Unit 1 – Stories from the past
- Use role play and storytelling to develop a complete story
- Explore the building blocks of a story (characters, setting and plot)
- Write a story in the past
Unit 2 – Let’s put on a play
- Role play and perform a play
- Compare plays and stories
- Write scenes from a play
Unit 3 –Read all about it!
- Role play as interviewers and witness
- Identify the main features of newspaper texts
- Write newspaper-style accounts
Unit 4 – Strange and wonderful places
- Perform poems
- Read and discuss figurative language and structure of poem, including older poems
- Write poems based on the structure or style of poems read
Unit 5 – Strange but true
- Discuss in groups with role playing and storytelling
- Read fantasy adventure stories which have real-life settings and investigate how settings can add to tension
- Plan and write stories with different settings
Grammar
- Using determiners
- Clauses
- Expanding sentences using conjunctions
- Expanding sentences using adverbs
- Expanding sentences using propositions
- Direct speech
- Present tense
- Present perfect of simple past
- Using paragraphs
Spelling
- Two-syllable words with long vowel sounds/silent e
- Adding –es, -ed, -ing; dropping silent e and changing y to i
- Adding suffixes –ed and –ing to two-syllable words; doubling final consonant
- Words ending in f, ff, lf
- Consonant digraphs making the f sound: gh, ph
- Vowel digraph ea; homographs: lead/lead homophones: led/lead, weather, whether
- Adding noun suffixrs –ion, -ness
- Letter patterns “ge” and “dge”