Washingborough Academy Literacy LTP Y3/4 Term 1 WW1 Homefront Literacy
Genre Poetry - emotive Letters - to soldiers Reading Playscripts - Archie Dobson’s War
Term 2 WW1 On The Battlefield Genre Information texts – about vehicles from the War Diaries – what it was like at home.
Writing Focus (In addition to key features of genres) Writing Focus (In addition to key features of genres)
Paragraphs
Headings and subheadings Grammar focus
Use a range of nouns and pronouns Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases. Terminology – Prefix Pronoun
Spelling focus
Time connectives and prepositions Apostrophes to mark plural possession. Terminology Preposition Conjunction Possessive pronoun
Formation of nouns using a range of prefixes
The grammatical difference between plural and possessive ‘s’
Homophones and non homophones
The ou sound - young
Term 3 Gifts of the Nile Literacy
Grammar focus
Term 4 Gifts of the Nile
Genre
Genre
Narrative -Egyptian myths
Writing Playscripts – Isis and Osiris
Writing Focus (In addition to key features of genres)
Writing Focus (In addition to key features of genres)
Paragraphs Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun, within or across sentences. Create simple settings and plot
Present perfect format verbs instead of simple past
Speech punctuation
Perfect tense
Terminology – Consonant Consonant letter vowel Vowel letter Inverted commas determiner Spelling focus
Use of the forms a and an according to whether the next word begins with a consonant or vowel
Standard English forms for verb inflections instead of local spoken forms e.g we were, we was
The /I/ sound spelt y elsewhere other than end of words – eg Egypt, myth
Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch scheme
Term 5 Volcanoes and Earthquakes Literacy
Term 6 Exploring Ecosystems (Rainforests)
Genre
Genre
Recount - trip Explanation texts – how a volcano erupts
Poetry – in the rainforest- descriptive Mystery story – in the rainforest
Writing Focus (In addition to key features of genres) Know the language of clauses and commas after fronted adverbials
Books: The mystery in the Amazon Rainforest – Carole Marsh The Secret Seven Mysteries – Enid Blyton Writing Focus (In addition to key features of genres) Developing suspense through language and punctuation
Grammar focus
Fronted adverbials
Wide range of conjunctions
Using dictionary to confirm spellings Terminology – Clause Subordinate clause adverbial
Spelling focus Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words with more than one syllable.
Terminology – Conjunction Word family Word families based on common words showing how words are related in form and meaning. Words ending with the ‘gue and que’
The suffix ly The suffix’ ture and sure’