Name: _____________________________ Pr 3 (
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Rivervale Primary School
Primary 3 English STELLAR Syllabus
Term 1 (2010)
Week 1 to 10
No.
1
Themes
Emotions/ Fear
Vocabulary
jacket,
mountain track,
muscles,
pack,
stomach
similes: as fast as light, like
the rocks in a river
2
Being Helpful
fix-it bag
sunflower
tizz
collocations:
hammer & nails
needle & string/thread
simile: yellow as the sun
expressions; What a pity/
beauty/shame!
That’s better.
How sad.
There, there.
Parent’s/Guardian’s signature
Word Identification
Grammar
Consonants:
 Pronouns: [it] (for animals)
[/f/ and ph
 Verbs: bolted, flexed, screamed
qu as /kw/
also nouns: snarl(ing),grumble(ing),rumble(d)
-ch as /k/]
 Contractions: [don’t/didn’t/I’m]
[silent letters as in climbing*, muscles]  Preposition: of position: [in/out, up/down, over/under]
*in contrast to the sounded /b/ in
mumble and grumble
 Adjectives: fearless*,hungry*,invincible, menacing*,tired*
*these could be taught with their opposites (scared, full,
Vowels:
harmless, rested)
bouncing, mountain,
shouted
 Structure/ Tense: (Proper noun) didn’t (verb).versus
Word Parts:
[-ack, -ble], suffix:-less
Consonants:
-zz
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(Proper noun) (verb+ed).
Punctuation: commas in a list (optional), ellipsis (optional)
Pronouns: that’s better, this should do it , nothing,
anything
Nouns: also verbs: hammer, stitch, stick
Verbs: modals:[can], [should]
phrases: stood up, put away, stitched up, got out
Adverbs: [sudden-ly] (option)
Preposition: of position: [by], [under]
Adjectives: [clever], easy, gorgeous, sticky
adjective order: size-colour[big], [yellow]
Phrases of time sequence: day after day,[then],one
afternoon, that night, the next morning
Structure/ Tense and Punctuation: direct speech in
narratives, Punctuation of direct speech e.g.: “What a hot
day!” exclaimed Mike.
No.
3
Themes
Truthfulness
Vocabulary
chimney, puff, scene, testify,
whiskers
Word Identification
Consonants:
enough/puff
silent letters as in [wrong], right,
thought, higher
phrases: minding my own
business, checking it out,
locked away, put out the fire, Word Parts:
heading for a fall
suffix:-ful
(add hopeful, careful, sorrowful
etc.)
rhyming words (option)
4
Frogs
chemicals, discs ,marble,
muscles, planet, snout,
throat, virus
similes:
flat as a pancake,
round as a marble,
like a sticky
matchstick/funny
face/pond/wet rubber or
plastic/food wrap
Word Parts:
suffix: -y
sticky, funny
(add happy, silly, etc.)
Grammar
 Determiner: [that], [those], quantity: two, [anoth- er]
 Pronouns: he (for animals in a story all about animals)
 Conjunction: [as], [so], [then], [when]
 Verbs: of knowing/thinking: agree, believe, know, testify,
thought of senses: noticed, listen, saw, eat
 Contractions: isn’t, [you’ve],[couldn’t],[he’d],[doesn’t]
 Preposition: phrases (what nouns are made of): house of
straw ,house of sticks, house of bricks, pile of sticks
 Adjectives: categorise in contrasting columns: good bad
innocent, wicked, mean, nasty, neighbourly, dangerous,
wrong
 Phrases of time sequence: First, [then]
 Structure/ Tense: simple past for recounting of events by
the wolf, simple present and future (will blow down) for
the wolf talking to the pigs
 Punctuation: ellipsis (optional)
 Determiner: zero determiner in non-fiction (generalized)
Frogs live…
 Pronouns: they, their in non-fiction
 Nouns: compounds: eardrum, eyeballs, [eyelid], wetlands
adult/young: frog/tadpole, homes: wetlands, ponds
 Conjunction: as, so, [before ,When], if for sentence
synthesis
 Verbs: smile/[frown], glide, blink, [swallow] ,flick, destroy,
pollute, attack, phrasal: stick out
 Verbs: place: here, there
 Contractions: what’s, don’t (but they are unusual in nonfiction because they are less formal)
 Preposition: on,[onto], in, between, [through], from,
[around]
 Adjectives: smooth, webbed, [sticky], extra, polluted,
[amazing]
 Structure: Simple present of non-fiction text
 Punctuation: apostrophe for possession: frog’s head/ear