Year 4 English (Reading & Writing)

• Expand vocabulary by reading a diverse range of texts
• Develop advanced reading comprehension strategies, including interpreting and inferring from information
• Develop writing skills across a range of text types and purposes, including narrative, descriptive, informative (e.g. newspaper reports, advice sheets), and persuasive (e.g. arguments, reviews).

Teaching plan

Vocabulary is included in most weeks. Homework includes a writing task that is teacher-marked, and other activities that are self-marked. There is no homework in week 10.

Week 1: Inferencing character, narrative plot structure: Freytag’s Pyramid, compare-and-contrast text analysis

Week 2: Starting a story, narrative point of view, character types, text analysis

Week 3: Persuasive essay introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion, brainstorming arguments, identifying the main idea

Week 4: Vocabulary: using context clues, persuasive techniques, linked extracts, sentence gap-match

Week 5: Newspaper report: inverted triangle concept, adding quotations, grammar: changing direct quotations to indirect quotations, poetic devices, poetry comprehension

Week 6: Literary descriptions: setting, figurative language, sensory imagery, poetry comprehension

Week 7: Diary: language features, text analysis, understanding irony, reading comprehension

Week 8: Narrative analysis and comprehension, linked extracts, dialogue punctuation, visual metaphors

Week 9: Reading and writing assessments & review, purple prose

Week 10: Idioms, compare-and-contrast science fiction and fantasy, text analysis and comprehension, quick writes