Key Stage 2 Framework for languages

Learning objectives: Literacy - Year 4

L 4.4 Write simple words and phrases using a model and some words from memory   View this objective over 4 years >> Learning opportunities Write labels for work on wall display and in their books Complete a semi-completed email message to someone in a partner school   Knowledge about language Apply phonic and whole word knowledge to write simple words and phrases   Language learning strategies Use spelling strategies appropriately Use a dictionary or ICT source to look up spellings   Teaching activities Set up a Graffiti Board. Children try out language imaginatively and creatively. At this level they might use letters in bold colours and shapes and illustrate their attempts using ICT; write labels and captions using a word list. Write labels for work on wall displays and in their books. Respond to questions from the teacher by finger writing in the air for others to read, instead of speaking the answers; trace a word on each other's backs. Write labels for work on wall displays and in their books. Fill in lists of likes and dislikes. Complete a dream shopping list for a party or picnic. Make a personal language dictionary or word bank. Invent physical gestures to represent punctuation, e.g. draw the shape of a question mark in the air. Play a punctuation physical response game: the teacher calls out some features of punctuation and the children draw each one in the air. Cross-curricular links View all Year 4 Literacy cross-curricular links >> NC English KS1 Writing 2a: Write familiar words and attempt unfamiliar ones NLS Y4 T1-3 W4: To practise new spellings regularly by 'look, say, cover, write, check' strategy NC English KS2 Writing 2e: Prepare a neat, correct and clear final copy NC English KS2 Writing 4f: Revise and build on their knowledge of words and spelling patterns