18 free english resources for Year 4, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
English develops reading, writing, spelling and grammar together. Strong readers write better, and students who understand sentence structure read with more understanding. Our English resources separate those strands so you can target the one that needs work, while reading passages, writing prompts and grammar activities all reinforce one another.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students learn that a contraction squeezes two words into one, with an apostrophe marking where letters have been left out. They form…
Students learn that adverbs add detail to verbs by telling how, when or where something happens, and that not all adverbs end in -ly. They…
Students learn that a compound sentence joins two complete sentences (independent clauses) with a comma and a coordinating conjunction…
Students learn that synonyms are not all equal: 'annoyed', 'cross' and 'furious' describe different amounts of anger. They choose the…
Students tackle the homophone pairs that trip up even confident spellers: whose/who's, its/it's, your/you're, weather/whether, and the…
Students learn to use an apostrophe to show that something belongs to someone: 's for one owner, s' for more than one owner ending in s,…
Quick checks for understanding.
A quick ten-question check of the grammar covered in Year 4: contractions, possessive apostrophes, compound sentences, adverbs, tricky…
Clear explanations, examples and tips.
Explains the two jobs an apostrophe does: showing that letters are missing (contractions) and showing that something belongs to someone…
Teaches Year 4 students the four parts of a narrative (orientation, complication, series of events, resolution) and the show-don't-tell…
A passage with questions.
A Year 4 student writes to her principal asking for a school vegetable garden. Students find the writer's arguments, work out why she…
Three diary entries from a school camp, full of burnt damper, wobbly bridges and lost socks. Students find details, infer feelings the…
An information report about honey bees: the jobs in a hive, how honey is made, the waggle dance and why pollination matters. Students…
A warm narrative about a family whose evening changes when a storm cuts the power. Students track events in order, infer how characters…
Prompts with planning space and success criteria.
Students research and write a structured information report on an Australian animal using subheadings for classification, appearance,…
A mystery prompt: a handwritten note falls out of a library book, and it is addressed to you. Students plan a story with rising tension…
Word lists with practice activities.
Fifteen words that end in the suffix -tion, pronounced 'shun', such as station and celebration. Your child writes each word three times,…
Fifteen common homophones: words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things (their, there, they're; here,…
Fifteen words where c makes an 's' sound (city, circle) or g makes a 'j' sound (giant, bridge). Your child learns that this usually…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
Resources tagged NAPLAN practise the same text types and skills NAPLAN assesses. They are NAPLAN-style and not official test papers.