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Year 3 · English

Assess Grammar And Vocabulary

Year 3 learners practise year 3 grammar and punctuation (spag) practice.

The activities include Identify the Features of a Fable, Learn to Use Adverbs to Express Time, Learn to Use Conjunctions to Express Causes or Time, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Identify the Features of a Fable
  • Learn to Use Adverbs to Express Time
  • Learn to Use Conjunctions to Express Causes or Time
  • Learn to Use Conjunctions to Express Time
  • Learn to Use Prepositions to Express Time
  • Learn To Use the Present Perfect Tense
  • Practise Using the Present Perfect Tense
  • Understand the First, Second and Third Person
  • Use A or An Correctly
  • Use Adverbs of Time
  • Use Prepositions to Describe Location
  • Write a Text for a Particular Audience

Checked learning resources

  • The Boy Who Cried Wolf

    YouTube — English Singsing · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Animated Aesop fable provides an age-appropriate model for identifying the characters, problem, events and moral that characterise a fable.

  • Conjunctions Express Time, Place and Cause

    YouTube — Twinkl · Video · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 video distinguishes conjunctions and adverbial language used for adverbs such as then and next used to sequence time.

  • What Is a Preposition?

    YouTube — Twinkl · Video · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 video explains before and after used as prepositions to express time.

  • What Is Present Perfect Tense?

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 concept video teaches forming the present perfect with has or have plus a past participle and contrasting it with the simple past.

  • First, Second and Third Person

    YouTube — GrammarSongs · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Primary grammar video distinguishes first person I/we, second person you and third person he/she/it/they.

  • Recognising Purpose and Audience

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 video models identifying why a text was written and who it is intended for, then links those decisions to language and form.

  • Reading Comprehension

    BBC Bitesize · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 comprehension guidance supports retrieving events, inferring motives and explaining the moral while identifying the characters, problem, events and moral that characterise a fable.

  • Aesop's Fables Teaching Collection

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    KS2 collection teaches the recurring structure, character types and morals needed for identifying the characters, problem, events and moral that characterise a fable.