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Year 3 · English

Plan What To Write

Year 3 learners practise planning a story before writing year 3.

The activities include Write a Fable, Write Alliterative Sentences, Write Texts in the First, Second and Third Person. 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

  • Write a Fable
  • Write Alliterative Sentences
  • Write Texts in the First, Second and Third Person

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 planning and writing a new fable from a familiar framework with a clear moral.

  • Alliteration

    YouTube — BBC Teach · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Primary video demonstrates repeated initial consonant sounds and models creating alliterative phrases.

  • 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.

  • Reading Comprehension

    BBC Bitesize · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 comprehension guidance supports retrieving events, inferring motives and explaining the moral while planning and writing a new fable from a familiar framework with a clear moral.

  • Aesop's Fables Teaching Collection

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    KS2 collection teaches the recurring structure, character types and morals needed for planning and writing a new fable from a familiar framework with a clear moral.

  • Poetic Techniques

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 poetry teaching explains alliteration as a deliberate sound choice.

  • Alliteration Activity Sheets

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    KS2 practice asks pupils to generate and use alliterative word strings in sentences.

  • Pronouns and Person

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 grammar teaching explains personal pronouns and how viewpoint changes with person.