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Grade 4 🌟 How to Use This Plan
1️⃣ Choose the books you want to start with — or follow the order we suggest.
2️⃣ Explore the skills each book builds — comprehension, vocabulary, empathy, creativity, and early academic thinking.
3️⃣ Add the matching Jool companion workbook — these transform each story into structured learning with writing tasks, vocabulary, and projects.
📘 You also receive a FREE Jool workbook voucher in your email to help you get started.
📚 Grade 4/Year 5 Literature Plan
Grade 4/Year 5 (UK): Challenging Novels and Analytical Skills
Jool: Grade 4 introduces more challenging texts such as The Graveyard
Book and Northern Lights, while balancing them with imaginative works
like Percy Jackson and Boy Giant. Students begin to write more
sophisticated essays and practice advanced comprehension and analysis
skills.
U.S/UK Equivalent: These topics are usually covered in Grade 6/Year 7 in the U.S/UK, as students begin to handle more complex narratives and themes.
Gap: 2 years ahead.
📘 Study this book list with:
Literature - Grade 4
Science - Grade 4
Grade 4/Year 5 (UK): Visual Exploration of Science Concepts
Textbook: How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Focus: Dive deeper into the structure and functions of the human body.
Key Topics:
• Anatomy of major systems (digestive, respiratory, circulatory)
• Introduction to health and nutrition
• Basic cell structure and functions
• The senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch)
Additional Book: Basher Science: The Complete Periodic Table: All the
Elements with Style!
Goal: Solidify understanding of physics concepts while introducing early
chemistry.
Gap: 3 years ahead of U.S/UK curriculum.
📘 Study this book list with:
Science - Grade 4
🏛️ Grade 4 History & Society
Year 5: The Early Modern Period
Textbook: Story of the World 3 by Susan Wise Bauer
Focus: Explore the period from the Renaissance through to the early
modern era, including global exploration, colonisation, and cultural
transformations.
Key Topics:
• The Renaissance and Reformation
• Age of Exploration and early colonisation
• Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
Goal: Learn how early modern history shaped the foundations of the
modern world through intellectual and cultural revolutions.
📘 Study this book list with:
History - Grade 4
📚✨ Get the FULL Jool Reading List ✨📚
At Jool, we believe every student deserves inspiring, challenging books that prepare them for success. That’s why we offer a free reading list curated by our expert educators to support academic growth and exam prep like AP Literature and GCSEs 🎓. Let’s make learning extraordinary.
Enjoy,
James
Principal & Founder, Jool
