Here is a list of English skills students learn in class IV! These skills are organised into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. Nexustutor will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
A.1 Use key details to determine the main idea
A.2 Determine the main idea of a passage
A.3 Combine main ideas from two texts
B.1 Determine the themes of myths, fables and folktales
C.1 Identify the purpose of a text
D.1 Determine the order of events in informational texts
D.2 Compare and contrast in informational texts
D.3 Match causes and effects in informational texts
D.4 Match problems with their solutions
D.5 Identify text structures
E.1 Sort sensory details
F.1 Identify similes and metaphors
F.2 Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
F.3 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
G.1 Distinguish characters’ points of view
H.1 Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
H.2 Compare and contrast characters
H.3 Draw inferences from a text
H.4 Make predictions about a story
I.1 Identify story elements
J.1 Compare mythological illustrations
K.1 Read fantasy with illustrations
K.2 Read realistic fiction with illustrations
K.3 Read science fiction with illustrations
L.1 Read realistic fiction
L.2 Read historical fiction
L.3 Read poetry
L.4 Read drama
M.1 Read about animals
M.2 Read about art, music and traditions
M.3 Read about famous places
M.4 Read about sports and hobbies
N.1 Read about famous people
N.2 Read about business and technology
N.3 Read about science and nature
N.4 Read about history
O.1 Put the sentences in order
O.2 Order items from most general to most specific
O.3 Organise information by main idea
O.4 Remove the sentence that does not belong
P.1 Choose the best topic sentence
P.2 Choose the best concluding sentence
Q.1 Identify time-order words
Q.2 Use coordinating conjunctions
Q.3 Use subordinating conjunctions
Q.4 Choose the best transition
R.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
R.2 Identify an author’s statement of opinion
R.3 Choose reasons to support an opinion
R.4 Identify supporting details in literary texts
R.5 Identify supporting details in informational texts
R.6 Identify and correct plagiarism
S.1 Show character emotions and traits
S.2 Revise the sentence using a stronger verb
T.1 Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes
T.2 Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis-
T.3 Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
T.4 Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less
T.5 Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness
T.6 Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment
T.7 Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review
T.8 Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review
U.1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
U.2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
U.3 Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
U.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
U.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
U.6 Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings
V.1 Form compound words
V.2 Form and use compound words
W.1 Select the members of a group
W.2 Select the words that don’t belong
X.1 Choose the synonym
X.2 Which sentence has the same meaning?
X.3 Find synonyms in context
X.4 Choose the antonym
X.5 Which sentence uses an antonym?
X.6 Find antonyms in context
Y.1 Homophones with pictures
Y.2 Identify homophones
Y.3 Use the correct homophone
Z.1 Which definition matches the sentence?
Z.2 Which sentence matches the definition?
AA.1 Describe the difference between related words
AA.2 Positive and negative connotation
BB.1 Find words using context
BB.2 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
BB.3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
BB.4 Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
CC.1 Order alphabetically based on the first letter
CC.2 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
CC.3 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
CC.4 Order alphabetically: challenge
CC.5 Use guide words
CC.6 Use dictionary entries
CC.7 Use dictionary definitions
CC.8 Use thesaurus entries
DD.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
DD.2 Identify the complete subject of a sentence
DD.3 Identify the complete predicate of a sentence
DD.4 Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
DD.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
DD.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
DD.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
DD.8 Is the sentence simple or compound?
DD.9 Order the words to create a sentence
EE.1 Which word is a noun?
EE.2 Identify nouns
EE.3 Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
EE.4 Identify common and proper nouns
EE.5 Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
EE.6 Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
EE.7 Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
EE.8 Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
EE.9 Is the noun singular or plural?
EE.10 Form and use irregular plurals
EE.11 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
EE.12 Form the singular or plural possessive
EE.13 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
FF.1 Identify personal pronouns
FF.2 Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
FF.3 Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
FF.4 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’
FF.5 Identify possessive pronouns
FF.6 Use possessive pronouns
FF.7 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
FF.8 Use reflexive pronouns
FF.9 Identify relative pronouns
FF.10 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
FF.11 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
GG.1 Use action verbs
GG.2 Identify action verbs
GG.3 Identify main verbs and helping verbs
GG.4 What does the modal verb show?
GG.5 Use the correct modal verb
HH.1 Is the subject singular or plural?
HH.2 Use the correct subject or verb
HH.3 Pronoun-verb agreement
HH.4 Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects
II.1 Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
II.2 Identify verbs in the regular past tense
II.3 Form and use the regular past tense
II.4 Identify the irregular past tense
II.5 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1
II.6 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
II.7 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3
II.8 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4
II.9 To be: use the correct form
II.10 To have: use the correct form
II.11 Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
II.12 Change the sentence to future tense
II.13 Use the progressive verb tenses
II.14 Form the progressive verb tenses
II.15 Choose between the past tense and past participle
II.16 Use the perfect verb tenses
II.17 Form the perfect verb tenses
JJ.1 Use the correct article: a or an
JJ.2 Use the correct article: a, an or the
JJ.3 Identify articles
KK.1 Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
KK.2 Identify the adjective that describes the noun
KK.3 Identify adjectives
KK.4 Order adjectives
KK.5 Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
KK.6 Identify adverbs
KK.7 Use relative adverbs
KK.8 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
KK.9 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
KK.10 Use adverbs to compare
KK.11 Spell adjectives that compare
KK.12 Use adjectives with more and most
KK.13 Use adjectives to compare
LL.1 Identify prepositions
LL.2 Identify prepositions and their objects
LL.3 Identify prepositional phrases
LL.4 Prepositions: review
MM.1 Identify coordinating conjunctions
MM.2 Identify subordinating conjunctions
NN.1 Pronoun-verb contractions
NN.2 Contractions with ‘not’
OO.1 Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words
PP.1 Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect
PP.2 Capitalising days, months and holidays
PP.3 Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
PP.4 Capitalising proper adjectives, nationalities and languages
QQ.1 Greetings and closings of letters
QQ.2 Capitalising titles
QQ.3 Formatting titles
QQ.4 Formatting and capitalising titles