Year 3 Long Term Plans for English |
Tell the meaning of new words. |
Read words that they have never seen before. |
Discuss how different stories are structured. |
Read a range of different types of stories and non-fiction texts. |
Use a dictionary to check the meaning of new words. |
Tell about lots of different stories they have read. |
Retell a story that they have read before out loud. |
Tell about the theme of some books. |
Prepare a poem for performance. |
Prepare a play for performance. |
Ask questions to help them understand a text. |
Check that what they are reading makes sense to me and explain what I am reading. |
Infer information about the feelings, thoughts and motives of characters from what I am reading. |
Predict what might happen from details stated and implied. |
Summarise the main ideas in a text of more than one paragraph. |
Tell how the language, structure and presentation add to the meaning of a text. |
Join in with classroom discussions. |
Find and record information from non-fiction. |
Talk about books they have read at school and at home. |
Tell what a prefix and a suffix are. |
Write lots of words that sound the same but are spelled differently. |
Spell commonly misspelled words. |
Use the possessive apostrophe. |
Check words in a dictionary. |
Write sentences that have been dictated by the teacher. |
Plan writing by discussing it before they start. |
Draft the work they are planning to complete orally and on paper. |
Create settings, characters and a plot for a story. |
Use headings and sub-headings. |
Evaluate and edit my work, checking for spelling and vocabulary errors. |
Evaluate other people’s work. |
Read work out loud in front of the class. |
Join up letters and understand which letters should be joined up. |
Write in cursive handwriting smoothly and legibly. |
Write sentences that have more than one clause. |
Use lots of conjunctions like when, if, because, although. |
Use the present perfect form of verbs. |
Use adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions to express time and cause. |
Use fronted adverbials. |
Use the grammar I have learned. |
Punctuate direct speech. |
Use the correct nouns and pronouns. |