Year 4: Full Lesson Plans - Manual / Resource - Page 27
Y4 English Lesson Plan: Dramatic Diaries
Skills development
Resources required
Communicating thoughts, ideas and
suggestions
Analysing texts
Considering the points of view and
experiences of others
Lesson Presentation
Usain9s Diary Entry (one A3 copy per group,
if required)
Diary Writing Checklist (one per pair)
All About Dave Walsh (one per pair)
All About Preet Chandi (one per pair)
Diary Writing Planner (one per pupil)
Spelling Wordsearch (if required, for home
learning)
Prior learning
Children are likely to have already explored the grammatical forms in use in this lesson and are now
applying them to a new writing genre.
Children will be familiar with a range of different text forms. The Guinness World Records book will
provide a new example of a nonfiction or reference text.
Children may be familiar with 8world records9. They are less likely to be familiar with these specific
individuals or their particular strengths.
Children should be familiar with drafting and editing their ideas and adding in set grammatical elements
against an objective.
The spellings highlighted here are typical spellings from a year 3 and 4 spelling list, which pupils may or
may not have covered before, meaning this activity might be a new focus or it might be a consolidation
activity.
Timing
Teaching activity
Spelling:
To spell words ending in 8_sion9, 8_ssion9, 8_tion9 and
8_cian9
15 mins
Explain to children that they9ll be practising some
spellings to start with. Explain that you will be learning
about some word endings that look and sound similar.
For each word ending, look at the example in the Lesson
Presentation, then ask the pupils to follow the rule to
write the words fraction, television, permission and
electrician.
© 2024 Guinness World Records Limited
Teacher notes
Explain to children that
they9ll be practising
some spellings to start
with. Explain that you
will be learning about
some word endings that
look and sound similar.
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