
Fiction Reading Comprehension
Year 4 fiction comprehension: The Secret of the Tangled Ivy, with five questions on word choice, inference, prediction and summary. Free to print.
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Year 4 fiction comprehension: The Secret of the Tangled Ivy, with five questions on word choice, inference, prediction and summary. Free to print.

Year 4 non-fiction retrieval worksheet on honeybees: match facts to subheadings, questions to sentences and features to definitions. Answers included.

Emperor penguin cloze worksheet for Year 4: ten gaps, a twelve-word bank and a paragraph summary task. Free, with answers.

Year 4 Venn diagram worksheet comparing a Greek myth with a modern adventure story. Nine statements to sort, answer key included.

Year 4 inference worksheet: The Big Bake story with nine questions on feelings, motives, evidence and prediction. Free printable with answers.

Year 4 poetry vocabulary worksheet: define, draw and write lines of poetry for bellow, delicate and scurry. Worked example and answers.

Year 4 story planning worksheet: build a hero, set a forest scene, plan three paragraphs and edit a paragraph with five mistakes.

Year 4 narrative writing task: The Hidden Doorway library story with planning prompts, a word bank, success criteria and a marking rubric.

Year 4 PEEL paragraph worksheet: a rainforest model, a scaffolded canopy task and a deforestation paragraph. Example answers included.

Year 4 Story Mountain storyboard: plan an animated movie with three brainstorm questions and six captioned panels. Free to print.

Year 4 expanded noun phrase worksheet: add adjectives, preposition phrases and finish three story starters. Example answers included.

Year 4 proofreading homework: 12 questions on capitals, full stops, commas after fronted adverbials and homophones. Full answer key.

Year 4 mixed spelling worksheet: prefixes and suffixes, homophones, misspelt words and dictionary order. Free printable with answers.

Year 4 -ous and -ation spelling worksheet: unscramble twelve words, finish three sentences and solve a mystery word. Answers included.

Year 4 prefix word search with nine words including antiseptic, submerge and superstar. Free to print, with an answer key.

Year 4 statutory spelling worksheet: ten tricky words with Look, Cover, Write, Check, joined handwriting and gap-fill sentences. Answers included.

Year 4 spelling crossword: seven clues for ch, sc and que words such as chemist, science, antique and mosque. Answers included.

Year 4 homophones worksheet: match berry and bury, weather and whether and more to meanings and sentences. Answer key included.

Year 4 grammar worksheet: fronted adverbials, plural possessive apostrophes, direct speech and conjunctions in four short sections.

Year 4 pronouns cloze: The Spooky Shed story with ten gaps and a twelve-word bank. Free printable, answer key explains the tricky choices.

Year 4 grammar and punctuation test: 21 questions on fronted adverbials, apostrophes, Standard English and direct speech. Mark scheme included.

Year 4 direct speech check: 11 questions to spot, fix, punctuate and write speech with inverted commas. Free printable, answers included.

Year 4 fronted adverbials sorting worksheet: sort 15 openers into time, place and manner, then write your own. Answer key included.

Year 4 plural possessive apostrophes starter: choose the right form, rewrite two phrases and fix a zoo story. Answers explained.
Our Year 4 English worksheets support the four strands of lower Key Stage 2 English: reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and grammar and punctuation. By Year 4 pupils are expected to infer, predict from implied detail and proof-read their own work — and these activities give that expectation deliberate, repeatable practice across the year.
Alignment is to the Key Stage 2 English programme of study in the England National Curriculum, drawing on objectives such as predicting what might happen from details stated and implied, proof-reading for spelling and punctuation errors, spelling further homophones, and choosing nouns or pronouns for clarity and cohesion.
Print the comprehension sheets for guided reading, use SPaG pages as morning work, or set spelling practice as homework in the run-up to a spelling test. Everything downloads free. With a free Chalkie account you can also edit any worksheet — a quick way to rebuild a comprehension task around your current class text.
Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied, and drawing inferences about characters' feelings, thoughts and motives.
View worksheetsProof-reading writing for spelling and punctuation errors, and assessing and editing work to improve its effectiveness.
View worksheetsSpelling further homophones and near-homophones, and applying the lower Key Stage 2 spelling patterns and word list.
View worksheetsUsing pronouns and nouns for clarity and cohesion to avoid repetition, with punctuation practice including commas after fronted adverbials.
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