Year 4: Links to NLS objectives
Unit number/title
Unit 1: Poetry on a theme
Texts provided
1. Not always a Perfect
Place
by Judy Waite
Unit 2: Poetry on a theme
2. The Bully Asleep
by John Walsh
3. Stevie Scared
by Richard Edwards
4. Playgrounds
by Berlie Doherty
5. Light the Beacons
by Chris Buckton
Unit 3: Playscripts
Term 1
Key Objectives
T1 details of setting and character
T2 characteristics of key characters
S2 verb tenses
S3 powerful verbs
W8 irregular tense changes
T7 compare poems on similar themes
S4 function of adverbs
S5 commas
T5 perform playscripts
T6 chart build-up of play scene
S4 function of adverbs
W11 define familiar vocabulary in own words
Unit 4: News Reports
6. Environment News
7. Environment News from
the BBC
T16 identify different types of text
T20 features of newspapers
T23 reading strategies for IT texts
S4 function of adverbs
Unit 5: Instructions
8. How to Make an
Electronic Candle
by David Glover
Unit 6: Non-chronological
reports
9. Weather Around the
World
10.A Better Environment
11.Levers
T22 features of instructional texts
T25 write clear instructions
S2 verb tenses
W5 words with double consonants
W6 homophones
T16 identify different types of text
T17 features of non-fiction text
T23 reading strategies for IT texts
S2 verb tenses
W9 suffixes -al, -ary, -ic, -ship, -hood, -ness,
-ment
Other links/opportunities
NLS: T11 write character sketches; T12 write independently, linking own
experience to situations in historical stories; W7 regular verb endings
Grammar for Writing: Units 21 (verb tenses) and 22 (powerful verbs)
Spelling Bank: Y4 T1 Objective 8 irregular tense changes
NLS: T14 write poems linked to poems read; S2 verb tenses; S3 powerful verbs;
W5 words with double consonants; W13 rhyming dictionary
Grammar for Writing: Units 21 (verb tenses) and 22 (powerful verbs)
Spelling Bank: Y4 T1 Objective 5 words with double consonants
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 37 Speaking: ground rules for
dialogue
NLS: T13 write playscripts; S2 verb tenses; W5 words with double consonants
Grammar for Writing: Units 21 (verb tenses) and 23 (function of adverbs)
Spelling Bank: Y4 T1 Objective 5 words with double consonants
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 40 Drama: comment on plays and
performance
NLS: T18 opening sentences; T19 use terms fact and opinion; T24 write
newspaper style reports; W14 turning nouns and adjectives into verbs
Grammar for Writing: Units 23 (function of adverbs) and 24 (commas)
Spelling Bank: Y4 T1 Objective 14 turning nouns and adjectives into verbs
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 38 Listening: music, words and
images in TV programmes
NLS: T26 improve written instructions
Grammar for Writing: Unit 21 (verb tenses)
Spelling Bank: Y4 T1 Objectives 5 (words with double consonants) and
6 (homophones)
NLS: T27 write a non-chronological report
Grammar for Writing: Unit 21 (verb tenses)
Spelling Bank: Y4 T1 Objective 9 suffixes -al, -ary, -ic, -ship, -hood, -ness,
-ment
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 39 Group discussion and
interaction: to take different roles in a group
Year 4: Links to NLS objectives
Unit number/title
Unit 7: Imaginary worlds
Texts provided
12.A World Without Water
by Jan Burchett and Sara
Vogler
Unit 8: Horror story (audience)
13.Attack of the Hover
Worm!
by Paul Stewart
Unit 9: Classic and modern
poetry
14.Silver
by Walter de la Mare
15.My Grandpa
by Ian Souter
16.Villages Around the
World – Raipole, India
17.Villages Around the
World – La Trinidad,
Mexico
18.Villages Around the
World – Namarel, Senegal
19.What is a Circuit and
How Does it Work?
20.How a Book is Made
Unit 10: Information texts
Unit 11: Explanations
Term 2
Key Objectives
T1 understand how writers create imaginary
worlds
T4 descriptive language to create moods
T13 write own descriptive language
S1 adjectives in expressive language
S4 joining clauses
W13 turning nouns and verbs into adjectives
T9 Identifying intended audience
S1 adjectives
S2 apostrophe to mark possession
W13 turning nouns and verbs into adjectives
T4 descriptive language to create moods
T5 figurative language
T6 clues to identify older poems
T7 patterns of rhyme and verse
T15 appraise a non-fiction book
T17 scan to locate key words/phrases
T18 annotating extracts
T19 paragraphs to organise and sequence
information
S4 joining clauses
T19 paragraphs to organise and sequence
information
T20 features of explanatory texts
T24 improve written explanations
T25 write explanations of a process
S4 joining clauses
W6 words with common endings
Other links/opportunities
NLS: T2 influence of setting; T10 develop settings in own writing; W9 alternative
words and expressions
Grammar for Writing: Units 26 (adjectives) and 28 (commas, connectives, full
stops)
NLS: T8 review a range of stories; W9 alternative words and expressions
Grammar for Writing: Units 26 (adjectives) and 27 (apostrophe for possession)
NLS: T13 write own descriptive language; S3 word order; W11 understand that
vocabulary changes over time
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 44 Speaking: read poems using
voice effectively
NLS: T23 present information from different sources in one format; S1 adjectives
Grammar for Writing: Units 28 (commas, connectives, full stops) and 29
(paragraphs)
Spelling Bank: Y4 T2 Objective 6 words with common endings
Grammar for Writing: Units 28 (commas, connectives, full stops) and 29
(paragraphs)
Spelling Bank: Y4 T2 Objective 6 words with common endings
Year 4: Links to NLS objectives
Unit number/title
Unit 12: Poetic forms
Texts provided
21.Spanish Holiday Haiku
by Pie Corbett
22.The Story of Augustus
by Heinrich Hoffman
Unit 13: Narrative issues
23.Where do I fit in?
by Leon Rosselson
Unit 14: Story from another
culture
24.Journey to Jo’burg
by Beverly Naidoo
Unit 15: Persuasive writing
(point of view)
25.Act Now to Clean Up
Our Air!
26.Time to Put a Stop to
Bullying
Unit 16: Persuasive writing
(adverts)
27.Kids Go Free at the
Cotswold Wildlife Park!
28.All I want for Christmas
is…
29.Jooster Hoverboard
30.Thorpe Park
Term 3
Key Objectives
T4 understand terms verse, chorus, couplet,
stanza, rhyme, rhythm, alliteration
T5 count syllables in poetry
T6 use of rhyme
T7 recognise simple forms of poetry
T14 write poems, experimenting with
style/structure
T1 identify moral, cultural or social issues in
stories
T3 paragraphs and chapters to order ideas
S2 common punctuation marks
W6 common letter strings
T1 identify moral, cultural or social issues in
stories
T2 read stories from other cultures
T16 compare and evaluate examples of
arguments and discussions
T17 how arguments are
Presented
T21 assemble and sequence points
S4 connectives
W11 compound words
T18 style and vocabulary of persuasive writing
T19 evaluate adverts
T25 design an advertisement
Other links/opportunities
NLS: T15 produce polished poetry; S1 understand that some words can be
changed and others cannot; W8 extending and compounding words; W11
investigate compound words
Grammar for Writing: Unit 30 words that can be changed and words that
cannot
Spelling Bank: Y4 T3 Objectives 8 (extending and compounding words);
and 11 (compound words)
NLS: T11 write story about a dilemma; S3 grammar and sentence type
Grammar for Writing: Unit 31 grammar and sentence type
Spelling Bank: Y4 T3 Objective 6 common letter strings
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 47 Drama: interpreting behaviour
from different viewpoints
NLS: T8 write critically about issue raised in a story
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 47 Drama: interpreting behaviour
from different viewpoints
NLS: T23 present point of view in writing; S2 common punctuation marks; W9
suffixes -ible, -able, -ive -tion, -sion
Grammar for Writing: Unit 32 connectives to structure an argument
Spelling Bank: Y4 T3 Objectives 9 (suffixes -ible, -able, -ive -tion, -sion) and
11 (compound words)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 46 Group discussion and
interaction: identify main points of each speaker
NLS: S2 common punctuation marks; S4 connectives to structure an argument,
W11 compound words; W15 use a range of presentational skills
Spelling Bank: Y4 T3 Objective 11 (compound words)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 45 Listening: investigate how talk
varies with age, familiarity and purpose