Homeschool → the UK → Year 4 → English
Year 4 english
In Year 4, students learn spelling rules for adding suffixes such as -ing and -ed, and they start to join clauses to write compound sentences. They plan and write narratives with a clear orientation, complication and resolution, and read to identify main ideas and supporting details. Poetry, adverbs and apostrophes for contractions round out a year of growing control over written language.
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Language
- Compound sentencesFull lesson · 30 minJoining two main clauses with coordinating conjunctions such as 'and', 'but', 'or' and 'so' to show how ideas are related.
- AdverbsFull lesson · 30 minUsing words such as 'quickly', 'yesterday' and 'outside' to tell how, when and where an action happens.
- Apostrophes for contractionsFull lesson · 30 minUsing an apostrophe to show where letters have been left out when two words are joined, as in 'don't', 'it's' and 'we'll'.
Literature
Literacy
- Adding suffixes: -ing and -edFull lesson · 30 minApplying three common spelling rules when adding -ing and -ed: just add, drop the final e, or double the final consonant.
- Narrative writingFull lesson · 45 minPlanning and writing a story with an orientation, a complication, a series of events and a resolution.
- Main idea and supporting detailsFull lesson · 40 minIdentifying what a paragraph is mostly about and the details that support it in short informative texts.
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Curriculum notes
Australian Curriculum v9.0. Topics are organised around the Australian Curriculum v9.0 English strands (Language, Literature and Literacy). This is an independent learning resource; it is not endorsed by ACARA and has not been mapped to individual content descriptions.
These lessons were written around Australian Curriculum strands and matched to UK year groups by age (Year 1 is the year a child turns 6 in England). They are not mapped to the National Curriculum in England or the curricula of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, so check them against your own plans.
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