Year 3 English Planning and Resources, English Unit of Work based around the  book 'The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs' by by Jon Scieszka. 14 Lessons fully planned with objectives linked to the LKS2 National Curriculum for Reading, S & L, Grammar and Writing Composition. Lessons, worksheets, presentations and displays included. Final Writing piece: Newspaper Report

Planning and resources included only. The book can be purchased here: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Reading Objectives:

• Predict what might happen from details stated and implied.

• Draw inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence.

• Participate in discussion about books and other texts, taking turns and listening to what others say.

• Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.

• Identify themes and conventions in a wide range of books and texts.

• Check that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context.

• Retrieve and record information from non-fiction.

• Check that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context.

• Ask questions to improve their understanding of a text.

• Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.

• Participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.

Speaking and Listening Objectives:

• Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers.

• Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge.

• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.

• Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions.

• Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others.

• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.

• Consider and evaluate different viewpoints.

• Ask relevant questions to extend understanding.

• Participate in discussions, presentations and debates.

Grammar and Spelling Objectives:

• To choose powerful verbs and precise vocabulary.

• Use fronted adverbials to express time and place.

• Use commas after fronted adverbials.

• Express time and place using adverbs and prepositions.

• Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because and although.

Writing Objectives:

• Discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write.

• To understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.

• Discuss and record ideas before writing.

• Writing similar to that which they are planning to write to understand its structure, vocabulary and grammar.

• Compose and rehearse sentences orally before writing.

• Organise paragraphs around a theme.

• Use headings and subheadings to aid presentation.

• Proofread for spelling and punctuation errors.

• Read aloud their own writing using appropriate intonation so that the meaning is clear.

Unit Overview:

This 14-lesson Year 3 English unit is based on The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka. Children become investigative journalists for The Daily Woodland News, exploring the mysterious destruction of two pigs' houses and the arrest of Alexander T. Wolf. The unit begins with an exciting woodland crime scene investigation, encouraging children to make predictions, ask questions and use evidence to justify their ideas. Through shared reading, retrieval and inference activities, children explore the wolf's version of events and compare different perspectives. They develop critical thinking skills by distinguishing between facts, opinions and claims, recognising the importance of balanced reporting. Children investigate newspaper features, including headlines, introductions, chronological events, eyewitness quotations and endings. Grammar lessons explicitly teach powerful verbs, precise vocabulary, fronted adverbials of time and place, conjunctions and correctly punctuated direct speech. Using teacher modelling, shared writing and differentiated activities, children progressively develop the skills needed to plan, draft, edit and publish their own newspaper reports. The final outcome is a carefully presented newspaper article that informs woodland residents about the incidents, includes contrasting eyewitness accounts and maintains a balanced viewpoint without deciding whether the wolf is guilty or innocent.

Resources Included in the Zip File:

• Editable Planning Documents (14 lessons Microsoft Word Document)

• Classroom Display Banner (PDF)

• 169 Slide Lesson Presentation (PPTX)

• Challenge prediction worksheet (PDF)

• Expected prediction worksheet (PDF)

• Newspaper Article (PDF)

• Supported Making predictions worksheet (PDF)

• Challenge task (PDF)

• Shared Reading Newspaper Questions (PDF)

• Newspaper detectives worksheet (PDF)

• Differentiated Retrieval Questions (PDF)

• Large Storyboard (PDF)

• Letter from the wolf (PDF)

• Retell the story worksheet (PDF)

• Story map (PDF)

• Inference questions (PDF)

• Case File Sorting facts, opinions and claims (PDF)

• Facts, opinions, claims worksheet (PDF)

• Display vocabulary posters (PDF)

• Powerful Verbs for headlines worksheets (PDF)

• Headlines for Display (PDF)

• Hook letter from newspaper editor (PDF)

• Powerful verb word choice (PDF)

• Fronted Adverbials Display (PDF)

• Retelling using fronted adverbials (PDF)

• Direct speech challenge (PDF)

• Direct speech expected task (PDF)

• Direct speech supported task (PDF)

• Hot seating eye witness quotations (PDF)

• Letter from the editor (PDF)

• Conjunction challenge task (PDF)

• Conjunctions worksheets (PDF)

• Planning a newspaper report template (PDF)

• Suggested language frames (PDF)

• Editing checklists (PDF)

• Newspaper writing frame (PDF)

• Newspaper writing frame (PPTX)

• Word Mat (PDF)

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