INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAMUI

Year 3 Curriculum

Literacy

Unit 4: Creating a Setting & Persuasion

Learning Objective - L4.1

To plan and describe unusual settings with familiar elements. Use the setting as the basis for a new story based on personal experience.

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Learning Objective - L4.2

To use the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past (e.g. He has gone out to play contrasted with He went out to play).

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Learning Objective - L4.3

To introduce paragraphs as a way to group related material.

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Learning Objective - L4.4

To use lists 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 - L4.5

Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions (e.g. when, before, after, while, so, because), adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon, therefore) or prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of).

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Learning Objective - L4.6

To use apostrophes for contractions (can’t, don’t) and to mark singular possession in nouns (the girl’s name).

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Learning Objective - L4.7

To use time connectives: eventually, just then, although, meanwhile.

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Learning Objective - L4.8

To use adjectives to open sentences: The golden sun…..

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Learning Objective - L4.9

To use adverbs to open sentences: Suddenly, Angrily, Sadly…

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Learning Objective - L4.10

To read and evaluate a wider range of simple persuasive texts, explaining and evaluating responses orally.

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Learning Objective - L4.11

To begin to use words, pictures and other communication modes to persuade others when appropriate to particular writing purpose.

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Learning Objective - L4.12

Through role play and drama explore particular persuasive scenarios (e.g. a parent persuading a reluctant child to go to bed) and discuss the effectiveness of different strategies used.

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Learning Objective - L4.13

To use headings and sub-headings to aid presentation.

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Learning Objective - L4.14

To secure use of types of sentence: statement, question, exclamation, command.

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Learning Objective - L4.15

To introduce complex sentences: use of who (relative clause) - There was a little old woman who lived in a cottage.

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Learning Objective - L4.16

To use other subordinating connectives: when, while, where, which, because, so that, if, to, until.

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Learning Objective - L4.17

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

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