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Year 4 · English

Create Fiction

Year 4 learners practise writing a story with characters and setting.

The activities include Develop Characters Through Dialogue and Action, Respond to a Description of a Setting - The Secret Garden, Use Powerful Vocabulary and Figurative Language to Describe a Setting, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, interactive, lesson, teaching. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Develop Characters Through Dialogue and Action
  • Respond to a Description of a Setting - The Secret Garden
  • Use Powerful Vocabulary and Figurative Language to Describe a Setting
  • Write Contrasting Descriptions of a Similar Setting

Checked learning resources

  • Oak Year 4: Writing a Setting Description

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 lesson video modelling a setting description that uses precise vocabulary, sensory detail and personification to create a chosen atmosphere.

  • Oak Year 4 Characterisation Worksheet and Quizzes

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Free Year 4 slides, worksheet and quizzes for analysing how a story develops character traits through language, behaviour and relationships.

  • KS2 Show, Don't Tell: Showing How Characters Feel

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Ages 7-11 PowerPoint and worksheets teaching pupils to reveal character feelings through facial expressions, body language and actions rather than simply telling the reader.

  • Imaginary Fantasy Setting Description KS2 Example Text

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    KS2 model setting description using powerful descriptive vocabulary, adjectives, imagery and figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification and onomatopoeia to create a vivid atmosphere.

  • Kearsney Parks KS2: The Secret Garden

    Kearsney Parks · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Free KS2 teaching pack using exact extracts from The Secret Garden, including the garden description and Mary's discovery. It provides reading-comprehension discussion, setting analysis, sensory response and descriptive-

  • 'The Borrowers': narrative writing and reading

    Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 English resource matched to writing a story with characters and setting.

  • 'A Christmas Carol': narrative writing and reading

    Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 English resource matched to writing a story with characters and setting.

  • Creative writing

    BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 English resource matched to writing a story with characters and setting.