Long Term Plan for English Y3

Long Term Plan for English Y3

Fiction / Non-fiction / Poetry
Autumn / Stories by the Same Author – Michael Foreman
Essential books:
I’ll Take You to Mrs Coles by M Foreman
Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish by M Foreman
A selection of other booksby M Foreman
Grammar includes:
Extending the range of sentences with more than clause. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Use and punctuate direct speech. / Instructions and Explanations
Essential books:
Various explanation and instruction texts see plan
Grammar includes:
Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause. / Creating Images
Essential books:
Various poems - provided
Grammar includes:
Choose nouns appropriately. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Use adverbs appropriately.
Stories from other cultures
Essential books:
Seasons of Splendour by M Jaffery
The Tiger Child by J Troughton
The Old Man and the Magic Bowl Hamilton Group Reader
Grammar includes:
Use prepositions to express time, place and cause. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. / Non-chronological reports
Essential books:
Various non-fiction books about sport
Example of fictional story about footballer or dancer, e.g. Horrid Henry and the Football Fiendsee plan
Grammar includes:
Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Use conjunctions to express time or cause. / Humorous Poems
Essential books:
Various poems - provided
Grammar includes:
Identify and use verbs correctly. Use adverbs appropriately. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2.
Roman Myths
Essential books:
Orchard Book of Roman Myths by G McCaughrean
Romulus and Remus Hamilton Group Reader
Grammar includes:
Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Use and punctuate direct speech. Express meaning using adverbs. Using conjunctions to express time and cause. / Newspaper Reports
Essential books:
The Roman Record by P Dowswell
Escape from Pompeii by C Balit
Grammar includes:
Use the present form of verbs in contrast to the past tense. Use adverbs to express time and cause. Use and punctuate direct speech. / Poems from Around the World
Essential books:
Let’s Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the Worldedited by D Chatterjee and Brian D’arcy
The Works by P Cookson
Grammar includes:
Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Use fronted adverbials appropriately.
Letters
Essential books:
Dear Father Christmas by A Durant
Christmas Story Hamilton Group Reader
Grammar includes:
Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Choose nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition. Use the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition.
Fiction / Non-fiction / Poetry
Spring / Stories about imaginary worlds
Essential books:
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl (plus DVD)
Grammar includes:
Introducing the idea of tense in verbs. Using pronouns for cohesion and to avoid repetition and ambiguity. Using dialogue punctuation. / Recounts
Essential books:
The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine
Grammar includes;
Using adverbs and adverbials. Creating complex sentences. Using commas after or before phrases and clauses. Using and punctuating direct speech. / Traditional Poems
Essential books:
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Grammar includes:
Introducing the idea of tense in verbs. Using prepositions to express time or place. Writing sentences with more than one clause using a wider range of connectives.
Myths and Legends – Greek Myths
Essential books:
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths by GMcCaughrean
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Hamilton Book of Traditional Talesavailable from
Grammar includes:
Using powerful verbs and beginning to recognising the concept of a verb. Understanding that writing can be 3rd or 1st person. Using and punctuating direct speech. / Non-chronological Reports
Essential books:
Selection of Harry Potter books by J K Rowling
Grammar includes:
Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause (compound complex sentences). Using commas after or before phrases and clauses. Using pronouns to avoid repetition or ambiguity and add clarity and cohesion. / Performance Poems
Essential books:
Various performance poems - provided
Grammar includes:
Using and recognising nouns, adjectives and adjectival phrases. Using conjunctions to express time and cause. Using the possessive apostrophe with singular and plural nouns.
Myths and Legends – Arthurian Legends
Essential books:
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
Walt Disney DVD of the Sword in the Stone Director Wolfgang Reitherman
Grammar includes:
Using and punctuating direct speech. Learning the grammar for yrs3 and 4 in English Appendix 2. Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately. / Instructions and Explanations
Essential books:
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by CM Millen
Purple is Best Hamilton Group Reader
Grammar includes:
Indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe. Using prepositions to express time and cause. Using commas correctly. / Poetry to express emotions
Essential books:
Michael Rosen’s A to Z by Michael Rosen
Grammar includes:
Using and understanding the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 of the curriculum. Punctuating direct speech. Using the past tense consistently in contrast to the present. Using adverbs to express cause.
Fiction / Non-fiction / Poetry
Summer / Adventure Stories
Essential books:
The Hodgehegby Dick King-Smith
Grammar includes:
Using fronted adverbials, including using commas after fronted adverbials. Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, e.g. when, if, because, although. / Persuasive writing
Essential books:
TV recordings – record a programme such as Milkshake on Channel 5 which features lots of adverts aimed at chn
Grammar includes:
Extending a range of sentence with more than one clause by using a wider range of connectives. Using conjunctions appropriately. / Traditional poems
Essential books:
Poems needed are provided
Grammar includes:
Using and understanding the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Recognising and identifying prepositions to indicate time and place. Using fronted adverbials, including using commas after fronted adverbials.
Plays and dialogues
Essential books:
Proverbs animated tale provided with plan
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl The Witches: Plays for Children adapted by David Wood
A selection of other Roald Dahl books/ playscripts
Grammar includes:
Using and understanding the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2. Using adverbs correctly. Using and punctuating direct speech. / Non-chronological reports
Essential books:
Chn bring in written material relating to their favourite computer game
Grammar includes:
Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions, prepositions and adverbs. Identifying and using past and present tense correctly. Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause. / Shape poems
Essential books:
Various performance poems - provided
Grammar includes:
Indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with singular and plural nouns. Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of connectives.
Rivers, mountains and coasts
Essential books:
Dolphin Boy by Michael Morpurgo
The Sandman and the Turtles by Michael Morpurgo
Grammar includes:
Revising the use of adjectives in extended noun phrases. Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause. Using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense. / Recounts
Essential books:
The Magical Garden of Claude Monet by Laurence Anholt
The Journey by Neil Griffiths
Grammar includes:
Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause. Using and punctuating direct speech. Learning the grammar requirements for Y3 and Y4 in English Appendix 2. / Animal poems
Essential books:
The Works published by Macmillan
Grammar includes:
Using the grammatical terminology outlined in English Appendix 2. Using conjunctions and prepositions to express time and cause. Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using conjunctions.