Year 4 English Skills () « All Years

Australian & NZ curriculum aligned. Master each skill by earning 10 stars across 3 difficulty levels.

Warm up

  1. Text structure and connectives

    1. Identify text connectives
    2. Sequence events using time connectives
    3. Identify text type by its features

  2. Working with sentence structure

    1. Select if the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory
    2. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
    3. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
    4. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?

  3. Nouns

    1. Which word is a noun?
    2. Identify nouns in a sentence
    3. Identify common and proper nouns
    4. Is the noun singular or plural?
    5. Form and use irregular plurals
    6. Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
    7. Form the singular or plural possessive
    8. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
    9. Make regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
    10. Using regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves

  4. Pronouns

    1. Identify personal pronouns
    2. Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
    3. Compound subjects and objects with I and me
    4. Identify possessive pronouns
    5. Use possessive pronouns
    6. Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
    7. Use reflexive pronouns
    8. Identify relative pronouns
    9. Relative pronouns: who and whom
    10. Relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that

  5. Punctuation, capitalisation and formatting

    1. Commas with direct addresses and introductory words
    2. Capitalising names and titles of respect
    3. Formatting titles
    4. Formatting and capitalising titles

  6. Verbs

    1. What function does the modal verb has?
    2. Complete the sentence with the correct modal verb
    3. Subject verb agreement - with compound subjects
    4. Using the progressive verb tenses
    5. Forming the progressive verb tenses
    6. Which fits in: the past tense or the past participle
    7. Using the perfect verb tenses
    8. Forming the perfect verb tenses

Speed up

  1. Articles

    1. Use the correct article: a or an
    2. Identify articles

  2. Adjectives and adverbs

    1. Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
    2. Identify adjectives
    3. Identify the adjective that describes the noun
    4. Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
    5. Identify adverbs
    6. Is the word an adjective or adverb?
    7. Choose between adjectives and adverbs
    8. The order of adjectives
    9. Use the correct relative adverbs
    10. Using more and most with adjectives

  3. Prepositions

    1. Identify prepositions
    2. Identify prepositions and their objects
    3. Identify prepositional phrases
    4. Prepositions review

  4. Conjunctions

    1. Using coordinating conjunctions
    2. Identifying coordinating conjunctions
    3. Using subordinating conjunctions
    4. Identifying subordinating conjunctions

  5. Contractions

    1. Contractions with pronouns and verbs
    2. Contractions with "not"

Sprint

  1. Affixes

    1. Understanding the words with -ly or -ness suffixes
    2. Understanding the words with -able or -ment suffixes
    3. Understanding the words with suffixes

  2. Greek and Latin roots

    1. Using Greek and Latin roots as clues to understand the meaning of a word
    2. Using the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
    3. Greek and Latin root meanings
    4. Greek and Latin root word meanings

  3. Reference skills

    1. Order alphabetically based on the first letter
    2. Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
    3. Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
    4. Use guide words
    5. Use dictionary entries
    6. Use thesaurus entries

  4. Word relationships

    1. Choose the synonym
    2. Choose the antonym
    3. Form compound words
    4. Form and use compound words
    5. Identify homophones
    6. Use the correct homophone
    7. Positive and negative connotation
    8. Which definition matches the sentence?
    9. Which sentence matches the definition?

Finish it off

  1. Figurative language

    1. Identify similes and metaphors
    2. Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors

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