Fiction
4 Units
Stories by the Same Author
Read I'll Take You to Mrs Cole and other stories by Michael Foreman. Write a new version. Study dialogue, verbs, and conjunctions for time, place, cause.
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Year 3 Flexible English
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The National Curriculum content 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 English curriculum, with an emphasis on introducing the core text, comprehension, composition or SPAG. You can navigate back to Hamilton's weekly plans by selecting your year group on the green bar above.
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Fiction
5 Units
Classic Fiction
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.
Non-fiction
5 Units
Reports
Read reports about studio tours of HP films. Understand features of reports, study conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs. Look at Hogwarts students’ school reports, write a report on the school.
Poetry
6 Units
Poetic Forms
Listen to performance poems and explore their features. Use conjunctions indicating time and cause. Investigate negative prefixes, informal language and rhymes. Write a rap.
Fiction
5 Units
Myths and Legends
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.
Non-fiction
5 Units
Recounts
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.