With your child continuing to advance their skills in using apostrophes, capital letters and quotation marks, now’s the time to start working through Year 4 punctuation skills with worksheets.
This year, your child will be working on colons, semicolons and clauses, while also improving their understanding of apostrophes and quotation marks.
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Sample of Year 4 Punctuation Worksheets
Year 4 English Skills
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Sample of Year 4 Punctuation Worksheets
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Year 4 English Skills
Now that your child is in Year 4, their English punctuation lessons will heavily focus on apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, semicolons and clauses. They will also refine their knowledge of previous punctuation concepts they have learned.
Additionally, they’ll broaden their vocabulary and reading skills to improve their literacy overall.
Vocabulary
As your child enhances their communication skills through interacting with peers and their teacher in English classes, they will continue to build on their vocabulary.
When encountering unfamiliar words, they will be able to start using more complex terminology in their everyday interactions.
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Another way to boost their vocabulary is by guiding them through using spelling lists and incorporating words learnt into regular conversation.
Reading
At this stage of primary school, you may find that your child won’t really want to ask for help with reading, and may only come to you when they really aren’t sure about particular words.
While they may prefer to read independently, it doesn’t hurt to ask them to read aloud and provide any feedback about emphasising punctuation and using different tones.
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Punctuation Use Through Apostrophes, Quotation Marks, Colons, Semicolons and Clauses
In Year 4, your child will be already familiar with the foundational uses of apostrophes and quotation marks when it comes to forming sentences. Though, they may not be very familiar with how to use colons and semicolons, as well as how clauses work.
Colons can be used in different ways:
- Introducing a list
- Emphasising an idea
- Introducing a quote
- Subtitles
- Time
- Ratios
- Greetings
Semicolons are typically used to join two independent clauses together in one sentence. They may also be used to replace a full stop or a comma.
When it comes to clauses, your child will find that sentences are made up of dependent and independent clauses. These clauses need a subject and a verb.
For more on these punctuation concepts, you can check out our Year 4 Punctuation worksheets below!
Download Our Year 4 Punctuation Worksheets
If you’re looking for some additional content to help improve your child’s literacy skills, we’ve got 5 punctuation worksheets that you can download for FREE below:
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