Year 4 Non-Negotiables
Reading | |
Decoding
/Phonics |
apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology), both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet |
Comprehension and Understanding |
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Prediction, Inference and deduction
Intonation and expression |
Justify inferences with evidence, predicting what might happen from details stated or implied. |
Intonation and Expression | Use appropriate voices for characters within a story. |
Grammatical
Features |
Identify how sentence type can be changed by altering word order, tenses, adding/deleting words or amending punctuation. |
Research | Skims and scans to locate information and/or answer a question. |
Writing | |
Sentence and text structure |
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Spelling | proofread for spelling and punctuation errors |
Punctuation |
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Paragraphing | Use connectives to link paragraphs. |
Handwriting | Legible, joined handwriting of consistent quality. |
Maths | |
Counting and ordering | Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers
Compare and order numbers beyond 1000 Compare and order numbers with 2 decimal places Read Roman Numerals to 100 |
Numbers and more/less | Find 1000 more/less from a given number |
Tables and multiples | Count in multiples of 7,9, 25 and 1000
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for all tables to 12×12. |
Bonds and facts | |
Place value and rounding | Recognise place value of any 4 digit number
Round any number to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 Round decimals with 1 decimal point to the nearest whole number |
Calculations
(addition/ subtraction) |
Add and subtract: Numbers with up to 4 digits using efficient written method (column), numbers with up to 1 decimal point |
Calculations (division/ multiplication) | Multiply: 2 digit by 1 digit, 3 digit by 1 digit
Divide: 3 digit by 1 digit |
Fractions and
Percentages |
Count up/down in hundredths
Write equivalent fractions Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator |
Time | Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks. |