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Year 4 · usually aged 9 to 10

Year 4 maths and English

51 maths and English lessons for Year 4, mapped to the Victorian Curriculum 2.0. Your child starts where they are, follows a short daily plan, and you see how they're going.

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The lessons

Every Year 4 lesson in Study Compass.

Maths

Number and algebra (12)

  • Tenths and hundredths
  • Spotting multiples
  • Times tables to 10 × 10
  • Equivalent fractions and fractions as decimals
  • Counting in fractions
  • × and ÷ by 10, 100 and 1000
  • Choosing a strategy
  • Missing numbers
  • Rounding and estimating
  • Cash and change
  • Real-life problems
  • Number patterns

Measurement (4)

  • Reading scales, including temperature
  • Perimeter and area
  • How long did it take? (am, pm and durations)
  • Naming angles

Space (4)

  • Properties of shapes and objects
  • Building with shapes
  • Grid maps and pathways
  • Symmetry

Statistics (3)

  • Showing data
  • Choosing a graph
  • Running a survey

Probability (2)

  • How likely is it?
  • Chance experiments

English

Reading (10)

  • How texts are built
  • Finding the main idea
  • Joining clues
  • Reading web pages
  • How pictures tell the story
  • Stories that echo
  • Building tension
  • Wordplay
  • Old texts and new texts
  • Reading fluently

Writing (5)

  • Stories with a problem that matters
  • Persuasive writing with reasons and evidence
  • Information reports
  • Re-reading and improving
  • Talking, listening and handwriting (at home)

Grammar and punctuation (8)

  • Longer sentences
  • Where, when and how
  • Keeping the tense steady
  • Linking words (connectives)
  • Punctuating speech
  • Said it, or reported it?
  • Choosing the best word
  • Fact, opinion or feeling?

Spelling (3)

  • Spelling long words
  • Spelling rules
  • Homophones in context

Each lesson has a short explainer read aloud, a quiz and five levels of practice. Outside Victoria, a few lessons sit in a different year so the plan matches what your school teaches.

At home

Three ways to help a Year 4 child.

  • Practise times tables in short bursts, five minutes in the car is plenty.

  • Halve and quarter a pizza or a sandwich and name the fractions.

  • Ask your child to retell a book or a show in five sentences, in order.

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