Y3 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
What is a Paragraph Lesson
This Year 3 What is a Paragraph? lesson covers the prior learning of Sequencing Sentences before moving onto the main skill of What is a Paragraph?
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: Introduction to paragraphs as a way to group related material.
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2 Teaching Support
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Teaching PowerPoint
This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of Sequencing Sentences before moving onto the main skill of What is a Paragraph? 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 Summer Block 2 – Paragraphs
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 5 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 Sequencing Sentences before moving onto the main skill of What is a Paragraph?
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
In this Using Paragraphs Video Tutorial, Laura shows pupils how to group sentences into a logical order to form a paragraph
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Interactive Activity
This Year 3 Paragraphs Game aims to support pupils’ composition knowledge. Children will demonstrate their understanding of why and when to use paragraphs.
2 Application
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of What is a Paragraph?
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Application
This application task can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the What is a Paragraph? lesson.
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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.
