George's Marvellous Medicine - Year 4 - 4 week unit of work

Year 4 - Four week unit of work with complete lesson presentations for each lesson including starter activities, teaching points, WAGOLLS and additional resources for lower ability/ SEND learners. The outcome being that the children write their own narrative based around the book.

The unit of work was planned and used for both in school and remote learning sessions and therefore each lesson powerpoint can easily be uploaded onto remote learning platforms. The unit of work is based around the Rik Mayall Jackanory storytelling, embedded into the lesson presentations and was used alongside BBC resources and additional Twinkl resources (highlighted in the planning).

Each week focuses on a national curriculum objective and of course length of time on each section can be adapted dependent on the class.
Week 1 - Fronted adverbials and recipe writing.
Lesson 1 - Intro to story and exploring Grandma’s character
Lesson 2 - To recap and secure understanding of fronted adverbials
Lesson 3 - Look at part 2 of the story and plan a recipe
Lesson 4 - To write a set of instructions using fronted adverbials
*Lessons 3 + 4 may be spread across 3 lessons to allow time for editing etc

Week 2 - Paragraphs and exploring interesting writing techniques such as similes/ onomatopoeia
Lesson 1 - Understand, identify and correctly use paragraphs
Lesson 2 - Watch and understand part 3 of the story
Lesson 3 - To read the extract of this story and explore interesting vocab and techniques
Lesson 4 - To plan our version of events based upon last weeks recipes
Lesson 5 - To write up two interesting paragraphs using features explored

Week 3 - Direct Speech
Lesson 1 - To recap and secure understanding of the story so far
Lesson 2 - Watch part 4 of the story and understand the new characters
Lesson 3 - Recap the rules of speech and model a short plan for a conversation between the characters
Lesson 4 - To write up a short conversation
*Lessons 3 + 4 may be spread across 3 lessons to allow time for editing etc

Week 4 - Planning and Writing a story using previous weeks work
Lesson 1 - To watch the final part of the story
Lesson 2 - Using all work so far begin to story board their own version of the narrative
Lesson 3 - Continue storyboarding/ writing up the narrative using the checklist of expectations
Lesson 4 - Continue to write up narrative
Lesson 5 - Editing and acting