St.

Hilary’s Primary School

Scheme of Work
Year 2017- 2018
Grade 3 Term 2 English Learning Targets

Week Learning Targets

1-5 Vocabulary Targets:

Gossip, stare at, whisper, nervous, difficult, peek, handy, approach, daring, approach
Linking words

Reading/Theme Targets:
- Students will be able to identify the character types in the story including the major characters, minor characters, the protagonist, the
antagonist, dynamic and static characters and round and flat characters
- Students will be able to compare and contrast characters, themes and settings from previous stories written by the same author

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to write a persuasive piece of writing
- Students will be able to introduce the text they are writing about, stating an opinion and create an organizational structure that lists
reasons
- Students will be able to provide reasons that support their opinion
- Students will be able to use linking words and phrases to connect opinion and reasons including (e.g. because, therefore, since, for
example)
- Students will be able to provide a concluding statement or section

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to share their persuasive writing with a partner or small groups demonstrating their opinion and reasons and
speaking clearly at an understandable pace
3&4 Chinese New Year

6-8 Vocabulary Targets:

Dreadful, violence, stout, fancy, scrunch, surprisingly, wigs, realized, suspect, reach

Needy, plain, confused, unfortunately, groan, silent, scared, possible, powerful, flicked

Temporal words

Reading/Theme Targets:

- Students will be able to identify the author’s purpose in different text types
- Students will be able to identify conflict and resolution in the story
- Students will learn about antonyms and synonyms

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will learn about story writing from the point of view from 1st person and 3rd person
- Students will be able to write a creative piece of writing – If I Were Invisible… based on the below criteria:
- Students will be able to write in the 1st person
- Students will be able to use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts and feelings to develop experiences and events or show
the response of characters to situations
- Students will be able to use temporal words and phrases to signal event order
- Students will be able to provide a sense of closure

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to participate in class activities in which students discuss cause and effect and conflict and resolution

9 & 10 Easter Holidays

11 - 13 Vocabulary Targets:

Explore, indeed, although, despite, urge, believe, strongly, against, skill, oppose

Words with prefixes and suffixes

Please note: The English curriculum above is a basic outline of the targets that will be achieved. The curriculum will be
adjusted for differentiation in each class and the needs of the students.
 St. Hilary’s Primary School
Scheme of Work
Year 2017- 2018
Grade 3 Term 2 English Learning Targets

Week Learning Targets

Reading/Theme Targets:

- Students will be able to ask and answer comprehension questions relating to the setting, characters and events in the story of Stanley
in Space after story is read and discussed in class by the teacher
- Students will be able to identify the central message, lesson or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text
- Students will be able to describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
- Students will be able to describe how characters respond to major events and challenges

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to recognize and use a range of prefixes including un-, dis-, and mis- (negative meanings), re- meaning ‘again’ or
‘back’, sub- meaning ‘under’, super- meaning ‘above’, anti- meaning ‘against’, auto- meaning ‘self’ or ‘own’. Suffixes including –ly
added to an adjective to form an adverb, -er, -able, -ness, -ful and –ous.
- Students are able to create a poster to demonstrate different prefixes and suffixes in the English language and relationship between
words

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to present a show and tell on a selected topic

14 - 15 Vocabulary Targets:

Space, horrible, thoughtful, question, cooperate, generous, ability, compromise, opinion, facts

Ordinary, vanished, screen, interrupt, exclaimed, excuse, automatic, magnifying, peaceful, indicate

Reading/Theme Targets:

- Students will be able to use figurative language devices including similes, metaphors and alliterations
- Students will explore a range of poetry

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to use figurative language devices to write a poem for their mother for Mother’s Day
- Students will be able to participate in shared writing of a poem
- Students will be able to identify adverbs and use them in writing

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to share their poem with their mother at home
16 - 19 UNIT ON OUTER SPACE AND INFORMATIVE/EXPLANATORY TEXTS (based on Stanley in Space) (Home-school activity)

Vocabulary Targets:

Capital, particular, puzzled, shelter, thankful, amazed, average, imagine, invent, figure out

Guard, jail, confess, deceived, announced, volunteer, satisfactory, plan, prepare, gather

Reading/Theme Targets:

- Students will explore a range of different informative/explanatory texts relating to space

- Students will read and comprehend informational texts
- Students will learn about famous space explorers and astronomers including Neil Armstrong, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus,
Edmond Halley, Stephen Hawking
- Students will learn about space travel, space transportation, the Solar System, etc.
- Students will use a range of different research skills

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to write a biography on a space explorer or astronomer based on what they have researched
- Students will be able to create an informative brochure on space travel
Please note: The English curriculum above is a basic outline of the targets that will be achieved. The curriculum will be
adjusted for differentiation in each class and the needs of the students.
 St. Hilary’s Primary School
Scheme of Work
Year 2017- 2018
Grade 3 Term 2 English Learning Targets

Week Learning Targets

- Students will be able to write an informational report on a planet of their choice

- Students will learn the structures of writing such as a biography, brochure and informational report
- Students will be able to develop the topic with facts, definitions and details
- Students will be able to use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information
- Students will be able to provide a concluding statement or section

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to share their report in small groups and in front of the class
19 - 20 Speaking Assessment + Revision

21 2nd End of Term Assessment

Please note: The English curriculum above is a basic outline of the targets that will be achieved. The curriculum will be
adjusted for differentiation in each class and the needs of the students.