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English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the simple past tense, understanding how the present perfect indicates an action completed at an…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs correctly (e.g., sat, hid, told, went, came, ran), recognising that these do not follow the…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use and understand Year 3 grammatical terminology accurately when discussing reading and writing: preposition, conjunction, word family, prefix, clause…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use conjunctions (when, before, after, while, so, because), adverbs (then, next, soon, therefore) and prepositions (before, after, during, in, because of) to…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Choose pronouns for clarity and cohesion, avoiding ambiguity and repetition; use reflexive pronouns correctly (e.g., myself, ourselves, himself)

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Punctuate direct speech using inverted commas (speech marks), understanding that direct speech records the exact words spoken and must be enclosed in…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use adjectives and adverbs correctly, choosing between them depending on whether a noun or verb/adjective is being modified (e.g., 'She ran quickly' vs 'She is…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Form and use irregular plural nouns (e.g., children, teeth, mice, geese) in addition to regular plurals, recognising that some nouns have irregular plural forms…

English // Grammar & Punctuation

Use the correct form of the indefinite article — 'a' before words beginning with a consonant sound and 'an' before words beginning with a vowel sound (e.g., a…

English // Handwriting & Transcription

Sit correctly at a table holding a pencil comfortably and correctly; form lower-case letters in the correct direction starting and finishing in the right place

English // Handwriting & Transcription

Form digits 0-9 correctly and legibly

English // Handwriting & Transcription

Form capital letters correctly; print many upper- and lowercase letters legibly

English // Handwriting & Transcription

Understand which letters belong to which handwriting families based on similar formation patterns and practise letters in groups

English // Handwriting & Transcription

Begin to join letters using diagonal and horizontal strokes, understanding which letter pairs are best left unjoined, forming letters of correct size relative…

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Demonstrate understanding that print carries meaning, follows left-to-right top-to-bottom directionality, and is organised page by page in books

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Recognise and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet; name the letters in order and use letter names to distinguish between alternative…

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Know the primary sound for each consonant and the short and long sounds for the five major vowels; respond speedily to single-letter graphemes

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Blend and segment onsets and rimes in single-syllable words; isolate and pronounce individual phonemes (initial, medial, final) in CVC words; add or substitute…

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Recognise and produce rhyming words; join in with predictable phrases and rhymes in stories and poems; learn to appreciate and recite poems by heart

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Apply phonic knowledge to blend sounds in unfamiliar words containing taught grapheme-phoneme correspondences; respond speedily to graphemes for all 40+…

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Read and spell words containing common vowel digraphs (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, oe, oo, oi, oy) including where a digraph can represent more than one sound

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Read and spell words containing consonant digraphs and less common consonant spellings (ch, sh, th, ck, tch, ng, ph, wh, k for /k/)

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Count, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words; divide written words into syllables as an aid to reading and spelling

English // Phonics & Word Reading

Read common high-frequency and exception words automatically by sight, including words with irregular spelling patterns