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Year 4 · English

Discuss Words And Phrases

Year 4 learners practise understanding word meaning in context.

The activities include Explore Word Meaning in a Story, Identify Synonyms in an Explanation Text, Analyse Poetry, and related practice. The checked support below includes teaching, video, worksheet, interactive. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Explore Word Meaning in a Story
  • Identify Synonyms in an Explanation Text
  • Analyse Poetry
  • Examine How Authors Develop Characters in their Stories
  • Identify the Meaning of the Text in Two Poems
  • Study the Use of Vocabulary in a Poem
  • Understand the Meaning of Words from a Non-fiction Text
  • Understand the Meaning of Words in a Story
  • Understand the Words in a Story
  • Understand Words in a Non-fiction Text

Checked learning resources

  • Oak: Verb and adjective suffixes

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 suffix unit covering verb and adjective suffixes such as -ify, -en and related word-building work.

  • Oak: Noun and adjective suffixes

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 suffix unit for changing word class with noun and adjective suffixes, including word families.

  • BBC Bitesize: Non-fiction

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 non-fiction hub covering text types and features, useful for newspaper reports, explanation texts and non-chronological reports.

  • Twinkl: What is an explanation text?

    Twinkl · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Teaching guide explaining explanation-text purpose and features such as sequence, diagrams, labels and clear process writing.

  • Working Out Word Meanings from Context Clues | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 learner video models how surrounding sentences and story clues reveal the meaning of unfamiliar words.

  • Recognising Similes and Metaphors | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 learner video explains how similes and metaphors compare one thing with another and gives independent SATs-style questions, matching the figurative comparisons in both activity poems.

  • Understanding Figurative Language: KS2 PowerPoint

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    KS2 teaching resource explains simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole and asks learners to consider how each choice creates meaning in poetry.

  • Similes and Metaphors Comparison Mind Map

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    KS2 practice organiser helps learners compare similes and metaphors and record how each figurative comparison changes meaning.