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

(E) Story Snacks

Design adverts using persuasive language to sell merchandise based on traditional tales, investigate spellings of words with ion endings and link and co-ordinate sentence clauses using conjunctions

(F) Story Sales

Produce radio commercials and posters using persuasive language based on traditional stories, explore words with sion endings and use the conjunctions because and although to extend sentences

  • Theme Park Visit

    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

  • Family Holiday Trips

    Family Holiday Trips

    Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world

  • Money Multiplication

    Money Multiplication

    Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems

  • Sport Teams

    Sport Teams

    Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team