📙 YEAR 4 ENGLISH – FULL CURRICULUM

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Reading foundations

A. Short and long vowels

1. Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words

2. Spell rhyming words to answer riddles

3. Spell the long a word: silent e, ai, ay, ea, ey, eigh

4. Spell the long e word: silent e, ee, ea, ie

5. Spell the long i word: silent e, ie, y, igh, ind, ild

6. Spell the long o word: silent e, oa, ow, old, ost, olt

7. Spell the long u word: silent e, ue, oo, ew, ui

B. Blends

1. Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend

C. Multisyllabic words

1. Spell words with open and closed syllables

2. Spell consonant-l-e words

D. Diphthongs and r vowel patterns

1. Spell words with vowel diphthong patterns

2. Spell words with r vowel patterns

E. Irregular words

1. Spell the sight word

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Reading strategies

F. Main idea

1. Use key details to determine the main idea

2. Determine the main idea of a passage

G. Theme

1. Determine the themes of myths, fables and folktales

H. Author’s purpose

1. Identify the author’s purpose: mixed media

2. Identify the author’s purpose: passages

I. Text structure

1. Determine the order of events in informational texts

2. Compare and contrast in informational texts

3. Match causes with effects

4. Match causes and effects in informational texts

5. Match problems with their solutions

6. Identify text structures

J. Sensory details

1. Sort sensory details

K. Literary devices

1. Determine the meanings of similes

L. Point of view

1. Distinguish points of view

M. Inference

1. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

2. Draw inferences from a text

3. Make predictions about a story

N. Story elements

1. Identify story elements

O. Visual elements

1. Compare mythological illustrations

P. Literary texts – Level 1

1. Read fantasy with illustrations

2. Read historical fiction with illustrations

3. Read science fiction with illustrations

4. Read realistic fiction with illustrations

Q. Literary texts – Level 2

1. Read realistic fiction: set 1

2. Read realistic fiction: set 2

3. Read poetry

R. Informational texts – Level 1

1. Read about animals

2. Read about food

3. Read about art, music and traditions

4. Read about sports and hobbies

S. Informational texts – Level 2

1. Read about famous people

2. Read about famous places

3. Read about business and technology

4. Read about science and nature

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Writing strategies

T. Organising writing

1. Put the sentences in order

2. Order items from most general to most specific

3. Organise information by topic

U. Topic sentences

1. Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs

2. Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs

V. Writer’s purpose

1. Choose the text that matches the writer’s purpose

W. Linking words

1. Identify time-order words

2. Use time-order words

3. Use coordinating conjunctions

4. Use subordinating conjunctions

5. Choose the best transition

X. Opinion writing

1. Distinguish facts from opinions

2. Identify an author’s statement of opinion

3. Choose reasons to support an opinion

4. Complete the opinion passage with an example

5. Complete the opinion passage with a reason

6. Complete the opinion-reason-example table

Y. Descriptive details

1. Add descriptive details to sentences

2. Show character emotions and traits

3. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb

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Vocabulary

Z. Prefixes and suffixes

1. Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes

2. Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis-

3. Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-

4. Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less

5. Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness

6. Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment

7. Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review

8. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review

AA. Greek and Latin roots

1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

3. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

BB. Compound words

1. Form compound words

2. Form and use compound words

CC. Categories

1. Select the members of a group

2. Select the words that don’t belong

DD. Synonyms and antonyms

1. Choose the synonym

2. Which sentence has the same meaning?

3. Find synonyms in context

4. Choose the antonym

5. Which sentence uses an antonym?

6. Find antonyms in context

EE. Homophones

1. Homophones with pictures

2. Identify homophones

3. Use the correct homophone

FF. Multiple-meaning words

1. Which definition matches the sentence?

2. Which sentence matches the definition?

GG. Shades of meaning

1. Describe the difference between related words

2. Positive and negative connotation

HH. Idioms

1. Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression

II. Context clues

1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context

2. Use context to identify the meaning of a word

JJ. Reference skills

1. Order alphabetically based on the first letter

2. Order alphabetically based on the first two letters

3. Order alphabetically based on the first three letters

4. Order alphabetically: challenge

5. Use guide words

6. Use dictionary entries

7. Use dictionary definitions

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Grammar and mechanics

KK. Sentences, fragments and run-ons

1. Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation?

2. Identify the complete subject of a sentence

3. Identify the complete predicate of a sentence

4. Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence

5. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?

6. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

7. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?

8. Is the sentence simple or compound?

9. Order the words to create a sentence

LL. Nouns

1. Which word is a noun?

2. Identify nouns

3. Identify nouns – including abstract nouns

4. Identify common and proper nouns

5. Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies

6. Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies

7. Is the noun singular or plural?

8. Form and use irregular plurals

9. Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives

10. Form the singular or plural possessive

11. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

MM. Pronouns

1. Identify personal pronouns

2. Choose between subject and object personal pronouns

3. Replace the noun with a personal pronoun

4. Compound subjects and objects with “I” and “me”

5. Identify possessive pronouns

6. Use possessive pronouns

7. Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns

8. Use reflexive pronouns

NN. Verb types

1. Use action verbs

2. Identify action verbs

3. Identify main verbs and helping verbs

OO. Subject-verb agreement

1. Is the subject singular or plural?

2. Use the correct subject or verb

3. Pronoun-verb agreement

PP. Verb tense

1. Which sentence is in the regular past tense?

2. Identify verbs in the regular past tense

3. Form and use the regular past tense

4. Identify the irregular past tense I

5. Identify the irregular past tense II

6. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1

7. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2

8. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3

9. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4

10. Form and use the irregular past tense: set 5

11. To be: use the correct form

12. To have: use the correct form

13. Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?

14. Change the sentence to future tense

QQ. Articles

1. Use the correct article: a or an

2. Use the correct article: a, an or the

3. Identify articles

RR. Adjectives and adverbs

1. Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?

2. Identify the adjective that describes the noun

3. Identify adjectives

4. Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?

5. Identify adverbs

6. Choose between adjectives and adverbs

7. Is the word an adjective or adverb?

8. Use adjectives to compare

9. Spell adjectives that compare

10. Use adverbs to compare

SS. Prepositions

1. Identify prepositions

2. Identify prepositions and their objects

3. Identify prepositional phrases

4. Prepositions: review

TT. Conjunctions

1. Identify coordinating conjunctions

2. Identify subordinating conjunctions

UU. Contractions

1. Pronoun-verb contractions

2. Contractions with “not”

VV. Commas

1. Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words

WW. Capitalisation

1. Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect

2. Capitalising days, months and holidays

3. Capitalising the names of places and geographic features

XX. Formatting

1. Greetings and closings of letters

2. Capitalising titles

3. Formatting titles

4. Formatting and capitalising titles