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 4

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

• Can form nouns using the prefix ‘super’ and understand how it changes the meaning of the word.

Sentence

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

• Recognise that they can be used at the beginning or end of a sentence e.g. Later that day, Charlie score the most goals, or She stayed at Grandmother’s house all day.

  There was a girl nearby on a dark red slide

  Nearby there was a girl on a dark red slide.

   

Text

• After discussion with the class teacher, choose the correct tense for writing, using the correct verb form to maintain tense throughout.
• Independently read through writing to identify and correct mistakes in tense.
• In non-fiction writing, use paragraphs to group related sentences together, using headings and subheadings to aid presentation.
• In fiction writing, use planned ideas to begin to organise sentences into paragraphs showing a clear beginning, main action and ending to a story.

Punctuation

• Use inverted commas, placing them correctly to show direct speech.

• Use a comma, question mark, exclamation mark or full stop to separate the direct speech from the rest of the sentence.

• Start a new line each time a new speaker starts.

• Independently use punctuation taught so far across a range of writing.

Terminology

Preposition, conjunction, prefix, direct speech, consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter, inverted comma (or speech marks).

How to help at home

Keep an eye out on Spelling Shed for challenges! Spelling Shed should be played daily. Can you get on to your class leader board?

You can practise using all types of punctuation with:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zdp4pg8

Spelling Shed

As a school we use Spelling Shed to support spelling at home. Your child will have been sent home with their username and password in their home learning books. Spelling Shed has personalised spellings to practise for your child. You can also reach Maths Shed through this link.

https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/index.html

In the documents below are common exception words children should be able to read and spell at the end of Year 2  and at the end of Year 4.