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 |