Year 4 English – Week beginning 4th May

Welcome to a brand new week year 4! This week we are

going to plan and write the habitat and diet section of

your report.

Monday - lesson 1 LO: To plan the Habitat section of our non-chronological report

In your last lesson, you wrote the appearance section of your report using your plan as a guide. Today, you are going to plan the ‘Habitat’ section of your report.

First, you will need to decide where your dragon lives! Here are some

examples of location where they could be found; try and be creative

and specific with your location!

After this, you will now need to go into more detail about the

location you have chosen. Take a look at this slide of how

you could use ideas if you have chosen inside of a volcano as

your location:

Task

Complete your habitat plan for your non-chronological report. Take a look at the

bronze silver and gold descriptions for guidance. Also, there is also a box to give

an example of what your habitat plan might look like:

Post-learning reflections

Finally, consider and complete the following question - then complete your

reflection shape.

Tuesday - lesson 2 LO: To write the Habitat section of our non-chronological report

Amazing! You have now planned your habitat section of your

non-chronological report! Today, we are going to write the

habitat paragraph.

Before we get started, have a go at this starter activity of up-

levelling a sentence. Try to include a fronted adverbial, an embedded clause,

HQV, adverb openers and powerful adjectives!

Mini-task

Have a read through this modelled write with an example of a

habitat planning box next to it. While you are reading, feel free

to pick out any ideas which you can ‘magpie’ to include within

your own writing.

Key questions:

1) What was your favorite sentence?

2) Why do you think this is a good piece of writing?

3) What are you going to include from this piece within your own writing?

Main task

You are going to use the ideas from your plan to construct

sentences to form this paragraph. Remember, you must

keep looking at your targets and success criteria to ensure

you are including all those narrative techniques we use

within our writing.

Here is the list from your deconstruction you completed

last week. Beside this, you will see a list of sentence openers and technical

vocabulary and ideas you might want to also include:

“Hello! It’s me again! Remember, you can always look at

your deconstruction for inspiration too!”

Post-learning reflections

Finally, consider and discuss this reflection shape with your adult at home.

Wednesday - lesson 3 LO: To plan the ‘Diet’ section of our non-chronological report

In today’s lesson, you are going to plan the ‘Diet’ section of your

non-chronological report. You are also going to read through

chapters 2 & 3 of ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ – you can follow

along with Mr. Brain reading these chapters on the school Youtube

channel.

First of all, have a go at these 2 starter activities – the answers for

each activity can be found on the next page

Mini-task

When we talk about diet, we are referring to what your dragon eats! Now it is

important to consider that every dragon is different and their diets are likely to

vary! Have a look at the slide below. Your first task is to research the definition of

each of these words: Herbivore, Carnivore and Omnivore:

Main task:

You are now going to plan your diet section. This part of your

report is not going to be very long and will contain bullet points

too. Have a look at the example from your deconstruction:

Post-learning reflections

Finally, complete the question and discuss this

reflection shape with your adult at home.

Thursday - lesson 4 LO: To write the ‘Diet’ section of our non-chronological report

Amazing year 4! You are making incredible progress and I am

certain your reports are really starting to take shape nicely. In

today’s lesson, using the ideas from your plan, you are going to

write our your ‘Diet’ section of your non-chronological report.

Task 1

Your first task is to read through your work and to check if you have included all

of the following features and then tick them off if you if you have. Anything that

hasn’t been included so far is going to be a target for you to include within the 2

final sections of your report (Pictures and captions won’t have been completed

yet so don’t worry about that!).

Task 2

Now, using your plan from

yesterday, you can write up

your diet paragraph.

Remember to include a mix of

sentences and bullet points in

this section. Here is the

example from our

deconstruction to offer

guidance and inspiration!

Post-learning reflections

Finally, complete the question and discuss this reflection shape with your adult at

home.

Friday – VE Day Bank Holiday

There are activities set on Education City if you want to do them!

There are 2 comprehensions available and 3 grammar activities (you

don’t not need to complete them all!)

Next week, we will finish off our reports, read even more of the story

and finally publish our work, either writing them up neat or on

Microsoft word!

Well done for your hard work and have an amazing weekend!