Year 3: Links to NLS objectives
Term 1
Key Objectives
T1 story settings
S10 sentence boundaries
W17 generate synonyms
W19 introducing/concluding dialogue
Unit number/title
Unit 1: Narrative settings
Texts provided
1. What’s That Smell?
By Jonathan Allen
2. The Ghost Train
By David Webb
Unit 2: Narrative dialogue
3. The Case of the Flower
Thief
by Jean Ure
T2 presentation of dialogue
T3 different voices in stories
S6 question/exclamation marks
S7 speech punctuation
S8 speech marks
W19 introducing/concluding dialogue
Unit 3: Playscripts
4. Rumpelstiltskin
(playscript)
retold by Angela Lanyon
5. Rumpelstiltskin (prose)
retold by Dee Reid
Unit 4: Sense poems
6. Sensing My World
by Peter Bicot
7. Dive and Dip
by Max Fatchen
Unit 5: Information texts
8. Animal Life Cycles
by Claire Llewellyn
Unit 6: Non-chronological
reports
9. The Romans in Britain
10.Finding out about
Ancient Egypt
11.Children in the Second
World War
T4 playscripts
T5 comparing prose and playscripts
S3 function of verbs
S4 verb tenses
S5 use term verb appropriately
W8 adding -ing to verbs
W17 generate synonyms
T6 recite and discuss poems
T7 distinguish between rhyming and
non-rhyming poetry
T8 Express views about a poem
T13 collect words for poetry writing
S3 function of verbs
W8 adding -ing to verbs
T17 distinction between fact and fiction
T18 stylistic/structural differences of fiction and
non-fiction
T20 compare presentation of information
S3 function of verbs
W13 collect new words
W14 meaning of unknown words
T18 stylistic/structural differences of fiction and
non-fiction
T19 locate information
T21 read information passages
S13 commas in lists
W13 collect new words
W14 meaning of unknown words
Other links/opportunities
NLS: T11 write description of know places; T16 organise stories into
paragraphs; S12 use full-stops and capital letters; W8 adding -ing to verbs
Grammar for Writing: Units 1 (verbs); 6 (sentence boundaries) and 8
(paragraphs)
Speaking, Listening and Learning: Objective 25 Speaking: present
information
NLS: T10 write own dialogue; T16 paragraphing of dialogue; W9 Spelling
pattern -le
Grammar for Writing: Units 3 (question/exclamation marks) and 4 (speech
punctuation)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T1 Objective 9 spelling pattern –le
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 28 Drama: present events/
haracters through dialogue
NLS:T15 write playscripts
Grammar for Writing: Units 1 (function of verbs) and 2 (verb tenses)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T1 Objective 8 verbs ending with -ing
NLS: S13 commas in lists
Grammar for Writing: Units 1 (function of verbs) and 7 (commas in lists)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T1 Objective 8 verbs ending with –ing
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 26 Listening: to follow up others’
points
NLS: S4 using verb tenses; S10 sentence boundaries
Grammar for Writing: Units 1 (function verbs), 2 (verb tenses),
5 (presentational devices), and 6 (sentence boundaries)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 25 Speaking: to explain a process
NLS:T23 write reports; W15 purpose/organisation of the dictionary
Grammar for Writing: Units 7 (commas in lists) and 9 (non-chronological
reports)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 25 Speaking: to explain a process
Year 3: Links to NLS objectives
Term 2
Key Objectives
T2 typical story themes
T3 discuss main characters
S2 function of adjectives
S3 use term adjective appropriately
W8 adding -er, -est and -y to words
Unit number/title
Unit 7: Myths and fables
Texts provided
12.Spider Woman: The
Story of Arachne
13.The Boy Who Cried
Wolf
Unit 8: Legends
14.Mighty Thor the
Bearded Bride
retold by Michaela Morgan
T2 typical story themes
T3 discuss main characters
S2 function of adjectives
S8 other uses of capitalisation
Unit 9: Narrative plot
15.The Princess and the
Pea
T1 traditional story language
T7 describe and sequence key incidents
S4 pluralisation
W9 adding -s to nouns
Unit 10: Performance poetry
16.The School Kids’ Rap
by John Foster
Unit 11: Instructions (features)
17.Make an Egyptian
Pyramid
Unit 12: Instructions
(evaluating)
18.How to Make a Cheese
and Onion Sandwich
T4 prepare poems for performance
T5 rehearse/improve performance
T11 write new verses for performance
S4 pluralisation
S6 commas
W9 adding -s to nouns
T12 purpose of instructional texts
T14 organisation of instructions
T16 write instructions
S2 function of adjectives
W13 common suffixes
T13 merits/limitations of instructional texts
T14 organisation of instructions
S2 function of adjectives
Other links/opportunities
NLS: T7 describe and sequence key incidents; W13 common suffixes
Grammar for Writing: Unit 10 function of adjectives
Spelling Bank: Y3 T2 Objectives 8 (word endings -er, -est and -y) and 13
(common suffixes)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 29 Speaking: prepare stories for
performance; Objective 32 Drama: discuss qualities of others’ performances
NLS: T8 write portraits of characters; S6 commas; W15 apostrophe for
shortened forms of words
Grammar for Writing: Units 10 (function of adjectives); 12 (capitalisation); and
13 (deleting words)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T2 Objective 15 (apostrophe in shortened form)
NLS: T3 discuss main characters; T10 write alternative sequels; S6 commas; S7
use term comma appropriately
Grammar for Writing: Unit 11 (pluralisation)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T2 Objective 9 (adding -s to nouns)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 31 Group discussion and
interaction: include/respond to members of group
Grammar for Writing: Unit 11 (pluralisation)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T2 Objective 9 (irregular plurals)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 29 Speaking: prepare poems for
performance; Objective 32 Drama: discuss qualities of others’ performances
NLS: T13 merits/limitations of instructional texts; S9 deleting words
Grammar for Writing: Unit 10 (function of adjectives)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T2 Objective 13 (common suffixes)
NLS: T12 purpose of instructional texts; T16 write instructions
Grammar for Writing: Unit 10 (function of adjectives)
Year 3: Links to NLS objectives
Unit number/title
Unit 13: Narrative openings
Texts provided
19.The Girl in the Red
Coat
by Sean Taylor
Unit 14: Narrative point of view
20.The Dancing Girl
by Paul Stewart
21.Cliffhanger
by Jacqueline Wilson
Unit 15: Humorous poetry
22.Where Teachers Keep
Their Pets
by Paul Cookson
23.How Can I?
by Brian Moses
24.The Hundred-Mile-anHour Dog
25.Dogs are Different
Unit 16: Significant author
(Jeremy Strong)
-
Unit 17: Letters
26.Letter of congratulation
27.Personal letter to a
friend
28.Formal letter of
complaint
Unit 18: Alphabetical texts
29.A Dictionary of
Materials and their
Properties
Term 3
Key Objectives
T1 retell main points of story
T2 refer to significant aspects of text
W12 collection of new words
T3 1st and 3rd person accounts
T5 discuss characters’ feelings/behaviour/
relationships
S2 function of pronouns
S5 joining sentences
S6 time sequences
T6 compare types of humour
T7 perform poetry that plays with language
W14 homonyms
T1 retell main points of story
T8 compare works by same author
T9 awareness of authors
S7 commas
W12 collection of new words
W13 collect synonyms
T16 read letters for a range of purposes
W11 apostrophe in contracted forms
T17 scan to locate information
T24 make alphabetically ordered texs
W9 prefixes mis-, non-, ex-, co-, anti-
Other links/opportunities
NLS: T11 write story openings; S4 speech marks
Grammar for Writing: Unit 17 (joining sentences)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 35 Group discussion and
interaction: language of possibility
NLS: T4 credibility of events; T12 write first person account; S4 speech marks
Grammar for Writing: Units 16 (speech marks), 17 (joining sentences) and 18
(words that signal time)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 36 Drama: explore stories/issues
NLS: W8 short words within longer words; T21 use IT to bring to a published
form
Spelling Bank: Y3 T3 Objectives 8 (short words within longer words) and
14 (homonyms)
NLS: T14 write book reviews; S4 speech marks
Grammar for Writing: Units 16 (speech marks) and 19 (commas)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 33 Speaking: sustain conversation
NLS: T20 write letters; T22 different ways to recount same event; T23 organise
letters into paragraphs; S2 function of pronouns; S3 agreement of pronouns and
verbs
Grammar for Writing: Unit 15 (pronouns)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T3 Objective 11 (apostrophe in contracted forms)
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Objective 36 Drama: explore stories/issues
NLS: S7 commas, W12 collection of new words
Grammar for Writing: Unit 19 (commas)
Spelling Bank: Y3 T3 Objective 9 prefixes mis-, non-, ex-, co-, anti-