English
By the beginning of year 3, pupils should be able to read books written at an age-appropriate interest level. They should be able to read them accurately and at a speed that is sufficient for them to focus on understanding what they read rather than on decoding individual words. They should be able to decode most new words outside their spoken vocabulary, making a good approximation to the word’s pronunciation. As their decoding skills become increasingly secure, teaching should be directed more towards developing their vocabulary and the breadth and depth of their reading, making sure that they become independent, fluent and enthusiastic readers who read widely and frequently. They should be developing their understanding and enjoyment of stories, poetry, plays and non-fiction, and learning to read silently. They should also be developing their knowledge and skills in reading non-fiction about a wide range of subjects. They should be learning to justify their views about what they have read: with support at the start of year 3 and increasingly independently by the end of year 4.
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Rhetorical Questions Worksheet
A worksheet to consolidate students' understanding of rhetorical questions.
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Exploring Poetry Workbook
A workbook to help students become more familiar with the genre of poetry.
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Nouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs and Conjunctions Posters
Enhance student understanding of the 8 parts of speech with these colourful, informative and easily-referenced grammar wall posters.
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Suffixes Puzzles Match Up Cards
A set of 15 puzzle cards for students to match suffixes with root words.
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Low and High Modality Words – Worksheet
A sorting activity for low and high modality words.
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Emotive Language Worksheet
A worksheet to consolidate students' understanding of emotive language.
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Narrative Writing Planning Template
A template for students to use when planning a narrative text.
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Persuasive Text Structure Posters
Posters to help introduce the basic structure of persuasive writing.
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Persuasive Topic Cards - Lower Grades
A set of persuasive topic cards for lower grades.
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18 Editing Worksheets - Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation
Twenty editing worksheets for spelling, grammar and punctuation.
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Which One? Listening Comprehension Exercise
An Interactive PowerPoint where students choose an image to match an aural description.
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Colour by Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives - Whale
Review parts of speech by colouring nouns, verbs and adjectives on the whale.
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Contractions PowerPoint
A 24-slide editable PowerPoint template about contractions.
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Dolch Words Card Game – Classroom Game
A card game for dolch sight words.
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Successful Sentences – Sentence Construction Cards
Word cards for constructing complex sentences.
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Persuade Me: Persuasive Writing Assessment Activities
A set of 4 persuasive writing assessment activities.
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Spelling Task Cards
A set of 57 spelling task cards.
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Imagine Conjunctions - Worksheet
A worksheet with images to prompt students to use their skills in conjunctions.
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Inference Comics - Worksheet
A series of comic cell worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from everyday situations.
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Real Or Make-Believe - Animal Picture Sorting Worksheet
A teaching resource to help teach your students the difference between real and make-believe.
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Prefixes and Suffixes PowerPoint
A 24 slide teaching presentation to use when introducing prefixes and suffixes.
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Persuasive Devices Sorting Activity
A hands-on sorting activity to use when introducing persuasive devices.
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Developing Persuasive Writing Skills PowerPoint - Year 3 and Year 4
A 24 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the structure and language features of persuasive texts.
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Biography Sentence Starters
Biographies can be interesting and fun to write... with a little bit of inspiration and help to get them started!
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Goals - Writing (Key Stage 2 - Upper)
Twenty-five writing goal cards for key stage 2 - upper.
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Goal Labels - Writing (Key Stage 2 - Lower)
Thirty-seven writing goal labels for middle primary.
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Goals - Writing (Key Stage 2 - Lower)
Thirty-seven writing goal cards for key stage 2 - lower.
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Persuasive Texts Writing Task - All Families Should Own a Pet
A writing activity to help students construct a detailed and reasoned persuasive text.
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Explanation Texts Writing Scaffold
A scaffolding sheet that can be used to write an explanation text.
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Colour by Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives - Seal
Review parts of speech by colouring nouns, verbs and adjectives on the seal.
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COPS Writing and Editing Poster and Checklist
A C.O.P.S writing and editing poster with accompanying checklist.
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Personification Poster
A poster providing a definition and examples of personification.