INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAMUI

Year 3 Curriculum

Literacy

Unit 1: Adventure Stories, Instructions & Free Verse

Learning Objective - L1.1

Plan stories orally; explore moral dilemmas for characters using drama.

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Learning Objective - L1.2

Write adventure stories that have a problem and resolution and are organised into paragraphs and/or chapters with connectives to signal time, sequence or place. Include description of a typical adventure setting and characters. Use written dialogue to move the plot on.

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Learning Objective - L1.3

Use long and short sentences; long sentences add description or information; short sentences for emphasis.

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Learning Objective - L1.4

Use expanded noun phrases: so many people, plenty of food.

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Learning Objective - L1.5

Use list of three for description: He wore old shoes, a dark cloak and a red hat. African elephants have large ears, long trunks and curly tusks.

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Learning Objective - L1.6

Introduce paragraphs as a way to group related material.

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Learning Objective - L1.7

Use adjectives and adverbs for description: gigantic, freezing, quietly, sadly.

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Learning Objective - L1.8

Use adverbs to open sentences: Suddenly, Angrily, Sadly…

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Learning Objective - L1.9

Use simple similes: as tall as a tree, as bright as the sun.

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Learning Objective - L1.10

Use alliteration: dangerous dragon, slimy slug.

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Learning Objective - L1.11

Use of adverbs: Tom ran quickly down the hill.

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Learning Objective - L1.12

Use repetition: he walked and walked and walked. A green dragon, a fiery dragon.

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Learning Objective - L1.13

Use adjectives and adverbs for description: gigantic, freezing, quietly, sadly.

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Learning Objective - L1.14

Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning (for e.g. solve, solution, solver, dissolve, insoluble).

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Learning Objective - L1.15

Use of the forms a or an according to whether the next word starts with a consonant or a vowel; a cat, an octopus.

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Learning Objective - L1.16

Through reading explore how different views might be expressed/explained/justified (e.g. the different view of characters in a particular book, the different view of people writing to a newspaper.)

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Learning Objective - L1.17

Through role play and drama explore how different views might be expressed/explained/justified (e.g. the different view of characters in a particular book, the different view of people in a simulated ‘real life’ scenario.)

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