English Unit Overview

Recounts - Diaries and recounts

For this unit we are going to be writing a recount of an event in the style of the books we are looking at.

We will build on our grammar knowledge from Year 2 by looking at adverbs for time, place and manner as well as looking at 1st person recounts. We will look at features of diaries and different points of view. Then we will recap writing and punctuating direct speech before writing our own recount. We will have to be careful that we don't confuse them with the reports from the last unit and make sure the events are in chronological order - that means time order!!

Non-Chronological Reports

We are writing Non-Chronological reports about Sports!

We have completed lots of research using a book all about different types of sports.

We have looked at basketball, Football, Netball, Sailing and Skiing along with many others.

While learning about Non-Chronological Reports we also looked at how we use conjunctions and adverbs to develop and extend our sentences!

Shape Poems

In the Autumn term we have learned about different types of shape poems:

• We looked at calligrams – poems/words which look like the meaning of the word e.g. growing.
• We created animal poems during this unit by using words that described the animals to create their shape.
• We recapped our Year 2 learning on writing in the past tense and how lots of verbs need -ed on the end but some trick us and the word changes.
• We talked about what we like or don’t like about specific poems and how they are set out. We thought carefully about how to express our opinion and respect other people’s opinions.
• We recapped using noun phrases in our writing to make it more interesting.
• We made decisions about what we wanted our final poem to be on

Fictional Stories

We have been looking at a range of stories by the same author.

We looked at 'I'll take you to Mrs Cole' and 'Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish!'

by Michael Foreman

We focused on learning how to correctly punctuate direct speech.

Here are some of the rules we learned: