Year 4 - Four week unit of work with complete lesson presentations for each lesson including starter activities, teaching points, WAGOLLS and additional resources for lower ability/ SEND learners. The outcome being that the children write their own narrative based around the book. The unit of work was planned and used for both in school and remote learning sessions and therefore each lesson powerpoint can easily be uploaded onto remote learning platforms. The unit of work is based around the Rik Mayall Jackanory storytelling, embedded into the lesson presentations and was used alongside BBC resources and additional Twinkl resources (highlighted in the planning). Each week focuses on a national curriculum objective and of course length of time on each section can be adapted dependent on the class. Week 1 - Fronted adverbials and recipe writing. Lesson 1 - Intro to story and exploring Grandma’s character Lesson 2 - To recap and secure understanding of fronted adverbials Lesson 3 - Look at part 2 of the story and plan a recipe Lesson 4 - To write a set of instructions using fronted adverbials *Lessons 3 + 4 may be spread across 3 lessons to allow time for editing etc Week 2 - Paragraphs and exploring interesting writing techniques such as similes/ onomatopoeia Lesson 1 - Understand, identify and correctly use paragraphs Lesson 2 - Watch and understand part 3 of the story Lesson 3 - To read the extract of this story and explore interesting vocab and techniques Lesson 4 - To plan our version of events based upon last weeks recipes Lesson 5 - To write up two interesting paragraphs using features explored Week 3 - Direct Speech Lesson 1 - To recap and secure understanding of the story so far Lesson 2 - Watch part 4 of the story and understand the new characters Lesson 3 - Recap the rules of speech and model a short plan for a conversation between the characters Lesson 4 - To write up a short conversation *Lessons 3 + 4 may be spread across 3 lessons to allow time for editing etc Week 4 - Planning and Writing a story using previous weeks work Lesson 1 - To watch the final part of the story Lesson 2 - Using all work so far begin to story board their own version of the narrative Lesson 3 - Continue storyboarding/ writing up the narrative using the checklist of expectations Lesson 4 - Continue to write up narrative Lesson 5 - Editing and acting

Simple Present Simple Past Past Perfect Present Perfect Recap-Passive and Active Past Progressive Present Progressive Past Perfect Progressive Present Perfect Progressive

Planned to be used in conjunction with the OAK Academy resources or just sections of the film. Powerpoints for each lesson, lesson resources and SEND year1/2 writing level resources as well. 1.To understand, recognise and write simple, complex and compound sentences 2.To write an extended setting description. 3.To explore different opening sentences and use them to begin planning a story about the borrowers. 4. To write up the beginning paragraph of our story using extended vocabulary and a range of sentence structures. 5. To explore direct speech and alternatives to the word ‘said’. Apply these to our writing. 6. To plan the build-up of our story. 7. To write up the second paragraph of our story using considered dialogue. 8. To create a plan for our third and fourth paragraphs. 9. To finish writing up our 3rd and 4th paragraph of our short story, considering dialogue, extended vocabulary, and expanded noun phrases. 10. To review our story and write it up as one piece of work. Draw a picture of a scene from your story.

Three lesson unit based upon Jack and the Beanstalk with the learning outcome that children will produce their own version of the story in sections. Really helpful for reluctant writers. The resources include a plan for the three lessons. Powerpoint resources for each lesson that include wagolls. Sentence Prompts and Headings for books. Silly sentences for those who may be working at a level below expected. Lesson 1 - introduction to the story Lesson 2 - looking at the middle of the story Lesson 3 - exploring story beginning and ending features

A short powerpoint for a 30 minute Reading Comprehension Lesson. Used for an ‘Outstanding’ lesson observation and at interview. Comes with lesson plan. It does require a secondary text appropriate to your curriculum for children to practice the skill. High level vocabulary, so as to ensure children can really work on decoding and working out the meaning (in context) of a new word.

Full Book Comprehension and answers for the Firework Makers Daughter by Philip Pullman. Retrieval questions pitched for Year 4.