Cloud Tea Monkeys and Rhythm of the Rain | Year 3 Year 4 English Planning 30 Lessons

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A Year 3 and 4 English bundle: two complete units, Cloud Tea Monkeys and The Rhythm of the Rain, with 30 lessons, PowerPoints, plans and worksheets.

Two journeys across the world for one lower KS2 class. In Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, Tashi climbs into the mountains with the monkeys to save her mother. In The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker-Smith, a jar of water travels down rivers, into the clouds and all the way back. Together they give your class story, non-fiction, poetry and drama, with a different writing outcome every lesson.

What’s inside
• 30 fully resourced lessons (15 per unit), each about an hour, with a learning objective and success criteria
• 30 PowerPoint presentations with modelled writing and hinge questions
• 30 detailed three-page teacher plans (PDF) with a 60-minute timeline and step-by-step guidance
• Worksheets for every lesson: core and supported versions, in colour and black and white
• Exemplars, assessment guidance and adaptive teaching notes
• A Printables and Working Wall pack for each unit
• A unit map for each book with National Curriculum links

Cloud Tea Monkeys at a glance
• A caffeine-free tea-tasting hook for expanded noun phrases
• Drama, readers’ theatre, instructions, a diary and a playscript
• Ends with every pupil writing the missing chapter the book never tells

The Rhythm of the Rain at a glance
• A body-percussion rainstorm and the water cycle in action
• Kennings, a glossary, a weather forecast and a performance poem
• Ends with every pupil publishing a fold-out loop book

Why buy the bundle
• Two units that sit well side by side in Years 3 and 4, covering a full term of English
• Fiction and non-fiction, with no repeated hooks or outcomes
• The same clear design and structure throughout

Want to try before you buy? Cloud Tea Monkeys Free Lesson 1 and The Rhythm of the Rain Free Lesson 1 are free.

You will need the books: Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, and The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker-Smith.