Checklists which provide children with key components to include in their writing to meet Year 4 age related expectation. Used for Autumn and Spring terms.

Planning to cover the majority of the book ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty, linked to objectives for reading at a Year 5 level. There is a ‘reading forum’ for each week which introduces the focus and guides you through the associated chapters with questions to ask and discuss. The questions are then collected on sheets for each week for the children to answer. The ‘forum’ lessons can be a single day or cover multiple sessions depending on the speed and ability of the children/readers. Question sheets include a greater depth/challenge section to target more able readers. Objectives Covered: LO: To know how to consider how the author’s use of language impacts the reader. LO: To know how to infer about a character’s thoughts or feelings. LO: To know how to make inferences about a character from their actions. LO: To know how to use evidence from a text to justify inferences. LO: To know how to consider the feelings different characters have to events in a text. LO: To know how to make comparisons between events and ideas within the same book.

A unit of work to develop children's knowledge of newspaper style writing, centred around the WWII evacuation of Dunkirk. Consists of 3 lessons of fact collection, features and planning and 2 sessions for writing up a Progress or 'Big Write' style assessment piece. Includes a fact sheet and some example texts.