English Medium Term Planning Overview- Year 3
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Year 3
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Autumn 1
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Autumn
2
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Food
Genres
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Stories with
familiar settings (4
weeks)
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Comparisons.
Narratives.
Proof-read
for spelling
and
punctuation
errors.
Language play
(2 weeks)
 Poetry
Poems to
perform
(1 week)
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Beginning to
make formal
presentation
s.
Summaries.
Shape Poetry
Calligrams
Linked to
Christmas
theme.(2
weeks)
 Poetry.
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Spring 2
 Egyptians
Information
texts (4
Reports
weeks)
(4 weeks)
Comparisons
Descriptions
 Comparisons.
Using
 Descriptions.
dictionaries
 Evaluations.
to check the
 Explanations
meaning of
 Summaries.
words that
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Summer 1
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Myths and
legends
(4 weeks)
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Re-telling
fairy
tales/myth
s/legends
orally.
they have
read.
Poetry
Instructions
(4 weeks)
Making a healthy
yogurt
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Spring 1
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Organising
paragraphs
around a
theme.
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Evaluations.
Explanations
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Beginning to
participate
in debate.
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Summaries
Descriptions
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Summer
2
Healthy Me
Dialogues and plays
(4 weeks)
 Plays –
adopting and
sustaining a
range of
roles.
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Play scripts.
English Medium Term Planning Overview- Year 3
Authors and
letters
(3 weeks)
Vocabulary,
grammar &
punctuation
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Year 3
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Spoken
language
Use of capital letters and full stops
to demarcate sentences.
Expressing time, place and cause
using conjunctions (eg. When, if,
before, after, while, so, because).
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Autumn 1
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Autumn
2
 Food
Beginning to make formal
presentations.
Beginning to participate in
debate.
Performing/reciting poems by
heart.
Plays – adopting and sustaining a
range of roles.
Re-telling fairy
As autumn plus:
 Using the perfect form of verbs in
contrast to the past tense.
 Choosing nouns or pronouns for
clarity to avoid repetition.
 Using commas appropriately
 Indicating possession with
apostrophe
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Spring 1
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Spring 2
 Egyptians
Beginning to make formal presentations.
Beginning to participate in debate.
Performing/reciting poems by heart.
Plays – adopting and sustaining a range
of roles.
Re-telling fairy tales/myths/legends
orally.
Speculating, hypothesising and exploring
ideas.
As autumn and spring plus:
 Using punctuating direct speech.
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Summer 1
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Summer 2
 Healthy Me
Beginning to make formal
presentations.
Beginning to participate in debate.
Performing/reciting poems by heart.
Plays – adopting and sustaining a range
of roles.
Re-telling fairy tales/myths/legends
orally.
Speculating, hypothesising and
English Medium Term Planning Overview- Year 3
tales/myths/legends orally.
Creating settings, characters
and plot.
Speculating, hypothesising and
exploring ideas.
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Terminology
for pupils
Tense (past and present)
 noun
 adjective
 adverb
 verb
 suffix (re.-ly)
 Conjunctions
 Consonant
 Vowel
 Word families on common
words (eg relation between;
solve, solutiuon, solver,
dissolve)
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exploring ideas.
As autumn plus:
 Adverbs (then, next, soon,
after, while, so, because).
 Prepositions (before, after,
during, in, because of).
As autumn and spring plus:
 Headings
 Subheadings
 Present perfect form of verbs
instead of simple past.
 Paragraphs (grouping related
material).
 commas