Year 4 Language, Literacy &

Communication Home Learning

Commonly Confused Words Where, Wear, Were, We’re

Complete these sentences using the correct words. The first four have been done for you.

1. Where are you going?

2. Do you know what we’re doing today?

3. Please can I wear your coat?

4. We were going to go swimming but it was closed.

5. That is I used to live.

6. The children very tired after their day out.

7. I like to red.

8. Hurry up, going to be late.

9. We freezing cold.

10. She will always her hair in pigtails.

11. very excited.

12. Do you know I can find the dinner hall?

13. I am going to my new shoes.

14. The children very well behaved on the school trip.

15. I wonder this path will take us.

16. leaving in ten minutes.

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Commonly Confused Words Your, You’re

Complete these sentences using the correct words. The first two have been done for you.

1. Where did you get your shoes from?

2. You’re trying really hard.

3. When is birthday?

4. Is that coat?

5. welcome to share my colouring pencils.

6. Eat an apple if hungry.

7. I saw mum yesterday.

8. Do you know where going on holiday?

9. Don’t forget manners.

10. a lovely young girl.

11. On marks, get set, go!

12. When feeling better, we will go to the beach.

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HomophonesAre you going the fair?

There are only places left!

There are many people in here.

Two, to or too?

I you would do that!

Do you like my shorts?

This car is brand .

New or knew?

The wind really hard.

My favourite colour is .

Is that ?

Blue or blew?

I couldn’t climb over it, I went around it.

Do you know how to ?

So or sew?

Can you me?

There’s nothing to here.

The ship sailed across the .

Sea or see?

The is going down.

My plays football really well!

The shines really brightly.

Sun or son?

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Spelling Bee’s Dictation

Use this booklet to see your progress as you practise the target spellings.

Parent Note: Please use the following spelling dictation to help your child spell adverbs by adding -ly to root words that end in -le. Your child will need to learn that the final ‘le’ changes to the suffix -ly when making these words into adverbs. Complete the first dictation before practising any of the target spelling words from the spelling list and write down the score. Then, after practising the target words, complete the second dictation. You should then see progress between the first and second dictation. Only complete the second dictation when you feel your child has practised the spellings enough – usually a week.

For ideas on practising spellings, see the Spelling Support for Parents: Games to Play at Home Guide.

WorksheetRead the following passage to your child, repeating the target word two times. Allow your child time to complete the gaps with the spelling word.

The Archbishop gently placed the crown on the new king’s head as he comfortably sat on his

throne. The king looked at all the people as they humbly bowed towards him. Next, the king nobly arose and looked at all the people in the cathedral. He felt terribly nervous but knew he needed to

be incredibly brave and confident as he was now their ruler. This was possibly the most important

day of his life but he felt horribly anxious. What if he wasn’t good enough? What if he didn’t know

what to do? He took a deep breath. He simply had to say the oath before he was anointed with holy

oil and then he could relax a little. He knew that there would probably be millions of people watching

throughout the world.

Year 3/4 Spelling: Creating Adverbs Using the Suffix -ly (where the root word ends in ‘le’)

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Spelling Bee’s Dictation

Dictation 1The Archbishop placed the crown on the new king’s head as he

sat on his throne. The king looked at all the people as they bowed towards

him. Next, the king arose and looked at all the people in the cathedral. He

felt nervous but knew he needed to be brave and confident as

he was now their ruler. This was the most important day of his life but he

felt anxious. What if he wasn’t good enough? What if he didn’t know what to

do? He took a deep breath. He had to say the oath before he was anointed with

holy oil and then he could relax a little. He knew that there would be millions

of people watching throughout the world.

Dictation 2The Archbishop placed the crown on the new king’s head as he

sat on his throne. The king looked at all the people as they bowed towards

him. Next, the king arose and looked at all the people in the cathedral. He

felt nervous but knew he needed to be brave and confident as

he was now their ruler. This was the most important day of his life but he

felt anxious. What if he wasn’t good enough? What if he didn’t know what to

do? He took a deep breath. He had to say the oath before he was anointed with

holy oil and then he could relax a little. He knew that there would be millions

of people watching throughout the world.

Score out of 10:

Score out of 10:

Year 3/4 Spelling: Creating Adverbs Using the Suffix -ly (where the root word ends in ‘le’)

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Spelling Bee’s Adverb SentencesCreating Adverbs Using the Suffix -ly (where the root word ends in ‘le’)

Adverbs can be made by adding -ly to the end of other words. However, when a word ends in

‘le’, you must change the ‘le’ to the -ly suffix.

Change each of these words to adverbs by following this rule:

Now write a sentence using each one of the adverbs you have created.

e.g. idly: The teenager idly stood by and let his mother clean up his mess.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

For example:

idle = idly

gentle

simple

humble

noble

horrible

terrible

possible

incredible

comfortable

probable

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Add An AdverbCreating Adverbs Using the Suffix -ly (where the root word ends in ‘le’)

Change each of the words from the box below to an adverb. Then, add an adverb to each of the sentence below to improve them. The first one has been done for you.

gentle

simple

humble

noble

horrible

terrible

possible

incredible

comfortable

probable

1. There could be life on other planets.

There could possibly be life on other planets.

2. Janine placed her baby into the cot because it was nap time.

3. It would be shocking to see an alien spaceship land.

4. The knights knelt before King Arthur.

5. The lion shook his mane as he gave a roar.

6. The Jones’ didn’t like the zoo; they wouldn’t go again.

7. Romena was being mean when she wouldn’t let her brother play.

8. He was upset when he wasn’t allowed to go to the park.

9. ‘This is the best paella ever,’ thought Carmen.

10. The cat was sat on the windowsill.

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Punctuating SentencesAll of the full stops and capital letters have been removed from the extract below.

chapter oneof crowns and caverns

guster the dragon lay in the mouth of his cave he itched his back itched and his belly itched his fingers and his toes itched even his eyes and ears and nose itched it was unbearable

guster felt like this every autumn while the leaves on the trees flushed into their autumn finery, guster’s green summer scales slowly changed to copper this was a mountain dragon trick which kept them safe from human eyes humans couldn’t spot green scales against the grass, red scales against autumn leaves or white scales against snow guster thought that humans must be very stupid

guster rolled on the rocky ground he scratched his back and scraped his shoulders his head wriggled and his legs flailed it did no good if only there were some way to soothe his scaly skin

guster twisted to his feet “ma?” he yelled into the darkness “i’m going swimming”

Extract from Twinkl Original story ‘The Wyrmstooth Crown’

Read the rest of the story at www.twinkl.com/originals

Rewrite the extract with the full stops and capital letters where they should be.

Don’t forget: there is more than one reason to use a capital letter!

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All About LeopardsLeopards are part of the same family as domestic cats and share many similar features. For example, all cats are mammals and carnivores. Leopards, however, belong to a group known as ‘big cats’. Big cats, such as leopards, tigers, lions, jaguars and cheetahs, are different from domestic cats because they are able to roar.

HabitatLeopards have adapted to many different habitats and therefore they can be found in many different parts of the world. Some live in rainforests, some mountains and some live in swamps! Sadly, however, most types of leopard are endangered in the wild. The most endangered is the Amur leopard of Russia; it is estimated that there are onlyabout70adultsalivetoday.

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All About LeopardsDietBeing nocturnal, leopards’ bodies are perfectly adapted to night-time hunting. They have a keen sense of hearing, excellent vision and their sensitive whiskers detect even tiny movements.

Leopards are skilled climbers and often pounce on their prey from the trees up above. Incredibly, they are strong enough to drag it back up into the branches!

Although leopards mainly hunt large mammals such as deer, they are different from other big cats because they will eat fish, birds, monkeys or even dung beetles if food is hard to find!

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Fun Facts• Leopards don’t just have babies in the spring. They canreproduce at any time of year!

• Leopards tend to live on their own in their own territories.However, they can communicate by leaving scent markingsfor other leopards to sniff!

Did You Know...?• Leopards spend most of the day asleep in trees or undersheltered rocks. Their camouflaged coat keeps them wellhidden.

• Leopards have a long tail (as long as the rest of their body)to help them balance when climbing up high.

• The dark spots which cover a leopard’s coat are called rosettesbecause they are rose-shaped.

All About Leopards

Questions1. What can big cats do that domestic cats cannot? Tick one.

Big cats can roar. Big cats eat meat. Big cats are mammals.

2. Look at the Habitat section. Fill in the missing words.

Leopards have and therefore

they can be

tomanydifferent

inmanydifferentpartsofthe .

3. Put ticks in the table to show which sentences are true and which are false.

4. Look at the Fun Facts section. Find and copy the word which meanshave babies.

5. Look at the Did You Know…? section. Which part of the leopard’s bodyhelps it to balance?

6. Describehowthedietofaleopardisdifferentfromthedietofotherbigcats.

Sentence True FalseLeopards only live in one type of habitat.Some leopards live in rainforests.Most leopards are endangered.Onlyabout70Amur leopardadultsexist inthe wild.

Tenzing NorgayBorn: 15th May 1914

Career: One of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Personal LifeTenzing Norgay, originally called Namgyal Wangdi, was born in Kharta Valley, Nepal. He was the 11th of 13 children but sadly, many of his siblings died at a very young age. The exact details of his childhood are unknown although as a teenager, he ran away from his life in Khumba near Mount Everest to Darjeeling, West Bengal in India. At the age of 19, Norgay got married but his wife later died and so Norgay went on to marry two more times.

As a young man, Norgay worked as a porter (someone who carries objects and cargo up a mountain) and accompanied several climbs of Mount Everest. He was finally successful in reaching the summit when he joined Edmund Hillary and the British expedition in February 1953. Norgay and Hillary were in one of the remaining two teams at the final part of the ascent and arrived at the summit at 11.30am on 29th May.

Once at the top, Norgay spent a short time taking photographs and eating mint cake before commencing his descent down the mountain. Norgay never knew the exact date of his birthday and so chose this significant day as his official birth date.

Interesting FactsTime Magazine named Norgay as one of the most influential people of the 20th Century.

Norgay was a practicing Buddhist and as a result of his religion, left an offering of food at the summit of Mount Everest.

Tenzing Norgay means ‘wealthy-fortunate-follower-of-religion.’

In 1978, Norgay started ‘Tenzing Norgay Adventures’; a company providing trekking adventures in the Himalayas.

Norgay’s son, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, also reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1996.

Norgay died at the age of 71 on 9th

May 1986 from a bleed on the brain.

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Comprehension Questions about Tenzing Norgay 1. What is Tenzing Norgay famous for?

2. Which mountain did he climb?

3. When was Tenzing Norgay born?

4. What is a ‘porter’?

5. What did he do in 1978?

6. What does ‘Tenzing Norgay’ mean?

7. What did Time Magazine name Norgay as?

8. What did he do when he reached the top of Mount

Everest?

9. When did the British expedition up Mount Everest take

place?

10. Norgay never knew the exact date of his birthday. True

or False.