Planning and Editing a Story
Year 4 story planning worksheet: build a hero, set a forest scene, plan three paragraphs and edit a paragraph with five mistakes.
Year 4 Writing Worksheets
Proof-reading writing for spelling and punctuation errors, and assessing and editing work to improve its effectiveness.
Year 4 English6 worksheets
Writing worksheets to download
Creating Settings, Characters and Plot
Year 4 narrative writing task: The Hidden Doorway library story with planning prompts, a word bank, success criteria and a marking rubric.
Organising Paragraphs Around a Theme
Year 4 PEEL paragraph worksheet: a rainforest model, a scaffolded canopy task and a deforestation paragraph. Example answers included.
Story Mountain Planning Storyboard
Year 4 Story Mountain storyboard: plan an animated movie with three brainstorm questions and six captioned panels. Free to print.
Building Better Sentences with Expanded Noun Phrases
Year 4 expanded noun phrase worksheet: add adjectives, preposition phrases and finish three story starters. Example answers included.
Proof-Reading Practice: Spot and Fix the Errors
Year 4 proofreading homework: 12 questions on capitals, full stops, commas after fronted adverbials and homophones. Full answer key.
Curriculum objectives covered
Writing - composition
“Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar”
Writing - composition
“Discussing and recording ideas”
Writing - composition
“Organising paragraphs around a theme”
Writing - composition
“In narratives, creating settings, characters and plot”
Writing - composition
“Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others' writing and suggesting improvements”
Writing - composition
“Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors”
Writing - composition
“Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.”
Writing - composition
“Composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures (English Appendix 2)”
Writing - composition
“In non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings]”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Using fronted adverbials”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Using commas after fronted adverbials”
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Reading Comprehension
Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied, and drawing inferences about characters' feelings, thoughts and motives.
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.