Grade 4English Language

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 4 English Language curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Listening and SpeakingSounds, words and speaking out loud: listening comprehension, target sounds, polite words, and holding a conversation that stays on the point.12 topics·92 questions

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Listening Comprehension

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Target Sounds

    3 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Polite Words and Target Sounds

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Word Stress

    3 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Listening Comprehension and Language Pattern

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Stress and Intonation

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Interactive Listening and Turn-taking

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Sounds and Tongue Twisters

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Speaking Fluency

    6 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Oral Presentation and Interrupting Politely

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Listening Fluency

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary: Intensive Listening, Silent Letters and 'very ... but ...'

    4 skills
2ReadingThe biggest reading strand yet, and both kinds of it: reading widely for yourself, and reading closely enough to answer on poems, stories, similes and sayings.13 topics·109 questions

  • Extensive Reading: Reference Materials

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Poems and Stories (Similes and Sayings)

    2 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Comprehension

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Visuals

    2 skills

  • Extensive Reading: Independent Reading

    4 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Dialogue

    2 skills

  • Extensive Reading: Independent Reading (Narratives, Poems, Graded Readers)

    3 skills

  • Reading Fluency

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Narratives

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Factual Texts

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Reading Digital Texts

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Poems, Songs and Passages with Proverbs

    3 skills

  • Extensive Reading: Independent Reading (Newspapers and Magazines)

    2 skills
3Grammar in UseWhere the year's work is. Determiners and articles, regular and irregular plurals, and the sentence patterns that sound wrong when they are built wrong.13 topics·101 questions

  • Word Classes: Determiners (Articles)

    3 skills

  • Word Classes: Nouns (Regular and Irregular Plurals)

    3 skills

  • Language Patterns: enough + nominal + infinitive; a lot / a lot of

    3 skills

  • Word Classes: Pronouns (Personal and Possessive)

    3 skills

  • Word Classes: Adjectives

    3 skills

  • Word Class: Determiners (Quantifiers)

    3 skills

  • Word Classes: Verb Aspect (Present and Past Progressive)

    2 skills

  • Word Classes: Contracted Verb Forms; Positive and Negative Statements

    2 skills

  • Word Classes: Adverbs (Manner, Time, Place)

    3 skills

  • Word Class: Conjunctions (Coordinating)

    3 skills

  • Language Patterns: Interrogatives

    4 skills

  • Word Classes: Verb Aspect (Present and Past Perfect)

    3 skills

  • Word Class: Prepositions (Position and Direction)

    2 skills
4WritingWriting for a purpose: filling in forms, a friendly letter, open-ended compositions, and handwriting that another person can read.12 topics·98 questions

  • Functional Writing: Filling Forms

    3 skills

  • Creative Writing: Open-ended Compositions

    3 skills

  • Mechanics of Writing: Handwriting

    3 skills

  • Functional Writing: Friendly Letter and SMS

    4 skills

  • Creative Writing: Narrative Compositions

    5 skills

  • Creative Writing: Pictorial Compositions

    3 skills

  • Mechanics of Writing: Punctuation (Full Stop and Capital Letters)

    3 skills

  • Punctuation: Comma and Question Mark

    3 skills

  • Creative Writing: Descriptive Compositions

    3 skills

  • Mechanics of Writing: Spelling (Commonly Misspelt Words)

    3 skills

  • Guided Composition: Diary

    3 skills

  • Spelling: Double Consonants

    2 skills

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 4 English Language curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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