Year 4 Course Access

Description

Reading tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• A range of poetry, non-fiction and fiction texts available for children to read
• Exception words incorporated into text so children become familiar with them
• Children can explore unfamiliar and challenging words
• Children can explore root words and their affixes
• Structures of various text types explained
• Themes and conventions are identified in a range of texts
• A range of different forms of poetry
• Opportunity to draw inferences from texts i.e character feeling, thoughts and actions
• An opportunity to make suitable predictions about texts
• Explanation of how to use a dictionary and apply that knowledge
• Summarising main events in a text
• Retrieving vital information
• Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning

Writing tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• Plan and draft ideas
• Adapt writing to suit audience, purpose and form
• Understand how to organise writing into paragraphs or sections
• Understand when to start a new paragraph
• Use titles and subheadings
• Use and begin punctuating dialogue
• Describe characters
• Describe setting and plot
• Proof read writing for mistakes
• Use a range of sentence types
• Use statements, commands and questions with correct punctuation
• Begin experimenting with sentences with more than one clause
• Use a variety of connectives to join sentences
• Use time connectives
• Use fronted adverbials
• Use expanded noun phrases
• Use commas in a list or after fronted adverbials
• Use speech marks and inverted commas
• Identify correct determiners
• Identify 1st and 3rd person
• Identify past and present tense

Spelling tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• Spell words with prefixes
• Spell words with suffixes
• Spell common exception words
• Spell some ‘ch’ words
• Spell words from years 3 and 4 spelling list including some homophones
• Use apostrophes to mark singular and plural possession and include irregular plurals