IT WAS A DARK and STORMY NIGHT - Year 4 Language and Literacy Teaching Pack

Based on a humorous story within a story, this pack explores the use of formal and informal language, using and spelling the "shun" suffix ( _cian/_tion/_sion/_ssion) and planning and writing narrative.

You get:

 IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, J&A Ahlberg (Pub. Puffin) - No one tells a better story than Antonio. His tale is full of action and absurdity, pirates, parrots, and chocolate cake, rubies, emeralds and diamonds of enormous size......... and a Thingy. Antonio makes it up as he goes along. And he begins: "It was a dark and stormy night....... (excellent, used condition paperback book).

LESSON PLANS - based on the story, referenced to literacy objectives for Year 4 from English Curriculum 2014, and with differentiated group activities (new)

PUPIL RESOURCE SHEETS - to support and reinforce the teaching activities contained in the lesson plans (new)

FLASHCARDS - root words and suffixes to explore spelling of "_shun" words (new and laminated).

I have other teaching and learning packs for Year 5 English. You might like:

  • Aesop's Funky Fables
  • African Folk Tales
  • Chinese Fairy Tales
  • The Diary of a Killer Cat

You'll find them in my shop. Why not take a look now you are here?