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Reading Comprehension texts and questions Year 4

Reading Comprehension texts and questions Year 4

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Year 4 Cloze test: time outdoors

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Reading comprehension: The party

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Reading comprehension: Jo and Aunt March

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comprehension worksheets for year 4 uk

comprehension worksheets for year 4 uk

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Year 4 Printable Worksheets

Year 4 is your child's second year of Key Stage 2. During this year, your child will start to receive more homework. Our fun and engaging resources will help your child grasp the key concepts their homework is centred around. Your child will also be tested this year on their multiplication tables and should be able to recite their 1 – 12 times table.

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Interpreting Pictograms - Favourite Book Genres

Interpreting Pictograms - Favourite Book Genres

This handy maths worksheet is designed to introduce students to the concept of pictograms while exploring their favourite book genres. The worksheet is a visually engaging and enjoyable way to enhance students' skills in data representation and interpretation, aligning with the national curriculum. The worksheet includes a colourful pictogram featuring icons representing four popular book genres: Mystery, Adventure, Fantasy, and Fairy Tales. Each icon corresponds to a certain number of students who prefer that genre.Learning Objectives:Develop the ability to read and interpret data presented in a pictogram.Practise counting and comparing quantities through visual representations.Enhance problem-solving skills by answering questions that require data analysis.Reinforce maths skills within a context that relates to students' interests, encouraging them to explore their favourite book genres.

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Interpreting Pictograms - Favourite Fruit

Interpreting PictogramsThis maths worksheet is a fun and engaging activity designed to help students practise data representation and interpretation through the use of a pictogram. The worksheet focuses on students' favourite fruits, a topic that is relatable and interesting for young learners. The worksheet provides a colourful pictogram with images of four different fruits: pears, bananas, oranges, and grapes. Each fruit icon represents a certain number of students who chose it as their favourite.Learning Objectives:Develop the ability to read and interpret data presented in a pictogram.Practise counting and comparing quantities based on images.Enhance problem-solving skills by answering questions that require data analysis.Reinforce maths skills through a real-world context that is relevant to students' interests.

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Interpreting Bar Charts - Popular Sports

Interpreting Bar ChartsThis worksheet encourages students to explore data representation, make comparisons, and practise basic arithmetic operations while having fun with popular sports. It's designed to promote a strong foundation in statistics and problem-solving skills, in accordance with the Year 4 curriculum.

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Tally and Graph - Woodland animals

Tally and Graph - Woodland animalsThis worksheet is designed to help students grasp the fundamentals of creating a bar chart. It begins by providing a set of tally data related to woodland animals. Students are tasked with taking this tally data and using it to construct their own bar chart.

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Harry Potter Word Search

Harry Potter Word Search ActivityEncourage students to find these magical words hidden in the puzzle. It's a great way to celebrate Harry Potter Book Day and engage young fans of the wizarding world!When is Harry Potter Book Day?Harry Potter Book Day takes place on the 12th of October, but you can celebrate on any day that suits you after the 12th of October too!

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Woodland Animals Cloze Activity

Woodland Animals Cloze ActivityOur Woodland Animals Cloze Activity can be integrated into classroom lessons or assigned as homework to reinforce reading comprehension skills. As pupils fill in the blanks, they will encounter new words related to wildlife, habitats, and the unique characteristics of woodland animals. Through this activity, pupils will not only enhance their reading comprehension skills but also gain valuable insights into the remarkable adaptations and behaviours of these cute woodland creatures.

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Endangered Animals Cloze Activity

Endangered animals cloze activityThis engaging activity is a fantastic way for young learners to explore the importance of wildlife conservation while honing their reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. By filling in the missing words in the sentences, students will uncover fascinating facts about these vulnerable creatures and their struggles for survival. This exercise can be used in the classroom, as homework, or during wildlife-themed educational events, making it a versatile resource for teachers and parents.

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Harry Potter Cloze Activity

Harry Potter Cloze ActivityThese fun facts about Harry Potter should spark a child's interest in the magical world created by J.K. Rowling and could provide a great starting point for their journey into the series. This cloze activity offers a spellbinding way to enhance reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills while diving into the world of magic. Beyond simply filling in the blanks, this activity encourages critical thinking by prompting children to consider context and meaning while completing the fun Harry Potter facts. 

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C. S. Lewis Cloze Activity

C. S. Lewis Cloze ActivityC.S. Lewis's life and work continue to inspire young readers around the world, and his magical stories are enjoyed by children of all ages. This C.S. Lewis Cloze Activity will help to:Introduce students to key facts about C.S. Lewis's life and work.Develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.Encourage active engagement with the provided text.Certain words have been omitted from the passage, creating blanks in the text. Students are tasked with filling in these blanks with the correct missing words from the word bank.

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Year 4 Animal Facts Handwriting Workbook

Animal Facts Handwriting WorkbookThis Year 4 Animal Facts Handwriting Workbook is a handy resource to not only improve students' handwriting skills but also introduce them to fascinating facts about creatures from around the globe. Pupils copy each animal fact carefully and neatly on the lines underneath. 

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Rainforest Biome Cloze Activity

Rainforest Biome Cloze ActivityThis worksheet introduces students to the concept of biomes and their unique characteristics. Through reading and filling in the blanks, students gain a better understanding of the rainforest biome's location, climate, and distinct features. Use this KS2 resource in the classroom or at home. 

comprehension worksheets for year 4 uk

Desert Biome Cloze Activity

Desert Biome Cloze ActivityThis worksheet focuses on the desert biome, a unique and fascinating ecosystem found around the world. Deserts may seem barren, but they are full of remarkable adaptations and survival strategies. This educational resource is designed to engage KS2 pupils in exploring the characteristics, plants, and animals of the desert biome while enhancing their understanding of this challenging environment.The Desert Biome worksheet introduces students to key concepts related to desert ecosystems. Pupils will engage in a fill-in-the-blanks exercise where they can apply their knowledge of desert features, climate, and adaptations. This activity encourages critical thinking and reinforces essential facts about desert biomes. Use this desert biome worksheet to spark interest, deepen understanding, and inspire further exploration of our planet's diverse ecosystems.

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Savannah Biome Cloze Activity

Savannah Biome Cloze ActivityThis engaging and educational resource aims to introduce students to the fascinating world of the savannah biome – a unique and diverse ecosystem found in various parts of the world, particularly in Africa. This worksheet will provide pupils with a deeper understanding of the savannah biome's characteristics, climate, plant and animal adaptations, as well as the challenges it faces. Through a fill-in-the-blanks exercise, students will actively engage with key concepts related to the savannah, enhancing their knowledge of this remarkable habitat. 

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Aquatic Biome Cloze Activity

Aquatic Biome Cloze ActivityThis cloze activity worksheet on aquatic biomes is designed to engage KS2 pupils in an exciting journey through the world's water-based ecosystems. Students will have the opportunity to test their knowledge about aquatic biomes by completing sentences with the appropriate words. By doing so, they will reinforce their understanding of important concepts related to oceans, rivers, lakes, and other aquatic environments. This activity encourages critical thinking as students recall information about the unique features and inhabitants of these biomes.

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Tundra Biome Cloze Activity

Tundra cloze activityThis worksheet is designed to enhance your pupils' understanding of the unique characteristics, plant life, and animal adaptations that make the tundra such a fascinating and extreme environment. Through this activity, students will reinforce their knowledge of the tundra biome while practising important reading and comprehension skills. As students fill in the blanks with the appropriate words, they will demonstrate their understanding of key concepts related to the tundra biome.

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Biomes Quiz

Biomes QuizOur Fascinating Biomes Quiz is a great activity designed to enhance your students' understanding of the different biomes that exist around the world. This quiz is a fun and educational way for students to learn about the unique characteristics and plant and animal life. There are 10 multiple-choice questions for children to answer. Incorporate the "Fascinating Biomes Quiz" into your lesson plan or use this fun resource at home. 

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Biomes Matching Activity

Biomes Matching Activity WorksheetIn this engaging worksheet, pupils will explore the fascinating world of biomes – diverse ecosystems that cover our planet. Their task is to match each biome with its description. Biomes are unique regions with distinct climates, landscapes, and plant and animal life. Happy learning and exploring the amazing biomes of our planet!

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Exploring Settlements and Land Use

Exploring Settlements and Land UseThis worksheet is designed to introduce pupils to the concepts of settlements and land use. It will help pupils understand the diverse ways land is used for different purposes. Children will explore rural and urban settlements, grasp the significance of proper land use planning, and gain insights into the connections between human activities and the environment. There are multiple-choice questions and answers included in this resource.

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International Peace Day Acrostic Poem

International Peace Day Acrostic PoemAn acrostic poem is a creative and expressive form of writing where the first letter of each line spells out a word or message. In this acrostic poem for International Peace Day, the word "PEACE" serves as the central theme. Each line of the poem represents a different aspect of peace, highlighting the idea of people coming together, embracing diversity, uniting in love, and creating a harmonious world.

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Bar charts - Presenting data

Bar charts - Presenting dataYear 4 Statistics:interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs.This year 4 maths worksheet is a handy resource for children to use to learn how to read and present data in their own bar chart.

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Division word problems

Division word problemsThis handy division worksheet is perfect for getting your KS2 students practising their division skills to solve simple word problems. Solving division word problems requires critical thinking and problem-solving skills. There are 7 word problems for children to read through. The resource also comes complete with answers for quick marking. 

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Multiplication word problems

Multiplication word problemsBy solving multiplication problems, students develop a concrete understanding of how multiplication represents repeated addition or grouping. This handy maths resource has 7 multiplication problems for students to solve. 

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Subtraction word problems worksheet

Subtraction word problemsBy engaging with subtraction word problems, students will learn to think critically, make informed decisions, and solve problems effectively. This maths worksheet for KS2 students includes 7 problems to solve.

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Addition word problems worksheet

How will this worksheet help my child?Addition word problems help students develop problem-solving abilities, critical thinking, and mathematical reasoning. These skills are vital for their academic success and will help them solve problems encountered in everyday life.

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Addition and subtraction two-step problems (2)

Addition and subtraction two-step problemsTo solve these word problems, students will need to perform two steps involving addition and subtraction. Carefully read the problem, identify the relevant information, and perform the operations in the correct order. There are 5 questions for children to answer. There is also space for students to show their workings. 

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Addition and subtraction two-step problems

comprehension worksheets for year 4 uk

Apostrophes - Plural possession

Apostrophes - Plural possessionStudents add the apostrophe in the correct place to mark plural possession. An example is shown to help students complete the activity. 

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Adding inverted commas to a sentence

Adding inverted commas to a sentenceWith this handy worksheet, students will practise adding inverted commas and other punctuation to sentences. Remember, when using inverted commas for direct speech, the punctuation goes inside the closing inverted comma. 

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Expanded noun phrases

Expanded noun phrasesExpanded noun phrases add more detail to the overall meaning of the sentence. For example:The bee flew around the flowers. The tiny, buzzing bee flew around the vibrant, blooming flowers in the garden.Students have a go at improving the sentences by expanding the noun phrases, making them more interesting to read. 

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Using 'did' and 'done' correctly

Using 'did' and 'done' correctlyLearning to use 'did' and 'done' correctly enhances communication skills and helps children become more confident with their writing. This handy English worksheet for lower KS2 asks students to complete the sentences by writing 'did' or 'done'. They must decide whether 'did ' or 'done' is the appropriate verb by writing the correct one in the spaces.  "Did" is used for all subjects (I, you, he, she, it, we, they). "Done" is used with helping verbs (e.g., have, has, had) or as an adjective.

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Using 'was' and 'were'

Using 'was' and 'were correctlyUsing "was" and "were" correctly helps convey information accurately and clearly. This handy English resource for lower KS2 asks students to complete the sentences by writing 'was' or 'were'. They must decide whether 'was ' or 'were' is the appropriate verb by writing the correct one in the spaces. "Was" is used for singular subjects (I, he, she, it), while "were" is used for plural subjects (they, we). 

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Fronted adverbials - Complete the sentence

Fronted adverbials - Complete the sentence activityUsing fronted adverbials encourages students to start sentences in different ways, adding variety and interest to their writing. It also helps students understand and apply proper grammar and punctuation rules.With this worksheet, children are asked to think of their own fronted adverbials to complete the sentences. This resource can be used at home or in the classroom and is great practice for creative writing. 

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Fronted adverbials - How, where or when?

Fronted adverbials sorting activityFronted adverbials are words or phrases that are placed at the beginning of a sentence to describe when, where, or how an action takes place. For example:Very carefully, she painted the picture. Very carefully is the fronted adverbial in this sentence. It tells us how she painted the picture. We use fronted adverbials to add variety and detail to sentences. Students sort the fronted adverbials by writing them in the correct column. 

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Fronted adverbials - Missing commas

What are fronted adverbials?Fronted adverbials are words or phrases that are placed at the beginning of a sentence to describe when, where, or how an action takes place. For example:In the evening, we watched a film. In the evening is the fronted adverbial in this sentence. It tells us when they watched a film.Students read the sentences and add a comma after the fronted adverbials. 

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Fronted adverbials matching activity

What are fronted adverbials?Fronted adverbials are words or phrases that are placed at the beginning of a sentence to describe when, where, or how an action takes place. For example: In the kitchen, we baked some cookies. In the kitchen is the fronted adverbial in this sentence. It tells us where they baked the cookies.Students draw a line to match the fronted adverbial to the correct sentence.  

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Place Value - Making Numbers

Using Digits to Make NumbersWith this maths worksheet, students follow the rules to make numbers from the given digits. 4-digit numbers are written or read according to the place values of the digits. 

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Place Value - Greater and Less Than

If one value is larger than the other value, we use greater than. If one value is smaller than the other value, we use less than. Students look at the 4-digit numbers in the columns and write the number that is greater than or less than the other number. 

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Identifying place value of a digit

Identifying place value of a digitWith this maths resource, children will identify the value of digits in a five-digit number. This is a slighty harder worksheet for year 4 pupils that can be used for extra practice either in the classroom or at home. What is place value?Place value is the value represented by a digit in a number. For example the place value of 8 in 23,810 is 8 hundreds or 800.  In Year 4, pupils should: Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones). 

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Addition of 1000, 100, 10, and 1

Addition of 1000, 100, 10, and 1With this maths worksheet, students will practise adding numbers with up to 4 digits. There is an example to help them get started. Children add up the numbers in each column and write the total in the box. 

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Roald Dahl characters word search

A handy Roald Dahl word search for your childrenThis fun word search includes some of the characters in Dahl's most famous stories. Word searches are a great way to reinforce vocabulary, improve spelling and concentration, and are also ideal for small moments of time as they can easily be stopped and started. Just download and print away!   Roald Dahl vocabularyHere is a list of some of the key vocabulary included in our fun word search:MATILDATHE TWITSMUGGLEWUMPWILLY WONKAMISS TRUNCHBULLGRAND HIGH WITCHCHARLIE BUCKETBRUNO JENKINSTHE BFGMR FOX

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Roald Dahl cloze activity

Where was Roald Dahl born? Who were his favourite authors? Which children's stories did he write? Children read through the facts about Roald Dahl and fill in the spaces using words from the word bank.Here are 10 fun facts about Roald Dahl:He was a famous children's author who wrote the classics Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more. He wrote many of his books in a shed in the back of his garden. He always wrote using a pencil. He was a Hurricane fighter pilot during World War II.He was a very good footballer at school.His teachers didn’t think he was very good at writing when he was at school.His favourite colour was yellow.He loved chocolate, but not chocolate ice cream or chocolate cake.Some of his favourite authors were Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens.He was about 6’6" tall. 

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Giant panda research report

This research activity is a great way to help children write their own reports and carry out their own research about different animals. It is also the perfect resource to support your teaching of Living things and their habitats to Year 4. Children find out about the giant panda's habitat, behaviour and diet, what helps it survive in its environment, and record some interesting facts that they have found.

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Octopus research report

This research activity is a great way to help children write their own reports and carry out their own research about different animals. It is also the perfect resource to support your teaching of Living things and their habitats to Year 4. Children find out where the octopus lives, its behaviour and diet, what helps it survive in its environment, and record some interesting facts that they have found.

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Rattlesnake research report

This research activity is a great way to help children write their own reports and carry out their own research about different animals. It is also the perfect resource to support your teaching of Living things and their habitats to Year 4. Children find out about the rattlesnake's habitat, behaviour and diet, what helps it survive in its environment, and record some interesting facts that they have found.

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Skunk research report

This research activity is a great way to help children write their own reports and carry out their own research about different animals. It is also the perfect resource to support your teaching of Living things and their habitats to Year 4. Children find out about the skunk's habitat, behaviour and diet, what helps it survive in its environment, and record some interesting facts that they have found.

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Hummingbird research report

This research activity is a great way to help children write their own reports and carry out their own research about different animals. It is also the perfect resource to support your teaching of Living things and their habitats to Year 4. Children find out about the hummingbird's habitat, behaviour and diet, what helps it survive in its environment, and record some interesting facts that they have found.

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Chameleon research report

This research activity is a great way to help children write their own reports and carry out their own research about different animals. It is also the perfect resource to support your teaching of Living things and their habitats to Year 4.

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Raccoon research report

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Use our year 4 printables and activities to help encourage independent thinking, learning and decision making. We have a great variety of printables that will improve vocabulary, syntax, grammar, and much more.   

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Printable worksheets are a great way to enhance creativity and improve a child’s knowledge. Help your child learn more about Year 4 with this great selection of worksheets designed to help children succeed.

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Comprehension at school

As part of learning to read, your child will learn about reading comprehension throughout their time at primary school. The focus will probably move more heavily towards comprehension and away from phonics from Year 2 onwards, as your child becomes more confident with word reading.

What your child will learn

Find out how your child will learn to read at school:

Reading comprehension: Age 3–4 (Early Years)

  • listen to stories and sometimes join in, retelling them in their own words
  • sing songs and simple rhymes.

Reading comprehension: Age 4–5 (Reception / Primary 1)

  • listen to stories and retell favourites
  • recite songs and rhymes (and come up with some of their own).

Reading comprehension: Age 5–6 (Year 1 / Primary 2)

  • listen to and talk about a range of stories and texts
  • know and understand well-known stories, fairy stories, and traditional tales
  • understand books they can read and listen to.
  • discuss the meaning of the words they read
  • begin to infer (read between the lines) the feelings of characters
  • discuss the books they have read
  • explain what happened in a story, or the main topic in non-fiction
  • make connections between the story and their own life.

Reading comprehension: Age 6–7 (Year 2 / Primary 3)

  • understand both the books they can already read themselves and those they listen to
  • talk about books and poems, taking turns and listening to what others say.
  • discuss the meaning of the words they read and make connections between new words and the words they already know
  • discuss the words and phrases they like in a story
  • talk about the way a non-fiction book is structured (headings, photographs, captions, contents page and so on)
  • check that they have read a story correctly by spotting if it doesn’t make sense
  • predict what is going to happen next based on what has happened so far
  • infer the feelings and motivations of characters
  • discuss the books they have read.

Reading comprehension: Age 7–8 (Year 3 / Primary 4)

By Year 3, most of the hard work of learning to read has been done. The main focus moves on to comprehension and building the habits that make a confident and keen reader. Your child will learn to:

  • read a wide range of books and retell some stories orally
  • read aloud and perform poems and play scripts
  • talk about interesting words and phrases
  • read between the lines and use evidence from the text when giving their opinion
  • predict what might happen next
  • use dictionaries to check the meaning of words.
  • talk about the structure of non-fiction books
  • spot themes (recurring ideas) in a book
  • ask questions about a book to help them to understand it
  • summarise the information or plot in a book
  • make inferences (read between the lines) about a character’s behaviour, motivation or feelings.

Reading comprehension: Age 8–9 (Year 4 / Primary 5)

In Year 4, your child will be growing ever more confident as an independent reader. They will develop their comprehension skills and build the habits that make an enthusiastic reader. Your child will learn to:

  • read a wide range of books and retell some stories
  • talk about books and poems, take turns, and listen to what others say

Reading comprehension: Age 9–10 (Year 5 / Primary 6)

In Year 5, your child will continue to develop their comprehension skills and build the habits that make a confident and enthusiastic reader. Your child will learn to:

  • read and talk about a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction, and reference books
  • recommend books to their friends, giving reasons for their choices
  • talk about themes in the books they read and make comparisons between them
  • learn a range of poetry by heart and read poems and playscripts aloud with expression
  • talk about how (and why) authors use language.
  • check that the book makes sense to them as they read it
  • compare different books that they have read
  • summarise the information or plot in a book and explain what they have read to another person
  • make inferences (read between the lines) about a character’s behaviour, motivation or feelings
  • ask questions about a text to help their understanding and engagement such as ‘Where is this set?’ or ‘Why did she do that?’
  • distinguish between facts and opinions
  • locate information in non-fiction books and use this information elsewhere.

Reading comprehension: Age 10–11 (Year 6 / Primary 7)

In Year 6, your child will continue to develop as a reader, becoming increasingly independent as they prepare for secondary school. Your child will learn to:

  • identify how the language, structure, and presentation of a text contributes to its meaning
  • talk about how (and why) authors use language
  • tell the difference between fact and opinion and find information from non-fiction texts
  • talk about books, building on their own ideas and other people’s
  • talk about what they have read, including through presentations and debates.
  • make inferences (read between the lines) about a character’s behaviour, motivation or feelings

There is much more to reading than seeing a word and saying it out loud. Much, much more! When we read a book, we might be doing any number of the following tasks:

  • Understanding the meaning of new or tricky vocabulary
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Improving reading comprehension

Reading comprehension – understanding the meaning of a text – is key to developing the reading skills of all students, and particularly struggling readers at secondary school. Here's a selection of our favourite lesson ideas, comprehension worksheets and classroom resources. 

Reading comprehension resources for English teachers

If there’s one thing that’s clear when looking at Teachit's most popular English resources, it’s that reading comprehension rules. And it’s not surprising. As you’ll know, if students don’t understand what they read, they’re unable to access their learning. This then affects their life chances.

One important thing we can do is to talk to parents and carers about the importance of reading comprehension for learners. Our resource  Closing the word gap KS2-3 transition support , published in collaboration with Oxford University Press, is designed to help you to engage with parents of year 6 and 7 children, with a view to tackling the word gap. Share it with parents and teacher colleagues on move-up/transition days, during primary school taster lessons and at open evenings to support children's reading and language development. 

I've also featured a selection of our key stage 3 and 4 reading comprehension worksheets  below, all submitted by experienced English teachers.

KS3 comprehension resources

Simple, but effective... This  Reading comprehension  exercise includes an extract from Oliver Twist, plus comprehension questions (with model answers). It's perfect for introducing students to 19th century language and/or for a taste of Charles Dickens. 

One of our most popular resources during lockdown and beyond,  Comprehension questions on 'The Selfish Giant'  by Oscar Wilde is suitable for students who struggle with basic reading comprehension skills. Answers to the questions are also provided.

KS4 comprehension resources

If you are keen to get students to engage with non-fiction, Understanding a 19th century text  will do exactly that. It contains an extract from  The Story of My Life from My Childhood to Manhood  by George Ebers, along with vocabulary and comprehension questions and answers. 

As a Katherine Mansfield fan, I've selected this  Unseen text with analysis questions  resource (which includes an extract from her short story 'An Ideal Family') in the hope it will engage both you and your students, while providing a good level of challenge.

A perfect night... comprehension questions  (which is also included in our teaching pack  Journeys ) contains an excerpt from Stevenson's  Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes  and related questions.

Reading comprehension strategies

Great for encouraging wider reading, this  Reading strategies checklist  can be printed and handed out to students, or stuck into books.

Text deconstruction - a help sheet  does what it says on the tin and will encourage students to make meaningful comments on a text.

If you are looking for a step-by-step approach to reading comprehension for struggling readers,  Fix it reading  is an intervention programme based on practical, evidence-based reading comprehension strategies. It's aim is to build students' confidence and crucially their enjoyment in reading, and the student workbook includes accessible and engaging non-fiction and fiction texts, graphic novels, websites, news articles and fact sheets, chosen specifically to appeal to struggling readers. 

The lessons include inference and decoding activities, prediction and summarising tasks, group reading strategies and tips on using context clues and morphology to build comprehension and help learners to understand the meaning of words. 

If you are looking for more reading comprehension worksheets, try our Comprehension  library. 

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Reading comprehension KS2 – Ultimate resource guide for Years 3-6

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Make sure your pupils have all the reading comprehension skills they need with these worksheets, lessons, activities and more…

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Unlock the potential of young minds with our ultimate reading comprehension guide, featuring the best worksheets and resources tailored for Years 3, 4, 5, and 6.

(If you teach Year 1 or Year 2, check out our round-up of the best KS1 reading comprehension resources . If you teach KS3, we’ve also got worksheet packs for Year 7 and Year 8 .)

KS2 reading comprehension resources

Year 3 and year 4 reading comprehension, year 5 and year 6 reading comprehension, reading comprehension teaching advice from experts, free beano comprehension worksheets.

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This free comic book comprehension resource is great for reluctant readers and more fluent pupils alike, helping children become familiar with narrative structures.

It includes three Beano comic strips, three reading comprehension question worksheets, comic puzzles for working on narrative sequences and a blank comic template.

Real Comprehension curriculum programme for Years 1-6

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Real Comprehension is a unique, whole-school reading comprehension programme from Plazoom, designed to develop sophisticated skills of inference and retrieval. It builds rich vocabularies and encourages the identification of themes and comparison between texts from Years 1 to 6.

Access 54 original fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts by published children’s authors – all age appropriate, thematically linked, and fully annotated for ease of teaching.

Reading comprehension worksheets

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No matter what book you’re reading in class, use these free worksheets from Oxford University Press to track what’s happening in the plot, new words you come across and characters’ emotions, attributes and relationships.

Classic texts KS2 reading comprehension packs

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These reading challenge mats from literacy resources website Plazoom provide a quick burst of comprehension practice, ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text.

Each mat contains a brief extract from a classic text. There’s a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key reading skills of inference, information retrieval and the use of language.

  • Pack 1 : The Invisible Man , A Christmas Carol , The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Pack 2 : Kidnapped , Oliver Twist, The Time Machine
  • Pack 3 : Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Dracula , The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Pack 4 : 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ,  Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe  by Daniel Defoe
  • Pack 5 : The Jungle Book , The Railway Children, Doctor Doolittle
  • Pack 6 : The Wizard of Oz , Five Children and It, The Wind in the Willows
  • Pack 7 : Treasure Island ,  Great Expectations , The War of the Worlds

National Literacy Trust resources

comprehension worksheets for year 4 uk

If you’re looking to brush up on your knowledge of reading comprehension strategies, these four free handouts from the National Literacy Trust will prove useful. They cover discussion exercises to try with KS2, different definitions of reading comprehension, a further reading guide and a breakdown of national curriculum reading comprehension objectives.

KS2 fiction and non-fiction question cards

comprehension worksheets for year 4 uk

These comprehension cards from Plazoom give example questions to develop a range of comprehension skills when reading fiction and non-fiction texts. This includes:

  • understanding vocabulary
  • retrieving information
  • sequencing events
  • making inferences based on what is said and done
  • predicting what might happen next
  • encouraging positive discussions

Use them in one-to-one reading sessions, group guided or whole class reading sessions. Click here for the  fiction cards  and here for the  non-fiction cards .

Year 3 Marie Curie reading comprehension

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This free Year 3 reading comprehension resource includes a Marie Curie fact file from Whizz Pop Bang magazine, plus two question sheets, one for lower-ability pupils and one for higher-ability pupils.

Reading comprehension non-fiction texts

comprehension worksheets for year 4 uk

These free Year 4 comprehension worksheets are all about the structure of non-fiction texts. There’s a short text for pupils to read, all about outer space, plus activities to complete.

Reading comprehension fiction worksheets

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Each of these Unlocking Inference units from literacy resources website Plazoom focus on a different story, and are designed to support you in your teaching of inference and vocabulary.

They feature extracts which have been annotated with running questions to help you check that children are creating accurate images in their minds, and to clarify their literal understanding (including of key vocabulary) – an essential step towards them making reasoned inferences as they read.

The resources focus on famous stories, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan .

Tier 2 reading comprehension worksheets and vocabulary cards

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Tier 2 words are ones which children might encounter in text but are less likely to use in everyday conversation. As these words are often unfamiliar to children, they can sometimes act as a barrier to reading.

Choose from a Year 3 pack and a Year 4 pack , both from literacy resources website Plazoom.

Tier 2 words can be used by children to add more adventurous or formal vocabulary to their writing. The download includes word cards, definition cards, worksheets and answer sheets.

Non-fiction reading comprehension worksheets pack

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These packs from literacy resources website Plazoom focus on famous figures in history , Florence Nightingale and Marco Polo.

Each one builds children’s skills of recall and inference, and enhances their vocabulary, and includes a factsheet to work through, as well as an answer sheet.

Find  Marco Polo here  and  Florence Nightingale here .

Y3/4 dictionary worksheets

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These KS2 dictionary worksheets for Year 3 and 4 from Plazoom support children in learning to use dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read; a LKS2 curriculum aim for reading comprehension.

Activities include sorting trios of words into alphabetical order, finding the definitions of words and their page numbers and using your own dictionary to check and correct the spelling of words.

KS2 SATs reading assessment practice pack

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Get your Year 6 pupils ready for the SAT reading comprehension test with this free reading comprehension pack . There are three texts in the reading booklet: a classic poem, a non-chronological report and a narrative.

Questions have been mapped against the content domains so that you can identify question types and reading curriculum areas that your pupils may need to revisit.

comprehension worksheets for year 4 uk

These resource packs from literacy resources website Plazoom features 48 Tier 2 words for Year 5 , and another 48 for Year 6 . Challenge children to add more adventurous or formal vocabulary to their writing and use the included worksheets as a reading comprehension activity.

UKS2 reading comprehension worksheets

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As above for the Year 3 and 4 versions, these Unlocking Inference units from literacy resources website Plazoom have been designed to support you in your teaching of inference and vocabulary. They’re based on a carefully scaffolded whole-class reading approach, including multiple iterations. This enables all pupils to access even relatively challenging texts.

Each one is based on an extract from a famous story, including Little Women , The Secret Garden and Treasure Island .

UKS2 ‘Jabberwocky’ poetry resources pack

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This poetry pack from literacy resources website Plazoom is based around the classic nonsense poem ‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carol. It contains lesson ideas that could be completed over a series of five sessions for Year 5 and Year 6, covering comprehension, vocabulary and composition.

How I boosted comprehension with song lyrics

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Sing your way through SATs with Matt Dix’s guide to using popular music to increase children’s literacy skills…

As a Year 6 teacher, I’ve been thinking long and hard about reading, particularly since the SATS tests have become increasingly more difficult, but also because I want to get better at teaching reading itself. Above all, I want my class to read with greater understanding, to use key reading skills and to persevere through tough texts.

Two things have particularly resonated with me during this period. The first was this blog post by teacher Aidan Severs. I was intrigued by the idea of allowing children to retrieve and record information and look for context clues before the inference itself can really take place.

And secondly, I’ve also been inspired lately to give the guided reading carousel the boot and opt instead for whole-class reading.

Whole-class reading

There’s been much research of late describing the benefits of mixed-ability teaching, as well as whole-class reading. One thing has always annoyed me when collating reading resources, though, is the dreaded reading comprehension!

Much like how an independent writing task doesn’t improve writing, neither does an independent reading comprehension task. This is why more and more practitioners are focusing on key skills in a more organised fashion.

Take Rob Smith’s memorable mnemonic, VIPERS (Vocabulary, Infer, Predict, Explain, Retrieve and Summarise), or Rhoda Wilson’s DERIC (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Interpret, Choice).

So, with all of this in mind, where exactly did it all take me?

Using lyrics in inference lessons

Well, as a teacher with a huge passion for music of all genres and ages, it occurred to me that the lyrics to many famous songs work as both narratives and poems. I carefully chose ten famous songs and broke each one into four separate reading comprehensions:

  • Retrieval and Recording
  • Context Clues
  • Independent Assessment

First, we read the words and annotate them; then listen to the song, learn and sing a chorus or two; and then crack on with the comprehension.

During an inference lesson about the Tom Waits song ‘What’s He Building?’, I had one child using a range of clues to explain how there could be a murderer in the house, while the other child used identical clues to suggest that it was an elf building toys for Santa!

If anything, the lyrics provided an enlightening respite from the mundanity of SATs papers!

All in all, it allowed children to fully engage with a complex song, analyse its contents and then practise key skills either as a whole class, with a mixed-ability partner, or answer some questions independently. They then had the opportunity to answer an assessment of mixed questions on the last day.

Rather like Maths No Problem , I’m now modelling answers, completing guided questions and then allowing them to complete some questions independently.

All of this is done at snail’s pace, over the course of one week, with one song. This allows for discussion, critical thinking and the constant revisiting of reading strategies.

During the assessment, children also have to circle the correct code which links to a certain reading skill, and then learn the following strategies for each skill, which I have on display if need be.

1 | RR (Retrieval and Recording)

  • Underlining key words
  • Knowing synonyms of words you are looking for
  • Knowing antonyms of words you are looking for
  • Copying the word/sentence/phrase accurately

2 | CC (Context Clues)

  • Replace the unknown word with a replacement which works
  • Look at the rootword for clues
  • Identify any prefixes or suffixes
  • Identify articles and other words to give to a clue about the word class

3 | INF (Inference)

  • Think what you already know about this subject
  • Use two or more clues in the text to come up with a new piece of information
  • Consider summarising paragraphs to aid general understanding
  • Consider a change of thinking

4 | S (Summary)

  • What inferences can I make?
  • What is the overall ‘feel’ of the piece?
  • Summarise a verse/paragraph in a word or short phrase
  • Be general rather than specific

By practising a new skill for 30 minutes each day, I can model answers, use suitable vocabulary for inferences (this emphasises…, this suggests…, assumes…, most likely… etc) and transfer these skills into those mixed-skill reading comprehensions which means children flick from one skill to another without the faintest idea they are doing so.

When our SATs results came in, and with a more-challenging set of cohort data than the previous year, we ended up increasing the number of children making the expected standard by 12%. It may simply be down to 30 minutes of reading every day, but the focus on these key skills can only have helped.

Plus, if you can get your class listening to Iron Maiden, Tom Waits and David Bowie in the space of a few weeks, something’s going well!

Matt Dix is a Year 6 teacher and one-third of Manic Street Teachers , a musical trio that create literacy, maths and science songs and accompanying resources.

How I used Adele’s ‘Hello’ for comprehension

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Need to improve comprehension? Then draft in Adele as your TA for the day, says Shareen Mayers…

I was recently given the challenge of improving reading comprehension skills in a school where results were particularly low. I knew I’d need to come up with something creative if I wanted the children to be excited and engaged – but when I first presented pop songs to both the Y6 classes, I’m fairly sure the pupils were confused… 

Fortunately, it didn’t take long for the idea to catch on, and reading began to dramatically improve as a result. Indeed, the children soon became keen to show off their new comprehension skills.

You can use the activities I devised for guided/group reading and/or whole-class sessions. If you’d like to try them out with your own class, here’s my quick guide to how you can use pop music to stimulate discussion and add a little fun to reading comprehension lessons…

Getting started

First things first, you need to choose a song to play to the children (a fairly clean one!). My song of choice is Paul Damixie’s remix of Adele’s ‘Hello’, because it has a fast beat and almost certainly makes the class want to dance along.

Hello, can you hear me? I’m in California dreaming About who we used to be When we were younger and free I’ve forgotten how it felt Before the world fell at our feet There’s such a difference between us And a million miles

After this, you can ask a range of questions to enable pupils to practise their comprehension skills. Bearing in mind that the bold question stems can be adapted for any other songs, these could include:

  • According to the text , where is Adele dreaming?
  • How  many miles apart are they?
  • Find and copy  one word that means you cannot remember something.
  • What  is the main message in this section?

Some pupils might even discover that Adele is not actually in California. Despite what a first listen to the lyrics might suggest, the song is not even intended to be about an ex-boyfriend. Adele is actually talking about reconnecting with herself, as she explains in the tweet below:

pic.twitter.com/dDImEhKt10 — Adele (@Adele) October 21, 2015

Deepening oral responses

To really develop pupils’ reading comprehension skills, I like to scaffold their responses so that they’re able to give extended answers to key questions. A simple way of doing this is to use a three-step approach:

  • ‘I think that…’ (views)
  • ‘Because…’ (evidence from the text)
  • ‘This shows/demonstrates…’ (explanation)

Hello, it’s me I was wondering if after All these years you’d like to meet To go over everything They say time’s supposed to heal ya But I ain’t done much healing

(At this point the grammar police will be unhappy about the non-Standard English, but this is a good teaching point as it adds to the effect of the song).

I have encouraged pupils to write their answers in standard English, which is a great way of embedding grammar skills.

Key question: Explain why Adele is unhappy using evidence from the text

  • I think that  she is unhappy
  • Because  she says she has not done much healing
  • This shows  that she hasn’t got over whatever upset her

Modelling how to answer these questions is very powerful, because it will ensure pupils are using the text to answer questions, and encourage them to explain and justify their answers.

It is important to note that pupils should not repeat their point in their answers. For example:

  • This shows  she is unhappy

Encouarge pupils to explain point one, use evidence from the text to justify this and explain what this means.

Apply to a reading comprehension text

Once pupils have practised this orally and are confident with applying this technique to a range of pop songs, film clips or pictures, these skills can be applied to a reading comprehension text. Teachers will therefore be developing pupils’ comprehension skills first, before carrying out written comprehension questions.

Shareen Mayers is an experienced primary school teacher.

The best questions to ask to support children’s reading comprehension

Teacher asking reading comprehension questions

Ascertaining children’s understanding of a text shouldn’t feel like pulling teeth, nor should it require it. Just get creative with effective questioning, say Nikki Gamble and Camilla Garafolo…

It’s hard to imagine a reading lesson where you wouldn’t ask questions to find out what children understand about a text. But since the 1970s, research has shown that asking too many questions without giving the reader time to formulate their own questions or process their thinking can inhibit, rather than support, comprehension.

There are, however, steps you can take to make sure your  questioning  is effective. You can help children formulate their own questions and give them opportunities to pursue the answers.

You can use your questions to respond to pupils’ ideas – to structure and scaffold their thinking so that they come to a deeper understanding of the text. And you can ask appropriate questions before, during and after reading, which develops comprehension more effectively than only asking questions afterwards.

In Richmond, teachers have been taking part in the Developing Excellence in Reading project and reviewing how questions and alternative prompts are used in their classrooms.

What follows are three of the strategies that have proved particularly effective when it comes to improving reading comprehension.

1 | Use question organisers

These help children analyse their own questions. For example, the question quadrant below illustrates how a group of Year 5 children organised their thoughts after reading David Wiesner’s wordless picture book,  Flotsam .

Following a first read-through, they wrote questions about the things that interested or puzzled them and then mapped them onto the grid. (For younger classes, the quadrant may be too complicated. If so, simply use a ‘question organiser’ with two columns – ‘Questions that have one answer’ and ‘Questions that have more than one answer’.)

Initially, the teacher modelled the process, helping the children decide where their questions should be placed and then they completed the task independently in groups.

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Working document

When they had finished, the teacher reflected with them. How easy was it to place the questions? Were some more difficult than others? Why?

When the children returned to the text for a second reading, there were ‘pennydrop’ moments as they found answers to their own questions.

At the end of the session, the teacher asked the group to cross through any questions they had been able to answer.

She also asked them whether any new questions had emerged. She wrote these on the grid using a different colour to distinguish them from the first set.

The quadrant had become a useful working document charting the progress of the pupils’ thinking.

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Simpler version

One year 4 teacher thought the Question Quadrant was too complex for her class and came up with a solution to simplify the process. She decided to use one large question organiser for the whole class, which she divided into two columns.

The pupils wrote questions on post-it notes and placed these on the organiser. As they read further, they returned to it and removed the questions that they had answered. As the class read further, they added new questions as they arose.

Once your class has filled out a question quadrant or organiser, reflect on which questions will be easiest to answer. See if any question has potential for framing a subsequent guided reading session, or could be pursued as a homework task.

2 | Have a Quescussion

Encourage pupils to question as they read by having a discussion entirely conducted through questions. This technique is called a ‘Quescussion’. Paul Bidwell at the University of Saskatchewan developed this idea.

Quescussions are usually short, around two to five minutes, and involve the class calling out questions, and only questions. It allows many students to make brief contributions without interventions from the teacher.

You just set out the subject (or in this case, text) to explore, and let them raise any questions that will help them to analyse and gain a deeper understanding of the topic. There are only a few simple rules, so pupils quickly get the idea:

  • The discussion can only contain questions (they can be asked without the need to raise hands)
  • A pupil who asks a question must wait until at least four other questions have been asked before asking another
  • The teacher may stop the Quescussion to help the pupils think about the type of questions they are asking. They may be encouraged to ask more open-ended questions eg Why? How?
  • If a statement is made instead of a question the whole class will shout STATEMENT! (Rhetorical questions that are thinly-veiled statements should also be policed by the class.)

One of the benefits is that pupils who may be reluctant to talk feel more comfortable to volunteer a question as they are not in the spotlight.

Quescussions encourage more experimental and creative thinking because they are tentative. The teacher takes on the role of scribe to record the questions. These can then be grouped and organised and presented back to the class for future discussion.

Here’s an example taken from a Year 6 Quescussion about a passage from  The Secret Garden . The Quescussion provided an opportunity for the class to ask many questions that are central to understanding the behaviour of character Mary Lennox.

Mary had liked to look at her mother from a distance and she had thought her very pretty, but as she knew very little of her she could scarcely have been expected to love her or to miss her very much when she was gone.

She did not miss her at all, in fact, and as she was a self-absorbed child she gave her entire thought to herself as she had always done. If she had been older she would no doubt have been very anxious at being left alone in the world, but she was very young, and as she had always been taken care of, she supposed she always would be.

What she thought was that she would like to know if she was going to nice people, who would be polite to her and give her her own way as her Ayah and the other native servants had done?’

Quescussion

  • ‘Who is Mary?’
  • ‘Where has her mother gone?’
  • ‘Has her mother died?’
  • ‘Where is her father?’
  • ‘How old is Mary?’
  • ‘It says she was very young…’ ‘STATEMENT!’
  • ‘How young is very young?’
  • ‘Why doesn’t she miss her mother?’
  • ‘Why is she all alone in the world?’
  • ‘Doesn’t she have and brothers or sisters?’
  • ‘Does she have any friends?’
  • ‘Why is she self-absorbed?’
  • ‘What does self-absorbed mean?’
  • ‘Why does she only see her mother from a distance?’
  • ‘Why is she going away?’
  • ‘Where does Mary live?’
  • ‘What is an Ayah?’
  • ‘Where is this story set?’
  • ‘I think it’s set in India’ ‘STATEMENT’
  • ‘Is it set in India?’

Have a go by selecting a short text, poem, passage or photograph and organise a Quescussion. Record the questions, then group them into themes, display them, and return to them later – after you have read further.

3 | Make a statement

Asking direct questions isn’t the only way to encourage pupil questioning. Making a statement, especially a declarative one, can often reinvigorate a discussion. Initially, you may need to explain to pupils that statements are an invitation for discussion and are not irrefutable.

When you pose a statement, questions will naturally arise in the discussion that follows. Unlike with questions, where you look for the ‘right’ answer, with declaratives pupils start to question what the statement means, and try to find evidence to either prove or disprove it.

This is especially the case when you present strong statements, which allow for differing points of view and contention. Here are some examples:

  • Memorial  by Gary Crewe and Shaun Tan: ‘People’s memories are more important than memorials.’
  • The Nightingale and the Rose  by Oscar Wilde: ‘Oscar Wilde thinks education is more important than love.’
  • Maggie Dooley  by Charles Causley: ‘Maggie Dooley is lonely and unloved.’
  • The Tunnel  by Anthony Browne: ‘The boy is braver than the girl.’

Give groups a number of statements on strips of paper and ask the pupils to determine whether they agree or disagree with the statements, or whether they are undecided. When they have considered all possibilities, they should position the statements on a grid and provide evidence from the text to support their choice.

The table below is an example using statements about Anthony Browne’s Gorilla:

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Sense of agency

At Barnes Primary School, using a range of strategies has noticeably developed the pupils’ sense of agency in their own learning. Discussions are more animated and purposeful.

One Year 4 child summed up the class’ thinking nicely: “Last year when we read a book, we would read it and then answer some questions set by the teacher. However, now that we get to ask our own questions, I think more about what the book has said and its meaning.”

Or, to use the words of another child, “I think it has helped me with my understanding, because now I stop when I finish a section of my reading, and check that I understand by asking myself questions.”

Nikki Gamble runs Just Imagine Story Centre. For further information about Developing Excellence in Teaching and Reading 7-14, contact  nikki@justimaginestorycentre .

Teaching children who have excellent decoding skills but weak reading comprehension

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If our weaker comprehenders neglect key strategies in the moment of reading, they won’t build basic meaning, says Tony Whatmuff…

Class 5W’s joke book is finally finished. It’s the first read-through and everyone has a copy. I scrutinise my four weaker comprehenders as they read the first joke: The worst job I ever had was drilling holes looking for water. It was well boring.

Not a facial muscle twitches. Nearby, however, hilarity erupts, then spreads throughout the class. My four weaker comprehenders look around bewildered.

I know these four children have a good sense of humour, and all of them can read any word I give them (triceratops, dodecahedron, etc), so what is happening? I’ll tell you. They’re reading in a totally different way to my splitting-their-sides children.

Breaking down the issue

In the moment of reading, these four are either neglecting key strategies or experiencing vocabulary and language difficulties. Here’s my best guess at what’s going on with each child…

Jacob : Jacob has OK vocabulary but fails to spot the important words and integrate them together to build meaning (worst job, looking for water, drilling holes, well, boring). He probably hasn’t made the connection between the first and second sentence either.

Unsurprisingly, as Jacob generally struggles to read with understanding, he reads little and may lack knowledge about the genre of joke reading.

Mala : Mala is still developing vocabulary and oral language as she’s only been in the UK three years. She probably fails to understand the dual meanings of key words, such as ‘well’ and ‘boring’.

Abe : Abe was born in the UK but comes from a language-deprived home and has similar vocabulary and oral language issues to Mala.

Mckenzie : Mckenzie has good oral language but is a passive reader who focuses on decoding and fluency rather than accessing his background knowledge about ‘drilling holes’, ‘well’ and ‘boring’, because he doesn’t know it’s important. The knowledge is there, but he’s not accessing it. This means he’s not activating inferences either.

In the moment of reading

These four children illustrate the multiple risk factors associated with weak reading comprehension, despite having excellent decoding skills.

For effective reading comprehension, children need the following:

  • Automatic decoding, fluency and reading miles
  • Good vocabulary and oral language
  • Active strategies in the moment of reading
  • Effective after-text strategies to answer questions

A problem in any one of these areas will result in a problem with reading comprehension. But it’s this ‘in the moment of reading’ idea I want to focus on.

Us adults in school are skilled readers, but the price we pay for our expertise is that the strategies we use have become hidden from us because we activate them so automatically.

For example, have you ever read late at night in bed when you’re feeling really tired, then realised when you reach the end of the page that you’ve taken a word in? In this scenario, you’ve been decoding the words but no key strategies  in the moment of reading  have been activated.

Effective reader strategies

So, what  are  the strategies effective readers use in the moment of reading? Effective readers:

  • Use their background knowledge and make links with the text
  • Predict or ask questions and then read on to ‘find out’
  • Visualise and use inference
  • Notice meaning breakdown and use repair strategies to understand
  • Notice very important words, phrases and ideas and put these together to build basic meaning

Do we teach these strategies explicitly? Probably not. We’re all pretty good at asking children questions after reading a text to explore deeper meaning, but if our weaker comprehenders neglect key strategies in the moment of reading, they won’t build basic meaning as they read.

Asking them questions after a text is like trying to build a block of flats on top of a swamp.

Fortunately, it’s possible to model these ‘in the moment’ strategies to a whole class or group, using teacher ‘think aloud’ bubbles on top of text. Use your whiteboard to do this.

Modelling in this way is called ‘read aloud, think aloud’ and makes the elusive process of comprehension more concrete. Children can then practise these strategies on the same or a follow-on text, then share and discuss so that more meaning and enjoyment is gained from a text.

Tony Whatmuff is a trainer and author with 25 years of teaching experience. He is also a consultant on Oxford Reading Buddy, a digital reading service that develops comprehension by coaching and modelling key strategies. Find out more at  global.oup.com .

How to explicitly teach reading strategies

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Boost pupils’ post-pandemic skills by considering how you explicitly teach the strategies that children need to be successful …

Reading is the key to learning. However, if you’re a struggling reader, loving it can be a real challenge. Right now this is even more important, given that according to the DfE, pupils are on average two months behind in their reading learning as a result of the pandemic. For individual children, learning loss may be even greater, so how can we reverse this trend and ensure every child becomes a good reader?

The first step in improving children’s reading comprehension is to identify the exact level at which they’re reading. A diagnostic assessment and gap analysis will give you the information you need.

Try to get a snapshot of each child’s reading attainment, including decoding, fluency and comprehension, by using key reading skills.

Once your assessments are complete, look for patterns in your gap analysis and plan to address these through teaching and intervention.

Comprehension strategy – book choices

When teaching reading, choice of text is very important. Think about the complexity of decoding, vocabulary and content, and of course, engagement. Try not to just use familiar books, but instead focus on widening children’s reading repertoire by exposing them to different texts.

This is where your knowledge of children’s literature comes in. You could even explore paired texts, such as Beetle Boy and The Beetle Collector’s Handbook by MG Leonard so that children can make connections in their reading.

Cultural capital comprehension exercise

Pupils who struggle to read sometimes need to build their background knowledge and vocabulary. A child with good cultural capital will often have more of the prerequisite knowledge and skill needed to understand what they are reading than a disadvantaged child.

Try exploring key concepts and vocabulary before reading. For example, with Beetle Boy, you might discuss mystery stories, beetles, insects and museums first. Then you could teach children key vocabulary such as ‘specimen’ and ‘archaeologist’, giving them strategies to unpick unknown vocabulary.

With ‘archaeologist’, for instance, you could explain that ‘-ist’ means ‘somebody who does or makes’ and gather as many examples as you can which share this pattern, discussing their shared meaning.

Critical thinking and cognitive processes

Every good reader has a range of skills and strategies they use to make meaning. By explicitly teaching these, we can support all children to become resilient readers and give them the knowledge needed to comprehend any text they choose to read. But which skills and strategies need to be taught?

The most important skills of a reader are to retrieve information, define vocabulary in context and make inferences. A good reader will also sequence events, summarise content and predict what comes next. They will consider the effect of language, make comparisons and explore relationships.

These aspects of reading need to be taught progressively and regularly. Skills need to be explicitly taught and modelled, including the metacognitive processes we use when reading. For example, when teaching inference, you could introduce the idea of “‘What I read’ + ‘What I know’ + ‘What I think’ = my inference”.

By breaking down the cognitive processes behind reading, you can show children what a good reader does and give them the strategies they need to create meaning, before they practise and apply them using a range of texts, questions and activities.

Teaching reading skills and strategies is a complex process and can be daunting. Reflecting on your subject knowledge is really important and getting to grips with research such as the EEF Literacy Guidance Reports is a great start.

Reading journey

We know that reading for pleasure has a profound effect on children’s ability to understand what they read. We need to encourage a love of reading whenever we can. Children need daily time to read books they want to read. We need to immerse them in reading opportunities and show them reading role models.

By encouraging children to read for pleasure, we help them read more, and the more they read, the better readers they become. For all children to achieve their full potential, schools must consider their whole-school reading curriculum and whether it teaches the skills needed to decode, understand, and enjoy books.

Supporting a child on their reading journey is about so much more than just academic success. The benefits of reading go far beyond this. When we support every child to be a good reader, the benefits will stretch throughout their lives.

Jo Gray and Laura Lodge are authors of Schofield & Sims’  Complete Comprehension  and education consultants for One Education. Follow Jo on Twitter at  @jo_c_gray  and Laura at  @lauralodge208 .

Turn your students into comprehension ninjas

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Use Vocabulary Ninja Andrew Jennings’ ideas to help primary pupils effectively skim, scan and retrieve information…

1 | Effective pre-reading

Prompt children to read with their pencil, meaning that their pencil moves across the page underneath each line as they read it. The benefit of training pupils to do this is that when it comes to underlining a key piece of information, their pencil is already in the correct location – it’s efficient.

2 | Underline key information

If you want pupils to underline key information as they read, they need to know what this means.

Consider the following categories:

  • Names of people, places, companies, events, locations, etc
  • Dates including days, months, years, times; statistics and numbers including percentages, fractions, amounts, figures, etc
  • Words that pupils don’t understand (identifying them may still help pupils answer a question)
  • Headings, sub-headings, images and punctuation

These areas can all help direct readers to the correct area of the text when answering a question.

3 | Spot key question words

Teach pupils to spot the key word or phrase in a question. This is a word or phrase that will signpost the pupil where to look in the text to find the answer.

In the following question, the key phrase is ‘Morse code’: ‘How did soldiers effectively use Morse code during the second world war?’.

If pupils have pre-read the text effectively, ‘Morse code’ should be underlined, or they may even remember where it is mentioned.

4 | Skim the text

Skimming a text is like looking at the chapters of a DVD and deciding which section or chapter of the film to start at. We won’t necessarily find the answer, but we hope to locate the correct area of the text and, ideally, the correct paragraph or section.

Ask pupils to first remember whether the information was at the beginning, middle or end. Is there an image or subheading that can signpost pupils to the correct area of the text?

5 | Scan for detail

Scanning is when pupils look at the specific section they’ve identified while skimming with a greater level of scrutiny, possibly looking for a key word or phrase.

Going back to the DVD analogy, this is like watching that specific section or chapter of the film to locate the information we require. Ideally this would be a specific sentence, phrase or word.

6 | Real-world examples

Introduce skimming and scanning by using images, timetables, TV schedules, poems, lists and visual instructions. Search online for ‘hidden word pictures’ and ask pupils to locate specific items, objects or information within them. Add a time limit to increase the fun factor.

7 | In, before and after

Once pupils have found a key word or phrase in a text, train them to read the sentence before, the one containing the key word and the sentence after. Doing this will give pupils a much greater chance of answering comprehension questions successfully.

8 | Simplify sequencing

Teach pupils to allocate a symbol (square, triangle, rectangle, star, cross, for example) to five different statements. Pupils should then find these statements in the text and draw on the corresponding symbol.

Once they’ve done this, it is extremely easy to look at the text and see which symbol comes first, second, third and so on. This is a very effective strategy to help pupils effectively sequence information.

Andrew Jennings is an assistant headteacher. He launched  Vocabulary Ninja  ( @vocabularyninja ) in 2017. Comprehension Ninja handbooks are available for Y1-6 (£24.99 each, Bloomsbury).

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Maths extensions

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Tuesday - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/read-example-text-reading-comprehension-acfa9d

Wednesday - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/read-the-example-and-identify-key-features-9df8ac

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School Closure 15.6.20 - 19.6.20

Here are the activities from Oak National Academy for this week 

Lesson 1 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/measures-choosing-appropriate-measures/

Lesson 2 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/measures-converting-between-mm-and-cm/

Lesson 3 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/measures-converting-between-cm-and-m/

Lesson 4 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/measures-capacity-and-mass/

Lesson 5 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/measures-solving-measures-problems/

Maths Extensions

  • conversion booklet.docx
  • Conversions.docx
  • Scafell Pike problem.docx

Lesson 1 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/news-report-reading-comprehension-fact-retrieval/

Lesson 2 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/news-report-reading-comprehension-inference/

Lesson 3 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/news-report-identifying-the-features-of-a-text/ 

Lesson 4 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/news-report-spag-focus-inverted-commas/ 

Lesson 5 - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/news-report-write-a-news-report/ 

  • Jin Dragonborne Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Contraption Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Inept Magician Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Stone People Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • To whoever finds this stage 5 comp - VIPERS comprehension.pdf

Virtual Sports Day

  • KS2 Sports Day 2020.pptx

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/henry-viii-lesson-2/

Science 

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-reflection-and-how-can-we-use-it/

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/drawing-skills-how-can-we-use-texture-to-make-our-drawings-more-interest-e3b973/

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/do-you-want-to-be-a-hero-28de97/

School Closure 8.6.20 - 12.6.20

Here is the home learning for this week. 

This week's lessons are online and have videos to go with them that are led by an actual teacher. 

Monday - https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/non-chronological-report-reading-comprehension-word-meaning-year-4-wk5-1

Tuesday - https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/non-chronological-report-reading-comprehension-structure-year-4-wk5-2

Wednesday - https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/non-chronological-report-identifying-the-features-of-a-text-year-4-wk5-3

Thursday - https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/non-chronological-report-spag-focus-year-4-wk5-4

Friday - https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/non-chronological-report-write-a-non-chronological-report-year-4-wk5-5

Comprehensions

  • Counting Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Dear Humans Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Dystopia Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Formal Letter Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Little Things Stage 5 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-04/pshe-year-04#subjects

History 

https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/foundation/henry-viii-lesson-1-year-4-wk1-1

https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/foundation/what-is-light-and-where-does-it-come-from-year-4-wk1-3

https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/foundation/how-did-the-religion-of-islam-begin-year-4-wk5-1

https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/foundation/texture-treasure-hunt-year-4-wk4-5

  • timetable-week beginning 1st June.docx
  • Features of persuasion.doc
  • Monday comprehension.doc
  • Tuesday rhetorical questions.docx
  • Wednesday standard english.docx
  • Thursday paragraphs.docx
  • Friday writing.docx
  • Monday .pdf
  • Thursday .pdf
  • Friday.docx

Reading comprehension

  • Three Peaks Challenge Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Sherpas Stage 4 comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Mount Everest Stage 4 comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Making A Mountain Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Female Mountaineers Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf

Science  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6m4kmn

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvsfr82/articles/znm7vk7

School Closure 18.5.20 - 22.5.20 

Here are activities for you to complete this week, if you have your work pack at home and would prefer to do that, that is absolutely fine. You don't need to do everything! 

There will be no home learning set next week as it is half term, but if you need anything at all please email me. I hope you all have a lovely break. 

  • timetable-week beginning 18th May.docx
  • Monday reading.docx
  • Tuesday subordination.docx
  • Wednesday fronted adverbials.docx
  • Thursday improve description.docx
  • Friday setting description.docx
  • How to write Sci Fi.pdf
  • Science Fiction Word Mat.pdf
  • Tuesday .pdf
  • Wednesday .pdf
  • Friday questions and answers.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Full-Test-1.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Full-Test-2.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Full-Test-3.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Full-Test-4.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Full-Test-5.pdf
  • Hansel and Gretel Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Humpty Dumpty Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Beanstalk Giant Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Three Bears Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Three Little Pigs Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf

Report sheet

  • A reflection of my Year (1).docx

Picture News

  • Picture News at Home - 18th May.pdf
  • Picture News Paper - 18th May.pdf
  • Picture News Poster 18th May.jpg
  • Picture News Prompt 2 - 18th May.docx

Can you use the following link and any other websites you can find to find out about the Victorians https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcjxhyc/resources/1. Then can you create a poster/powerpoint/booklet to show what you have discovered.

Can you use this link to find out about vertebrates and invertebrates 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zr4kd6f

  • Pablo Picasso.pptx

School Closure 11.5.20 - 15.5.20

  • Monday comprehension.docx
  • Tuesday possessive apostrophes.docx
  • Wednesday inverted commas.docx
  • Thursday inverted commas.docx
  • Friday - short story.docx
  • Friday Adventure Story Word Mat.pdf
  • Friday word mat castles.pdf
  • Friday word mat scary characters.pdf

You will need to access this website  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ for the answers and videos that show how to solve the answers - Friday's worksheet isn't from White Rose and so the answers will not be there. They are under Summer week 4.

  • Monday multiplication and division.pdf
  • Tuesday Perimeter of a rectangle .pdf
  • Wednesday perimeter of rectinilear shapes.pdf
  • Thursday Perimeter.pdf
  • Friday perimeter correct or not correct.docx
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-6b.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-6a.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-5a.pdf
  • Ancient Greece Stage 4 Comp - Ancient Greece Comprehension pack.pdf
  • Democracy Stage 4 Comp - Democracy Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Famous Greeks Stage 4 Comp - Famous Greeks Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Greek Gods Stage 4 Comp - Greek Gods Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Trojan War Stage 4 Comp - The Troy Plot.pdf
  • Learning from Home Ideas - 11th May.docx
  • Picture News Prompt 1.docx
  • Picture News Prompt 2.docx
  • Space Art.docx
  • Star Maths.docx

Use this website to learn about light and dark this week. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zr8thbk

Use this website to find out how to read and create maps https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkngrj6

School Closure 4.5.20 - 7.5.20 

Here are activities for you to complete this week, if you have your work pack at home and would prefer to do that, that is absolutely fine. You don't need to do everything! There is only work for Monday-Thursday due to Friday being a bank holiday for VE day. 

  • Djembe & Si Nje Nje Nje#3.pdf
  • Buffalo Soldier & Reggae#2.pdf
  • Body Percussion.pdf
  • Samba#6.pdf
  • Sakura#5.pdf
  • Percussion in orchestra & Mountain King#4.pdf
  • Tuesday fronted adverbials.docx
  • Wednesday connectives.docx
  • Thursday - write a description.docx

You will need to access this website  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ for the answers and videos that show how to solve the answers. They are under Summer week 3.

  • Monday 2 digit by 1 digit.pdf
  • Tuesday 3 digit by 1 digit.pdf
  • Wednesday divide 2 digits by 1 digit.pdf
  • Thursday divide 3 digits by 1 digit.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-2b.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-3a.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-4a.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-5b.pdf

Reading Comprehensions

  • Digestion Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Journey to the Centre of Your Body Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Skeleton Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Your Brain and You Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf

VE Day 

Friday is VE day, please find a variety of activities to complete throughout the week. You don't need to do them all! Share what you have done on the school blog :) 

We would love it if you could join the nation singing Dame Vera Lynn's 'We'll Meet Again.' If you video it and send it to the Y4 email address, we are going to put the whole school's together as we can't be together right now. 

  • KS2 Whole School VE Day.docx

School Closure 27.4.20 - 1.5.20

  • timetable-week beginning 27th april.docx
  • Monday - reading comprehension.docx
  • Tuesday - expanded noun phrases.docx
  • Wednesday - similes and metaphors.docx
  • Thursday - improve a description.docx
  • Friday - write a description.docx

You will need to access this website  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ for the answers and videos that show how to solve the answers. They are under Summer week 1.

  • Monday Lesson 1 Make a whole .pdf
  • Tuesday Lesson 2 Write Decimals.pdf
  • Wednesday Lesson 3 compare decimals .pdf
  • Thursday Lesson 4 Order Decimals .pdf
  • Friday Lesson 5 Family Challenges.pdf

Arithmetic papers

  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-1a.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-1b.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-2a.pdf
  • Y4-Arithmetic-Half-Test-3b.pdf
  • Who were the Romans Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • What did the Romans do for us Stage 4 comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Romans Infographic Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Julius Caesar Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Gladiator Narrative Stage 4 Comp - Comprehension Pack.pdf

PSHE/Picture News

  • Picture News 27th April.docx

Vikings project

  • Vikings home projects.pptx

School Closure 20.4.20 - 25.4.20

  • Year 4 Day 1_RM.pdf
  • Year 4 Day 2_RM.pdf
  • Year 4 Day 3_RM.pdf
  • Year 4 Day 4_RM.pdf
  • Year 4 Day 5_RM.pdf
  • Powerpoint - Adverbials 1.pptx
  • Powerpoint - Noun Phrases 1.pptx
  • Powerpoint - Noun Phrases 2.pptx

You will need to access this website  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ for the answers and videos that show how to solve the answers. They are under week 2. 

  • Dividing by 10 lesson 1 .pdf
  • Hundredths lesson 2.pdf
  • Hudredths as decimals lesson 3.pdf
  • Hudredths lesson 4.pdf
  • hundredths lesson 5 .pdf

Earth Day 

On Wednesday it is Earth Day, please find a variety of activities linked to lots of different subjects attached below. 

  • Endangered or Extinct Animals.pdf
  • Endangered Animals Top Card Game.pdf
  • Endangered Animals Map.pdf
  • Design a Poster Template.pdf
  • Alive or Extinct Sorting Cards.pdf
  • KS2 Earth Day Art Project PowerPoint.ppt
  • Hockney Painting Practise.pdf
  • Flood and Drought Comp - Flood and Drought Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Lightning Comp - Lightning Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • The Wave Comp - The Wave Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Tornadoes Comp - Tornadoes Comprehension Pack.pdf
  • Tremors Comp - Tremor Comprehension Pack.pdf

St. George's Day

  • St George's Day Maths and Colouring.pdf
  • Saint Georges Quest for the Beast.pdf
  • Saint Georges Quest for the Beast - Answers.pdf

School Closure 30.03.20 - 3.4.20

  • Year 4 Day 6.pdf
  • Year 4 Day 7.pdf
  • Year 4 Day 8.pdf
  • Year 4 Day 9.pdf
  • Year 4 Day 10.pdf
  • Tenths and hundredths lesson 1 .pdf
  • Tenths and hundredths lesson 2.pdf
  • Tenths and hundredths lesson 3.pdf
  • Tenths and hundredths lesson 4.pdf
  • Tenths and hundredths lesson 5.pdf
  • Science Ice Cube Experiment.docx
  • Learning from Home Ideas - 30th March.docx
  • Picture News Poster 30th March.jpg

Reading Comprehension

  • How To Bury Your Treasure Stage 2 Comp - Comprehension Pack (1).pdf
  • Ghost Ship Stage 2 Comp - Comprehension Pack (1).pdf
  • Pirates Fact and Fiction - Comprehension Pack (1).pdf
  • Captain Blackbeard Stage 2 Comp - Comprehension Pack (1).pdf

School Closure 23.3.2020 - 27.3.2020

The activities set below are to complete over the next week (23.03.2020 – 27.03.2020)

There are daily English and Maths activities that have been labelled in the order they should be completed.

Maths - please watch the video (link on the first worksheet) this will guide the children to solve the questions and shows the method they need to use.

  • Lesson 1 column multiplication.docx
  • Lesson 2 column multiplication.docx
  • Lesson 3 column multiplication.docx
  • Lesson 4 column multiplication.docx
  • Lesson 5 column multiplication.pdf
  • English Day 1.pdf
  • English Day 2.pdf
  • English Day 3.pdf
  • English Day 4.pdf
  • English Day 5.pdf
  • An Extract from Howard Carters Diary.pdf
  • The Rosetta Stone.pdf
  • Friendly Felines.pdf
  • Get Ready With Cleopatra.pdf
  • Read Theory Information.docx

Please read the following powerpoint on the Water Cycle, children can then draw and label their own diagram of the water cycle

  • Science The Water Cycle.ppt

The following resources do not all need to be completed and don't all need to be done at once. 

  • Learning from Home Ideas - 23rd March.docx
  • Virgin Galactic Writing Plan.docx
  • Planet Fact File.docx
  • Picture News Poster 23rd March.jpg

School Closure 20.03.2020

Please find below activities for Friday 20th March. The Body Coach will be doing daily PE lessons on his YouTube channel from Monday at 9am. 

  • The Elves and The Shoemaker - Comprehension.pdf
  • Adults Guide to Apostrophes.rtf
  • Showing Possession.rtf
  • Y4_Arithmetic_Test_2.pdf

School Closure 19.3.2020

Please find activities for the 19th March below. 

For History over the next few days the children can research the Anglo Saxons (clothing, housing, jobs etc.) a create a presentation (in anyway they wish - powerpoint, poster etc.) to present once we return to school. 

  • t-e-2549329-ha-england-rugby-lks2-six-nations-reading-comprehension_ver_2.pdf
  • Y4 Home Learning Booklet.pdf
  • Writing Expanded Noun Phrases Activity Sheet.pdf
  • Missing Numbers_add or subtract fractions_Year 4.docx

Here is the timetable for your children to follow over the next two days that school is closed. 

A daily Maths task will be sent out via School Ping 

Challenges on Times Table Rockstars 

Snack Time 

A writing activity will be sent out via School Ping 

Physical Time which can be a Maths or English activity on BBC

Supermovers  ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q ) 

Mindfulness sessions (Cosmic Kids Yoga on youtube) 

Reading task (which will be a comprehension sent via School Ping) 

Lunch 

Task linked to History/Geography or Science (which will be sent via School Ping) 

Share stories with your child.

I will keep in contact with you via School Ping 

Year 4 Passport

  • My Activity Passport.doc

Where the Wild Things Are 14.11.19

Year 4 arrived at school this morning to find their classroom had been taken over by the Wild Things from the book from 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak. They followed footprints, leaves, pine cones and secret messages to uncover who had caused so much mess in the classroom. They are now hunting for the creatures around Atherton and will be creating Wanted Posters to warn the public. 

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Museum of Science and Industry - 17.10.19

Year 4 had an amazing day at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. We spent the morning carrying out experiments relating to sound, the human body and forces. In the afternoon, we took part in a workshop called Circuit City which was all about the first scientist to bring electricity to Manchester. The children were so well behaved and a pleasure to take out

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Electricity 

Year 4 have been studying electricity in science. Today we went out to look at how electrons move differently in materials that are conductors and materials that are insulators. The green and blue children were the protons and neutrons that attract together. The red children were the electrons that are attracted to protons and neutrons in insulators and can't get away. In conductors some of these electrons can escape meaning electricity can pass through them. We then investigated different materials in our classroom to find out whether they were insulators or conductors. 

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Wider Opportunities 

The children have made a great start to their music lessons this term. They will be learning the xylophone until Christmas. Watch out for our Christmas performance date! 

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Times Table Rockstar Day 

Year 4 rocked it for our TT Rockstars launch. We had some super outfits and hairstyles! The children will compete in battles against other classes and will make it onto the class leaderboard for super progress and effort each week. 

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Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.

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