Medium term plan – Autumn Y3 To aid teachers in planning, the LKS2 English curriculum is split into separate Y3 and Y4 plans. Typically a class would cover two fiction, two non-fiction, and two poetry plans during a term and we have allowed for some choice. Teachers use the coverage charts available, and coordinate with their LKS2 colleagues, to ensure that they provide comprehensive curriculum coverage for their classes over Y3 and Y4. Term Fiction Non-fiction Poetry Plan 1: Stories by the same author Plan 1: Instructions and explanations Plan 1: Creating images Required texts: Required texts: Required texts: I’ll Take You to Mrs Coles by Nigel Gray and Michael Various instruction and explanation texts Poems needed are provided. Foreman Description: Description: Dinosaurs and All that Rubbish by Michael Foreman Children will learn about instructions and explanations Use a selection of poems to explore how to create images Other books by Michael Foreman based around the glitzy world of the game show. They will using words, Daddy Fell into the Pond by Alfred Noyes, The Description: learn about features of explanations before going on to Bug Chant by Tony Mitton, and I Like this Poem by Kaye Using the delightful illustrations and books of Michael write their own based on a game show with a special treat Webb. Children find and use adjectives and adjective Foreman, children have many opportunities to practice at the end. phrases to convert a poem to prose. Use their voice to add simple, compound and complex sentences with powerful Grammar focus: excitement to a poem performance and compose poems verbs. They then create their own stories based around I'll 1. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in using the themes of animals and weather. Take You to Mrs Cole, by Nigel Gray and Michael Foreman. Appendix 2 Grammar focus: Grammar focus: 2. Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express 1. Choose nouns appropriately 1. Extending the range of sentences with more than clause time and cause 2. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in 2. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2 Appendix 2 3. Use adverbs appropriately n 3. Use and punctuate direct speech m

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A Seasons of Splendour by Madhur Jaffrey Various non-fiction books about sport Poems needed are provided. The Tiger Child by Joanna Troughton Example of fictional story about a footballer or dancer, for Description: The Old Man the Magic Bowl – Hamilton Group Reader example Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend Children will enjoy these humorous poems about teachers Description: Description: which will inspire learning about powerful verbs, verb Children have plenty of opportunities to explore Indian folk Children study the structure and language features of non- tenses, adverbs and adverbial phrases. Children use the tales and myths, read Seasons of Splendour by Madhur chronological reports before planning, researching and poems they read as models for writing their own verses Jaffrey, and The Tiger Child by Joanna Troughton, before finally composing their own sports report. At the end of the and poems. performing their own oral re-telling and written plan the class explore persuasive language and different Grammar focus: adaptations. They will learn about adverbial clauses to points of view, ending in a debate. 1. Identify and use verbs correctly make their writing more interesting and use commas to Grammar focus: 2. Use adverbs appropriately organize their writing. 1. Extend the range of sentences with more than one 3. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Grammar focus: clause Appendix 2 1. Use prepositions to express time, place and cause 2. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in 2. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2 Appendix 2 3. Use conjunctions to express time or cause

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n Plan 3: Roman Myths Plan 3: Newspaper Reports Plan 3: Poems from Around the World

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t Orchard Book of Roman Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean The Roman Record by Paul Dowswell The Works published by Macmillan u Romulus and Remus – Hamilton Group Reader Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit Let’s Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World A Description: Description: edited by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D’Arcy Using The Orchard Book of Roman Myths and Hamilton All about the Romans and Pompeii, children will be Description: Group Reader: Romulus & Remus, children read, explore immersed in what life was like in Roman times by research, Children are immersed in a diverse range of festival and and discuss myths; role-play being Roman gods and retell role-play, Escape to Pompeii and The Roman Record. They celebration poems from around the world. Read Let’s myths from different perspectives. They research and will then write a variety of recounts to create a Roman Celebrate! edited by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D’arcy write their own myths, presenting them to an audience. newspaper. as you learn how to discuss, edit and improve a poem. Grammar includes: punctuating speech; conjunctions for Grammar focus: Revise and learn about the function of adjectives, nouns, time and cause; using grammatical terminology. 1. Use the present form of verbs in contrast to the past verbs and adverbs. Grammar focus: tense Grammar focus: 1. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in 2. Use adverbs to express time and cause 1. Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express Appendix 2 3. Use and punctuate direct speech time and cause 2. Use and punctuate direct speech 2. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in 3. Express meaning using adverbs Appendix 2 4. Using conjunctions to express time and cause 3. Use fronted adverbials appropriately

Plan 4: Letters Required texts: Dear Father Christmas by Alan Durant The Christmas Story – Hamilton Group Reader Description: Christmas is coming. This fun plan builds up to Christmas with writing letters to Father Christmas, learning about tense, writing in the 3rd person and using powerful verbs, and reading Dear Father Christmas by Alan Durant. Hamilton Group Reader, The Christmas Story, demonstrates how to write a good letter. Grammar focus: 1. Use and understand the grammatical terminology in Appendix 2 2. Choose nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition 3. Use the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition

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