UK Primary · Upper Elementary

Grade 4 Resources for UK Primary

Grade 4 sees children working with multi-digit operations, decimals, and fractions with unlike denominators. Reading and writing demand greater stamina — children analyze text structure, integrate information from multiple sources, and produce extended written pieces. The volume and complexity of work increases significantly.

Age: 9–10 years Key Stage: Upper Elementary US equivalent: Year 5

Key milestone

Multi-digit multiplication and long division mastery. Many states have standardized state assessments. Reading: ~140 wcpm; comprehension shifts to inferential and analytical questions.

What Grade 4 children are learning

📚 English curriculum focus

Reading literature — refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences
Reading informational text — explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific or technical text
Writing — write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information; introduce a topic clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure
Vocabulary — use context to determine the meaning of words and phrases; use Greek and Latin roots and affixes
Language — use relative pronouns and adverbs; form and use progressive verb tenses; use modal auxiliaries

🔢 Maths curriculum focus

Operations and algebraic thinking — use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems; gain familiarity with factors and multiples
Number and operations in base ten — generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers; use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
Number and operations — fractions — extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering; build fractions from unit fractions; understand decimal notation for fractions
Measurement and data — solve problems involving measurement and conversion within a single system of units
Geometry — draw and identify lines and angles; classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles

Phonics: Multi-digit multiplication and long division mastery. Many states have standardized state assessments. Reading: ~140 wcpm; comprehension shifts to inferential and analytical questions.

Grade 4 model texts (WAGOLLs)

Year-group exemplar texts with colour-coded annotations for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and text-type features. Free to view, free to print.

Narrative

The Cliff House

Atmospheric narrative opening about a child arriving at an isolated cliff-top house. Uses relative clauses, modal verbs, semicolons, brackets and dash…

Diary Entry

The Night of the Storm

First-person diary entry from a child evacuated during World War 2, written the night they arrive at their billet. Uses first-person past tense, emoti…

Persuasion

Why You Should Read Every Day

A persuasive piece arguing for daily reading. Models rhetorical questions, modal verbs, statistics, emotive language, and a clear call to action. Meet…

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