P4 Asks for a Planned Story, Not a Longer Diary

A P4 story that is only a longer P3 recount still has no plan. Count the boxes, not the pages.

More sentences are not the P4 change

P4 asks for a planned story, not a longer diary. If the child only adds sentences to a P3 recount, the stage has not moved.

Do not treat a tuition-centre mark table as a national P3 or P4 scheme.

The plan is three boxes before the first line

Write beginning, problem, and ending in three short notes that use one picture. Then write. iWorld Primary English can host later picture and writing work. Confirm live terms.

1. Name the picture in one word.
2. Write a beginning box.
3. Write a problem box.
4. Write an ending box before any paragraph.

iWorld Learning Primary English includes picture talk. Confirm live terms. Omit fees.

The move worked if the ending was planned

The move worked if the ending matches a box written before the story, not an ending invented in the last two minutes.

If the last two lines were new, the plan was not used. Keep the boxes next week. A parent can check this without a mark scheme: three boxes first, then the story.

Photograph the three boxes before writing. After the story, tick the ending box only if those words still match. A new ending is a P3 habit wearing a P4 title. If the ending box is empty, stop and fill it before the first paragraph. Do not start the story to discover the ending.

This is not the opening-sentence page

No. That page starts one P4 sentence from a picture. Tonight asks whether a plan exists at all.

Keep the first-line drill on how to start a Primary 4 composition. Keep a P3 class judgement on two recent P3 stories.

FAQ

A longer diary is still a diary.

If the P4 story is longer, has the child moved up?

No. Length without a planned ending is still a P3 diary.

Is this the page for switching a P3 class?

No. That decision uses two recent P3 stories. Tonight only names the P4 plan.