Y4 Recount – Formal letter

National curriculum content

• Write for a range of real purposes and audiences.
• Draft and write by composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures.
• Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
• Organising paragraphs around a theme.
• Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition.
• Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause
• Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately when discussing their writing and reading.
• Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although.
• Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition.
• Using fronted adverbials with a comma.
• Indicate grammatical features by indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns.
• Learning the grammar for years 3 and 4 in English Appendix 2.
• Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately when discussing their writing and reading.
• Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements.
• Proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences.
• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.
• Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.

Lesson objectives

• To read and internalise the model text.
• To create a text map of the model text.
• To use reading comprehension strategies to understand the text.
• To understand the organisation of a recount text.
• To understand vocabulary and definitions.
• To recognise key text features.
• To box up the model text.
• To use new grammatical features in a short burst write.
• To contribute to a shared write.
• To innovate the model text with my ideas.
• To write independently using the skills taught.

What we want children to know and the skills necessary to achieve this:

• Write varying long and short sentences.
• Write sentences that enhance description or add information.
• Understand compound sentences and when to use them.
• Use relative clauses and the relevant punctuation.
• Demonstrate an understanding and use of technical vocabulary.
• Use proper nouns consistently with the correct punctuation.
• Use of standard English.
• Use and apply apostrophes for possession.
• Use commas to mark clauses.

Grammar and Punctuation Vocabulary

Powerful verbs, determiners, formal language, commas, fronted adverbials, compound sentences, complex sentences, coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, simple sentences, paragraph 

Formal Letter Vocabulary
Dear, Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, format, layout, address, recipient