English Long Term Plan Year 4 
                                     Autumn 1              Autumn 2                Spring 1             Spring 2            Summer 1             Summer 2 
                  Text/Topic     Dragons              The Ice Palace by       The Snow Quest         Desert Island        Anglo-Saxon             Beowulf 
                                                       Robert Swindells                                                    Boy by Tony                 
                                                                                                     Journey/Quest           Bradman              Water 
                                                                                                    by Aaron Becker               
                   Writing       Non-                       Letter.            Talk for writing:    Desert Island:      Persuasive          Beowulf: 
                    Genres       chronological          Story writing –        learn ‘The Snow      Talk for writing -  speech.             CV 
                   covered       reports about       sequencing/ordering/           Quest’          Reasoned            Newspaper           Biography 
                                 Komodo                re-telling a story.     Story Writing –      argument –          article.                     
                                 Dragons.                                        creating own       ‘Matches’ –                             Water topic: 
                                                                              version of a story  Persuasive                                Information 
                                 Poetry:                                       they have read.      writing.                                leaflets/Posters: 
                                 Write own                                    Creating a book –                                             – Van Gogh and 
                                 poems based on                                      book           Journey/Quest:                          Hollingworth 
                                 ones read.                                   cover/blurb/about  Writing a story                            Lake 
                                                                               the author page.     from a picture                                     
                                                                                                    book. 
                                                                                                              
                                                                                                     
                 Vocabulary,         *Writing            *Determiners           *Descriptions         *Personal and     *Time order         *Complex 
                 grammar and        paragraphs            *Adjectives            using senses          possessive       *Compound           sentences. 
                 punctuation     *Using headings             *Nouns                *Fronted             pronouns        sentences           *Building 
                 opportunities       and sub-               *Verbs                adverbials           *Plural and      * Past tense        suspense. 
                                     headings           *Expanded noun         *Powerful verbs        possessive s      *Interjections      *Expanded  
                                    *Labelling              phrases           *Inverted commas         *Improving       and  exclamation  noun phrases 
                                   features of a          *Prepositions          *Speech and            sentences       marks.              *Adverbial, 
                                       non-           *when/where/how          correct speech        *Description –     *Time               including  fronted 
                                                            adverbs              punctuation                            connectives.        adverbials. 
                
                                                              English Long Term Plan Year 4 
                                  chronological      *Fronted adverbials     *Expanded noun         adjectives/      *Causal            *Paragraphs 
                                     report             *’ing’ openers           phrases              senses/        connectives.       *Short/simple 
                                 *Bullet points       *Emotive language        *Adjectives         Alliteration/     *Adverbials,       sentence  
                                *Glossary (using         *Synonyms             *Was/were              similes/       including          for effect. 
                                  a dictionary)           *Similes                                  metaphors.       fronted            *Dialogue– 
                                    *Captions        *Inverted commas                                *Fronted        adverbials         inverted commas. 
                                  *Homophones                                                       adverbials,      *Chronological     *Powerful verbs 
                                 * 5 parts of a                                                   *Extended noun     order              *Rhetorical 
                                    sentence                                                         phrases/        * Modal verbs      questions 
                                 (capital letter,                                                  Prepositional     *Paragraphs        *Slogan 
                                 stop, subject,                                                      phrases.        *Pronouns  (first  *Alliteration 
                                  verb, makes                                                      *Speech and       person).           *Similes 
                                     sense)                                                       correct speech     *Colloquial        *Metaphors 
                                 *Conjunctions                                                      punctuation.     language           *Interjections 
                                   *Questions                                                      *Subordinate      *Alliteration      used for effect. 
                                  *Adjectives                                                    conjunctions and  *Similes              
                                  *Alliteration                                                       clauses.       *Metaphors          
                                     *Nouns                                                          *Adverbs.       *Fact /opinion                
                                      *Verbs                                                      *Writing in the    *Rhetorical 
                                 *Determiners                                                       past tense.      questions 
                                  *Prepositions                                                                       
                  Spellings     Homophones/        Aw/au/augh.             Prefix – non.         Prefix – in/inter.  Prefix – il/ir.    Plural/possessive 
                    rules       Near               Prefix – sub.           Suffix – sion.        Prefix – ex.        Prefix – im.       apostrophes. 
                   covered      homophones.        Prefix – super.         Suffix - tion.        Suffix – ly.        Prefix – re/bi.    Gue/que. 
                                Ways of writing  Suffix – ture/sure.       Suffix – ssion.       S spelt sc.         Suffix – ation.    Ous – no change 
                                eigh/ey/ei.        Prefix - anti.          Suffix – cian.        Soft c spelt ce.    Pefix – mis/dis.   to root word, no 
                                Words with gh.     Prefix – auto.                                Soft c spelt ci.                       definitive root 
                                Different ough                                                                                          word, words 
                                sounds.                                                                                                 ending in y 
                
                                                                   English Long Term Plan Year 4 
                                                                                                                                                 becomes I, words 
                                                                                                                                                 ending in our 
                                                                                                                                                 becomes or, 
                                                                                                                                                 words ending in e 
                                                                                                                                                 drop the e but 
                                                                                                                                                 not ge. 
                   Reading to     Diary of a killer    Poems:                   Feet First.            Electricity:         Sound Waves.         Viking 
                  Learn Texts  cat.                    The Tyger                Legs Race.             Until I met                               comprehensions: 
                    Covered       Pet care of a        Fireworks Night          Digestive System.  Dudley.                  Viking Invasion.     Victorious 
                                  Bearded dragon       The star                 Teeth.                 Electricity and                           Vikings, Battle of 
                                  (followed by         MY longest journey       What does a            History of                                Largs, Longboats, 
                                  other animals:       My shadow                dentist do.            Electricity.                              up helly aa. 
                                  cat, dog, guinea                                                                                                
                                  pig, hamster).       Bonfire Night            A real virtual         Spaghetti pig                             Who were the 
                                                                                world.                 out.                                      Vikings. 
                                  Dragon texts:        Antarctica/Race to       Cats – non-fiction.    Wunderpants.                                         
                                  Suds and scales,  the pole/visiting           Cats – fiction. 
                                  Rumbled, Math        Antarctica. 
                                  Dragon, Dragons  Abominable 
                                  at Crumbling         Snowman. 
                                  Castle.              Father Christmas 
                                                       Goes to Work at the 
                                                       zoo. 
                                                       Christmas texts.