English Year Three Planning Term One
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
School Stories
Explore the structure and content of a story with a familiar setting that takes place in a school, compose poems that play with language about aspects of school life and investigate the spelling of prefixes and how to use conjunctions in sentences
(A) Story Places
Respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary, practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to word roots and learn how to join sentences using conjunctions
(B) 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
(C) Story Writing
Plan and write a story using familiar settings based on a book by a significant author, practise building words using roots and the prefixes il and ir and use nouns in sentences with matching determinants
(D) School Poems
Read and write tongue twisters, humorous poems and word play poetry on the theme of schools, identify word roots that can be changed by adding different prefixes and rehearse and perform a poem to the class
Theme Two
Amazing Animals
Investigate how authors use characters in stories about animals, explore the structure of alphabetically ordered texts, learn spellings of words with prefixes and how to link sentence clauses using conjunctions
(E) Sand Horses
Investigate how authors illustrate characters and narrate plot events using direct speech when writing stories, practise adding prefixes to word roots and punctuate direct speech sentences
(F) Whales Song
Explore how authors use dialogue to illustrate the actions and thoughts of story characters and narrate plot events, practise adding prefixes to word roots and punctuate dialogue sentences
(G) Animal Facts
Explore and record the structure of alphabetically ordered texts using encyclopaedia entries about different animals
(H) Animal Encyclopaedia
design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals, match prefixes and word roots, learn how to retrieve information from non-fiction texts and link sentence clauses using conjunctions
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition
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Recycling
Research and present some of the benefits and disadvantages that can be produced when recycling different materials at home and in school
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Viking Pots
Develop and refine a range of different art and design techniques when working with clay to make pots that represent Viking culture and traditions