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Year 4

LITERACY

Word Level Work

o Game split 2-syllable words containing double consonants in the middle, kettle, bubble,
Star fillers common, rabbit. Randomly write the two halves somewhere on the board, and the
children have to draw a line to match the pairs, write them on their whiteboards.
o Write to/too/two or they're/their/there in sentences correctly.
o Vocabulary extension: give sentences with common vocab. in, e.g. good, nice. Children to
improve them by finding better synonyms
o Practice range of presentation skills, design a poster with capitals for header, print for
labels and cartoon captions and different fonts for emphasis. Advertise club in school?

Sentence Level Work

o Create a class/group list of words to use instead of walk/went e.g. crawled, hobbled etc.
o Look through current reading books to identify possessive apostrophes, and write without
apostrophe i.e. Jake's hat was red. > Jake owned a hat which was red.
o Look at use of apostrophe for contraction. Give examples and ask children to find others.
o Make a list of punctuation used in books. Make glossary of how and when to use.

Narrative / Plays / Scripts

o Write a setting on board. Describe a fantastical or horrific place. Ask children to write their
own. Deny them the use of certain common words associated with that place, but
investigate more figurative language and adjectives. Explore the five senses.
o Look at different ways of planning a story… storyboard (page cut into 4/6), brainstorming
(one setting to next, what happens along the way)
o Re-write the ending of a well-known story, change the reader's opinion of main character,
e.g. the bad guy was actually trying to do good.
o Write a play script using well-known story, i.e. fairy tale/myth/legend (Hare and The
Tortoise could be a good one!)
Star fillers o Write a character description of an alien, and describe his home planet.

Non Fiction

o Write a review of the latest gadget/game for a magazine.
o Design an advert for a new product, summer fruits drink? Healthy new sweets? Write a
newspaper front cover, include headline story and an advertisement. Headline to be
something the children are familiar with or can identify with, include one interview (tiger
escapes from zoo and terrorizes school, 3 little pigs survive wolf torture.)

Poetry