In Year 4 children learn to:

• organise paragraphs around a theme;
• in narratives, create settings, characters and plot;
• proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors;
• write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include words and punctuation taught so far;
• use standard English forms for verb inflections instead of local spoken forms;
• use fronted adverbials;
• can choose an appropriate pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition;
• use inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech.