English
'Reading for Pleasure'
Book ideas for Year 4
Please find some links to children's book lists below but do pop in if you would like suggestions for authors and books. Our class reading area is full of new editions of books from the Education Library requested by the children.
Love Reading 4 Kids
https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/
Find your next book using ‘Book Sorter’
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/find-a-read
Suggested reading list for 8-9 year olds
100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school
https://www.listchallenges.com/tes-100-fiction-books-all-children-should-read
Audiobooks for Year 4
Audiobooks offer a fantastic and enjoyable way for your child to improve their reading skills! There are so many but here are a few audio collections:
Dick King-Smith
Roald Dahl
Michael Morpurgo
David Walliams
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter
C.S. Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia
Cressida Cowell - How to Train Your Dragon
Enid Blyton e.g. The Enchanted Wood; The Famous Five & The Secret Seven
Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons
Handwriting
Pencil/Pen Grip
After learning how to form their letters correctly, in Years 3 and 4 we will be teaching your child how to join their letters. This includes teaching which letters we join and which letters remain unjoined.
Break Letters
Letters can join to these letters but they don’t join to another letter
g j y q x
Letter which is never joined to or from another letter
z
Pencil Grip Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPg9qpq6Hhg
Correct Tripod Pencil Grip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWAaMk7u8zk
Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
Ideas to support your child at home:
Boggle, Scrabble, Countdown and Bananagrams are great classics to help your child with their spellings. They can always use a dictionary to help.
We play ‘Countdown’ in class http://happysoft.org.uk/countdown/wordgame.php
Extra Spelling and Writing Games to practise at home
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar