Year 4
Handwriting booklet
Summer 1
Week 1 Summer 1
At school
Character descriptions
Harry had always been small and skinny for his
age… Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black
hair and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses
held together with a lot of cellotape because of all the
times
Harry had always
Week 1 Summer 1
At home
Character descriptions
Her name was Mrs. Pratchett.
She was a small
skinny old hag with a moustache on her upper lip
and a mouth as sour as a green gooseberry.
never smiled.
in.
She
She never welcomed us when we went
Week 2 Summer 1
At school
Setting descriptions
Excerpt from My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgewick.
The hut stood in a strange position. The river Chust, from
which the village took its name forked in two here, as it
snaked through the woods. With deep banks, the rivers had
spent ten thousand years eating its way gently down into the
thick soft dark forest soil.
Week 2 Summer 1
At home
Setting descriptions
Excerpt from Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
It was quite a small room, with heavy black beams in the
ceiling. By daylight it was amazingly dirty. The stones of
the floor were stained and greasy, ash was piled within the
fender, and the cobwebs hung in dusty droops from the
beams. There was a layer of dust on the skull.
Week 3 Summer 1
At school
Setting descriptions
Excerpt from Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Trewissick seemed to be sleeping beneath its grey, slate-tiled
roofs, along the narrow winding streets down the hill. Silent
behind their lace-curtained windows, the little square houses
let the roar of the car bounce back from their whitewashed
walls.
Week 3 Summer 1
At home
Setting descriptions
Excerpt from The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The boy walked back down the south-west side of the hill, avoiding
the old chapel; he did not want to see the place the Silas wasn’t. Bod
stopped beside a grave that looked the way he felt; it was beneath an
oak that had once been struck by lightning, and now was just a black
trunk, like a sharp talon coming out of the hill.
Week 4 Summer 1
At school
From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a
very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly
twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she
spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on
the neighbors.
Week 4 Summer 1
At home
Write a character description in joined up handwriting
about the book you are reading at the moment
Week 5 Summer 1
At school
A beach in Hawaii on a December day is like a day at a lake in mid
August. The beach smells fresh, almost like a new ocean breeze air
freshener. The sand is hot and looks like gold blended in with little white
specks; it sparkles like the water running off the swimmers back and
feels like walking on coals from a burning grill.
Week 5 Summer 1
At home
Write a setting description for a story you know or
have made up, make sure you join carefully.
Year 4
Handwriting booklet
Summer 2
Week 1 Summer 2
At school
The i sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of the
words
myth
myth
gym
gym
Egypt
Egypt
pyramid
pyramid
mystery
mystery
Week 1 Summer 2
At home
The i sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of the
words
myth
myth
gym
gym
Egypt
Egypt
pyramid
pyramid
mystery
mystery
Week 2 Summer 2
The u sound spelt ou
young
young
touch
touch
double
double
trouble
trouble
country
country
At school
Week 2 Summer 2
The u sound spelt ou
young
young
touch
touch
double
double
trouble
trouble
country
country
At home
Week 3 Summer 2
Prefixes dis and in
dis dis
disappoint
disagree
disobey
in in
inactive
incorrect
ir ir
irregular
irrelevant
irresponsible
At school
Week 3 Summer 2
Prefixes dis and in
dis dis
disappoint
disagree
disobey
in in
inactive
incorrect
ir ir
irregular
irrelevant
irresponsible
At home
Week 4 Summer 2
Prefixes mis and im
mis mis
misbehave
mislead
misspell
im im
immature
immortal
impossible
impatient
imperfect
At school
Week 4 Summer 2
Prefixes mis and im
mis mis
misbehave
mislead
misspell
im im
immature
immortal
impossible
impatient
imperfect
At home
Week 5 Summer 2
Prefixes re nad sub
re
re
redo
refresh
return
reappear
redecorate
sub sub
subdivide
subheading
submarine
submerge
At school
Week 5 Summer 2
Prefixes re nad sub
re
re
redo
refresh
return
reappear
redecorate
sub sub
subdivide
subheading
submarine
submerge
At home
Week 6 Summer 2
Prefixes in and sup
in in
interact
intercity
international
interrelated
sup sup
supermarket
superman
superstar
At school
Week 6 Summer 2
Prefixes in and sup
in in
interact
intercity
international
interrelated
sup sup
supermarket
superman
superstar
At school