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Year 4 · English

Plan What To Write

Year 4 learners practise planning a piece of writing.

The activities include Write a Poem Based on the Structure of Familiar Poetry, Write Alternative Versions of Nursery Rhymes. The checked support below includes teaching, video, lesson, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Write a Poem Based on the Structure of Familiar Poetry
  • Write Alternative Versions of Nursery Rhymes

Checked learning resources

  • Oak: Laura Mucha performance poetry

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 poetry unit focused on rhythm, performance and reading poems aloud with expression.

  • What Is Pink? written by Christina Rossetti

    YouTube — jeanakedpoetry · Video · Opens on the provider website

    One-minute child-friendly reading of Christina Rossetti’s complete “What Is Pink?”, the exact model poem used for the activity structure and imitation-writing activities.

  • Hamilton Trust Year 4: Write and Perform a Poem from 'What Is Pink?'

    Hamilton Trust · Lesson · Account may be required

    Exact Year 4 poetry unit using Christina Rossetti's 'What Is Pink?' as a familiar framework, with lesson planning and pupil resources for drafting, improving and performing a structurally modelled poem.

  • Creative writing

    BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 English resource matched to planning a piece of writing.

  • Oak Year 4: Performing Poems Written by John Lyons

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 lesson video modelling how to prepare and perform poetry while preserving its structure and rhythm and using voice, facial expression and body language.

  • BBC Off By Heart: Reading and Writing Poetry Teacher Notes

    BBC Teach · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Free KS2 teacher notes on using familiar poems as models, keeping a poetic pattern, playing with form and writing an adapted version with matching rhythm and rhyme.

  • Nursery Rhyme Mad Libs

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Creative writing activity in which pupils replace nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and other words to make their own versions of familiar nursery rhymes while retaining the original framework.