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Reading Comprehension Year 4

Reading comprehension is a crucial skill that helps Year 4 pupils unlock a deeper understanding of texts. According to the National Curriculum for England, Year 4 students are expected to develop fluency, expand their vocabulary, and engage with a variety of texts, including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

The National Curriculum Expectations for Year 4 Reading Comprehension

In Year 4, the National Curriculum emphasises the following key objectives for reading comprehension:

  • Understanding Vocabulary: Pupils should use context to infer the meaning of new words and be able to explain their meanings.
  • Retrieval and Summarisation: They should retrieve key details and summarise the main ideas of a text.
  • Inference Skills: Pupils should infer characters’ feelings, thoughts, and motives and justify their inferences with evidence.
  • Identifying Themes and Conventions: Children should identify themes and conventions in texts, linking them to others they have read.
  • Evaluating Texts: Pupils should discuss texts critically, expressing their views with reasoning.
A Year 4 chidlre engaged in reading comprehension

Reading comprehension is an important skill to continue to develop in Year 4

Reading Comprehension Lessons for Year 4

PlanBee has a range of ready-to-teach reading comprehension lessons and schemes of work for Year 4. Each of our lesson packs has been designed to save teachers time by providing everything needed to deliver outstanding reading comprehension lessons, including lesson plans, slideshows and a range of printable activities.

Each of our Year 4 reading comprehension lessons has been designed with the National Curriculum in mind, ensuring that children are given the opportunity to expand their vocabulary, hone their inference and retrieval skills, identify themes and conventions, and critically evaluate a range of different reading materials.

Just So Stories: Reading Comprehension | Year 4

This set of five reading comprehension lessons for Year 4 introduces your class to the beloved Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Each of the lessons explores a different story, giving your class the chance to develop their skills of inference and deduction, as well as provide them with opportunities to ask, answer and discuss questions, predict what will happen next, summarise a text, and use role-play to demonstrate their understanding.

Each of the lessons within this Year 4 pack contains:

  • a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities
  • a slideshow for the teaching input
  • a range of printable resources for independent learning activities

Just So Stories: Reading Comprehension

The Magic Finger: Reading Comprehension | Year 4

During the course of these five reading comprehension lessons, your Year 4 class will read the wonderful story 'The Magic Finger' by Roald Dahl together. Particular emphasis is placed on exploring and understanding the different characters' viewpoints through asking and answering questions, role-play, debate, and even hosting a talk show!

 

Each of the lessons within this Year 4 pack contains:

  • a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities
  • a slideshow for the teaching input
  • a range of printable resources for independent learning activities

The Magic Finger: Reading Comprehension

The Twits: Reading Comprehension | Year 4

Another Roald Dahl lesson pack! This time, your Year 4 class will explore the hilarious story of 'The Twits'. They will be challenged to write character descriptions, summarise chapters, make predictions, use relevant information in their answers, and create role-plays based on the knowledge and understanding they gain throughout this 'The Twits' comprehension scheme of work.

 

Each of the lessons within this Year 4 reading comprehension pack contains:

  • a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities
  • a slideshow for the teaching input
  • a range of printable resources for independent learning activities

The Twits: Reading Comprehension

These reading comprehension lessons are part of a larger 'The Twits English Pack', additionally covering descriptive writing, playscripts, instructions and non-chronological reports.

Chocolate Poetry | Year 4

This delicious lesson pack for Year 4 starts by looking at and discussing the features of rhythm, rhyme and figurative language which are often used in poetry. Children will then read Michael Rosen's 'Chocolate Cake' poem, and answer questions, either individually or in discussion groups. Finally, they will watch a clip of Michael Rosen performing his poem. The scheme of work then goes on to challenge children to write and perform their own chocolate-themed poems!

 

Each of the lessons within this Year 4 reading poetry pack contains:

  • a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities
  • a slideshow for the teaching input
  • a range of printable resources for independent learning activities

Chocolate Poetry