Year 3 English Bundles

All bundles have 12 months access from date of purchase and details of 'Common Tricky Word' and 'homophone' spellings.

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Unless there is only one tutorial, each bundle (excluding genre writing) will have an ‘end-of-topic’ assessment. You may like to complete this at the start and end of the bundle to see how much your child has grown in confidence and ability.

Tutorials are all taken from our main Curriculum Steps Programme so the PDF week numbers and spellings relate to this programme.

  • How to identify different sentence types, punctuate direct speech and use apostrophes

    Identifying the four types of sentences and associated punctuation

    Recapping on the use of capital letters and full stops

    Adding commas in a list

    Punctuating direct speech

    Using apostrophes for contracted words

    Using apostrophes for singular and plural possessionnumbers using place value and ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ signs

    Using place value knowledge to add/subtract 1, 10 and 100

    Adding/subtracting multiples of 10 and 100 using place value knowledge

    Using place value to represent numbers in different ways

    Rounding 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10/100

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  • How to use noun phrases and different sentence starters to improve sentences

    Identifying nouns and adjectives

    Creating expanded noun phrases, using commas

    Making improved vocabulary choices

    Using a thesaurus and a dictionary

    Changing sentence starts for descriptive writing by using prepositions and prepositional phrases

    Using the above to create exciting descriptive writing

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  • Synonyms and antonyms, and how to spell using prefixes and suffixes

    Adding suffix ‘ing’, ‘en’, ‘er’, ‘ed’, ‘ation’

    Adding ‘ation’ to a verb to create a noun

    Synonyms and antonyms

    Using a thesaurus and a dictionary

    Adding prefixes meaning the opposite

    Adding prefix pre, sub, inter, re, super and auto

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  • Multiplication and Division

    Understanding the meaning of the ‘x’ sign and show the meaning of multiplication in different ways

    Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and understand how this links to the times tables

    Practising the 3, 4 and 8 times tables using different strategies

    Recognising how division facts link to times tables and the ‘inverse’ of multiplication

    Calculating the division facts for 3, 4 and 8 times tables

    Using multiplication methods to multiply 2-digit and 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers

    Using division methods to divide larger 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers

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  • How to spell using suffixes

    Adding suffix -sion, -tion, -ssion, -cian

    Adding suffix -sure, -ture,

    Adding suffix -ious, -ous

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  • How to use figurative language (e.g. simile)

    Identifying and using alliteration and onomatopoeia

    Identifying and using similes, metaphors and personification

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  • Writing Fiction

    Using different methods to plan a story

    Improving vocabulary choices

    Creating different atmospheres by using different techniques

    Using paragraphs

    Using sentences structure

    Writing stories

    Editing writing

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  • Guidance and templates to help write in different genres

    Writing a persuasive letter

    Writing a newspaper report

    Writing instructions

    Using mind maps to plan non-fiction writing and then grouping information using subheadings, and writing non-fiction

    Writing poems (rhyming, acrostic, riddle, limericks)

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