Inspired by: Scarabs Secret Medium Term Plan

The Year 4 curriculum for Module 1 delves into "The Scarab's Secret" by Nick Would and Christina Balit, providing students with a rich tapestry of learning objectives across comprehension, composition, and grammar and punctuation. In the first week, the focus is on enhancing listening skills and fostering discussions around a broad spectrum of fiction. Students learn to draw inferences, such as discerning the thoughts and feelings of characters, and are also taught to extract and record information from non-fiction texts. The week's objectives aim to deepen understanding of writing structures, grammar, and vocabulary, with a specific emphasis on using and punctuating fronted adverbials correctly.

As the term progresses, each week builds upon the last, with objectives that encourage questioning for better text comprehension, composing and rehearsing sentences with an increasing range of structures, and organising paragraphs thematically. Students explore using a variety of conjunctions to create complex sentences, and the appropriate selection of nouns and pronouns to maintain clarity and cohesion. The curriculum includes activities such as preparing poems for performance, inferring character dynamics, predicting plot developments, and summarising key ideas from multiple paragraphs. By the sixth week, pupils are expected to retrieve information from non-fiction, create engaging narratives with well-crafted settings, characters, and plots, and use direct speech effectively within their writing, all while extending their sentence structures with a diverse array of conjunctions.