I expect children to read for at least 5-10 minutes each day at home with an adult.  This provides a great opportunity for parents and carers to take an interest in their child's reading.  Try and carve out a regular time so it becomes part of their daily routine.  Perhaps straight after tea or before they watch television or log onto their gaming device.  Just listening to your child read for a short period each day will make such a difference.  If you want to develop their comprehension skills, then ask them one or two questions about what they have read.  Each week, I will send home weekly spellings.  These will be based on Y3/Y4 common exception words and words that contain spelling patterns that Y4 need to learn.  There will be a spelling dictation test on Friday.  A tried and tested strategy for helping children learn spellings is to write each spelling on a small piece of card and practise them every day.  This collection of cards will grow as more spellings are given.  Keep going back over the old spellings.  It's important they become secure rather than just learning them for a test.  Talking to a child about the meanings of spellings can be really helpful too.  In June, all Year 4 children sit the Multiplication Tables Check a government times table test.  Children will be tested on all their tables up to and including the 12x tables.  It's important that children learn their times table facts and can recall them quickly.  This will significantly help them in upper key stage 2 maths and at secondary school.  You can help your child by ensuring they spend at least 5 minutes each evening on Times Table Rock Stars.  Their login details are on the inside of the front cover of their reading records.