Year 4 English worksheets

Use your KS2 child's Christmas letter to Father Christmas as a fun opportunity to practise handwriting. The layout has been done for them, now all they need to do is write their Christmas list, name and address and pop it in the post (find Santa's address on the Royal Mail website!). This is a great activity to help children consider how to form letters correctly and there's plenty of space to include wished-for items. Writing this letter will also help them understand that letters have a purpose and a particular audience.

Help your child prepare for the Year 6 English SATs, taken at the end of Key Stage 2, with some revision and at-home practice. These KS2 SATs past papers from 2023 are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.

Find out what your child will learn in Year 4 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 4 Taster Pack.

Challenging reading comprehensions and spelling activities for KS2 (Year 4) readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.

When a noun we want to add an apostrophe to ends in -s we add 's to show possession, according to the national curriculum. Practise the rule by punctuating some sentences.

Have you been learning to spell words from the Y3/Y4 curriculum spelling words list? Find the right word to fit in each sentence.

These words are from some of the topics studied in Year 3 and 4, but they can be hard to spell! Can you match the correct spelling with the correct definition?

Can you improve the sentences below by replacing “said” with another appropriate verb?

With Christmas lists to write, present-delivery schedules to work out, Grotto problems to solve and light and dark experiments to try this bumper pack of festive learning activities will keep your child engaged over the Christmas break.