LONG TERM PLAN WITH GRAMMAR LINKS
English Modules – Year 4
Term 2
Dragons theme – links
Descriptive writing –
to myths
imagery linked to
Hot Seating/inferential
dragon theme ‘Tell
skills
Me A Dragon’ (1
‘Snow Dragon’ (1 week)
week)
Term 1
Narrative
Traditional Tales – Myths (quests) (5
weeks)
Term 3
Stories with a shared
theme/ issues (4
weeks)
Bill’s New Frock –
Annie Fine (2 weeks)
Playscripts ‘How To
Train Your Dragon’ (3
weeks)
Grammar focus
W2, S1, S2, S3, T1, T2, P3 W1, P1, P2
W2, S1, S2, S3, T2, P3
Suggested final
written outcome
Write a Greek/ Roman myth focussing
on effective characterisation, Link
dialogue to effective characterisation,
interweaving speech and action.
Writing and performing
a play inspired by ‘How
To Train Your Dragon’
Non-fiction
Grammar focus
Reports (3 week)
W2, S1, S2, S3, T1, T2, P3
Write own report
independently
based on noted
gathered from
several sources.
Suggested final
written outcome
Poetry
Vocabulary
building
Structure – Haikus
(2 weeks)
Suggested
outcome
Read, write and
perform haiku
poems.
‘Take One
Book’ (2
weeks)
– Willy’s
Stories
Narrative
writing
with
grammar
focus
W2, S1, S2, S3, T1, T2,
P3, P1
W2, S1, S2, S3, T1, T2, P3 P1
Write a story containing a dilemma focussing
on characters’ point of view and their possible
actions.
Persuasion- Save our habitat (2 weeks)
W2, S1, S2, S3, T1, T2, P3
Take One Poet’
(2 weeks)
Shel
Silverstein,
Creating
nonsense
poems.
Non chronological
writing ‘Bug
Detectives’ (2
weeks)
W2, S1, S2, S3, T1,
T2, P3
W2 S1
W2, S1, S2, S3, T1, T2,
P3
W1, P2
Assemble and sequence
points in order to plan
the presentation of the
point of view (using
graphs, images, visual
aids to make the view
more convincing) Save
our habitat leaflet/
booklet from an
indigenous animal or
insect’s point of view
To research and write
an explanation text
about Chinese New
Year.
Vocabulary building Jump Start Poetry – Pie
Corbett (2 week)
Vocabulary building
(1 week) Structure –
Free verse (1 week)
Read, write, respond and perform poems.
Read, write and
perform animal
poems. Free verse.
Recite some narrative poetry by heart.
Explanation text – Until
I Met Dudley (2 weeks )
Research particular
poet (animal theme)
Personal responses to
poetry. Recite familiar
poems by heart.
‘Take One
Book’ (2
weeks)
- The Black
Book of
Colours
Descriptive
writing of
colours
using the
senses and
similes.