Year 3 - English Unit (Plans and Resources) - 10 Weeks - Our Natural World Theme (Autumn Term)

TEN Weeks worth of differentiated (SEN/FSL - LA - MA - HA - GDS) English and Reading Lesson Plans and Resources - (Preferably for Autumn Term as Bonfire Night and Autumnal Poetry covered).
Texts include: Stone Age Boy/ Daisy and The Trouble with Zoos/ City Green/ Poetry/ Animal Performance

Week 1) Introduction Week - Our Natural World
LO: I am learning to describe (Sorting ‘Natural world’ cards and objects and explaining why)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Reading and summarising Habitats text)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Plants text)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Animals text)
LO: I am learning to define (Independent write - Chn revise/reflect on what they have learnt about the natural world and define it in their own simple sentences).

Week 2) Stone Age Boy Text - To predict, describe and create characters/setting descriptions using a range of adjectives/adverbs and pronouns
L.O: I am learning to make predictions (Finding evidence and explaining vocabulary)
L.O: I am learning how to retell a story (Learning partners - images, sequencing or writing)
L.O: I am learning to describe (Writing sentences, wordbanks , Learning partners)
L.O: I am learning to describe
L.O: I am learning to infer a character’s feelings (Annotating images, differentiated Qs).

Week 3) Stone Age Boy Text (Week 2 of 3)
L.O: I am learning to infer a character’s feelings (Exploring Stone Age people)
L.O: I am learning to create (Children create their own Stone Age character)
L.O: I am learning to infer (Writing from the view point of a stone age character.
L.O: I am learning to describe (Describing a Stone Age character’s surroundings; using 5 senses, adverbs of time)
L.O: I am learning to evaluate and edit (Independent time to respond to developmental marking and edit/rewrite to improve learning).

Week 4) Stone Age Boy Text (Week 3 of 3) - Preparing Stone Age poems to read aloud and perform - showing intonation, volume & action
L.O: I am learning to retell a poem (Talk for writing, Creating actions to practise reciting poetry orally from memory).
L.O: I am learning the features of a poem (MIxed ability collaborative work).
L.O: I am learning to give an opinion (Sentence stems to help chn explain and justify opinions on different poems)
L.O: I am learning to recite a poem (Children write class poem from memory using T4W actions).
L.O: I am learning to evaluate and edit (Independent time to respond to developmental marking and edit/rewrite to improve learning).

Week 5) Our Natural World - Preparing Natural World poems to read aloud and perform - showing intonation, volume & action
L.O: I am learning to describe (Sorting, building vocabulary, using adjectives to describe findings)
L.O. I am learning to analyse a poem (Comprehension - answering differentiated Qs to explore a poem)
L.O: I am learning how to plan a poem (Differentiated writing frames for planning a poem)
L.O: I am learning to write a poem (Children write a poem on our natural world)