Fully comprehensive lessons and resources for 5 weeks of English based on the text “The Ice Palace” by Robert Swindells. There are detailed lesson plans with a starter and main independent task, plus all resources (worksheets/ pictures/Smart board files) to accompany each stage of the lessons. There is also homework for each week that fits in with the unit; plus I’ve included some display resources for your classroom display. The unit covers year 4 targets from the national curriculum. These include: reading comprehension (fiction and non-fiction) making predictions based on pictures and the text using a thesaurus and a dictionary skimming and scanning texts to find information describing settings persuasive writing character descriptions using direct speech planning and writing, plus editing and improving a story writing a book review understanding different themes in stories writing a summary, and taking notes adjectives personification adverbs fronted adverbials conjunctions similes homophones