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

(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

(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

  • Valentine Gifts

    Valentine Gifts

    Investigate and practise different techniques to shape and combine materials when producing models to make gifts to give to someone special for Valentine’s Day

  • Valentine Boxes

    Valentine Boxes

    Practise using nets of cube and cuboid shapes and a range of materials to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts for someone special

  • Flower Bouquet

    Flower Bouquet

    Produce a bouquet of paper flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day by shaping and combining a range of different materials

  • Valentine Hearts

    Valentine Hearts

    Design and produce Valentine’s Day card designs using layers and combinations of different shapes and materials