Year 3 – Final Exam Portion – JUNE 2017
ENGLISH READING
Children will be assessed for reading comprehension, grammatical awareness, spelling and writing
skills.
READING
1 Hour 30 minutes
50 Marks
READING: Comprehension questions will be set on unseen extracts from the following Nonfiction and Fiction texts:
 Information texts /Reports
 Explanation Text
 Formal/Informal letter
 Stories with familiar setting, fantasy story/ legend/mystery
 Newspaper report
 Recount
 Poems
Questions will focus on:
 Layout, presentational features and language features
 Deducing and inferring ideas ,information, meaning to answer questions with evidence
 vocabulary - meanings of words through context clues;
 Giving reasons with evidence
 Expressing likes and dislikes with examples from the text.
Grammatical awareness: Identifying and using
 Nouns, Singular and Plural Nouns,
 Verbs, powerful verbs, Verb Tenses, Perfect Form
 Adjectives, expanded noun phrases,
 Adverbs of Manner, Cause and Time, Conjunctions
 Different forms of sentences : statements, questions, exclamations , commands Synonyms,
Antonyms, Homophones, Prefixes, Suffixes
 Main Clause and Subordinate Clause
 Punctuations - speech marks, commas, full stops, capital letters question marks, exclamation
marks.
Topics from Active Learn Primary:
Non-fiction
Unit 3.1 Was Tutankhamen Killed?
 Unit 3.2 Where Would You Like to Live?
 Unit 3.3 How Far Would I Go To Look Cool?
Fiction
 Unit 3.1 Storm
 Unit 3.2 Dragon Slayer
 Unit 3.3 Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
Live
 Unit 3.1 All About Me
 Unit 3.2 Chat Show Challenge
Poetry Unit 3.1 Performance Poetry; Unit 3.2 Playing With Words