About / Supporting the curriculum / Year 3 literacy skills
Strand |
Objective |
|---|---|
| 1 Speaking | Choose and prepare poems or stories for performance, identifying appropriate expression, tone, volume and use of voices and other sounds |
| 1 Speaking | Sustain conversation, explain or give reasons for their views or choices |
| 2 Listening and responding | Follow up others’ points and show whether they agree or disagree in whole class discussion |
| 3 Group discussion and interaction | Use talk to organise roles and action |
| 3 Group discussion and interaction | Actively include and respond to all members of the group |
| 3 Group discussion and interaction | Use the language of possibility to investigate and reflect on feelings, behaviour or relationships |
| 4 Drama | Present events and characters through dialogue to engage the interest of the audience |
| 4 Drama | Use some drama strategies to explore stories or issues |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Use beginning middle and end to write narratives in which events are sequences logically and conflicts resolved |
| 10 Text structure and organisation | Signal sequence, place and time to give coherence |
| 11 Sentence structure and punctuation | Compose sentences using adjectives, verbs and nouns for precision, clarity and impact |
| 11 Sentence structure and punctuation | Clarify meaning through the use of exclamation marks and speech marks |
Links to the Department for Education and skills' Primary Framework for Literacy website: