Year 3 English Resources & Lesson Plans
Explore ready-to-teach Year 3 English resources, lesson plans and schemes of work designed to support the Year 3 English curriculum. Find engaging reading and comprehension activities, writing lessons, grammar and punctuation practice, spelling and vocabulary work, spoken language opportunities and printable Year 3 English worksheets, all created to help children become increasingly confident and independent readers and writers.
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What should children learn in Year 3 English?
Year 3 English marks the beginning of KS2, with children building on their earlier literacy skills to become more confident and independent readers, writers and speakers. They develop reading comprehension and vocabulary, explore an increasingly wide range of texts, write for different purposes and audiences, and extend their knowledge of spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Develop reading and comprehension
Read an increasingly wide range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, developing fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Children retrieve information, make predictions and inferences, discuss themes and ideas, and explain their understanding using evidence from texts.
Write for different purposes
Plan, draft and write fiction, non-fiction and poetry for different purposes and audiences. Children organise ideas into paragraphs, develop settings and characters, use increasingly varied vocabulary and begin to evaluate and improve their own writing.
Strengthen spelling and handwriting
Apply increasingly complex spelling patterns and rules, explore prefixes and suffixes, learn statutory spelling words and use dictionaries to check unfamiliar words, while developing fluent, legible and increasingly joined handwriting.
Extend grammar and punctuation
Develop sentence structure using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions, use paragraphs and punctuation accurately, and explore features such as direct speech. Discussion, presentation and drama also help children develop vocabulary and express their ideas clearly.
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Planning Year 3 English
When planning English in Year 3, give children regular opportunities to develop greater independence and confidence in reading, writing and spoken language as they begin KS2. Year 3 English planning should develop reading comprehension and vocabulary, extend children's spelling and handwriting skills, and help them use increasingly varied sentence structures, grammar and punctuation accurately in their own writing.
Plan sequences of Year 3 English lessons that allow children to explore a wide range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry before applying the language, structures and ideas they encounter to their own writing. Give children opportunities to plan, draft, edit and improve their work, organise ideas into paragraphs and write for different purposes and audiences. Reading, discussion and vocabulary development can be woven throughout English lessons to help children become increasingly thoughtful readers, confident speakers and independent writers.
Planning English across other year groups? Explore our Primary English Resources →Frequently Asked Questions about Year 3 English
What should children learn in Year 3 English?
Year 3 English develops children's reading, writing and spoken language skills as they begin KS2. Children read an increasingly wide range of texts, develop comprehension and vocabulary, write for different purposes and audiences, and extend their knowledge of spelling, handwriting, grammar and punctuation.
What does the Year 3 English curriculum cover?
The Year 3 English curriculum covers spoken language, reading, writing, spelling, handwriting, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. Children build on their KS1 learning while becoming increasingly independent readers and writers and working with more challenging texts and language.
What Year 3 English resources does PlanBee offer?
PlanBee offers ready-to-teach Year 3 English resources, lesson plans and schemes of work covering reading comprehension, writing, grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and spoken language. Resources include complete teaching materials as well as individual activities and printable Year 3 English worksheets.
What is included in a PlanBee Year 3 English lesson?
PlanBee lesson packs typically include detailed lesson plans, teaching presentations, differentiated activities and printable resources. These provide teachers with the materials they need to plan and deliver engaging Year 3 English lessons.
Do you have Year 3 English worksheets and activities?
Yes. PlanBee's Year 3 English resources include printable worksheets and activities covering a range of reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary skills. These are provided alongside lesson plans and teaching presentations to help children practise and apply their learning.
Do your Year 3 English resources include reading comprehension?
Yes. Year 3 English resources provide opportunities to develop reading comprehension through fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Children can practise retrieving information, making predictions and inferences, exploring vocabulary and explaining their understanding of texts.
What writing skills should children develop in Year 3?
In Year 3, children learn to plan, draft and write for an increasingly wide range of purposes and audiences. They develop settings, characters and plots in narrative writing, organise ideas in non-fiction, begin to use paragraphs and learn to evaluate and improve their own work.
What grammar and punctuation is taught in Year 3?
Year 3 grammar and punctuation includes developing sentence structure, using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions, introducing paragraphs and using punctuation for direct speech. Children also develop their understanding of word classes and apply their grammar knowledge to their own writing.
What spelling is taught in Year 3?
Year 3 children learn increasingly complex spelling patterns and rules, including prefixes, suffixes and word families. They also begin learning the statutory spellings for Years 3 and 4 and develop strategies for checking and correcting unfamiliar words.
Are PlanBee Year 3 English resources suitable for home education?
Yes. PlanBee's Year 3 English resources can be used for home education as well as in primary schools. The structured lesson plans, presentations, worksheets and activities can help home educators cover key Year 3 English curriculum skills.
