Year 3 English lesson plans

In Year 3, students learn spelling rules for adding suffixes such as -ing and -ed, and they start to join clauses to write compound sentences. They plan and write narratives with a clear orientation, complication and resolution, and read to identify main ideas and supporting details. Poetry, adverbs and apostrophes for contractions round out a year of growing control over written language.

• LiteracyAdding suffixes: -ing and -edApplying three common spelling rules when adding -ing and -ed: just add, drop the final e, or double the final consonant.Create lesson planView lesson
• LanguageCompound sentencesJoining two main clauses with coordinating conjunctions such as 'and', 'but', 'or' and 'so' to show how ideas are related.Create lesson planView lesson
• LiteracyNarrative writingPlanning and writing a story with an orientation, a complication, a series of events and a resolution.Create lesson planView lesson
• LiteracyMain idea and supporting detailsIdentifying what a paragraph is mostly about and the details that support it in short informative texts.Create plan template
• LanguageAdverbsUsing words such as 'quickly', 'yesterday' and 'outside' to tell how, when and where an action happens.Create plan template
• LiteraturePoetry and imageryExploring how poets use sensory words, rhythm and line breaks to create pictures in the reader's mind, and writing short descriptive poems.Create plan template
• LanguageApostrophes for contractionsUsing an apostrophe to show where letters have been left out when two words are joined, as in 'don't', 'it's' and 'we'll'.Create plan template