Web viewRWI – ‘word classes and suffixes’ (11) RWI – ‘suffixes, prefixes and word classes’ (14) Nelson – Unit 5 ‘suffixes

Y4 English Overview – 2016/17

Autumn Term 1Wk Date English Focus Grammar Focus Texts Wider Reading1 5/9/16 Settling in and

Basic SkillsNelson – Unit 1 ‘verb tenses’

Nelson – Unit 2 ‘sentences’

2 12/9/16 Unit 1 Reading FictionDilemma story

RWI – ‘inverted commas’ (8)

Nelson – Unit 4 ‘direct speech’

Lost or Stolen? by Narinder Dhami

Cindarell: A Fairy Tale by Charles Perrault and Loek KoopmansCendrillon: A Caribbean Cindarella by Robert D San Souci and Brian PinkneyThe Egyptian Cindarella by Shirley Climo and Ruth HellerSnow White in New York by Fiona FrenchSnow White by Angela Barrett

3 19/9/16 Unit 1 Writing FictionDilemma story

RWI – ‘word classes and suffixes’ (11)

RWI – ‘suffixes, prefixes and word classes’ (14)

Nelson – Unit 5 ‘suffixes’

4 26/9/16 Unit 1 Reading and Writing Non-FictionInformation texts

Nelson – Unit 11 ‘sentences – subject and object’

Gadget MagicThe Greatest Gadget of Them All?

5 3/10/16 Text Type leading to extended writing – Letter

Nelson – Unit 10 ‘adverb pairs’

6 10/10/167 17/10/16 Poetry by Heart

Progress Tests – SPaG and Reading

Nelson – Unit 3 ‘abstract nouns’

The Things Mums Say… by Michaela MorganWaves by Jackie Kay

Autumn Term 2Wk Date English Focus Grammar Focus Texts Wider Reading

1 31/10/16 Unit 2 Reading FictionPoetry

Nelson – Unit 9 ‘verb tense – present perfect’

The Balloons by Oscar WildeMy Sari by Debjani ChatterjeeAt the End of a School Day by Wes Magee

Heard it in the Playground by Alan AhlbergThe Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry by Brian Patten (editor)Don’t Tell the Teacher by Gervase PhinnI Like the Poem by Kaye Webb (editor)Boy: Takes of Childhood by Roald DahlThe Wrost Witch Collection by Jill Murphey

2 7/11/16 Unit 2 Writing FictionPoetry

Nelson – Unit 22 ‘verb synonyms’

3 14/11/16Unit 2 Reading and Writing Non-FictionJournalistic recounts

RWI – ‘paragraphs’ (13)

Nelson – Unit 28 ‘paragraphs in non-fiction’

Your Alien ExperiencesThe Daily Blab

4 21/11/16 Text Type leading to extended writing –

Story with a familiar setting

Nelson – Unit 14 ‘indirect speech’

5 28/11/16

6 5/12/16Poetry by Heart

Progress Tests – SPaG and Reading

Motorway by Marian LinesThe Tale of the Custard Dragon by Ogden Nash

7 12/12/16 Gap Teaching

Spring Term 1Wk Date English Focus Grammar Focus Texts Wider Reading

1 3/1/17(4 days)

Unit 3 Reading Fiction

Story in a narrative verse

Nelson – Unit 16 ‘adverb clauses’

The Bogey Men and the Trolls Next Door by Kaye Umansky

Trolls Go Home (Troll Trouble) by Alan MacDonaldThe Secret Book of Trolls by Danny WillisTroll Wood by Kathryn Cave and Paul HessJabberwocky and Other Poems by Tig ThomasNight of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting and David WiesnerScience Verse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

2 9/1/17Unit 3 Writing

FictionStory in a

narrative verse

RWI – ‘adverbials’ (9)

Nelson – Unit 6 ‘adjective and adverb phrases’

3 16/1/17Unit 3 Reading

and Writing Non-Fiction

Explanation texts

Nelson – Unit 12 ‘verb tense – past perfect regular’

Nelson – Unit 15 ‘verb tense – past perfect irregular’

The Stellar Stage SchoolHow the Voice Works

4 23/1/17 Poetry by HeartThe Three-Headed Dog by Clare BevanMove It by Linda Lee Welch

5 30/1/17 Text Type leading to extended

writing –Recount

Nelson – Unit 7 ‘singular and plural o words’

6 6/2/17

7 13/2/17Progress Tests –

SPaG and Reading

Gap Teaching

Spring Term 2Wk Date English Focus Grammar Focus Texts Wider Reading

1 27/2/17 Unit 4 Reading FictionPlayscripts

Nelson – Unit 13 ‘adjectives for possession’ The Fly and the

Fool by Lou Kuenzler

Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam by Sherry Garland and Trina Schart HymanStories from Around the World by Heather Amery and Linda EdwardsIllustrated Stories from Grimm by Ruth Brocklehurst, Gill Doherty and Raffaella LigiBrothers Grimm Folk Tales by The Brothers Grimm, Michael Foreman and Brian Alderson

2 6/3/17 Unit 4 Writing FictionPlayscripts

Nelson – Unit 15 ‘past perfect tense’

3 13/3/17Unit 4 Reading and Writing Non-FictionEvaluating evidence

RWI – ‘plurals, possession and apostrophes’ (11)

Nelson – Unit 8 ‘possessive pronouns’

Junior Detective

4 20/3/17 Text Type leading to extended writing –

Mystery Story

Nelson – Unit 19 – ‘Paragraphs in stories’

5 27/3/17 Nelson – Unit 25 – ‘split direct speech’

6 3/4/17Progress Tests – SPaG

and ReadingGap Teaching

Summer Term 1Wk Date English Focus Grammar Focus Texts Wider Reading

1 24/4/17Unit 5 Reading FictionStory with a historical

setting

RWI – ‘standard English’ (2)

Nelson – Unit 20 ‘sentences – double negatives’

Runaways! By Jim Eldridge

Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson and Nick SharrattSmith by Leon GarfieldStreet Child by Berlie DohertyCecily’s Portrait by Adele GerasLizzie’s Wish by Adele Geras

2 1/5/17(4 days)

Unit 5 Writing FictionStory with a historical

setting

Nelson – Unit 18 ‘verbs – common mistakes’

3 8/5/17Unit 5 Reading and Writing Non-Fiction

Newspapers

Nelson – Unit 23 ‘adverb clauses’ London Herald

4 15/5/17Text Type leading to extended writing –

Biography or autobiography

Nelson – Unit 24 ‘singular and plural possessive’

5 22/5/17

Summer Term 2

Wk Date English Focus Grammar Focus Texts Wider Reading

18/6/17(2 days)

Progress TestsReading and SPAG

2

12/6/17 Unit 6 Reading FictionStory from another culture

RWI – ‘nouns and pronouns’ (3)

Nelson – Unit 17 ‘noun phrases’

Sugarcane Juice by Pratima Mitchell

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman RushdieStories from India by Anna Milbourne and Linda EdwardsThe Wheel of Surya by Jamila GavinSeasons of Splendour: Tales. Myths and Legends of India by Madhur Jaffrey and Michael ForemanRickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins and Jamie Horgan

3

19/6/17 Unit 6 Writing FictionStory from another culture

Nelson – Unit 21 ‘pronouns and ambiguity’

426/6/17 Unit 6 Reading and

Writing Non-FictionPersuasive writing

Nelson – Unit 27 ‘adverbs – fronted phrases and clauses’

VIPER! – Critic’s ReviewVIPER! – A Film Trailer

53/7/17 Poetry by Heart In an Aeroplane by

Valerie BloomThe Marrog by R.C Steven

610/7/17 Text Type leading to

extended writing –Science Fiction or Fantasy Story

Nelson – Unit 26 ‘plural and possessive nouns’

7 17/7/17