English Year Three Planning Term Three
Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Three in Key Stage Two covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes
Theme One
Traditional Tales
Investigate the structure and content of traditional tales, use persuasive writing to create adverts linked to narrative stories, identify words with common spellings and punctuate direct speech
(A) Story Changes
Read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families to support spelling of common words and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech based on The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
(B) Story Swaps
Practise writing and editing an alternative version of a traditional story by swapping characters, settings and plot events, spell families of words with prefixes and suffixes and punctuate direct speech in dialogue
(C) Story Fables
Explore and describe some of the different characters settings and events that can feature in traditional fables, identify families of words with common spellings and practise punctuating direct speech in sentences
(D) Story Adverts
Investigate and describe the use of persuasive language used in adverts linked to traditional tales, explore the spelling of words with the tion suffix and practise using headings to present information about different subjects in a text
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Space Race
Explore how the space race in the 1950s and 1960s heralded a number of technological, cultural and political changes and advancements in the world
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Moses
Explore and record the life and achievements of Moses from the Old Testament in the Christian Bible and his impact on the development of Christianity
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Number Thousands
Compare, order and sequence different sets of four digits numbers by using the place value of their numerical digits including counting in steps of thousands