Calmore Junior School
Literacy Long Term Plan Year 4
Year 4
Topic
Subtheme
Lead
Subjects
HOOK
Fiction
Genre
Fiction Text
Fiction Focus
Non-Fiction
1
Purpose
Audience
Form
Non-Fiction
2
Purpose
Audience
Form
Poetry
Writing
Application
Across the
Curriculum
Author to
read
Autumn 1
What’s The Attraction
Magnets
Autumn 2
To Battle
Saxons
Spring 1
Light it up
Electricity Light
Summer 1
Sunny South
Southampton/The Titanic
Summer 2
Solid As a Rock
Rocks/Soils
Science
Dt
Spring 2
Invaders
Vikings
Art
History
Music
Science
DT
Art
History
Geography
Art
Science
DT
Tatty coat lost and found
Lamp/scroll appears
Watch extract of film
Wishing story
Strange Viking artefacts
appear in the class
Defeat the villain Story
Letter from Kaspsar
Extract from the film
Moral Story
Watch The Last Kingdom TrailerYou tube
Journey Story
Journey
Portal/Defeat The Villain
Tatter coats – Pie Corbett
Last Kingdom by Terry Deary
Aladdin
The Last Viking by Terry
Deary
Kaspar Prince of Cats by
Michael Morpurgo
Lion The Witch and the
Wardrobe by CS Lewis
Problem/ Plot
(3 weeks)
Action
(3 weeks)
Problem/plot
(3 weeks)
Openings and Endings
(3 weeks)
Character/dialogue
(2 weeks)
Problem / Plot
(3 weeks)
Explain and entertain
(2 week)
Cinderella
A humorous explanation of
a machine which will help
Cinderella
Persuade and Instruct
(1 week )
Saxon troops
A speech to rouse the troops and
encourage them to continue in the
fight for victory.
Persuade
(1 week)
Jafar
A letter to Jafar to
persuade him to be a better
person
Advise and explain
(1 week and 4 days)
Hero
A procedural text based on
How to defeat a Villain
Inform
(2 weeks)
Readers of newspaper
Newspaper report on the
sinking of Titanic
Inform and describe
(2 weeks)
(mystery)Letter in bottle
Write a letter describing and
informing others about life in
Narnia – write in role as a
character
To inform and advise
(2 weeks)
Describe
(2 weeks)
Parents
A non-chronological report
based on renewable energy
Johnny
A scrapbook diary describing
the adventures of Kasper
To inform and describe –
gateway to upper KS2
(2weeks)
New year 5 teacher
Choice – create a piece of
writing which reflects you as a
writer – you need to inform and
describe Narnia to your new
teacher – how you choose to
present this is your choice.
Persuade
(1 week)
Inform and recount
(1 week)
The old man
A letter to persuade the
old man to change his ways
and approach Tattercoats
Main character
Diary of the main character
Shortburst creative
writing-see photos on
TPool
(1 week)
SA-letter explanation of
magnets
Rap-Write A Rap Rap by Tony
Mitten
(1 week)
Kaye Umansky-Pongwiffy
SA-Non chron report connected to
Saxons
S.A – Blog 5 facts
SA- explanation of circuits
SA-postcard on how
switches work
Michael Rosen poetry collections
Andrew Norris-Aquilla/Woof
SA-Discussion about Viking
Raiders or Traders
Diary of a Viking soldier
SA – leaflet – tourist
brochure for Scandinavian
tourist board
Michael Morpurgo-not
Kaspar or Private Peaceful.
(Marble Crusher or More
Muck N Magic)
Michael Rosen poems &
performance of The
Chocolate Cake
(1 week)
SA-Diary extract from
passenger
SA-persuasion to move to
Southampton
San – letters to White Star
explaining how to build a ship
Kaspar Prince of Cats by
Michael Morpurgo
SA-non chron report about
rocks/soils
Lion The Witch and the
Wardrobe by CS Lewis