Grammar and Punctuation End-of-Unit Assessment

Year 4 EnglishGrammar and Punctuation7 pages

About this worksheet

Twenty-one questions in three sections make up this seven-page end-of-unit assessment for Year 4 grammar and punctuation. Questions 1 to 8 are tick-box items on fronted adverbial commas, plural possessive apostrophes, Standard English verbs and direct speech. In questions 9 to 20, pupils correct and rewrite sentences, including expanding 'The cat slept.' Question 21 asks for a 3 to 4 sentence paragraph about a picture that uses all four skills. The answer key includes marking points for it. Matches the England National Curriculum objectives.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition”

Questions 11 and 12, such as replacing the second 'Sarah and Tom' with they.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using fronted adverbials”

Question 21 asks pupils to use one in their own paragraph.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Learning the grammar for years 3 and 4 in English Appendix 2”

Questions 5, 6, 13 and 14 test Standard English verbs such as was and were, and expanded noun phrases come up in questions 19 and 20.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using commas after fronted adverbials”

Questions 1, 2, 9 and 10.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns”

Questions 3, 4, 15 and 16, including the children's toys and the spiders' webs.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using and punctuating direct speech”

Questions 7, 8, 17 and 18, plus the direct speech in question 21.

What's inside this worksheet

Section 1: Identification

Eight tick-the-correct-sentence questions, such as choosing The children's toys over The childrens' toys.

Section 2: Corrections and Rewrites

Twelve rewrites. Pupils add adverbial commas, replace repeated names with pronouns, fix verbs like 'I seen', place apostrophes, punctuate speech and expand two noun phrases.

Section 3: Application and Synthesis

A 3 to 4 sentence paragraph about a picture, with a fronted adverbial, direct speech, a plural possessive and clear pronouns.

Answer Key

Answers for questions 1 to 20 and four marking points for question 21.

How teachers use it

End of unit

Give it after the grammar unit under test conditions, in one sitting or across two sessions.

Gap analysis

Most skills come up in pairs of questions, so two wrong answers on one skill show you what to reteach.

Writing task

Use question 21 on its own as a short writing task that checks all four skills together.

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