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Everything your child learns in Year 4 English.

This is the real curriculum data behind the Learn tab — not a marketing summary. 12 of 12 topics below are live online: click any of them to open the lesson.

📖 Reading

Reading for theme and evidence, and comparing across texts.

  • Retrieving and inferring meaning
    Skills: Retrieving information, Making an inference, Making a prediction, Understanding vocabulary in context, Summarising a text
  • Analysing a writer's choices
    Skills: Identifying an authorial choice, Identifying a theme, Using evidence to support a point
  • Comparing
    Skills: Comparing two characters, Comparing two texts
  • Text types
    Skills: Reading non-fiction, Reading poetry

✍️ Writing

A widening range of forms, written with real cohesion between sentences and paragraphs.

  • Writing for a purpose
    Skills: Writing a narrative, Writing a description, Writing to persuade, Writing an explanation, Writing a report, Writing a recount, Writing a letter, Writing a poem
  • Craft and structure
    Skills: Writing dialogue, Structuring a paragraph, Using cohesive devices between sentences, Editing your own writing

🔤 Grammar

More precise sentence-level grammar, plus direct speech and tense control.

  • Sentence-level grammar
    Skills: Using a fronted adverbial, Using an expanded noun phrase, Using pronouns accurately, Using determiners accurately, Using prepositions, Using adverbs, Using conjunctions
  • Speech, clauses and tense
    Skills: Punctuating direct speech, Identifying a clause, Using tenses accurately, Using Standard English

✒️ Punctuation

Inverted commas and possessive apostrophes are the year's real step up.

📚 Vocabulary

Word relationships alongside root-based word building and an introduction to figurative language.

Want to practise this on paper? Download printable Year 4 worksheets and answer keys →
Got a child working across both subjects? See what Year 4 covers in Maths too →

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