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Year 4 · usually aged 8 or 9 · Phase 2
Year 4 maths and English
Maths, reading and writing lessons for Year 4, matched to the 2026 New Zealand Curriculum. Your child starts where they are, follows a short daily plan, and you see how they're going.
What Year 4 learns
The big ideas this year.
Maths
Times tables to 10 × 10, equivalent fractions and decimals, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000, rounding, perimeter and area, and symmetry.
English
Finding the main idea, information reports, punctuating speech, apostrophes, linking words and spelling longer words.
Not sure which year your child is in? NZ year levels and ages explains it.
The lessons
Every Year 4 lesson in Study Compass.
Maths
Number and algebra (10)
- Spotting multiples
- Times tables to 10 × 10
- Equivalent fractions and fractions as decimals
- Counting in fractions
- × and ÷ by 10, 100 and 1000
- Choosing a strategy
- Missing numbers
- Rounding and estimating
- Real-life problems
- Number patterns
Measurement (2)
- Reading scales, including temperature
- Perimeter and area
Space (4)
- Objects and their features
- Properties of shapes and objects
- Building with shapes
- Symmetry
Statistics (2)
- Showing data
- Running a survey
English
Reading (9)
- How texts are built
- Finding the main idea
- Joining clues
- How pictures tell the story
- Stories that echo
- Building tension
- Wordplay
- Old texts and new texts
- Reading fluently
Writing (5)
- Stories with a problem that matters
- Persuasive writing with reasons and evidence
- Information reports
- Re-reading and improving
- Talking, listening and handwriting (at home)
Grammar and punctuation (8)
- Must, might, could (modal verbs)
- Apostrophes
- Where, when and how
- Keeping the tense steady
- Linking words (connectives)
- Punctuating speech
- Choosing the best word
- Fact, opinion or feeling?
Spelling (3)
- Spelling long words
- Spelling rules
- Homophones in context
Each lesson has a short explainer, a quiz and five levels of practice. New lessons are added each term.
Spelling
Year 4 spelling.
- Spelling long words: to spell multisyllabic words with combinations like -tion, -sion, -ture, -ous, -cious.
- Spelling rules: doubling (stop → stopped), changing y to i (happy → happiness), dropping e (bake → baking), word families (sign, signal, signature).
- Homophones in context: to pick the right spelling from the sentence: where/wear/we're, weather/whether, piece/peace, threw/through.
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