Year 4 Setting Description Unit

This English unit is designed for year 4. The unit requires at least one copy of the book ‘How to live forever plan’ by Colin Thompson’. The aim is for the children to write a setting description based on the book. The unit allows the children the opportunity to become more familiar with setting descriptions and develop their understanding of how to use powerful vocabulary. It also gives the children the chance to create setting descriptions using the ‘journey of the eye’ method. It also develops the following skills and knowledge from the National Curriculum:

Writing (Vocabulary, grammar, punctuation):

• choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition
• use and understand the grammatical terminology accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading.

Writing (composition):

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
• discussing and recording ideas

Draft and write by:
• composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures
• in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot

Evaluate and edit by:
• assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
• proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences
• proofread for spelling and punctuation errors

This is a 2-week unit which includes 8 separate lessons/activities.
Within this unit plan there are hyperlinks to other resources associated with the plan.