Reading Overview Year 3
Autumn 1: In the Forest
Autumn 1 Aldershot Past, Present and Future
Autumn 1
Into the forest
Autumn 1 Aldershot Past Present and Future
Objectives
Themes:
Spring 1: Bodyworks
Summer 1: Long Long Ago
Objectives
Themes:
Objectives
Themes:
identify themes and conventions in a wide range of
books
Express preferences for different forms of poetry
Recognise some features of the text that relate it to
its historical setting or its social or cultural background
Recognise some features of the context of texts (e.g.
historical setting or similar themes)
Comprehension:
Comprehension:
Identify how an author uses language and structure to
convey a message
Prepare poems and play scripts to read aloud and to
perform, showing understanding through intonation,
tone, volume and action
Recognise some different forms of poetry (for
example, free verse, narrative poetry)
Comprehension:
Inference:
Inference:
Make predictions with evidence from text and with
knowledge of wider reading
Ask questions to improve their understanding of a
text
Combine personal experience and clues from the text
to interpret and form opinions
Language:
Begin to identify and comment on different points of
view in the text
Identify that information, events or ideas can be
organised in paragraphs
Comment on the presentational characteristics of
some non-fiction text types
Inference:
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Predict what might happen from details stated and
implied
Language:
Find and comment on the choice of language to create
moods , feelings and attitudes and build tension
Understand how style and vocabulary are linked to the
purpose of the text (e.g. exaggerated writing in
persuasive text)
Language:
Identify the effects of different words and phrases
(e.g. to create humour and atmosphere
Identify and describe the main characters/setting
/events using direct reference to the text
Some comments include quotations from or references
to text
Reading Overview Year 3
Into the Forest
Grimms Fairy Tales by Philip Pullman
Teacher generated diary extracts
A Child’s Garden by M Foreman
Texts
A, Past and present
War Game by Michael Foreman
Poetry
School Trip – Gervase Phinn
Wider reading
Philip Pullman : Grimms Fairy Tales
The Stowaways Roger McGough (A little aloud
for children)
Autumn 2: Aldershot Past, Present and Future
Objectives
Themes: Begin to identify and comment on different
Texts
Horrible Science Handbooks: Beastly Body
Experiment
Nanny Fox by Georgie Adams and Selina Young
TBD supported by M Morpurgo Little Foxes
Tuesday by David Weisner
Texts
UG by Raymond Briggs
Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura
Poetry
Cat Moments by William Wordsworth (Opening
Door to Poetry and Prose by Bob Cox)
Wider reading
Little Foxes by Michael Morpurgo
Escape at Bedtime by RL Stevenson (A little Aloud
for children)
Horrible Science Handbooks: Beastly Body
Experiment
Poetry:
Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney
Spring 2: James and the Giant Peach
Objectives
Themes:
Identify how an author uses language and structure to
convey a message
Draw on previous experience of authors and types of
books to inform choices
Express reasoned preferences between texts
Make connections between books by the same author
Comprehension: Identify the main point and
Comprehension:
summarise orally the content of a passage of text
independently
Identify main ideas drawn from more than one
paragraph and summarise these
Inference:
points of view in the text
Understand that chapters can signal episodes in
stories
Wider reading
The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Katherine Fidler
The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein
Glog by Pippa Goodhart
The Secret Cave by Emily Arnold McCully
The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit
– Chris Wormell
Summer 2: Paradise Garden
Objectives
Themes:
Understand how the author wants the reader to
respond
Comprehension:
Use alphabetically ordered texts to find information
Evaluate the effectiveness of structural, presentational
and organisational features to locate information (e.g.
paragraphs, sub-headings, indexes)
Begin to skim for general impressions and scan to
locate specific information
Reading Overview Year 3
Inference:
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Predict what might happen from details stated and
implied
Language:
Discuss the actions of the main characters and justify
views using evidence from the text
Recognise how characters are presented in different
ways and respond to this with reference to the text
Language:
Find and comment on the choice of language to create
moods , feelings and attitudes and build tension
Inference:
Language:
Comment on how language is used to create effects
and paint a picture
Identify language features of different texts (e.g.
similes, imperative verbs)
Find and comment on the choice of language to create
moods , feelings and attitudes and build tension
Understand how style and vocabulary are linked to the
purpose of the text (e.g. exaggerated writing in
persuasive text)
Texts
Belonging by Jeannie Baker (Non Chron Reports)
One Boys War by Lynn Huggins Cooper
Texts
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Poetry
Poetry
The Magic Box – Kit Wright
Wider reading
Window – Jeannie Baker
The Christmas Truce Carol Ann Dufffy
The Stowaways Roger McGough (A little aloud
for children)
Wider reading
Round the World in 80 Days (extract)
Roald Dahl collection of books
Texts
Moon Seeds: The First Men in the Moon by HG
Wells p87 Opening the Doors to Poetry and Prose
Bob Cox
Poetry
Paths of Mystery : The Path by Edward Thomas
(Opening Doors to Poetry and Prose Bob Cox
p61)
The Mayflower by E Dickenson
Hens Nest – John Clare (in ‘A little aloud’)
Wider reading
The Tin Forest by Helen Ward
A child’s garden by Michael Foreman
Alfie Green Books by Joe O Brien
The Secret Garden (extract) – Frances Hodgson
Burnett ( in ‘A little aloud’)
Reading Overview Year 3