Month: October 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding the meaning of the texts we are reading is vital to becoming a successful learner – this is why we practice reading comprehension activities frequently. Reading comprehension questions check that we understand what we have just read. Work through these comprehension worksheets to improve your reading skills.

 

Click here for the first activity.

Click here if you find this too challenging.

Click here if you enjoy reading poetry and would like to learn more about understanding poems.

This is a guide to help you with the spelling, punctuation and Grammar taught in year 3. This knowledge equips children with essential knowledge to: spell words accurately, use a wide range of punctuation with precision and use sentences with the correct grammatical structure. Use the links below to improve your understanding, and usage, of key spag skills.

Punctuation

For help understanding and using commas click here

For help understanding and using apostrophes click here

For help understanding and using colons click here and semi colons click here

For help understanding and using speech marks and quotation marks click here

Grammar – Different classifications of words

For help understanding and using nouns click here and pronouns click here

For help understanding and using verbs click here and adverbs click here

For help understanding and using adjectives click here

For help understanding and using conjunctions click here

For help understanding and using prepositions click here

Spelling

Below are all the words in the Year 3 National Curriculum spelling list:

address answer appear arrive bicycle build caught certain circle

decide difficult early earth eight/eighth enough favourite February forward(s) fruit

group guard guide heard heart height history interest island

learn length library minute notice often potatoes promise purpose question recent

regular remember special straight strange suppose surprise therefore though/although weight woman/women

 

For help understanding and using common tricky spellings click here

Glossary of Spag terms

Some of the vocabulary used when talking about Spag can be confusing (conjunction anyone!), click here to look up a term that you don’t understand.

 

I hope this is helpful!

Well done Class 3. You were brilliant at the football festival held at the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Sports Centre this week. Class 3 came 3rd 4th and 5th out of 16 teams in Southwark. You all worked so hard and it is clear there are some budding football stars in the class.

Particularly, well done to the children who showed a fantastic positive attitude during the day, always shaking the hands of their opponents and showing excellent sportsmanship at all times.

Here are some pictures for you to enjoy:

Class 3 would like to show off their displays. We try to create engaging displays that are as interactive as possible.

This is what we do with displays:

• Add our ideas with post-it notes onto working walls.
• Describe books we like to read with book reviews.
• Create reading posters at home, to show our classmates why we love to read!
• Come up with our own ideas – such as a fish scene for our ‘target’ display.
• Feel things to help us learn, such as, when describing properties of rocks.

How do these displays help your learning? 

What do you like about the displays?

Do you have any ideas for new displays?

Well done Class 3!