Y3 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Prepositional Phrases Lesson
This Year 3 Prepositional Phrases lesson covers the prior learning of Noun Phrases before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using prepositional phrases.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.
National Curriculum Objectives
English Year 3: (3G1.7) Using prepositions to express time and cause
English Year 3: (3G1.7) Express time, place and cause using prepositions [for example, before, after, during, in, because of]
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2 Teaching Support
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Teaching PowerPoint
This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of Noun Phrases before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using prepositional phrases. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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Modelling PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.
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Free Year 3 GPS Scheme of Work Spring Block 2 - Prepositions
This is a free scheme of work for Year 3 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 6 small steps with guidance for teaching.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of noun phrases before moving onto the main skill of using prepositional phrases.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 3 Noun Phrases Game is designed to check pupils’ ability to recognise and use noun phrases in sentences.
2 Varied Fluency
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Varied Fluency
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 3 What is a Preposition? Game is designed to check pupils’ ability to recognise prepositions in sentences.
2 Application
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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Application
This application task can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the using prepositional phrases lesson.
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of using prepositional phrases.
2 Homework
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Worksheet
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
