Year 3 English Lesson Plans
5 free Year 3 English lesson plans for KS2. Each includes learning objectives, key vocabulary, a timed lesson structure and common misconceptions, and downloads as an editable Word document.
In Year 3, pupils make the transition from KS1 into lower KS2 English. Expectations for reading increase significantly: pupils are expected to read with greater fluency and stamina, using retrieval and inference skills. Writing becomes more extended and structured, with pupils learning to organise their work into paragraphs.
Grammar
Pupils revisit nouns and learn how to expand them into noun phrases by adding adjectives, determiners, and prepositional phrases.
Pupils learn to use a range of subordinating and coordinating conjunctions to join clauses and extend their sentences.
Writing
This lesson introduces pupils to the key features of narrative writing using quality published texts as models.
This lesson focuses on the features and structure of explanation texts, a key non-fiction genre in the Year 3 curriculum.
Year 3 English through the year
Nouns and Noun Phrases
Using and understanding the grammatical terminology: noun, noun phrase
Nouns and Noun Phrases lesson plan →Conjunctions for Complex Sentences
Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause
Conjunctions lesson plan →Narrative Writing
Composing and rehearsing sentences orally before writing
Narrative Writing lesson plan →Inverted Commas for Direct Speech
Using inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
Inverted Commas lesson plan →Non-fiction: Explanation Texts
Using organisational and presentational devices to structure text
Non-fiction: Explanation Texts lesson plan →Poetry: Language and Pattern
Preparing poems to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation