Year 4 Recount - Water cycle - Ebook

A Journey Through the Water Cycle - Recount - Ebook

Niftynonfiction - ‘States of Matter’ and Recounts (Year 4)

This recount is written from the perspective of a waterdrop and describes its journey through the water cycle. It also models the use of Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling Patterns at a Year 4 level.

This book has cross-curricular links to the ‘States of Matter’ topic from the Year 4 science curriculum, offering opportunities to reinforce learning of the unit, and providing writing opportunities to show understanding of the curriculum’s content.

Photocopiable pages of the full recount are provided at the end of the book, with an annotated teacher’s guide, showing the Text Features, Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling Patterns used.

The National Curriculum statements covered, include:

Science - States of Matter (Year 4)

Pupils should be taught to:
compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases
observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C)
identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature
English, Writing - Composition (Year 4)

Pupils should be taught to plan their writing by:

• discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.

Pupils should be taught to draft and write by:

• organising paragraphs around a theme

• in non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings].

English, Writing - Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation (Year 4)

Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by:

• extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including: when, if, because, although

• using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause

• using fronted adverbials.

Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by:

• using commas after fronted adverbials

• use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately when discussing their writing and reading.

Suggested writing outcomes:

• Write own recount of a journey through the water cycle