By the end of Year 4, children who are working at age related expectations should be able to:

Reading

• Give a personal point of view on a text.

• Re-explain a text with confidence.

• Justify inferences with evidence, predicting what might happen from details stated or implied.

• Use appropriate voices for characters within a story.

• Recognise apostrophe of possession (plural)

• Identify how sentence type can be changed by altering word order, tenses, adding/deleting words or amending punctuation. 

• Explain why a writer has used different sentence types or a particular word order and the effect it has created.

• Skim and scan to locate information and/or answer a question.

Writing

• Vary sentence structure, using different openers.

• Use adjectival phrases (e.g. biting cold wind).

• Use appropriate choice of noun or pronoun.

• Use fronted adverbials.

• Use apostrophe for plural possession.

• Use a comma after fronted adverbial (e.g. Later that day, I heard bad news.).

• Use commas to mark clauses.

• Use inverted commas and other punctuation to punctuate direct speech.

• Use paragraphs to organised ideas around a theme.

• Use connecting adverbs to link paragraphs.

• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.

Mathematics

• Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.

• Compare and order numbers beyond 1,000.

• Compare and order numbers with up to 2 decimal places.

• Read Roman numerals to 100.

• Find 1,000 more/less than a given number.

• Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000.

• Recall and use multiplication and division facts all tables to 12x12.

• Recognise place value of any 4-digit number.

• Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.

• Round decimals with 1dp to nearest whole number. #

• Add and subtract numbers with up to 4-digits using written column method.

• Multiply: 2-digit by 1-digit; 3-digit by 1-digit

• Count up/down in hundredths.

• Recognise and write equivalent fractions

• Add and subtract fractions with same denominator.

• Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks