Year 3 Spring 2-English Skills – Meet the Flintstones
Comprehension
 I can ask questions about the
texts that I have read to help me
understand them.
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Composition
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I can re-read my work to improve it for my audience.
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I can re-read my work to improve it by thinking about changes to vocabulary and grammar to
make it more interesting.
I can work out what a character
in a book is feeling by the
actions they take and can
explain how I know.
Word Reading
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Spoken Language
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I can read aloud my own writing,
controlling the tone and volume of
my voice so that the meaning is
clear.
I can estimate and read time with
increasing accuracy to the nearest
minute; record and compare time
in terms of seconds, minutes and
hours; use vocabulary such as
o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning,
afternoon, noon and midnight.
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I can use my knowledge
of root words, prefixes
(including dis-, mis-, in-,
il-, im-, ir-), and suffixes
(including -ly) to help
me read aloud and to
understand the meaning
of new words.
I can read further
exception words
including words that do
not follow spelling
patterns.
Spelling
 I can spell words that are
Vocabulary, Grammar
and Punctuation
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I can use the present
perfect form of verbs
e.g. He has gone out to
play contrasted with He
went out to play.

I can use speech marks
correctly.
often misspelt.
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I can spell words
containing the ‘I’ sound
spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than
at the end of words e.g.
myth, gym.
Handwriting
I can use more of the diagonal and
horizontal strokes I need to join letters
and know which letters, when they are
next to one another, are best left
unjoined.
I can write so that most of my letters are
easy to read, all the same way up and the
same size. My writing is spaced properly
so that my letters don’t overlap.
English TOPIC – Year 3 Spring 2
Meet the
Flintstones
Texts: Ug / Stone Boy (POR)
Tuesday – David Weisner
The Colour of Home
Reading Challenges
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Read Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura to find out what life as a caveman was like, including information about
food, houses and daily life.
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Read Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age by Raymond Briggs – consider how Ug is ahead of his time, and identify
facts about the Stone Age from within the story.
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Research information about life during the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages from information books and the internet,
for example The History Detective Investigates: Stone Age to Iron Age by Clare Hibbert.
Narrative Writing
Challenges
Speaking and Listening
Challenges

Present and record a TV documentary
about Skara Brae, including information
about the houses, its people and its
discovery.

Act as museum guides when people visit a
class museum of artefacts, pictures and
tools from the Stone, Bronze and Iron
Ages.
Non-Narrative Writing
Challenges
Poetry Writing
Challenge
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Write an adventure story where
the central character finds
himself back in time in the Stone,
Bronze or Iron Age.

Write information texts or e-books
comparing the Stone Age and the
Bronze Age, for example tools,
houses and farming.
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Write a descriptive poem to
accompany a cave painting,
describing people, animals or
events.
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Choose a cave painting from the
period – write a story inspired by
the painting’s people, animals or
events.
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Write instructions for how to make
different Stone Age inventions
including weaponry and fire.
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Write a selection of diary entries in
role as a Stone or Iron Age boy or
girl, describing everyday life.
Create calligrams or shape
poems to represent aspects of
Stone Age or Iron Age life for
example tools, houses or jewelry.

Create a comic strip for a new
episode of The Flintstones.