KS2 - Year 4 - English

Year 4

Reading & Comprehension (6 lessons)
Builds on Year 3 skills with fluency and intonation, retrieving and recording information, deeper inference using combined evidence, summarising main ideas, and analysing language and structure. Fully resourced with slides, worksheets, lesson plans, and vocabulary activities throughout.

Poetry (6 lessons)
Introduces simile and fronted adverbials, building up to pupils writing and performing their own poem combining both techniques with real confidence. Complete slides, worksheets with answers, lesson plans, and embedded vocabulary practice in every lesson.

Non-Fiction Writing (6 lessons)
Covers persuasive techniques, paragraphing, and newspaper report writing, with a strong focus on editing using a thesaurus to sharpen vocabulary. Each lesson includes teacher slides, a worksheet with answer key, a lesson plan, and a keyword activity set.

Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (6 lessons)
Covers the trickier Year 4 GPS content — negative prefixes (in-/il-/ir-/im-), suffixes (-ous/-ion/-ian), possessive apostrophes, and fronted adverbials with commas. Fully resourced with slides, worksheets, lesson plans, and built-in vocabulary activities.