Grade 4 English: Vocabulary and Language Development

Free Grade 4 English unit on Vocabulary and Language Development: 10 lessons in order. Includes practice questions and answer keys.

10 lessons in this unit

Learn subject words such as habitat, climate, government and fraction, and use them correctly in speech and writing.

Work out the meaning of unknown words from the words and sentences around them.

Use synonyms and antonyms to choose precise words and to understand shades of meaning.

Explore how words relate: categories, parts and wholes, degrees of meaning and cause and effect.

Use prefixes such as inter-, sub-, super- and semi-, and suffixes such as -ion, -ous, -ity and -ize, to work out and build words.

Use roots such as rupt, scrib, ject, mit, vis and bio to unlock the meanings of word families.

Understand idioms, proverbs and common sayings and explain what they mean beyond the literal words.

Choose the right meaning of words that have more than one meaning by using the sentence context.

Use a dictionary to find pronunciation, part of speech and meaning, and a thesaurus to find better words.

Use word structure, roots, prefixes and suffixes, to spell longer words correctly, applying rules for changing the root.