Key Stage Two : 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 covering stories with familiar settings, poems that play with words, alphabetical texts and shape poetry.

Theme One : School Stories

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School Stories : Unit One : Story Places

Respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary, practise adding prefixes to word roots and join sentences using conjunctions

Recommended for Year Three

School Stories : Unit Two : Story Characters

Respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary, practise adding prefixes to word roots and join sentences using conjunctions

Recommended for Year Three

School Stories : Unit Three : Story Writing

Plan and write a story using familiar settings based on a book by a significant children’s author, practise building words with prefixes and use nouns with matching determinants

Recommended for Year Three

School Stories : Unit Four : School Poems

Read and write word play poetry on the theme of schools, identify word roots that can be changed by adding different prefixes and rehearse and perform a poem to the class

Recommended for Year Three

Theme Two : Amazing Animals (available shortly)

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Amazing Animals : Unit One : Sand Horses

Investigate how authors illustrate characters and narrate plot events using direct speech, practise adding prefixes to word roots and punctuate direct speech sentences

Recommended for Year Three

Amazing Animals : Unit Two : Whales Song

Explore how authors use dialogue to illustrate story characters and narrate plot events, practise adding prefixes to word roots and punctuate sentences using speech marks

Recommended for Year Three

Amazing Animals : Unit Three : Animal Facts

Explore the structure of alphabetically ordered texts using encyclopaedias, match prefixes to word roots and practise retrieving information from non-fiction texts

Recommended for Year Three

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  • Lost Son
    Discuss the meaning of a parable from the Bible told by Jesus about forgiving others and reflect on how to solve dilemmas in families
  • Jungle Book
    Read and answer comprehension questions using an extract from a story by a significant author
  • Roman Invasion
    Investigate some of the reasons for the growth of the Roman Empire in the past and how and why the Romans invaded ancient Britain
  • Comparing Fractions
    Identify and record how to compare and order different unit and non-unit fractions by the values of their numerators and denominators