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Kerala State Syllabus (SCERT) Class 4 syllabus

The Kerala State Syllabus (SCERT) Class 4 syllabus for 2026-27, subject by subject: 98 topics to work through. On SkillStar, Class 4 children also get 1 mock test marked instantly and sample papers to download.

Class
Class 4 (Grade 4)
Syllabus years
2026-27
Topics
98
Mock tests
1
Downloads
14

Kerala State Syllabus (SCERT) Class 4 syllabus 2026-27

Malayalam

  • ചിറകുള്ള ബസ്സ്: Read the short poem imagining children's waving hands as a bus's wings. Explain the image and describe the excitement of a journey.
  • മുന്നറിയിപ്പ്: Read the humorous poem about sights that differ from a traveller's expectations. Notice its repeating pattern and explain the contrast in simple language.
  • സൈക്കിളുചവിട്ടാൻ: Read the poem about an imaginary bicycle journey to the Moon. Perform its dialogue with rhythm and distinguish fantasy from an everyday journey.
  • ഹലോ... ഉറക്കെപ്പാടൂ: Read Pattoos's flying adventure and follow the conversations and changing feelings. Retell the events and write suitable dialogue for the characters.
  • കാത്തിരിപ്പ്: Read the verse expressing a mother's worry while waiting for her child. Identify the questions and feelings and practise expressive recitation.
  • നീലഗിരിയുടെ റാണി: Read the family's journey on the Nilgiri heritage train. Identify details about the route and scenery and write a short travel description.
  • ആശംസ: Read the verse about moving forward despite rain and thunder. Explain the image of a waiting Onam and recite the lines with expression.
  • ഇഷ്ടം: Read the passage expressing affection for the Earth and its varied experiences. Identify descriptive expressions and write a few connected sentences about things you love.
  • വാവ ജീവനെ കാക്കുന്നു: Read the poem about a child worrying for birds caught in a storm. Explain the child's feelings and describe an act of care for living things.
  • യുദ്ധം അത്ര നല്ലതല്ല: Read the child's attempt to form an army in the story. Follow the characters' responses and discuss the story's message about peace.
  • നക്ഷത്രങ്ങളിലേക്ക് മിഴിതുറന്നൊരാൾ: Read the account of Stephen Hawking's life and determination to keep learning. Arrange important events and prepare a short profile using the information in the text.
  • തെയ്യതിന്തക: Recite the poem with its repeating rhythmic refrain. Connect its pictures of isolation and everyday life with the passage's pandemic setting and explain the feelings conveyed.
  • നിർഭയ: Read the short poem and its picture of a small creature facing a great machine. Explain the contrasting images and write a simple response about protecting nature.
  • കാറ്റു പറഞ്ഞത്: Read the poem addressed to the wind and recognise how it is imagined as a companion. Identify sensory descriptions and compose a few lines about a familiar natural experience.
  • കുട്ടിയുടെ പുഴ: Read the imaginative story in which a child's drawn line becomes a river. Retell the changes and describe the connection between a picture and imagination.
  • കറുമ്പിപ്പയ്യ്: Read the poem's imagined little cow inside a grain and compare its images. Recite with rhythm and explain the playful use of imagination.
  • കാന്താരിക്കുട്ടിയും കൂട്ടുകാരും: Read the invitation and the speech involving vegetable characters. Identify the features of a friendly letter and practise preparing a short invitation or speech.
  • മണിയപ്പന്റെ മഴു: Read the poem about a woodcutter and the living things connected with a tree. Explain the different viewpoints and write a short response about people's needs and nature.
  • നഞ്ച്: Compare the Muthuvan poem with its Malayalam translation about poisoning a stream. Discuss its environmental message and identify how the two versions express the same events.
  • കളിമാറാപ്പ്: Sing the folk-style poem naming traditional games. Notice its refrain and rhythm and add suitable lines about games you know.
  • കാട്ടിലെ കായികോത്സവം: Read the forest animals' plan for a sports festival and follow how they organise it. Retell the events and practise writing a notice or programme for a similar event.
  • ഒളിമ്പിക്സ് പരിശീലനം: Read the humorous story about a child and grandmother preparing for the Olympics. Perform the dialogue and describe how the characters encourage one another.
  • സമഭാവന: Read the verse contrasting unequal power with human care and fairness. Explain its message and connect it with the teacher's related oral-story activity.
  • പാവയൂണ്: Read the poem about preparing a pretend feast and welcoming guests. Follow the playful scenes and recite the poem with rhythm and expression.
  • ചോദ്യം: Read the illustrated exchanges between animals and notice how questions can sound unkind. Rewrite or act out the conversations using considerate words.
  • കള്ളം: Read the poem's unusual examples of saying something different to spare another person's feelings. Discuss the situations and explain the difference between literal words and their caring intention.
  • നേരും നുണയും: Read the story involving stolen silver spoons and a compassionate response. Follow the characters' choices and explain what the ending suggests about truth and kindness.
  • വെറുംതൊട്ടിലാട്ടാതെ കാറ്റേ: Read the lullaby and recognise the images of a sleeping child and the wind. Recite softly with rhythm and explain how the poem conveys affection.
  • കുഞ്ഞുണ്ണിയുടെ മീൻകുഞ്ഞുങ്ങൾ: Read Kunjunni's experience with fish from the stream. Retell the events and explain the characters' feelings about care and freedom.
  • ഇന്ത്യ: പല ഭാഷകളിലെ പാട്ട്: Listen to and compare the short song about India in Tamil, Kannada and Hindi. Recognise its shared meaning and discuss how different languages express affection for the same country.
  • ഒറ്റപ്പൂങ്കാവിൽ: Read the poem comparing varied flowers with people. Explain its message about diversity and shared humanity and practise expressive recitation.
  • നമ്മൾ ഇന്ത്യക്കാർ: Read the classroom discussion preparing for Republic Day. Identify the ideas about the Constitution and citizenship and prepare a short speech from the passage.
  • ഗാന്ധിത്തൊടൽമാല: Read the poem recalling Gandhi's visit and the excitement around it. Identify the speaker's memories and sensory images and recite with expression.
  • എനിക്കൊരു മാമ്പഴം: Read the memoir about childhood games and mangoes. Identify details of life in the past and write a short memory or an account gathered from an elder.

English

  • Little Hands, Big Courage: Read how Dilna gets help when her mother collapses. Sequence the events, describe feelings and practise a clear conversation asking a trusted adult or emergency service for help.
  • Everyday Heroes: Read the poem about people who help others in daily life. Identify rhyming words and describe a helpful person using simple lines.
  • The Trick of Kichu: Read how Kichu the rabbit uses a mirror to face a threatening wolf. Retell the problem and solution and write suitable dialogue for the characters.
  • The Rainbow People: Read the story of a village divided by colours and reunited through sharing. Compare the characters' feelings and explain the message through a short retelling.
  • Ants: Read the poem about ants finding ways around obstacles. Notice its rhymes and explain what their persistence can teach us.
  • Who Flies the Kite?: Read the discussion about the kite, wind, tail and string. Describe each contribution and retell how the characters recognise teamwork.
  • The Colourful Treasure: Read how Didi brings books into the lives of children living near a rubbish dump. Sequence the events and describe how reading changes their world.
  • Good Books: Read the poem presenting books as loyal friends. Identify personification and rhymes and write simple lines about a favourite book.
  • A Book for Puchku: Read Puchku's attempts to reach the books on a high shelf. Retell the events and describe how she finds help.
  • The Stone Soup: Read how a traveller encourages villagers to share ingredients for a meal. Sequence the preparation and explain the difference between the supposed magic and cooperation.
  • Being Healthy: Read the poem about daily hygiene and food habits. Notice its repeated pattern and rhymes and compose simple lines about a healthy routine.
  • The Runaway Pancake: Read the picture story about a pancake escaping from those who want to eat it. Follow the repeated conversations and retell the chase in order.
  • Journey of the Raindrop: Read the raindrop's journey from a cloud to Earth and back. Describe the stages using simple sequence words and write a short imaginative account.
  • Where Go the Boats?: Read the poem about a river and floating boats. Identify its colours and movement and recite it with rhythm and expression.
  • Helping Cloud: Read how the cloud responds to the needs of birds, children and a farmer. Retell the events and describe the changes brought by rain.

Mathematics

  • Lines and Shapes: drawing figures: Identify straight and curved lines in pictures and make shapes using sticks, strings and a geoboard. Draw and compare simple figures using a ruler.
  • Lines and Shapes: rectangles and squares: Compare the sides and corners of rectangles and squares. Measure their sides, construct examples and recognise a square as a special rectangle.
  • Beyond Thousand: Read, write and represent four-digit numbers and count beyond 9999 into ten-thousands. Use an abacus, money and number patterns to explain place value.
  • How Many Numbers: Read, compare and order numbers using thousands and ten-thousands. Compose and split numbers in different ways and solve place-value puzzles.
  • Roman Numerals: Recognise and write the Roman numerals introduced in the textbook. Compare them with familiar Hindu-Arabic numerals and use their writing patterns.
  • Increasing Numbers: Add numbers using place value, regrouping and mental strategies. Solve everyday total and missing-number problems and explain alternative methods.
  • It's Time: reading clocks: Read analogue and digital clocks using hours, minutes and seconds. Relate the hands and display to familiar daily events.
  • It's Time: time intervals: Calculate simple durations and finishing times. Use the relationships between seconds, minutes and hours in practical problems.
  • It's Time: calendars: Find dates and days using a calendar and recognise patterns across weeks. Answer practical questions about dates and events.
  • Decreasing Numbers: Subtract numbers using regrouping and suitable mental or written methods. Solve difference, change and money problems and check answers using addition.
  • Mighty Multiplication: Use arrays and place-value splitting to multiply numbers. Apply multiplication to bills, equal packets and other practical situations and explain the methods used.
  • Measuring Lengths: centimetres and millimetres: Measure lengths accurately using a ruler and relate centimetres to millimetres. Add and compare measurements and find lengths even with a broken ruler.
  • Measuring Lengths: metres and kilometres: Use metres and kilometres for longer distances and convert between the units introduced in the book. Solve practical journey and total-length problems.
  • Equal Group: Use equal sharing and grouping to understand division and its connection with multiplication. Divide by splitting numbers into useful parts and solve practical money and distribution problems.
  • Measuring Weights: Measure and compare masses using kilograms and grams. Convert simple measures and solve problems involving shopping, bags and balances.
  • Pictures Tell a Tale: Read and prepare tables and picture displays, including symbols representing several objects. Use the data to compare groups, calculate totals and explain findings.

Environmental Science

  • Organisms and Surroundings: adaptations: Observe features that help plants and animals live in water, on land and in other surroundings. Compare familiar examples and record evidence in an observation diary.
  • Habitats and Ecosystems: Distinguish natural and human-made habitats and identify their living and non-living components. Describe simple examples of dependence among organisms in an ecosystem.
  • Pollution and Habitat Protection: Identify activities that pollute soil, water and air or damage habitats. Suggest practical ways to reduce waste and protect local surroundings.
  • Natural Disasters and Preparedness: Recognise examples such as floods and landslides and discuss their effects on people and habitats. Explain the importance of official warnings, safe behaviour and getting adult help.
  • India's Freedom Struggle: Follow the textbook's account of colonial rule and major events in India's freedom struggle. Arrange events in order and identify the contributions of the leaders introduced.
  • The Constitution and Republic Day: Explain why independent India adopted a Constitution and recognise the significance of Republic Day. Identify simple examples of citizens' rights, duties and democratic government.
  • States and Union Territories: Locate Indian states and Union Territories on a map and match the names and capitals introduced in the textbook. Use map clues to compare locations.
  • India's Cultural Diversity: Explore examples of India's languages, clothing and art forms. Describe how people can share a national identity while maintaining different traditions.
  • National Anthem and National Song: Recognise India's National Anthem and National Song and the writers associated with them. Learn respectful participation and distinguish the two works.
  • Winged Buddies: observing birds: Identify familiar birds using colour, body features, calls and movement. Keep a simple birdwatching note with a drawing and observed details.
  • Birds' Food and Adaptations: Compare birds' beaks and feet and relate them to collecting food and movement. Use pictures and observations to explain differences.
  • Bird Habitats and Migration: Compare birds' nests and habitats and recognise seasonal migration. Relate nest materials and locations to the needs of different birds.
  • Birds and the Environment: Explain birds' roles in their surroundings and recognise threats to them. Learn about birdwatchers introduced in the book and suggest ways to protect birds.
  • Kerala's Performing Arts: Recognise the dance and performance traditions introduced in the book. Compare their costumes, instruments and ways of performing using pictures and local examples.
  • Kerala's Songs and Festivals: Explore folk and community songs and familiar celebrations, including Onam. Record information about a local celebration and describe respectful participation in different traditions.
  • Solids and Liquids: Compare solids and liquids by shape, mass and the space they occupy. Use simple supervised observations to group familiar materials.
  • Air and Its Properties: Investigate evidence that air occupies space, has mass and can exert force. Observe moving air and discuss its uses and components at the level introduced in the book.
  • Changes in States of Matter: Observe melting, freezing, evaporation and condensation through safe activities. Relate changes of state to familiar materials and daily experiences.
  • Earth's Rotation and Revolution: Use simple models to distinguish Earth's rotation from its movement around the Sun. Connect these movements with a day and a year.
  • The Solar System: Recognise the Sun, planets and satellites as parts of the solar system. Distinguish a planet from a satellite and use pictures or a sky-viewing app to explore their positions.
  • Moon Phases: Observe and record the Moon's changing appearance. Use simple light-and-ball models to explore full moon and new moon without looking directly at the Sun.
  • Space Exploration: Recognise the spacecraft and exploration examples introduced in the textbook. Collect simple information and describe how observations help us learn about space.
  • Calendars and Months: Use Gregorian and Kollavarsham calendars to identify dates, weekdays and months. Compare month lengths and notice the relationship between calendar entries and familiar seasonal events.
  • Finding Directions: Identify the cardinal and intermediate directions using the Sun's apparent position and a compass. Apply them to describe positions and routes in familiar surroundings.
  • Plans and Maps: Represent a classroom or locality using a simple plan, signs and symbols. Read the direction marks and features of a local map.
  • Kerala's Land and Water: Use maps to locate Kerala's districts and neighbouring regions. Distinguish rivers and lakes and identify familiar land and water features.
  • Local History and School Life: Use accounts, pictures and conversations with elders to compare schools and daily life in the past and present. Arrange evidence into a short local-history note.
  • Transport Then and Now: Compare earlier and present-day roads and vehicles. Describe how changes in transport affect travel and everyday life.
  • Communication and Technology: Compare older writing and communication tools with present-day devices. Explore examples of machines and artificial intelligence in the textbook and discuss how work changes.
  • Work and Cooperation: Identify the different jobs needed to provide a service or operate a vehicle. Describe how workers depend on one another and show respect for all work.
  • Local Self-Government: Identify a ward and the local body serving the neighbourhood. Describe familiar public services and how people can take part in local decisions.
  • Equal Rights and Accessible Public Places: Recognise barriers that prevent people from using schools and public facilities. Explain the need for equal opportunities, ramps, suitable toilets and other accessible facilities.
  • Public Health: Past and Present: Compare the textbook's examples of illness outbreaks and responses over time. Describe the value of clean surroundings, public services and cooperation during a community health challenge.

About the Kerala State Syllabus (SCERT) exam

How the exam works

This category follows Kerala's revised SCERT Standard 4 curriculum. Learning and school assessments use textbook reading, activities, discussion and written tasks. Confirm the current assessment scheme and arrangements with the school.

Official syllabus and textbooks

Read the official class textbooks and current examination notices.

When it happens

Class 4 assessment dates and reporting arrangements are set or communicated through the school. Ask the class teacher for the current term schedule. The official 2025–26 first-term model papers linked here are practice resources; their year and printed timings do not announce a 2026–27 assessment date.

Registration and exam-day information

Confirm attendance, required stationery, any permitted materials and reporting time with the class teacher. Read the activity choices carefully, use the paper's printed reading or cool-off time, and follow the teacher's instructions.

Official textbook parts and study instructions

Use both parts of the revised SCERT Standard 4 Malayalam and English readers, Mathematics and Environmental Science. The linked mathematics and EVS books are English-medium editions; Malayalam and other available language or medium options are on the official indexes. Read the lesson, complete its activities and revise using the questions in the book.

Using the lesson checklist

Malayalam's six broad units are expanded into individual poems, stories and reading activities; the multilingual song is kept as one comparative listening activity. English includes the main stories, poems and additional readings. Distinct Mathematics and Environmental Science concepts have separate lessons. Read with expression, keep written work and EVS observations in a portfolio, and use safe, supervised practical activities with a teacher or parent.

Official model papers and practice guidance

Downloads includes all nine Class 4 files from SCERT's 2025–26 first-term model collection: Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, English, Sanskrit, Mathematics in English and Malayalam, and EVS in English and Malayalam. Use the paper for the child's subject and medium. Follow its printed duration, reading time and optional activities; these vary across papers. These are first-term model papers, so use the full textbooks for coverage of the whole year. No separate official answer keys are linked against these nine files in that collection.

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What is in the Kerala State Syllabus (SCERT) Class 4 syllabus for 2026-27?
98 topics in Malayalam, English, Mathematics and Environmental Science, laid out subject by subject on this page. On SkillStar your child can tick off each topic as they learn it.
Are there Kerala State Syllabus (SCERT) Class 4 mock tests on SkillStar?
Yes, 1 mock test. Each one is marked the moment your child finishes, with a question-by-question review, and can be taken again as often as they like.
Can I download Kerala State Syllabus (SCERT) Class 4 papers?
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