Lesson Planning
Non-fiction
English Year 3/4 Autumn Instructions and Explanations
Keeping Healthy
A fun block drawing on dance crazes, cures from Horrible Histories, happy minds and active bodies. Explore paragraphs and headings, possessive apostrophes and commas. Write instructions and letters of explanation.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Introducing Instructions: Food and Exercise
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Included in resources.
Optional Texts
Any reference or instruction books about food, the human body, exercise, sport, recipes or health.
Weblinks
Operation Ouch Confuse Your Taste Buds Trick!
Horrible Histories What to eat to avoid disease in Shakespeare's time
How to take your pulse (for reference)
Resources from the Department of Health and Social Care
Fun sandwich ideas
Unit 2 Composition: Paragraphs and Headings: Fitness Fun
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Included in resources.
Weblinks
Strictly Come Dancing does the Fortnite dance challenge
Beano article ‘The five dance crazes everyone is talking about’
Joe Wicks' Blue Peter workout
Unit 3 SPAG: Possessive apostrophes, singular and plural, & commas in lists
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
PowerPoint: possessive apostrophes and commas in lists
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Included in resources.
Optional Texts
Any Horrible History books you might have available.
Weblinks
Horrible Histories Historical Paramedics series:
Middle Ages
Tudors
Stuarts
Victorians
Unit 4 Composition: Writing guides for happy minds
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Included in resources.
Weblinks
BBC Bitesize Why is a healthy lifestyle important?
Making a dreamcatcher (for reference)