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 5

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 use their knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to identify word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning

e.g. planted, planter, planting

helper, helps, helpful

Sentence

• Continue to choose and use place or time adverbs.
• Use adverbs of cause including conjunctions;

when, before, after, while, so, because e.g. When she arrived, her mum was furious…

Text

• Independently choose the correct tense for writing using the correct verb form to ensure tense is maintained and writing is cohesive.

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

• In non-fiction writing, children use paragraphs to group related sentences together, consistently using headings and subheadings to aid presentation.

• In fiction writing, use planned ideas to 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.
• 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).