Activities and Resources

National Literacy Strategy: Year 3: Term 2

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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with B.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with C.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with D.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Sorting out lots of names beginning with J according to the alphabetical order of the second letter.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with M.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Ordering a list of names alphabetically, all beginning with S.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS2: Reading: Spelling strategies e) to check their spelling using word banks, dictionaries and spellcheckers.
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	Choose the appropriate verb tenses to complete the story.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T1, S4: To use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking and writing e.g catch/caught. Use past tense consistently for narration. Y3, T2, S11: to understand to need for grammatical agreement in speech and writing e.g I am, we are. NC - KS1: Language structure 7b: the nature and use of nouns, verbs and pronouns.
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	Using reading strategies and knowledge of spelling patterns to identify missing pieces of words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T1/2/3, S1: To use awareness of grammar to decipher new or unfamiliar words. Y3, T1/2/3, W6: Spelling strategies - using visual strings e.g recognising common letter strings and checking critical features. NC KS2: Writing: Spelling d) To use knowledge of common letter strings, visual patterns and analogies.
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	Ordering names of imaginary potions in an alphabetical list.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, W23: To organise words or information alphabetically, using the first two letters. NC KS1 - Non fiction texts b) Using dictionaries.
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	Exploring how different words can be made using roots and suffixes.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, word level 13: to recognise and spell common suffixes and how these influence word meanings, e.g -ly, -ful, -less. Y4, T2, word level 13: a range of suffixes that can be added to nouns and verbs to make adjectives e.g wash...able, hope...ful, child...like, road...worthy. NC KS2 - Morphology g) the meaning, use and spelling of common prefixes and suffixes.
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	Practising how apostrophes are used, and how words change when they are contracted, to make speech more natural.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y3, T2, word level 15: To use the apostrophe to spell shortened forms of words e.g don't, can't. NC KS2: Punctuation 3. Pupils should be taught to use punctuation marks correctly in their writing, including... apostrophes to mark possession and omission.
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