Year 4/5 Mixed Age English Planning

Capture your class’s imagination with the entertaining and fascinating You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day by Greg Jenner. Investigate expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials. Write reports for a new book, We are History.

Enthuse your class with the poetry of A.F. Harrold, by watching, exploring and performing a range of his poems from Things You Find in a Poet’s Beard. Investigate nouns, pronouns and relative clauses, and apply their learning to writing poems and stories.

Enjoy sharing short stories from Joyful, Joyful: Stories Celebrating Black Voices, curated by Dapo Adeola. Analyse openings, investigate language use and plot a short story on a mountain diagram. Practise dialogue punctuation and using modal verbs. Write and publish a class book of short stories inspired by Chasing Joy.

Explore and discuss the features of the graphic novel Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear by Trang Nguyen. Learn how to compose and use expanded noun phrases and adverbials for cohesion. Have fun role-playing an interview with a journalist and writing a personal recount in the role of Chang.

Plunge your class into the mysterious, quirky and dangerous world of Beetle Boy by M.G. Leonard. Explore tension, and summarise plot events. Create vivid settings using expanded noun phrases. Investigate adverbs of possibility to speculate, order and blame. Finally, have a go at writing the next chapter!

Draw on the poems in this beautifully illustrated anthology from Chris Riddell to explore a range of poems, learn about poetic techniques and perform a favourite poem. Learn how to use the possessive apostrophe and add conjunctions for time, place and cause. Finish the block by writing a poem for the future.

Using two of Nicola Davies' wonderful stories about growing up in the country, compare and contrast with Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia. Grammar includes dialogue punctuation and modal verbs. Draw together the learning from this block by writing a sequel.

Inspire your class with the incredible stories of marvellous mathematicians: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, Paul Erdos and Albert Einstein, among others. Study the features of biographies, write persuasively to 'sell' an idea for a biopic and learn how to use adverbials to link ideas across paragraphs.

Explore a variety of poems from Kate Wakeling's excellent collection, Cloud Soup. Read aloud and enjoy poems, including kennings and narrative poems. Revise word classes and learn how to use relative pronouns and clauses. Inspired by the poems read, write a new narrative poem.

Learn about characterisation and narrative devices through this moving story of Aya and her family. Write letters and magazine articles. Grammar includes paranthesis and adverbials.

Explore the world of zoos and consider the pros and cons of keeping animals in captivity. Be inspired to write persuasively, deliver speeches and hold a debate.

Read and enjoy Malorie Blackman's incredible book, Cloudbusting. Explore character and plot development and ideas of identity and personal growth. Grammar includes punctuating dialogue and relative clauses.

Unleash your class's creativity with this wonderful block using the fantastic picture books Journey and The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. Grammar includes expanded noun phrases and writing and punctuating dialogue.

Explore the power of our incredible earth in this block all about volcanoes and earthquakes. Write instructions and fact files, create glossaries and produce reports. Grammar includes parenthesis and conjunctions, prepositions and adverbs.

Enjoy learning about Japan through poetry and artwork. Write descriptions, journey stories and haiku inspired by nature. Grammar includes using paragraphs and adverbs of possibility.