Each day in our English learning we will explore different elements of spelling, grammar and punctuation. This will include spelling rules from Year 3 and we will revisit our learning from Year 2.

Spelling in Year 3 - Term 6

You can find our Termly spellings in the Home Learning section of our Class pages.

We will be practicing these in school everyday and will earn dojos if we use and spell them correctly in our learning.

Grammar and Punctuation

This term we will be learning about the following in our writing:

Word

• Children Can continue to use their knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to identify word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning, using this to help them spell words accurately

Sentence

• Choose and use place or time adverbs to link sentences together.

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  Choose and use adverbs of cause to create complex sentences, recognising a comma to mark the clause.

   

  e.g. When she arrived, her mum was furious…

Text

• Independently choose and use the correct tense for writing ensuring tense is maintained throughout and writing is cohesive.

• Independently read through writing to identify and correct mistakes in tense.

• In different forms of non-fiction writing, children use paragraphs to group related sentences together, generating their own headings and subheadings to aid presentation.

• In fiction writing, organise sentences into paragraphs showing a clear beginning, build up, main action, resolution and ending to a story.

Punctuation

• Independently use punctuation taught so far across a range of writing, independently editing for accuracy.

• Punctuate direct speech accurately.

Terminology

• preposition, conjunction, word family, prefix, clause, subordinate clause, direct speech, consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter, inverted comma (or speech marks).