Year 4

Year 4 English

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• Understand Structure And Purposefeatures of a newspaper report and explanation text
• Identify Text Meaningunderstanding the meaning of a text
• Root Word Awarenessroot words and word families
• Use Exception Wordscommon exception words spelling
• Vocabulary Awarenessusing powerful verbs in writing
• Extend Sentence Compositionsimple compound and complex sentences
• Grammar Awarenesstypes of adjectives and articles
• Tense Awarenesspast present and future tense
• Use Conjunctions Adverbs And Prepositionsconjunctions adverbs and prepositions
• Plural possessive apostrophesapostrophes for possession with plural words
• Recognise Forms Of Poetrydifferent forms of poetry haiku and rhyme
• Create Fictionwriting a story with characters and setting
• Write Non Fictionwriting a newspaper report
• Discuss Words And Phrasesunderstanding word meaning in context
• Plan And Write Familiar Poetryplan and write poems using familiar poetry and nursery rhyme structures
• Listen To And Discuss Textslistening to and discussing poetry
• Use Dictionarieshow to use a dictionary
• Increase Range Of Textsreading myths and legends
• Draw Inferences About Textsmaking inferences from a story
• Predict Story Developmentpredicting what happens next in a story
• Identify And Summarise Main Ideassummarising a text
• Retrieve And Record Informationretrieving information from a non-fiction text
• Use Prefixes And Suffixesadding suffixes like -sion -tion and -ture
• Homophone Awarenessthere their and they're homophones
• Spelling Awarenessspelling rules for tricky letter sounds
• Sentence Awarenesscorrecting sentence errors
• Assess And Improve Structureanalysing the structure of a poem
• Assess Grammar And Vocabularygrammar and vocabulary skills check
• Use Fronted Adverbialsfronted adverbials
• Use And Punctuate Speechpunctuating direct speech