INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAMUI

Year 4 Curriculum

Literacy

Unit 4: Fantasy Worlds, Riddles & Explanation Texts

Learning Objective - L4.1

To plan and write a longer adventure story set in an imagined world with clear description of the unfamiliar elements.

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Learning Objective - L4.2

To include details of the setting, using figurative and expressive language to evoke mood and to create an atmosphere.

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Learning Objective - L4.3

To read and analyse explanatory texts to identify key features.

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Learning Objective - L4.4

To distinguish between explanatory texts, reports and recounts while recognising that an information book might contain examples of all these forms of text or a combination of these forms.

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Learning Objective - L4.5

To orally summarise processes carried out in the classroom and on screen in flowcharts or cyclical diagrams as appropriate.

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Learning Objective - L4.6

To contribute to the shared writing of an explanation where the teacher acts as scribe and models the use of paragraphs, connectives and the other key language and structural features appropriate to explanatory writing: - purpose: to explain a process or to answer a question - structure: introduction, followed by sequential explanation, organised into paragraphs - language features: usually present tense; use of connectives of time and cause and effect; use of passive voice - presentation: use of diagrams and other illustrations, paragraphing, connectives, subheadings, numbering.

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Learning Objective - L4.7

To, after oral rehearsal, write explanatory texts independently from a flowchart or other diagrammatic plan, using the conventions modelled in shared writing.

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