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English

Explore reading, writing and spoken language.

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How to learn in Year 3 English

Watch this short guide, then choose a lesson below.

Learn through explanations, worked examples and practice.

Your earlier submitted work and progress are retained in your learning history. These replacement lessons have their own progress.

Reading words

  1. Find the familiar part
  2. Find a word efficiently

Reading stories

  1. Point to the answer
  2. Use a clue, then explain
  3. What might happen next?
  4. Keep the main events

Reading for information

  1. Choose where to look

Stories and performance

  1. What idea runs through a story?
  2. Listen to a poem's choices
  3. Read the part, not the label

Spelling workshop

  1. Change meaning at the beginning
  2. Listen to the stressed syllable
  3. Build words ending in -ly
  4. Same sound, different jobs
  5. Notice the difficult part

Handwriting

  1. Make your writing easy to read

Grammar

  1. Listen to the next sound
  2. Join ideas with a reason or time
  3. Tell us when and where
  4. Link a past action to now
  5. Show the exact spoken words

Writing

  1. Give a character a problem
  2. Keep related ideas together
  3. Help someone follow your instructions
  4. Improve meaning, then check details

Spelling

  1. Hear i, remember y
  2. Turn an action into an ation noun
  3. Use prefixes to unlock a word

Spelling word studies

  1. Word study: accident to arrive
  2. Word study: believe to calendar
  3. Word study: caught to continue
  4. Word study: decide to eight
  5. Word study: eighth to favourite
  6. Word study: February to guide
  7. Word study: heard to interest

Check your learning

  1. Year 3 English — course check