Download Y3 Long Term Planner - Queen Emma Primary School

Year 3
Term
Topic
Queen Emma Literacy Long Term Planner 2015-16
Texts
Genres Covered
Autumn 1
Stone Age to Iron Age
Autumn 2
BIPS
Hindu legends
Diary/story retelling
Persuasion
Diary
Dialogue
Spring 1
Ancient Greeks
Greek myths
Diary
News report
Instructions
Story retelling
Description
News report
Instructions
Diary
Riddle (poetry)
Book review
Story retelling
Description
Explanation
Information leaflet
Spring 2
France
Flat Stanley – Framed in
France
Petit Nicholas
Le Petit Prince
Free verse poetry
Letter
Persuasion (voice over)
Persuasion (advert)
Writing Tasks
‘Me Hungry’ story
Describe a fire
Skara Brae Newsround
report
Making bronze
Building Stonehenge
Iron Age artefacts
Favourite book
Celtic legends
Rama & Sita’s diaries
Jodhpur travel guide
Story of a coconut
Ganesh dialogue
Pandora’s diary
Olympics news
Instructions for Perseus to
kill Medusa
Describe a mythical beast
What a soldier needs
St James’ church leaflet
Paris landmarks
description
Letter about French
schools
Voice over for Paris
holiday advert
French café advert
Grammar
Revision of common word
classes (noun, verb,
adjective, conjunction)
Revision of common word
classes (noun, verb,
adjective, conjunction)
Capital letters
Full stops
Types of sentence
(question, statement,
exclamation)
Revision of common word
classes (noun, verb,
adjective, conjunction)
Capital letters
Full stops
Adverbs (places they can
be in a sentence)
Types of sentence
(question, statement,
exclamation)
Apostrophes for
contractions
Revision of common word
classes (noun, verb,
adjective, conjunction,
adverbs)
Pronouns
Speech marks
Irregular past tenses
Year 3
Summer 1
Pirates
Charlie Small & the
Pirates of Perfidy
Treasure Island
adaptation
Summer 2
Living Things
Plants that Bite Back
Queen Emma Literacy Long Term Planner 2015-16
Description
Playscript
Story
Poetry
Describe a pirate
Captain Blackbeard’s day
Pirate adventure story
Performance poetry
Explanation
Explanation
Killer Plant Survival Guide
A tree’s description of
rainforest plants
Changing into a cactus
How an animal came to
be
‘The Selfish Giant’ –
writing from viewpoint of
different characters
Description
Story
Fiction
Revision of common word
classes (noun, verb,
adjective, conjunction,
adverbs)
Speech marks
Revision of common word
classes (noun, verb,
adjective, conjunction,
adverbs)
Prepositions
Clauses