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English Year Three Planning
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
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Animal Encyclopaedia
Design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals found in the world
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Story Sales
Produce radio commercials and posters using persuasive language based on traditional stories to sell food snacks
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Story Snacks
Design some print adverts using persuasive language that can be used to sell merchandise based on traditional tales
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Story Adverts
Investigate and describe the use of persuasive language that can be used in adverts linked to traditional tales
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Story Fables
Explore and describe some of the different characters settings and events that can feature in traditional fables that teach the reader a moral lesson
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Story Swaps
Practise writing and editing an alternative version of a traditional story by swapping characters, settings and plot events
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Sand Horses
Investigate how authors illustrate characters and narrate plot events using direct speech when writing stories
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School Poems
Read and write tongue twisters, humorous poems and word play poetry on the theme of schools
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School Story Writing
Plan and write a story using familiar settings based on a book by a significant author about what might happen in a school
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Story Characters
Explore how authors describe and use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to roots, match determinants to nouns and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses
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Story Changes
Read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
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Roman Myths
Investigate the structure and language of narrative stories written as myths, practise adding the suffix ly to word roots and extend sentences using conjunctions to express cause
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Rainforest Life
Identify and describe the physical and human geographical features of tropical rainforests and make comparisons with other locations around the world
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World Countries
Research and add facts and information to sentences using brackets about some of the different countries that can be found around the world
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Sports Poems
Explain and model how to compose and present poems using special line structures and rhyming patterns to illustrate actions and themes connected to different sports
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Bonfire Party
Select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night