English is the Key Learning Area where students develop knowledge, skills and understandings about English language and literature. The students will be actively engaged in the development of skills through:

This term in English, Year 3 will be covering:

• Reading & Writing: 
• Persuade Me! weeks 1-3

• To encourage students to acknowledge the opinions of themselves and others in a respectful way
• To demonstrate that we create texts for a specific purpose-to persuade, inform, entertain...
• To develop critical thinking and justify their opinions
• To compose a rich text that follows a particular structure 

• Can you see what I see? weeks 4-10

• In this unit, the students will investigate a range of wordless texts. They will investigate ways different authors tell their stories through  picturesa and visuals to engage the reader for their desired purpose. The children will use these techniques to create their own written and digital imaginative texts to enhance the author's visuals and engage the reader.

• Spelling & Phonemic Awareness: Letters and Sounds

• Grammar, Punctuation & Vocabulary: Developing good persuasive sentences to express an opinion or point of view using topic specific vocabulary, capital letters, end marks, nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs. 

• Reading: Modelled - Explicit teaching of new concepts, Guided - small group instruction to reinforce comprehension and taught concepts, Independent - Students have the opportunity to independently practice taught concepts.

• Naplan preparation - exposing children to format of questioning
• Speaking and Listening: Topic Talks - Year 3 will be assessed on a 2-3 minute speech in approx week 7. 

The topic will be communicated to parents in advance. There is no weekly talk time in Year 3 - speaking and listening is integrated throughout all KLA’s.