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.
Year 4 Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied, and drawing inferences about characters' feelings, thoughts and motives.
Year 4 English6 worksheets
Reading Comprehension worksheets to download
Fact Finding: Retrieval from Non-Fiction
Year 4 non-fiction retrieval worksheet on honeybees: match facts to subheadings, questions to sentences and features to definitions. Answers included.
Summarising Main Ideas: Non-Fiction Cloze
Emperor penguin cloze worksheet for Year 4: ten gaps, a twelve-word bank and a paragraph summary task. Free, with answers.
Comparing a Myth and a Modern Story
Year 4 Venn diagram worksheet comparing a Greek myth with a modern adventure story. Nine statements to sort, answer key included.
Inference Skills: What the Story Doesn't Say
Year 4 inference worksheet: The Big Bake story with nine questions on feelings, motives, evidence and prediction. Free printable with answers.
Words That Paint Pictures: Poetry Vocabulary
Year 4 poetry vocabulary worksheet: define, draw and write lines of poetry for bellow, delicate and scurry. Worked example and answers.
Curriculum objectives covered
Reading - comprehension
“Discussing words and phrases that capture the reader's interest and imagination”
Reading - comprehension
“Checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context”
Reading - comprehension
“Drawing inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence”
Reading - comprehension
“Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied”
Reading - comprehension
“Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these”
Reading - comprehension
“Reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes”
Reading - comprehension
“Identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning”
Reading - comprehension
“Retrieve and record information from non-fiction”
Reading - comprehension
“Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally”
Reading - comprehension
“Identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books”
Reading - comprehension
“Listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks”
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Writing
Proof-reading writing for spelling and punctuation errors, and assessing and editing work to improve its effectiveness.
Spelling
Spelling further homophones and near-homophones, and applying the lower Key Stage 2 spelling patterns and word list.
Grammar and Punctuation
Using pronouns and nouns for clarity and cohesion to avoid repetition, with punctuation practice including commas after fronted adverbials.