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Grade 4 English FAL Term 3 Test 2 + Memo

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About this resource

Help your Grade 4 learner prepare for Term 3 English First Additional Language with this 40-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum and writing rubric.

The test includes:

  • Reading Comprehension – 15 marks: a narrative text assessing comprehension, vocabulary, identifying information, inference, emotive language, quoting from the text and giving opinions with reasons.
  • Creative Writing – 10 marks: writing a 5–7 sentence paragraph about a strong feeling, focusing on a clear beginning, middle and end, emotive language, sentence construction and correct punctuation.
  • Language Structures & Conventions – 15 marks: prefixes and root words, past tense, collective nouns, reflexive pronouns, simple sentences, conjunctions, subject-verb agreement, sentence types, similes and metaphors, idioms, punctuation, capital letters, colons and abbreviations.

Question types include: multiple choice, short-answer questions, quoting from a text, opinion and reasoning questions, creative writing, matching and language activities.

Total: 40 marks | Duration: 45 minutes | Full memorandum & writing rubric included | PDF format.

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