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Year 3 Literacy |
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Term 1 - Fiction and Poetry The children will read extracts from stories with familiar settings; plays; poems based on observation and the senses; shape poems. |
Term 2 - Fiction and Poetry The children will read extracts from myths, legends, fables, parables; traditional stories, stories with related themes; oral and performance poetry form different cultures. |
Term 3 - Fiction and Poetry The children will read extracts from adventure and mystery stories; stories by the same author; humorous poetry, poetry that plays with language, word puzzles, puns and riddles. |
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Term 1 - Non Fiction The children will read extracts from information books on topics of interest. They will study non-chronological reports and use thesauruses and dictionaries. |
Term 2 - Non Fiction The children will use books with instructions, dictionaries without illustrations and thesauruses. |
Term 3 - Non Fiction The children will read letters written for a range of purposes: to recount, explain, enquire, congratulate, complain and so on. They will also use alphabetic texts, directories, encyclopedias and indexes. |
| Poetry for Kids | Scrambled Poetry | Roald Dahl |
| Poetry daily | Folklore, Myths and Legends | Story collections |
| Myths, Fables and Traditional | ||
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Term 1 - Fiction and Poetry The children will read extracts from historical stories and short novels; playscripts and poems based on common themes eg. families and school. |
Term 2 - Fiction and Poetry The children will read extracts from stories/novels about imagined worlds; classic and modern poetry, including poems from different cultures and times. |
Term 3 - Fiction and Poetry The children will read extracts from stories/short novels that raise issues such as bullying; stories by the same author, stories form other cultures. A range of poetry in different forms such as lists, alphabets, conversations, monologues, rhyming forms and free verse. |
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Term 1 - Non Fiction The children will read extracts from a range of text-types from reports and articles in newspapers and magazines. They will also identify features of instructional texts. |
Term 2 - Non Fiction The children will use information books on the same or similar themes. They will also identify the key features of explanatory texts. |
Term 3 - Non Fiction The children will read, compare and evaluate examples of arguments and discussions used in persuasive writing. They will also use information books linked to other curricular areas. |
| Poetry daily | Poetry for Kids | Authors |
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Look at the picture- write a story |
Other Web Sites A list of other useful web sites you may enjoy visiting |
Literacy activities for 5-9 year olds |
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You carry on with the story |
Stories to read |
Crickweb Interactive literacy activities |
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Stories to write |
Games, activities and book reviews |
Digger and the Gang for 5-11 year olds |