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

  • Animal Encyclopaedia

    Animal Encyclopaedia

    Design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals found in the world

  • Story Sales

    Story Sales

    Produce radio commercials and posters using persuasive language based on traditional stories to sell food snacks

  • Story Snacks

    Story Snacks

    Design some print adverts using persuasive language that can be used to sell merchandise based on traditional tales

  • Story Adverts

    Story Adverts

    Investigate and describe the use of persuasive language that can be used in adverts linked to traditional tales

  • Story Fables

    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

  • Story Swaps

    Story Swaps

    Practise writing and editing an alternative version of a traditional story by swapping characters, settings and plot events

  • Sand Horses

    Sand Horses

    Investigate how authors illustrate characters and narrate plot events using direct speech when writing stories

  • School Poems

    School Poems

    Read and write tongue twisters, humorous poems and word play poetry on the theme of schools

  • School Story Writing

    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

  • Story Characters

    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

  • Story Changes

    Story Changes

    Read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech

  • Roman Myths

    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

  • Shape Locations

    Shape Locations

    Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.

  • Shape Symmetry

    Shape Symmetry

    Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties

  • School Classrooms

    School Classrooms

    Explain and record how to link pairs of sentence clauses about things that might happen in a school classroom using a range of matching conjunctions

  • Animal Encyclopaedia

    Animal Encyclopaedia

    Design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals found in the world