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Year 4 English Curriculum


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Reading
Comprehension skills
‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ – C.S.Lewis
Newspaper reports
 
Writing
Story planning
Paragraphs
Stories set in an imaginary world
Descriptive writing
Newspaper reports
Encyclopaedia entry
Nelson Handwriting
 
Skills
Capital letters, full stops, commas
Question marks, exclamation marks
Common & Proper nouns
Gender
Adjectives, adverbs
Verb tenses
Conjunctions
Types of sentence
Spellings – NLS Y4
Using a dictionary 
Reading
Comprehension skills
 ‘The Railway Children’ – E.Nesbit
‘Night Mail’ poem – W.H.Auden
‘From a Railway Carriage’ poem – R.L.Stevenson
 
Writing
Play scripts
Acrostic poems
Captions and labels
Letter writing
Travel brochure articles
Nelson Handwriting

Skills
Powerful verbs
Contractions – missing letter(s) apostrophe
Comparatives and superlatives
Personal pronouns
Subject and object of sentences
Prefixes and Suffixes
Spellings – NLS Y4
Using a dictionary 
Reading
Comprehension skills
‘Carrie’s War’ – Nina Bawden
Evacuee research
World War II news reports
Extracts from ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’
Writing
Writing in the First Person
Diary writing
Moon poem
Comparative writing
Critical reviews
Nelson Handwriting
 
Skills
Alliteration
Speech marks
Adjectives, Adverbs
Possessive pronouns, apostrophe for possession
Prepositions
Imperatives
Spellings – NLS Y4
Using a dictionary