took… Role play as Hal, how was he feeling? Act out what he would have done, how he would have looked…. Play word tennis. Improve on the vocabulary and feeling how Hal felt. | Rapid Writes Actions speak louder than words - write sentences to go with adverbs Grow the sentence - expanded noun phrases Speed writing - about something they have done that is exciting Alien discovery - discover a new species of dog - describe it | Tier 2 Vocabulary phenomenal exhilarated occupied stupendous anticipation | Reading and Writing across Curriculum Writing a sound collector poem. Explanations and comparisons of cities, villages and towns Comparisons between cities now and in the past Explanations in science investigations |