Reading Comprehension
Word Reading:
By the end of Year 4, children are expected to:
• Apply knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes to read aloud and to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound.
• Attempt pronunciation of unfamiliar words drawing on prior knowledge of similar looking words.
Comprehension:
• Know which books to select for specific purposes, especially in relation to science, geography and history learning.
• Use a dictionary to check the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Discuss and record words and phrases that writers use to engage and impact on the reader.
• Identify some of the literary conventions in different texts.
• Identify the (simple) themes in texts.
• Prepare poems and playscripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action.
• Explain the meaning of words in context.
• Ask relevant questions to improve my understanding of a text.
• Infer meanings and begin to justify them with evidence from the text.
• Predict what might happen from details stated and from the information I have deduced.
• I can identify where a writer has used precise word choices for effect to impact on the reader.
• Identify some text type organisational features, for example, narrative, explanation and persuasion.
• Retrieve information from non-fiction texts.
• Build on others’ ideas and opinions about a text in discussion.
Handwriting
• Use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters.
• Understand which letters should be left unjoined.
• Handwriting is legible and consistent; down strokes of letters are parallel and equidistant; lines of writing are spaced sufficiently so that ascenders and descenders of letters do not touch.
By the end of Year 4, children are expected to be able to:
Writing Composition:
• Compose sentences using a range of sentence structures.
• Orally rehearse a sentence or a sequence of sentences.
• Write a narrative with a clear structure, setting and plot.
• Improve my writing by changing grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency.
• Use a range of sentences which have more than one clause.
• Use appropriate nouns and pronouns within and across sentences to support cohesion and avoid repetition.
• Use direct speech in my writing and punctuate it correctly.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)
Spelling
• Spell words with prefixes and suffixes and can add them to root words.
• Recognise and spell homophones.
• Use the first two or three letters of a word to check a spelling in a dictionary.
• Spell the commonly mis-spelt words from the Y3/4 word list.
Sentence structure
• Use noun phrases which are expanded by adding modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases.
• Use fronted adverbials.
Text structure
• Write in paragraphs.
• Make an appropriate choice of pronoun and noun within and across sentences.
Punctuation
• Use inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech.
• Use apostrophes to mark plural possession.
• Use commas after fronted adverbials.
Year 4 Mathematician end of year expectations:
Number & Place Value
• Count in multiples of 7, 9, 12, 25 and 1,000.
• Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000.
• Find 1,000 more or less than a given number.
• Recognise the place value of each digit in a 4-digit number.
• Read Roman numerals to 100 and know that over time the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value.
• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations.
• Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.
• Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.
• Solve number and practical problems with the above (involving increasingly large numbers).
Calculations (4 rules of number)
• Add and subtract numbers with up to 4-digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction.
• Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers in a calculation.
• Solve addition and subtraction 2-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
• Recall multiplication and division facts up to 12x12.
• Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers.
• Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations.
• Multiply 2-digit numbers by a 1-digit number using formal written layout.
• Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply 2-digit numbers by 1-digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects.
Fractions and decimals:
• Count up and down in hundredths.
• I recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by a hundred and dividing tenths by ten.
• I recognise and show using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions.
• Add and subtract factions within the same denominator.
• Recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4, 1/2 and ¾.
• Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths.
• Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number.
• Compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to 2 decimal places.
• Find the effect of dividing a 1-digit or 2-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths.
• Solve problems involving increasingly harder factions and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number.
• Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to 2 decimal places.
Measurement:
• Compare different measures, including money in £ and p.
• Estimate different measures, including money in £ and p.
• Calculate different measures. Including money in £ and p.
• Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 hour clocks.
• Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 24 hour clocks.
• Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days.
• Convert between different units of measurements
• Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure in cm and m.
• Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares.
•Calculate different measures
Geometry – properties of shapes:
• Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilateral and triangles based on their properties and sizes.
• Identify lines of symmetry in 2D shapes presented in different orientations.
• Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry,
• Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size.
Geometry – position and direction
• Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down.
• Describe positions on a 2D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant.
• Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon.
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