Year 4 english lesson plans (national curriculum)

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-001

listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-002

ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-003

use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-004

articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-005

give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-006

maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-007

use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-008

speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-009

participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-010

gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-011

consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-012

select and use appropriate registers for effective communication

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-001

apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in - see English appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-002

read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these occur in the word

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-003

develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by:

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-004

understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by:

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-005

retrieve and record information from non-fiction

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-006

participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-007

use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them - see English appendix 1

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-008

spell further homophones

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-009

spell words that are often misspelt - see English appendix 1

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-010

place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals [for example, girls’, boys’] and in words with irregular plurals [for example, children’s]

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-011

use the first 2 or 3 letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-012

write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include words and punctuation taught so far

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-013

use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-014

increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting, [for example, by ensuring that the downstrokes of letters are parallel and equidistant, and that lines of writing are spaced sufficiently so that the ascenders and descenders of letters do not touch]

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-015

plan their writing by:

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-016

draft and write by:

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-017

evaluate and edit by:

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-018

proofread for spelling and punctuation errors

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-019

read their own writing aloud to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-020

develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by:

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-021

indicate grammatical and other features by:

Taught across Years 3 and 4

ENG-NC-EN-Y34-022

use and understand the grammatical terminology in English appendix 2 accurately and appropriately when discussing their writing and reading

Taught across Years 3 and 4