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Blog posts for: Year 4
Learning at home: Learning to read
Education expert James Clements runs through everything you need to keep your child’s reading skills developing during the school lockdown.
Geometry & shapes in Year 4 (age 8–9)
In Year 4, your child will learn about acute and obtuse angles. They will also be introduced to coordinates and will be able to describe translations, and will build upon their knowledge of shape properties.
Comprehension
Find out how reading comprehension is taught throughout primary school, and take a look at our books, advice, and free activities to help at home.
Grammar and literacy glossary: A to C
A guide to grammar and literacy terms used in schools, with definitions, how-to videos, and practice activities. From adverbials to conjunctions.
Reading: Age 8–9 (Year 4)
In Year 4, your child will be developing into an increasingly fluent reader. The focus will now be on building comprehension. Find out how to help them at home.
Fractions in Year 4 (age 8–9)
In Year 4, your child will explore the link between fractions and multiplication/division. They will also use numbers with up to two decimal places.
Number & place value in Year 4 (age 8–9)
In Year 4, your child will use negative numbers, will round numbers, and will learn Roman numerals. Help at home with our advice and activities.
The curriculum for maths in Year 4 (age 8–9)
Find out what your child will be expected to learn in maths in Year 4 at primary school. They will be doing more work with fractions and decimals.
Grammar and literacy glossary: J to Q
A guide to grammar and literacy terms used in schools, with definitions, how-to videos, and practice activities. From modal verbs to pure sounds.
Oxford Levels: How to support your 7–11-year-old’s reading development
Find out how Oxford Levels and levelled readers can support and develop your child’s reading skills even after they’ve learned how to read.
Multiplication & division in Year 4 (age 8–9)
In Year 4, your child will recall multiplication and division facts for times tables up to 12 × 12. Help your child at home with our advice and activities.
Addition & subtraction in Year 4 (age 8–9)
In Year 4, your child will solve problems involving numbers up to four digits. Help your child learn at home with our activities, videos, and advice.
Help with times tables
Learning times tables can be fun! Help your child learn their times tables with our free top tips, videos, quizzes and worksheets.
Learning at home: Reading to learn
Education expert James Clements talks about how children who are already confident readers can get the most out of their reading.
Looking forward to the summer term: tips to help boost your child’s learning
What can we do to help our children to make progress over the term ahead? James Clements shares his tips to help boost skills and knowledge.
The Year 4 multiplication tables check
Find out about the new times tables assessment for Year 4 students, starting in June 2020. Try our free activities and advice to support your child.
How to help your child with mental arithmetic
Building confidence in maths early on will pay back many times over. Get tips for developing your child’s mental arithmetic skills.
Fun maths games and activities
Have fun practising your maths skills with these games, activity sheets, and videos.
Science at primary school
Science at primary school is practical and exciting. Children love the chance to learn through being totally hands-on and finding things out for themselves — the perfect way to understand the world around them.
Get number confident on National Numeracy Day
Get involved with National Numeracy Day 2021 and help your child’s confidence grow, with our top tips and free maths activities.
Measurement in Year 4 (age 8–9)
In Year 4, children will convert between different standard measures. They will also find perimeters and areas of shapes, use money, and explore time.
Learning at home: The tricky business of screen time
Keeping your child’s screen time manageable can be tricky, especially at the moment. Education expert James Clements gives us his top tips.
Learning at home: What can we learn from teachers?
Education expert James Clements talks about the lessons we can learn from teachers about helping your child to learn at home.
How reading programmes can help junior readers
Once your child has mastered decoding, it can be liberating to choose whatever books they like – but there are still benefits to structured reading schemes.
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Flummoxed by fractions? Dismayed by decimals? Perplexed by percentages? Get tips for exploring these tricky concepts at home.
The curriculum for English in Year 4 (age 8–9)
Find out what children will learn in spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing at school in Year 4.
Working with school (in strange times)
James Clements shares his advice on how we can work together with teachers to help our children be happy and confident at school, and gives his tips on getting the most out of parents’ evening.
Statistics in Year 4 (age 8–9)
In Year 4, your child will learn to use time graphs. They will also solve problems by interpreting and analysing graphs, and will be able to answer more complex questions based on statistics.
Learning at home: What would they be learning at school?
Education expert and writer James Clements explains what your child would be learning at school, and how we can use (or not use) the curriculum at home.
Money, money, money
Money isn’t everything, but being ‘good with money’ is undoubtedly a useful life skill. Read Fiona Lazenby’s top tips for practising using money with your child.
Developing reading skills as your child gets older
Once your child has mastered phonics and word-reading, where do they go next? Here are our ideas to keep your 7–11-year-old’s reading skills developing.
Learning at home: How to prioritise sharing a book
Education expert and writer James Clements talks about the importance of reading to your child to boost their educational success in all sorts of ways.
Writing a thank you letter
Practise handwriting by writing a thank you letter to someone who has helped you during lockdown – like a teacher, a family member, or a healthcare worker.
Learning at home: Things to get ready for next week
Education expert and writer James Clements suggests 6 practical things you get get ready over the weekend for next week’s learning at home.
What to expect in Year 4 (age 8–9)
Find out what your child will learn in Year 4, and how you can support their learning at home.
Times tables: Practice makes perfect
Maths teacher and education expert Louise Pennington shares her favourite activities and games to help your child learn their times tables.
Maths is everywhere!
Maths expert Louise Pennington shares her advice for developing your child’s maths skills during school closures by exploring maths in the real world.
Learning at home: Making a start
Educational expert and writer James Clements gives his 3 top tips of how to get started with teaching your child at home.
Common reading issues
Tackle common reading problems with our expert advice on supporting struggling readers, engaging reluctant readers, and encouraging boys to pick up a book.
Bond SATs Skills
Prepare your children for the Key Stage 2 SATs with Bond SATs Skills workbooks, developing core maths, comprehension and English skills.
Learning at home: Buying yourself some time
Education expert James Clements shares his ideas for keeping the children busy – in a constructive way – when you need to be getting on with something.
Five ways to improve maths home-learning
Maths expert Andrew Jeffrey shares five easy-to-implement strategies that can make a positive difference to our children’s maths learning at home.
Teaching maths at home
Mathemagician Andrew Jeffrey suggests ways you can support your child’s maths development at home without needing to be an expert.
Oxford Primary Illustrated Maths Dictionary: Using the dictionary
Answer questions about these common maths terms.
Good writing: Standard and non-standard English
Practise identifying Standard and Non-Standard English.
Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary activity sheets.
Nelson Handwriting: Speedwriting
Year 4 | Age 8–9. Trace and write numerals and number words as fast as possible.
Nelson Handwriting: Joining with the letter s
Year 4 | Age 8–9. Trace and write a pattern, letters and words, practising joining to and from the letter s.
Nelson Grammar: Pronouns
Year 4 | Age 8–9. Explore how pronouns can lead to ambiguity.
Nelson Grammar: Answers
Answers to the activity sheets from Nelson Grammar.
Nelson Comprehension: Exploring stage playscripts
Year 4 | Age 8–9. Read and analyse three playscripts.
Nelson Comprehension: Answers
Answers to the activity sheets from Nelson Comprehension.
Printable Numicon shapes
Don’t have Numicon shapes at home? Download, print, and cut out these free Numicon shapes.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 10 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 10 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 15 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 15 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 25 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 25 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
At Home with Verbal Reasoning Skills (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise your verbal reasoning skills.
At Home with Punctuation (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise writing sentences, asking questions, and using apostrophes.
Bond Brain Training: Mirror mirror
Here are some shapes with a dotted mirror line. Draw the reflection that you would expect.
At Home with Spanish (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise Spanish greetings, animals, family, and parts of the body.
Oxford Primary Illustrated Maths Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford Primary Illustrated Maths Dictionary activity sheets.
At Home with English (age 7–9)
Build up English skills at the level of words, sentences, and whole texts with these four activity sheets.
At Home with French (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise French greetings, animals, family, and parts of the body.
At Home with Grammar (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise using pronouns, verbs, and the past tense.
At Home with Maths (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise addition and subtraction, using money, and solving word problems.
At Home with Mental Maths (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise counting, calculating up to 20, fractions, and the 9 and 11 times tables.
At Home with Non-verbal Reasoning Skills (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise non-verbal reasoning by working out patterns and finding connections.
Oxford Primary Illustrated Science Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford Primary Illustrated Science Dictionary activity sheets.
MyMaths: Money
Practice work involving making amounts of money, comparing and ordering amounts of money and estimating with money (age 8–9).
Numicon: Homework Activities Intervention Resource
Especially created for use at home, Homework Activities Intervention Resource kit supports children’s mathematical development and learning outside of school. The kit includes dice, 60 coloured counters, 21 numeral cards, 30 shapes, a large table-top number line, and more.
Science and areas of study
Find the different areas of scientific study in the wordsearch and match them to the correct description.
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