Year Group: 3

Term: Summer 1a

Text Type and Outcome:

Non-fiction - biography

Core Text:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
 

Weeks: 4

Audience and Purpose:

Audience - Cadbury World – Writing competition

Hook: Year 3 have received a letter from Cadbury’s asking us to enter a competition to write a biography of George and Richard Cadbury.

Composition

• To write non-narrative using simple organisational devices such as headings and sub-headings.
• To compose sentences using a wider range of structures.
• To discuss models of writing, noting its structure, grammatical features and use of 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

• Continuous form of verbs past tense

Age Related Objectives

• Introduction to paragraphs, headings and sub-headings
• Use of present perfect tense

Transcription

Spelling

Phonemes: ar, aw, oo, ow

Handwriting

Unit 17- Introducing ss

Unit 18- Introducing qu

Unit 19- Revising parallel ascenders and descenders

Unit 20- End of term check

Features

• Chronological order
• Photographs/captions
• Facts/fact box
• Key dates
• Key events
• Past tense
• Paragraphs
• Third person
• Opening statement

Speaking and Listening

• Drama – hot-seating George/Richard Cadbury
• Group work/discussion to complete research
• Just a minute…talk for 30 seconds about a member of the Cadbury family

Rapid Writes

• Speed writing x2 – children to write as much as they can about Cadburys in 10 minutes.  Complete this task twice – once after the trip to Cadbury World and once towards the end of the unit.

Tier 2 Vocabulary

• Invented
• Achieved
• Famous
• Puzzled
• popular

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

• Write sentences about the features of Bourneville Village.
• Writing sentences to retell the Story of the King and his Three Children (RE)