Year Group: 3

Term: Spring 2a

Text Type and Outcome:

Picture Book

Narrative - Fantasy

Core Text:

Chalk by Bill Thomson
 

Weeks: 3

Audience and Purpose:

To entertain

Hook: A bag of chalk is left in the classroom when the children come in.  Where has it come from? Who does it belong to?  Why do you think it’s been left?  What can we do with it?  Children should have the idea to use them to draw.

Composition

• To compose sentences using a wider range of structures.
• To write a narrative with a clear structure, setting, characters and plot.
• To discuss models of writing, noting its structure, grammatical features and use of vocabulary.
• To make improvements to vocabulary.
• To use a range of sentences with more than one clause by using a range of conjunctions.
• To proof read to check for errors in spelling and punctuation.

Grammar and Punctuation

Overlearning

• Apostrophes to mark singular possession and contractions (Y2)

Age Related Objectives

• Expressing time and cause using adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions
• Introduction to paragraphs

Transcription

Spelling

Phonemes: f, th, s

Handwriting

Unit 12- Introducing joining from f to an ascender

Unit 13- Introducing joining from f, no ascender

Unit 14- Introducing joining from f to an anti-clockwise letter. 

Features

• Title
• Direct speech
• Time adverbials
• Introduction
• Build up
• Climax
• Resolution
• Ending
• Adjectives
• Past tense
• Conjunctions
• Paragraphs

Speaking and Listening

• Discuss chalk drawings
• Orally tell a story based on chalk drawings
• Children describe the pictures in the book
• Retell story of Chalk

Rapid Writes

• Mind map –vocabulary – children to choose a character, setting or noun linked to the story and write it in the middle of the page. Give a time limit to create a mind map.  Include single words, phrases, sentences, descriptions, questions etc.
• Write up 5 time adverbials – children should think of a sentence to go with the adverb.

Tier 2 Vocabulary

• Meandered
• Ferocious
• Peculiar
• Terrified
• Relieved

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

• Writing sentences to describe types of rocks.
• Writing short paragraphs to describe the stages of a volcano.

Year Group: 3

Term: Spring 2b

Text Type and Outcome:

Narrative – Letters in role - postcards

Core Text:

Cliffhanger by Jaqueline Wilson
 

Weeks: 2

Audience and Purpose:

Audience – parents (postcard home)

Hook: Children receive a postcard from JW.  She asks them to write a postcard to their parents to tell them all about school.

Composition

• To compose sentences using a wider range of structures.
• To discuss models of writing, noting its structure, grammatical features and use of vocabulary.
• To make improvements to vocabulary.
• To proof read to check for errors in spelling and punctuation.
• To use the perfect form of verbs to mark the relationship

of time and cause.

Grammar and Punctuation

Overlearning

• Apostrophes to mark singular possession and contractions (Y2)
• 4 sentence types (Y1/2)

Age Related Objectives

• Use of present perfect tense

Transcription

Spelling

Suffixes: ed, ing, er, est to words ending in e

Phoneme: u

Handwriting

Unit 15- Introducing ff

Unit 16- Introducing rr

Features

• Informal greeting
• Address
• Informal language
• Present/past tense
• Informal sign off
• Information
• First person
• Apostrophes for contraction

Speaking and Listening

• Role play giving advice to a character
• Listening to instructions for obstacle races
• Recount experience of obstacle races

Rapid Writes

• Take my advice – write 5 instructions for a character.
• Diary entry – first person and tenses

Tier 2 Vocabulary

• Outraged
• Rapidly
• Mortal danger
• Determined
• Unbelievable

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

• Diary entry to describe what happened when Mt Vesuvius erupted.
• Sentences to describe the fossilisation process.