Topic: Y4

In this activity, students practise composing sentences with the word because.

Goals

• Identify the causal relationship that underlies use of because.
• Compose some reasonable sentences using because.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will practise using the word because.

In this activity, students practise composing sentences with the word if.

Goals

• Rehearse an implicit understanding of the conditional meaning of if.
• Practise composing sentences using if.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will practise writing sentences with the word if.

Goals

To learn and practise the spelling rules associated with base words ending in consonant letters when endings (suffixes) are added.

Lesson plan

The lesson is divided into a series of activities where students group words according to whether they double the final consonant letter when a suffix is added, or not. For each set of examples, students are asked to identify and make predictions about the patterns for this area of spelling.

Introduction

Goals

To learn and practise the spelling rules associated with base words (of more than one syllable) ending in consonant letters when endings (suffixes) are added.

In this lesson, students select the correct verb to compose an acceptable sentence.

Goals

• Practise composing sentences with appropriate Subject-Verb agreement.
• Identify acceptable patterns in Standard English.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will select the correct verb on the smart board, to construct acceptable sentences.

This lesson asks students to think about tense and aspect, what they mean, and how else we can communicate those meanings.

Goals

• Identify verb tense and aspect. 
• Explain the meaning of verb tense and aspect. 
• Use multimodal literacy skills to present information from words as pictures. 

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will be describing some pictures using language, and then drawing some pictures to describe language.

In this lesson, students identify verbs in fictional extracts and discuss the reasons why authors may have chosen particular verbs in their writing.