English

Simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences

Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect

Speech first punctuation and apostrophes

Writing -ed and -ing suffixes

More suffixes and silent letters

Prefixes, homonyms and homophones

Further study of the four joins

Letter strings

Building fluency in silent letters, homophones, and common exception words

Character: big, beautiful and eye words

Character: small, confident and shy words

Character: clever and clumsy words

Developing reading preferences in year 3

'Mulan': reading

'The BFG': reading and narrative writing

The Portia Spider: non-chronological report

Poet focus: 'Werewolf Club Rules' by Joseph Coelho

'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing

'Swallow's Kiss': book club

'The Moon Dragons': reading

Oral storytelling

'The Iron Man': reading

'The Iron Man': narrative writing

How Bees Make Honey: explanation text

'Anansi and the Antelope Baby': reading

'The Journey': diary writing

'The Sheep Pig': reading

Mummification: explanation text

'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and diary writing

'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and narrative writing

Poetry inspired by big and small objects: understanding form

'Varjak Paw': book club

The Stone Age: non-chronological report

'The Day the Crayons Quit': reading and writing persuasive letters

Introduction to speeches

Reading and performing scripts