Year 4

In Year 4, students will be engaged in the following Reading activities to support their reading fluency and comprehension skills:

In Year 4, students will focus on the following Writing activities to develop their love for writing:

Recounts
Narratives – realistic and fantasy, sizzling starts, sensational endings, plot and character development and tightening tension
Expositions – arguing for and against a particular topic
Information reports
Poetry
Procedures
Transactional texts – e.g. letters and emails
Grammar – e.g. pronouns, nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, connectives and tenses
Vocabulary
Punctuation – capital letters, full stops, question marks, commas, exclamation marks, quotation marks, ellipses, question marks, dashes and brackets
Handwriting - clearly formed joined letters with developing fluency and automaticity
Students will also practise their speaking and presenting skills by participating in a variety of oral presentations throughout the year.

In Year 4, students will concentrate on the following Mathematics topics to develop their numeracy and fluency skills:

In Year 4, students will also participate in the following programs: