Year 3 English
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The LKS2 National Curriculum content for Year 3 is arranged in a mix of fiction, non-fiction and poetry blocks focusing on different text types. Blocks are divided into units, each of which covers objectives across the Year 3 English curriculum, with an emphasis on introducing the core text, comprehension, composition or SPAG.
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Through Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox, children explore plot, character and tension. They learn about direct speech and tense, and write their own exciting stories.
Classic Fiction: Fantastic Mr Fox
Read reports about Harry Potter studio tours. Understand features of reports; study conjunctions, prepositions and adverbs. Look at Hogwarts students’ school reports.
Reports: Harry Potter and Hogwarts
Listen to performance poems and explore their features. Use conjunctions indicating time and cause. Investigate negative prefixes, informal language and rhymes. Write a rap.
Performance Poetry: Performance Poems
Explore Arthurian legends through Marcia Williams’s King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Study nouns and pronouns for clarity and cohesion and direct speech.
Myths and Legends: Arthurian Legends
Through The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish and The Diary of a Killer Cat, explore and write recounts. Study adverbs for time and place and direct speech.
Recounts: Diaries and Recounts
Express emotion with Michael Rosen’s A to Z. Explore, write and perform emotional poetry. Revise verbs (including irregular verbs), simple past tense and present perfect form.
Poems on a Theme: Poetry to Express Emotion
Explore, read and write myths with The Orchard Book of Greek Myths (Geraldine McCaughrean) and Greek Myths (Marcia Williams). Practise dialogue punctuation and use conjunctions.
Myths and Legends: Greek Myths
Inspire writing in this hands-on block with the beautiful Ink Garden of Brother Theophane, learn about illuminated manuscripts and making dyes. Study conjunctions and prepositions.
Instructions and Explanations: The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
This wonderful collection loses nothing of its power to excite, enthuse and inspire. Immerse your class in these classic, timeless poems. Study verbs/tense and extend sentences.
