Teach Year 4 SPaG with ten carefully sequenced Autumn term lesson packs, fully aligned to the Year 4 grammar and punctuation National Curriculum objectives. Pupils learn to use adverbs at the start of sentences, recognise and punctuate fronted adverbials, select precise nouns, identify and use determiners, recognise noun phrases, use first, second and third person pronouns appropriately and punctuate direct speech using inverted commas.
Begin with the Year 4 Autumn lesson plans and rationale for an overview of the teaching sequence. You’ll also find assessments, progression documents and a linked Year 4 Autumn spelling strand, covering prefixes, word families, suffixes, homophones and statutory Year 3 and 4 spelling list words, with weekly spelling lists, spelling rules PowerPoints, dictation tasks, handwriting sheets and spelling tests.
Explore the complete Year 4 SPaG scheme, including Autumn, Spring and Summer lesson packs, planning, assessments and progression.
Explore the Year 4 SPaG schemeFollow the ten small-step lessons below to teach the complete Year 4 Autumn SPaG sequence, building pupils’ grammar, punctuation and writing accuracy across the Autumn term.
Use these supporting documents alongside the Year 4 Autumn SPaG lessons to plan the term, establish pupils’ prior knowledge and review progress. The lesson plans and rationale explain the teaching sequence, while the end of term assessment, assessment tracker and long-term overview help you monitor curriculum coverage across the Year 4 grammar and punctuation National Curriculum objectives throughout the Autumn term.
Alongside the grammar and punctuation lessons, our Year 4 Autumn spelling resources continue to develop pupils’ spelling knowledge through weekly teaching, practice and assessment. The spelling sequence follows the Autumn SPaG lessons, helping pupils recognise spelling patterns, apply new rules and build confidence when spelling in their independent writing.
Across the Autumn term, pupils revisit word families, explore prefixes including in-, im-, il- and ir-, learn spelling rules for suffixes and doubled letters, practise common homophones and continue learning words from the Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling list. Weekly spelling lists, dictation activities, handwriting sheets, Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheets and our popular Spelling Rules PowerPoints make it easy to teach, practise and revisit each spelling focus throughout the term.
Explore Year 4 Autumn spellingYear 4 Autumn SPaG develops pupils’ understanding of grammar and punctuation through carefully sequenced small steps. Pupils learn to use and punctuate fronted adverbials, select precise nouns, identify determiners, recognise noun phrases, use first, second and third person pronouns appropriately and punctuate direct speech using inverted commas.
The Autumn sequence focuses on grammar choices that improve the clarity and cohesion of pupils’ writing. Through regular opportunities to apply new knowledge, pupils develop greater confidence when writing descriptions, narratives and information texts while building secure foundations for the rest of the Year 4 curriculum.
Each lesson pack includes a PowerPoint, practical activity and differentiated worksheets, providing everything needed to teach the objective from start to finish. The Autumn term also includes lesson plans and rationale, baseline and end of term assessments, an assessment tracker and progression documents to support planning and assessment.
Yes. Every lesson is mapped to the National Curriculum English Appendix 2 and follows a carefully sequenced progression that develops pupils’ grammar, punctuation and vocabulary knowledge across the Autumn term.
Yes. The Year 4 Autumn spelling strand complements the SPaG lessons with weekly spelling lists, Spelling Rules PowerPoints, dictation tasks, handwriting sheets and a term overview and rationale, making it easy to teach spelling alongside the grammar sequence.
Yes. As the worksheets are organised by grammar objective rather than year group, they’re well suited to mixed-age classes, intervention groups and pupils who would benefit from revisiting specific grammar and punctuation concepts.
