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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Ancient History Finds
Explore and illustrate how to use apostrophes for possession to indicate some of the special artefacts that were owned and used in past civilizations
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Wind Turbine
Plan and write a magazine article about an environmental issue listing arguments in favour of or against the installation of a wind turbine
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Radio Commercials
Practise using persuasive language to write newspaper adverts and radio commercials to sell houses in the school’s neighbourhood
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Estate Agent
Investigate and record how to punctuate apostrophes for possession correctly in sentences that might be used by an estate agent when selling houses