Year 4 English (WA)

Core Program

A comprehensive course that develops your child’s potential in the key subject area of English. Each lesson contains 90 minutes dedicated to developing literacy.

Course Goals
  • Develop advanced literal and inferential comprehension skills
  • Develop competency and creativity in writing across a range of text types
  • Develop superior spelling skills
  • Develop an advanced vocabulary
  • Develop grammar, usage and punctuation skills
Course Structure
  • 4 terms in a year, 10 weeks in a term
  • 1.5 hour lessons per week, during term
  • Can be combined with Creative Writing (English + Creative Writing: 2 hour lessons per week)
  • Can be combined with Maths & General Ability (English + Maths & General Ability: 3 hour lessons per week)
  • Students attend lessons at their allocated time schedule
  • Small class group based
  • Experienced educators
Course Outline

Year 4 English

Term 1
Week 1 — Comprehension, vocabulary, nouns
Week 2 — Comprehension, vocabulary, idiomatic language, proper nouns, pronouns, phrases
Week 3 — Comprehension, vocabulary, collective nouns, Homonyms
Week 4 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Abstract nouns
Week 5 — Comprehension, vocabulary, technical nouns, verbs & tenses
Week 6 — Comprehension, vocabulary, singular & plural nouns, verbs
Week 7 — Comprehension, vocabulary, pronouns, prepositions
Week 8 — Term Test, Comprehension, vocabulary, Possessive pronouns, adjectives of degree
Week 9 — Comprehension, vocabulary, relative pronouns, commas, feelings, verbs, nouns
Week 10 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Adjectives, Prepositions

Term 2
Week 1 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Adjectives, OC preparation, Spelling rule
Week 2 — Comprehension, vocabulary, forming adjectives, apostrophe of ownership
Week 3 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Anagram conundrum, Articles, synonyms & Adjectives
Week 4 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Word Match, possessive adjectives, containers
Week 5 — Comprehension, vocabulary, matching antonyms, Pointing adjectives
Week 6 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Adjectival phrases, parts of speech
Week 7 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Adjectival phrases part-II, Irregular verbs
Week 8 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Adjectival phrases part-III, synonyms, suffixes
Week 9 — Comprehension, vocabulary, verbs, Auditory Discrimination, correct use of commas
Week 10 — Comprehension, vocabulary, verbs, comprehension test, suffixes

Term 3
Week 1 — Comprehension, vocabulary, verb, sentence magic, spelling activity
Week 2 — Comprehension, vocabulary, simple past tense verbs, lexicon, anagrams
Week 3 — Comprehension, vocabulary, irregular verbs, word fun, 3 degrees
Week 4 — Comprehension, vocabulary, what’s wrong, practice, punctuation, homophones
Week 5 — Comprehension, vocabulary, getting verbs to agree, “le” words
Week 6 — Comprehension, vocabulary, Verbs that agree – II, amazing planets, parts of speech
Week 7 — Comprehension, vocabulary, working with contractions, synonyms, antonyms
Week 8 — Term Test, Comprehension, vocabulary quiz, Adverbs, word puzzle
Week 9 — Comprehension, vocabulary quiz, Adverbs – II, correct usage
Week 10 — Comprehension, vocabulary, using correct adjectives & Adverbs, Tricky spellings

Term 4
Week 1 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, Adverbs, code breakers, wacky words
Week 2 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, letter lines, more about adverbs, puzzles
Week 3 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, adverbs of degree, idioms
Week 4 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, Rhyme, adverbial phrases, similes
Week 5 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, more adverbial phrases, vivid imagery
Week 6 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, clauses, map reading skills, names of places
Week 7 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, a family affair, active & passive voice
Week 8 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, simple & compound sentences – I
Week 9 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, pyramid puzzle, principal & subordinate clauses
Week 10 — Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling test, puzzling parts, four types of sentences

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