Year 4 Grammar worksheets

When you are writing, similes are a really effective way to give people a picture in their mind of something you are describing. A SIMILE is a comparison – it finds similar characteristics in two objects and compares them. It always uses the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ to make the comparison. Look at this picture and use the simile starters to write your own similes.

Look up these words in the dictionary and write down what they mean. Practise spelling each word by looking at it, covering it over, writing it on a separate piece of paper, then checking if you were right.

Each of these words ending in -ment is hidden in the wordsearch below. Can you find them and insert them into the sentences below?

When we compare something to something else using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’, this is called a simile. Authors use similes to give people a picture of what they are writing. Finish these sentences about an abandoned house using really effective similes. Remember, this house is supposed to be creepy!

Full stops, commas, semi colons, apostrophes… Whatever aspect of punctuation your child is grappling with, we’ve come up with a bumper pack of 60 activities to help them practise, as well as a parent's refresher guide to each punctuation mark and how it's used.

A worksheet with a passage of writing that your child needs to read over and mark, inserting the correct punctuation.

A set of paragraphs with muddled-up sub-headings. Encourage your child to read the paragraphs and then decide which sub-headings go where.

A list of sentences which could be improved by the use of adverbs. A bank of adverbs is included at the bottom of the sheet to help your child.

Notes on the Arctic Fox for your child to cut up and then organise into different subject boxes. They then need to use these notes to write up their own paragraphs, understanding the need for keeping to a single theme for each.