Year 4 English programme
ENGLISH YEAR 4
Year 4 follow the programme of study for Key Stage 2 National Curriculum English in the three Attainment Targets.
- A.T.1 - Speaking and Listening
- A.T.2 - Reading
- A.T.3 - Writing
Speaking and Listening
Listening to poetry
Reciting poetry
Discussing texts for study aloud in class
Presentation and discussion of issues raised in English lessons and also in PSHE lessons and form assemblies
Acting out texts for study as drama in the class
Reading
Reading a class reader aloud in class
Reading and studying a range of set texts, both fiction and non-fiction
Children select books from the library to read to themselves at school and at home, choice monitored by teacher and recorded in Reading Record Book, to be signed by parents
Writing
- Historical fiction
- Newspaper reporting and articles
- Animal poetry
- Magical mystery stories, ancient and modern
- Factual poems about the present and looking into the future
- Paragraphs, labels and diagrams
- Stories that raise contemporary issues
- Play scripts and dialogue
- Writing from personal experience
- Writing instructions
- Science Fiction
- Retrieving information from texts
- Different forms of poetry
- Stories from different countries
- Persuasive writing
Revision and study of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, speech marks, tenses, plurals, comparison and qualification of adjectives, apostrophes, similes, punctuation of poems, clauses, word classes, capital letters, suffices and prefixes, compound words, spelling strategies, prepositions and conjunctions. Continual monitoring of handwriting.
Spellings set each week, in two groups, co-ordinated with a dictation.