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Use the curriculum map below to find Real Writing resources that cover all of the writing objectives from the Year 3 programme of study. Each of the 25 units for this year group includes a rich, annotated model text, written by a talented children's author, together with a teaching framework and detailed, fully resourced lesson plans that focus on teaching aspects of vocabulary, grammar and composition, alongside tier 2 and 3 vocabulary, and statutory spelling words.
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Browse an overview of all Year 3 units, in chronological order, showing genres and curriculum links covered
Select a curriculum objective to see which resources can be used to deliver this. In Focus Lessons the curriculum objective is a main teaching outcome. Units listed as Explore and Revise include the objective, but it is not central to the resource.
Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them
Spell words that are often misspelt
Use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary
Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
Plan their writing by discussing and recording ideas
Draft and write by composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures
Draft and write by organising paragraphs around a theme
In narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
In non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings]
Evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
Evaluate and edit by proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences
Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors
Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using approapriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear
Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although
Using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense
Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause
Using and punctuating direct speech
Formation of nouns using a range of prefixes [for example super–, anti–, auto–]
Use of the forms a or an according to whether the next word begins with a consonant or a vowel [for example, a rock, an open box]
Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning [for example, solve, solution, solver, dissolve, insoluble]
Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions [for example, when, before, after, while, so, because]
Expressing time, place and cause using prepositions [for example, before, after, during, in, because of]
Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs [for example, then, next, soon, therefore]
Draw on fully resourced grammar and composition lesson plans for each unit that guide children towards an extended independent writing outcome - with links to other subject areas.
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