Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Fiction and poetry 

• Study of The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
• Playscripts

• Traditional stories, myths, legends, fables from a range of cultures 

• Novels, stories and poems from a variety of cultures and traditions
• Performance poetry
• Study of - Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Non-fiction

• Fact files
• Dictionaries, thesauri

• Chronological and non-chronological reports

• Persuasive writing to put or argue a point of view

Related activities

• Story openings
• Characters  - description
• Similes and metaphors
• Structure of narrative texts
• Writing new chapter of The Midnight Fox
• Features of reading and writing a playscript.
• Use of ICT to Research facts
• Differences between direct and reported speech.

• Features of myths, legends and fables.
• Write own versions using themes and structures identified in reading.
• Features of non-fiction writing – non-chronological reports.
• Information in non-fiction texts (contents, index, sub-headings, bibliography).
• Note-taking.
• Non-chronological report in own words.
• Features of and writing a recounted/chronological  text
• Paragraphs to organize and develop detail

• Read a variety of texts by Michael Morpurgo
• Diary writing
• Content /style of a variety of poems.
• Performance poetry.
• Point of view of a story and reader’s response.
• Change a point of view e.g. the point of view of another character.
• Persuasive writing.

Note: there is a special focus on reading this term and every child will be expected to give a short book presentation in either poster form or using PowerPoint.

Sentence work
Punctuation, parts of speech, word order

• Punctuation to help reader understand a text.
• Layout and punctuation of dialogue
• Word order in sentences.
• Adjectives/adverbs to add detail and interest to writing.
• Different sentence structures.
• Proof-reading and editing work.

• Simple sentences, noting the changes required in word order, verbs, etc.
• Nouns, pronouns, verbs and agreement.
• Apostrophes for possession and omission.
• Differences between spoken and written English.
• Verbs in the active and passive voice.
• Punctuation in longer sentences (commas).

• Clauses in sentences.
• Writing for different audiences and purposes, e.g. by changing vocabulary and sentence structures.
• Prepositions
• Connectives to link clauses and sentences

Word work
Spelling, vocabulary

• Use of Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check strategy to help improve own spelling (all three terms).
• Prefix, root and suffix of words.
• Dictionaries and thesauri.
• Common letter strings: ight, tion, ious, ough.
• Different ways of forming plural nouns.
• Spelling strategies (all year).
• Own spelling log (all year)

• Opposites
• Words with common letter strings but different pronunciations – ear, oo, ie, ough.
• Homophones – there, their, they’re.
• Technical words related to Romans topic.
• Suffix –cian.
• Independent spelling strategies

• Encourage identification of own spelling errors.
• Spelling rules such as when to drop/keep e.
• Changing tenses.
• Comparatives and superlatives.