Year 4 Literacy Plans Persuasive Text poetry Imaginary Worlds

Literacy plans for year 4.

Mainly word doucuments for

recounts
newspaper
book week
persuasive texts
poetry
antibullying week
imaginary worlds
stories with historical settings
stories with imaginative settings
stories with historical settings narrative writing and book week
creative writing
holy week

Bits of Roald Dahl the Twits references.

Sample planning : What newspapers and magazines can the pupils name?
What are the articles usually about?
Discuss the purpose of a newspaper.

WILF – good expression

Newspaper articles have all of the important information in the opening paragraph. The opening paragraph is not overly descriptive. This information includes who, what, when, where, why and how. (It is written this way because most people do not read an entire newspaper article all the way through. So newspaper writers put the most important information at the beginning).

Children wrote learn the opening paragraph of a newspaper article. Firstly as a class, followed by group work.
Recap the features of an opening paragraph of an article. SW – target group to discuss the features of the article.