ENGLISH YEAR 3 SYLLABUS CHECKLIST

Suggested Text Types

Chants Greetings Raps
Charts Instructions Poems
Crosswords Labels Quizzes2
Descriptions Lists Short forms
Dialogues Postcards Songs
Emails Posters Stories

Year 3 Grammar
1. Adjectives: possessive adjectives and comparison of short, one and two-syllable adjectives
2. Adverbs, e.g. again, here, today,
3. Adverbs of frequency: sometimes, always, never, often
4. Coordinating conjunction and, or, but
5. Determiners: a lot/lots, many, no, some, that,
6. Prepositions: about, at, behind, between, from, in front of, next to, of, to, with
7. Pronouns: demonstrative, possessive, subject, object
8. Imperatives: be as imperative: Be quiet! and negative forms: Don’t stop!
9. Irregular plural forms of nouns
10. Nouns: common irregular plurals
11. Question words: who, which, how often, how much, how many, how often
12. I think + a short clause
13. What (a/an) + adjective + noun
14. Would like + noun or verb
15. Past simple
16. ing forms as nouns
17. ing form after about
18. too and really

Recycle and consolidate (grammar from Year 2)

1. Modals be, can and have got

2. Present continuous (present reference)
3. Present simple
4. There is and there are
5. Yes/No questions

Year 3 Main Language Functions

1. Ask for attention or help from a teacher or classmate
2. Ask about and express basic opinions
3. Compare two things
4. Describe people and objects
5. Express ability, permission and requests
6. Express location and position
7. Express numbers: 20-100 in tens
8. Express possession
9. Find out about and describe basic everyday routines
10. Give a short sequence of instructions and basic directions
11. Make and give reasons for simple predictions
12. Narrate very short basic stories and events
ENGLISH YEAR 3 LISTENING SKILLS

MODULE 1.1 1.2 1.3

sounds understand meaning listening strategies
1.1.1 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 1.2.4 1.2.5 1.3.1
phoneme main idea short specific short simple wide range wide range guess unfamiliar
simple text information & narratives basic short questions words from visual
details short classroom clues
simple text instructions
1- Welcome!
2- Every day
3- Right now
4- Year in, year out
5- My new house
6- Food, please!
7- Out and about
8- Where were you yesterday?
9- On holiday
10- The world around us

ENGLISH YEAR 3 SPEAKING SKILLS

MODULE 2.1 (interaction) 2.2 (interaction) 2.3

communicate simple information communication strategies (production)
small/large
group
2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 2.1.5 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.3.1
ask & describe sequence simple describe exchanges ask help narrate
express routines basic predictions people/object repeat suitable stories/events
opinions directions words/phrase keywords questions
1- Welcome!
2- Every day
3- Right now
4- Year in, year out
5- My new house
6- Food, please!
7- Out and about
8- Where were you yesterday?
9- On holiday
10- The world around us
ENGLISH YEAR 3 READING SKILLS
MODULE 3.1 3.2 3.3
Recognise words – sounds *preliterate Understand texts - reading strategies Read
independently
3.1.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 3.3.1
letters articulate blend segment main idea specific guess key features A1 fiction/non-
simple text information/ unfamiliar monolingual fiction text of
details words from dictionary interest
simple text visual clues
1- Welcome!
2- Every day
3- Right now
4- Year in, year out
5- My new house
6- Food, please!
7- Out and about
8- Where were you yesterday?
9- On holiday
10- The world around us

ENGLISH YEAR 3 WRITING SKILLS

MODULE 4.1 4.2 4.3
Letters & words - Communicate basic information – range purposes Language form and style
cursive writing
4.1.1 4.1.2 4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3 4.2.4 4.2.5 4.3.1 4.3.2 4.3.3
prewriting cursive express reasons simple describe coordinati capital spell high plan, draft
* writing opinions for directions people/ ng letters, frequency & write
preliterate prediction object conjunctio (.) (?) words simple
ns sentences
1- Welcome!
2- Every day
3- Right now
4- Year in, year out
5- My new house
6- Food, please!
7- Out and about
8- Where were you yesterday?
9- On holiday
10- The world around us