The children’s writing this year will be based on books from a variety of different genres. Your child will have the opportunity to study; stories with a familiar setting, performance and imagery poetry, factual texts and mystery and adventure stories. For further information on the texts that we will be looking at please see the reading list.

During their time in year 3, your child will be developing their written skills by planning and writing; stories, instructions, poems, play scripts, information booklets and letters. Children will be taught to join their handwriting, using diagonal joins, and have the opportunity to earn their pen license. Children in year 3 are expected to be able to use capital letters, full stops, commas and speech marks correctly. We will be focusing on building more complex sentences using conjunctions and clauses. Further to this, we will be working on; prepositions, adverbs, rich and varied vocabulary, paragraphing writing, using headings and subheadings and the skills involved in proof reading.

Children will take part in a guided reading session, four times a week, for 30 minutes. Children will read out loud to themselves to improve their fluency and will answer retrieval and inference questions, sequence the story and create story maps.