Author: Sarah Bytheway

Year Four Reading Spine

Autumn 1 / Topic: Gods and Mortals / The Ancient Greeks	Autumn 2 / Topic: Tremors / North America	Spring 1 / Topic: High Voltage / Electricity	Spring 2 / Topic: I am Warrior / Romans	Summer 1 / Topic: Habitat, Habitat!	Summer 2 / Topic: I predict a Riot! / The Anglo Saxons
Fiction: / Who Let the Gods out, Maz Evans / Non-Fiction: / Democracy explanation, LiteracyShed / Ancient Greeks, LiteracyShed / Famous Greeks, LiteracyShed / Greek Gods, LiteracyShed / Poetry: / The Sound Collector, Roger McGough	Fiction: / The Boy who biked the World Part 2 - The Americas, Alastair Humphreys. / The House that Sailed Away, Pat Hutchins / Non-Fiction: / Earth Shattering Events / National Geographic—Earthquakes and volcanoes. / The Titanic, Grammasuarus / How to survive an earthquake, Grammasaurus / Enormous Eruptions, LiteracyShed / Volcanoes of the World, LiteracyShed / Poetry: / Welcome to My Crazy Life Joshua Seigal	Fiction: / Operation Gadgetman, Malorie Blackman / Diamonds and Daggers, Ellen Caldecott (extracts) / Non-Fiction: / How does the Watercycle work, Grammasaurus / Inventions that changed the World, LiteracyShed / The Telephone. LiteracyShed / Poetry: / Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of Shape Poems by Liz Brownlee, Sue Hardy-Dawson, Roger Stevens.	Fiction: / The Thieves of Ostia, Caroline Lawrence (extracts) / The Boy at the back of the Class, Onjali. Q. Rauf / Non-Fiction: / What have the Romans done for us? LiteracyShed / Who were the Ancient Romans? LiteracyShed / Poetry: / The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane	Fiction: / The Girl who stole an elephant, Nizrana Farook (Extracts) / When the Mountains roared, Jess Butterworth (extracts) / Non-Fiction: / How is honey made? LiteracyShed / Save the Bees. LiteracyShed / Poetry: / Limerick by John Irwin / There was a Young bard of Japan by Anon / Rather Perplexed by Pam Starling, / Clerihew by Roger McGough, / Fame was a claim of Uncle Ed’s by Ogden Nash.	Fiction: / The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S Lewis / Anglo Saxon Boy, Tony Bradman (extracts) / Freedom for Bron: The boy who saved a Kingdom, N.S Blackman (extracts) / Saxon Tales: The King Who threw away his throne by Terry Deary / Non-Fiction: / How Great was Alfred? LiteracyShed / The Anglo Saxons LiteracyShed / Poetry: / The Tyger, William Blake / My Shadow, R.L Stevenson

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Year Four Reading Spine