During a Year 5 Unit on 'Aquila' by Andrew Norriss, I wanted to encourage my higher ability pupils to look for evidence in the text to support their character descriptions. The first activity asks the children to come up with words to describe either Tom or Geoff. For each characteristic, they must then find the evidence in the text, noting down a quotation and the page number it was found on.
After this, I asked the children to compare Tom and Geoff including evidence from the text. I provided them with an example that compares the two teachers instead. This way, they could see how I expected the work to be laid out.
I have included the initial table for recording evidence from the text as well as the example I gave them for the main task.
Included:
- A table of Modal Simple, Passive Modal Simple, Modal Perfect and Passive Modal Perfect examples. There is space for the pupils to write their own examples too.
- A homework worksheet on which children can practise using the present perfect tense as well as modal verbs in the form of a written conversation.
- A homework sheet for lower ability children to identify sentences written in past, present and future tenses.
- A prompt sheet to encourage children to use the modal perfect tense correctly e.g. would have not would of
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As part of our history topic on 'The Stone Age', children learnt how to dye fabrics using natural sources. After physically having a go, the children wrote instructions about what they did.
This booklet has been designed to give parents a better understanding of the English and Maths objectives their Year 3 child should be working towards.
Within this document, you will find:
Introduction to English and Maths in Year 3
Year 3 English Objectives Checklist
Year 3 & 4 Spelling Words
Sentence Structures
Reading Prompts
Year 3 Maths Objectives Checklist
Calculation Methods
Multiplication Tables
Place Value Chart
Vocabulary & Definitions
This booklet has been designed to give parents a better understanding of the English objectives your Year 3 child should be working towards.
Within this document, you will find:
Introduction to English in Year 3
Year 3 English Objectives Checklist
English Vocabulary & Definitions
Sentence Structures Prompt
Year 3 & 4 Spelling List
Reading Questions