Year 4Summer 2

Weather and Climate Change

How are rainbows formed?(Website)

The Tornado Chaser Ross Montgomary

(Fiction)

How the weather works Christiane Dorion

(Picture book)

Clouds and weather (Childrens

Encyclopaedia)

Weather WeaverTamsin Mori

(Fiction)

Four SeasonsCecile Frances Alexander

(Poetry)

.The Creature -

Newspaper Report

Climate change (Newsround report)

Daily News- Hottest decade on record

(Newspaper article)

The official safe-tea shelter (Information

text)

Storm is Brewing(Narrative)

Spotting a Tsunami

A Cloudy Lesson(instructions)

A very unusual winter

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Year 4Autumn 1

Vikings and Anglo-Saxons

The Vikings –Traders, Raiders and adventurers

Marcia Williams (Comic Style)

Viking Boy Tony Bradman

(Fiction)

Men, Women and Children in Anglo-Saxon Times

Jane Bingham (Information)

Vicious Vikings Terry Deary

Beowulf Michael Morpurgo

The Buried CrownAlly Sherrick

Jotun –Journey of a Viking.

DanegeldRudjyard Kip[long

(Poem)

How Thunor got his hammer.

Really Rare RunesMagic Hammer

Viking times(newpaperreport)

Persuasive Speech based on How To

Train Your Dragon.

Making a longhouse(instructions)

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Year 4Autumn 2

Living things and Africa

The Fastest Boy in the World Elizabeth Laird

Letters to Africa.UCLan

Emmanuel’s Dream Laurie Anna Thompson

& Sean Qualls

Africa and the world(Childrens Encyclopedia)

The Butterfly Lion Micahel Morpurgo

(Fiction)

African Poem

Lila and the Secret of Rain

Emma’s puppy problem. Great Galapagos

Ultimate jungle survival guide.

Invertebrates

Nelson Mandela

Non-chronological report on African

animals.

Elephants (newspaper)

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Year 4Spring 1

Electricity and Monarchs

Stdy texts The Queen’s Nose Dick King-Smith

Henry VII and his six wives Great Leader Series

Beetle QueenM.G. Leonard

Electricity(Childrens Encyclopedia)

The Queens Fool Ally Sherrick

God Save the Queen National Anthem

The Princess BlanketCarol Ann Duffy

Henry VII’s Wife (Advert)

Queen Victoria Coronation

Queen Victoria (Fact File)

Queen Elizabeth(Fact File)

Electricity

HM Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee.

Lightening bolt break record

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Year 4Spring 2

States of matter and Active Planet

Rhythm of the rainGrahame Baker

What's the Matter by Tom McGowen

Escape from Pompeii

Stone Girl, Bone Girl. Laurence Anholt

Earthshattering Events-The science behind

natural disasters

Insiders Alive: Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Non-chronological report – Earthquakes.

States of matter Volcanoes- Childrens Encylopedia.

What is an Earthquake?

Layers of the Ocean.

Tsunami

eye witness recount.

Planet Earth

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Year 4Summer 1

Ancient Greeks and Human Body.

The role of women in Greece

Great Greeks, Fun Poems by Paul Perro

Moussaka Recipe-BBC Good Food

Greek Myths for Children- Persophone

A visitors guide to Ancient Greece

Greek Myths for Children-Thesus and the Minotaur

Theseus and the Minotaur by Hugh

Lupton

Digestive system Your digestive system

Greek GodsTeeth facts

Medusa the quest of Persius.

Icarus and Daedalus.

Gut Garden - A Journey into the

Wonderful World of

your Microbiome

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