Year 3 Planning and Resources linked to the story book 'The Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitmura. 10 lessons with planning objectives that  link to the National Curriculum for 'Year 3' Reading, Speaking and Listening, Grammar and Writing. This downloadable zip file comes with supporting resources such as worksheets, presentations and displays.
 
Planning and resources included. The bookd can be purchased here: The Stone Age Boy
 
Reading Objectives:
Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied.
Identifying main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph and summarising these.
To discuss and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary.
Asking questions to improve their understanding of a text.
Retrieve and record information.
Reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.
 
Speaking and Listening Objectives: 
Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge.
Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings.
 
Grammar Objectives:
Use of the forms ‘a’ or ‘an’ according to whether the next word begins with a consonant or a vowel.
Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including: when, if, because, although.
 
Writing Objectives:
Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
Discussing and recording ideas.
In non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings]
Organising paragraphs around a theme.
Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
 
 
Unit Overview
The children will be presented with a special box from The Stone Age era, inside they will explore and describe different artifacts and locate the book ‘The Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. Through shared reading lessons they will begin to make predictions based on what they have read. As they continue to read, children will be taught how to summarise the text, ask questions, clarify new word meanings and retrieve and record information from the text. They will learn how ‘a’ and ‘an’ are used before words and they will deepen their understanding of subordinating conjunctions. The children will then explore non-fiction books and recognise the features of non-fiction books. They will read a non-chronological report about ‘Stone Age Life’ and identify the main features of this report. The children will then be taught how to plan and write their own non-chronological report linked to ‘Stone Age Life’ using many of the new facts they discovered in ‘The Stone Age Boy’ text. The reports will be collated to create a whole class non-fiction book about ‘The Stone Age’.
 
Zip File Includes:
Editable lesson planning (10 lessons) with differentiated activities (Microsoft Word)
'a' or 'an' worksheet (PDF)
Make a prediction writing frame (PDF)
Planning a non-chronological report (PDF)
Stone Age non-chronological report writing frames (PDF)
Stone Age Non-chronological Report (PDF)
Stone Age Retrieval Questions (PDF)
Stone Age Word Mat (PDF)
Subordinating Conjunctions Presentation (PPTX)
Subordinating Conjunctions Display Posters (PDF)
Subordinating Conjunction Worksheet (PDF)
Summarising the text worksheet (PDF)
Word Web Worksheets (PDF)
'The Stone Age Boy' Classroom Display Banner (PDF)
 
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