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Year 3 follow an integrated programme of speaking and listening, reading and writing following Year 3 of the National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy. Our aim is to bridge the gap between Pre-Prep and the Prep School and help children develop reading and writing skills.
In spelling we follow on from the phonics approach used in the Pre-Prep. Words arising from the children's own work are also addressed using a variety of strategies. A variety of dictionaries and thesauruses is used. Reading is supported by class libraries and the School Library.
Pupils will study a range of genre:
- Stories with familiar settings
- Plays
- Poems based on observation and the senses
- Shape poems
- Non-fiction including informational texts
- Non-chronological reports
- Thesauruses especially the Oxford Junior thesaurus
- Dictionaries especially the Oxford Junior dictionary
- Myths
- Legends
- Fables and parables
- Traditional stories
- Stories with related themes
- Oral and performance poetry from different cultures
- Instructions
- Adventure and mystery stories
- Stories by the same author
- Humorous poetry and poetry that plays with language
- Word puzzles
- Puns and riddles
- Letters written for a range of purposes
- Alphabetic texts including directories, encyclopaedias and indexes
Pupils will:
- Learn to change the way they speak and write to suit different purposes and audiences.
- Read a range of texts and respond to different purposes and audiences.
- Explore the use of language in literary and non-literary texts and learn how language works.
- Learn how to speak in a range of contexts, adapting what they say and how they say it to the purpose and the audience.
- Learn to respond appropriately to others, thinking about what has been said and the language used.
- Read enthusiastically a range of materials and use their knowledge of words, sentences and texts to understand and respond to the meaning.
- Increase their ability to read challenging and lengthy texts independently.
- Reflect on the meaning of texts, analysing and discussing them with others.
- Develop understanding that writing is essential to both thinking and learning, and enjoyable in its own right.
- Learn the main rules and conventions of written English and start to explore how the English language can be used to express meanings in different ways.
- Use the planning, drafting and editing process to improve their work and to sustain their fiction and non-fiction writing.
During the year, pupils’ performance will be assessed by a variety of methods:
- Oral work
- Written work, including planning and drafting
- Contribution to group work
- Diagnostic spelling and reading tests
- ICT
YEAR 3 English Programme of Work
Speaking
- Choose and prepare poems or stories for performance, identifying appropriate expression, tone, volume and use of voices and other sounds
- Explain process or present information, ensuring items are clearly sequenced, relevant details are included and accounts ended effectively
- Sustain conversation, explain or give reasons for their views or choices
- Develop and use specific vocabulary in different contexts
Listening and Responding
- Follow up others' points and show whether they agree or disagree in whole–class discussion
- Identify the presentational features used to communicate the main points in a broadcast
- Identify key sections of an informative broadcast, noting how the language used signals changes or transitions in focus
Group discussion and interaction
- Use discussion to organise roles and action
- Actively include and respond to all members of the group
- Use the language of possibility to investigate and reflect on feelings, behaviour or relationships
Drama
- Present events and characters through dialogue to engage the interest of an audience
- Use some drama strategies to explore stories or issues
- Identify and discuss qualities of others' performances, including gesture, action and costume
Word Recognition (decoding and encoding)
Word recognition objectives should be covered by the end of Year 2
Word structure and spelling
- Spell high and medium frequency words
- Recognise a range of prefixes and suffixes, understanding how they modify meaning and spelling, and how they assist in decoding long, complex words
- Spell unfamiliar words using known conventions including phoneme/grapheme correspondences and morphological rules
Understanding and interpreting text
- Identify and make notes on the main points of section(s) of text
- Infer characters' feelings in fiction and consequences in logical explanations
- Identify how different texts are organised, including reference texts, magazines, leaflets, on paper and on screen
- Use syntax, context and word structure to build their store of vocabulary when reading for meaning
Engage with and respond to text
- Share and compare reasons for reading preferences, extending range of books read
- Empathise with characters and debate moral dilemmas portrayed in texts
- Identify features that writers use to provoke readers reactions
Create and shape text
- Make decisions about form and purpose, identify success criteria and use them to evaluate their own writing
- Use beginning, middle and end to write narratives in which events are sequenced logically and conflicts resolved
- Write non–narrative texts using structures of different text types
- Select and use a range of technical and descriptive vocabulary
- Use layout, format, graphics and illustrations for different purposes
Text structure and organisation
- Signal sequence, place and time to give coherence
- Group related material into paragraphs
Sentence structure and punctuation
- Show relationships of time, reason and cause, through subordination and connectives
- Compose sentences using adjectives, verbs and nouns for precision, clarity and impact
- Clarify meaning through the use of exclamation marks and speech marks
Presentation
- Write with consistency in size and proportion of letters and spacing within and between words, using the correct formation of handwriting joins
- Develop accuracy and speed when using keyboard skills to type, edit and redraft
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