Inspired by: Castles - Medium Term Plan

The Year 4 Module 2 medium-term plan centres around the engaging theme of castles, inspired by Colin Thompson's "Castles" and published by Random House Australia. The plan is thoughtfully structured to guide Year 4 students through a six-week programme that integrates comprehension, composition, and grammar and punctuation skills. In the first week, the objective is to justify inferences with evidence, with students exploring books of various structures and discussing writings akin to their planned compositions. The focus on grammar and punctuation is to write expanded noun phrases and practice sentence composition orally, with creative tasks such as writing about a fascinating castle for sale and designing their own castle.

As the plan progresses, the second week has students identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning. They organise ideas around a theme and extend their sentence range to include clauses, engaging with themes like 'The Music Castle' and 'The Mysterious Mushroom Castle'. In subsequent weeks, the plan builds upon these skills, with students retrieving and recording information from non-fiction, preparing poems for performance, and using organisational features like headings and sub-headings. By week four, they are linking adverbials across paragraphs and creating brochures for imaginary castles. The plan culminates in week six with students reading aloud their own work, focusing on intonation and volume to convey meaning, and using expanded noun phrases in creative tasks such as 'Café Atlantis'. This comprehensive plan, copyrighted by Marie Svilis, is tailored to enhance students' literacy skills within an imaginative and structured framework.