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**__What will my child be doing in Year 3?__** At the age of 7 and 8 your child will be in Year 3. Your child will have finished working at Key Stage 1, have completed their SATS and will start Key Stage 2. Year 3 is the first of 4 years where your child will be working at Key Stage 2. At the end of Key Stage 2 your child should have reached a particular level of skills, knowledge and understanding.

Schools use targets to check each child’s progress so they can adapt their teaching to best serve the child. Some children will not progress as quickly as others or have special educational needs. Parents and carers have a key role in the educational development of their child. It is important to communicate with your child’s teacher, take an interest in what your child is learning at school and praise your child when they have done well.

**__YEAR 3 NUMERACY TARGETS__**
 * By the end of Year 3, most children should be able to;
 * Read and write numbers up to 1000 and put them in order. Know what each digit is worth.
 * Count on or back in tens or hundreds from any number under 1000, eg 462, 472, 482…or 462,
 * 562, 662
 * Know by heart addition and subtraction facts to 20, eg 4+16=20, 12-8=4
 * Work out in their heads sums such as 56+29, and 97-51
 * Know by heart the 2, 5 and 10 times tables
 * Do simple divisions, such as 27 divided by 5
 * Find simple fractions, such as ½, 1/3, ¼, 1/5, 1/10, of shapes and numbers
 * Tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes
 * Use £.p. eg know that £2.04 is £2 and 4p
 * Solve simple number problems and explain how to work them out
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Recognise right angles and lines of symmetry in simple shapes
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Explain a simple graph

<span style="background-color: #fbfb3c; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**__YEAR 3 LITERACY TARGETS__** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There are several areas that make up the various aspects of literacy for Year 3. Literacy is a <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">massive subject area and is obviously of extreme importance in your child’s development. Do bear in mind these are only guides to expectations.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Year 3 the there is less focus on Word recognition and a move towards emphasis on language comprehension. It is accepted that there are two dimensions of reading - word recognition processes and language comprehension processes - are both necessary to achieve fluent reading. However, the balance between word recognition and language comprehension should change as children acquire secure and automatic decoding skills.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1) Speaking <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2) Listening and responding <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3) Group discussion, interaction <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4) Drama <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5) Word structure, spelling <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6) Understand and interpret texts <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7) Engage with, respond to texts <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8) Creating and shaping texts <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9) Text structure and organisation <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">10) Sentence structure, punctuation <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">11) Presentation

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__1. Speaking__**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Choose and prepare poems or stories for performance, identifying appropriate.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">expression, tone, volume and use of voices and other sounds.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Explain process or present information, ensuring that items are clearly sequenced,
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">relevant details are included and accounts are ended effectively.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sustain conversation, explain or give reasons for their views or choices.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Develop and use specific vocabulary in different contexts.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__2. Listening responding__**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Follow up others' points and show whether they agree or disagree in whole-class discussion.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Identify the presentational features used to communicate the main points in a broadcast.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Identify key sections of an informative broadcast, noting how the language used signals changes or transitions in focus.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__ 3. Group discussion, interaction __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use talk to organise roles and action.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Actively include and respond to all members of the group.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use the language of possibility to investigate and reflect on feelings, behaviour or relationships.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__4. Drama__**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Present events and characters through dialogue to engage the interest of an audience.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use some drama strategies to explore stories or issues.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Identify and discuss qualities of others' performances, including gesture, action and costume.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__5. Word structure, spelling__**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Spell high and medium frequency words.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Recognise a range of prefixes and suffixes, understanding how they modify meaning and spelling, and how they assist in decoding long complex words.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Spell unfamiliar words using known conventions including grapheme-phoneme correspondences and morphological rules.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__ 6. Understand and interpret texts __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Identify and make notes of the main points of section(s) of text.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Infer characters' feelings in fiction and consequences in logical explanations.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Identify how different texts are organised, including reference texts, magazines and leaflets, on paper and on screen.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use syntax, context and word structure to build their store of vocabulary as they read for meaning.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Explore how different texts appeal to readers using varied sentence structures and descriptive language.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__ 7. Engage with, respond to texts __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Share and compare reasons for reading preferences, extending the range of books read
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Empathise with characters and debate moral dilemmas portrayed in texts
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Identify features that writers use to provoke readers' reactions

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__8. Creating and shaping texts__**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Make decisions about form and purpose, identify success criteria and use them to evaluate their writing.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use beginning, middle and end to write narratives in which events are sequenced logically and conflicts resolved.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write non-narrative texts using structures of different text-types.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Select and use a range of technical and descriptive vocabulary.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use layout, format graphics and illustrations for different purposes.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__ 9. Text structure and organisation __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Signal sequence, place and time to give coherence.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Group related material into paragraphs.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__ 10. Sentence structure, punctuation __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Show relationships of time, reason and cause through subordination and connectives.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Compose sentences using adjectives, verbs and nouns for precision, clarity and impact.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Clarify meaning through the use of exclamation marks and speech marks.

<span style="background-color: #fadbfa; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__11. Presentation__**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write with consistency in the size and proportion of letters and spacing within and between words, using the correct formation of handwriting joins.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Develop accuracy and speed when using keyboard skills to type, edit and re-draft.

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