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Year 3 English Course

The Year 3 English Course provides your child with the tools they need to improve their confidence and capabilities in reading and writing, spelling and grammar. Each module is structured around fun and engaging topic areas and includes games, quizzes and riddles to help boost learning and comprehension of key concepts within English.

Course overview:

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10 Modules

11 Videos

Earn reward points

What Will You Learn?

Building on the English curriculum in Year 3, your child will develop improved reading comprehension and learn about authors, books and interesting elements of science, geography and history. They’ll find out how to structure their writing like an author and develop sentences by adding more detail, improving their descriptive skills and understanding more about word types and their uses.

The spelling activities will boost their confidence in identifying the correct patterns for spelling rules and widen vocabulary use in their writing. It will help them to spot mistakes and correct their spelling through games and activities that build their confidence.

By studying this course, your child will:

Improve their reading ability
Learn about the structure of non-fiction texts
Develop their grammatical understanding of nouns and plurals
Consider how different forms of sentences are written
Improve their use of nouns
Become familiar with varying sentence types and punctuation
Build on punctuation use with commas in lists
Discover interesting topics within history, geography, science, and fiction

Who Would Benefit from This Course?

The Year 3 English Course is tailored to complement the Year 3 English United Kingdom (UK) National Curriculum. It is produced in line with the program of study for Year 3 objectives in reading, writing, spelling and grammar.

The course will aid children who are undertaking Year 3 English and would like to gain a better comprehension of the concepts covered at this level and those who may need additional practice outside of the classroom environment.

This course has also been designed for those looking to home educate their children and to make learning at home fun!

Modules

Module 1: Ancient Egypt10 Parts

Introduction
Part 1: The Ancient Egyptians
Part 2: Proper Nouns
Part 3: What are Hieroglyphics?
Part 4: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 5: How did the Ancient Egyptians Build the Pyramids?
Part 6: Correct Spellings 2
Part 7: Tutankhamun: The Young Pharaoh
Part 8: Exercises Answers
Module 1 Assessment

Module 2: Under the Sea8 Parts

Part 1: Spectacular Shark Species
Part 2: Prepositions
Part 3: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 4: Using Subheadings
Part 5: Question Marks
Part 6: Fish Fact File
Part 7: Exercise Answers
Module 2 Assessment

Module 3: The Stone Age to the Iron Age8 Parts

Part 1: History of the Stone Age to the Iron Age
Part 2: Nouns
Part 3: Stonehenge
Part 4: Making Singular Nouns into Plurals
Part 5: Handwriting Practice: Singular and Plural Nouns
Part 6: How People Lived
Part 7: Exercise Answers
Module 3 Assessment

Module 4: Violent Volcanoes7 Parts

Part 1: Violent Volcanoes – How are They Formed?
Part 2: Types of Volcanoes
Part 3: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 4: Mount Vesuvius
Part 5: Spelling Pattern: The Soft ‘C’ Sound
Part 6: Exercise Answers
Module 4 Assessment

Module 5: Ruling Romans9 Parts

Part 1: The Ruling Romans
Part 2: The Roman Army
Part 3: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 4: What Were Roman Houses Like?
Part 5: Statements and Questions
Part 6: Spelling Pattern: ‘y’ as a short ‘i’
Part 7: Hadrian’s Wall
Part 8: Exercise Answers
Module 5 Assessment

Module 6: Roald Dahl8 Parts

Part 1: Roald Dahl’s Autobiography
Part 2: Using Subordinate Conjunctions
Part 3: Dahl’s Five Most Famous Characters
Part 4: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 5: Book Review: Matilda
Part 6: Spelling Pattern: ‘un-’, ‘dis-’, ‘mis-’.
Part 7: Exercise Answers
Module 6 Assessment

Module 7: Innovative Inventors and Inventions8 Parts

Part 1: Thomas Edison and the Lightbulb
Part 2: Sir Isaac Newton
Part 3: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 4: What was Edward Jenner’s Important Discovery?
Part 5: Spelling Pattern: When ‘s’ or ‘ch’ Sounds Like ‘sh’
Part 6: The Clever Computer
Part 7: Exercise Answers
Module 7 Assessment

Module 8: On Safari9 Parts

Part 1: On Safari: ‘The Big Five’
Part 2: Using Possessive Apostrophes
Part 3: The Maasai
Part 4: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 5: Commands and Exclamations
Part 6: Spelling Pattern: Comparatives and Superlatives
Part 7: Travel Guide: The Great Landscapes of Tanzania
Part 8: Exercise Answers
Module 8 Assessment

Module 9: Traditional Tales7 Parts

Part 1: Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm
Part 2: Little Red Riding Hood
Part 3: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 4: Tiny Blue Butterfly Belt
Part 5: Using Adverbs to Improve Story Writing
Part 6: Exercise Answers
Module 9 Assessment

Module 10: The Brilliant Body8 Parts

Part 1: The Human Skeleton
Part 2: Using Commas in Lists
Part 3: The Digestive System
Part 4: Statutory Spelling Practice
Part 5: Your All-Important Teeth
Part 6: Spelling Pattern: Adding Suffixes – ‘-ment’, ‘-ful’, ‘-less’.
Part 7: Exercise Answers
Module 10 Assessment

FAQs

How much time do I have to complete my course?

There is no time limit for completing your course it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.

How long will the course take me to complete?

All of our courses vary in length but most of our courses will take you between 50 - 250 hours to complete. The length of this course can be found in the Accreditations section above.

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