At UExL Academy, Year 3 students practise finding stated answers, identifying the main idea, sequencing events and working out word meaning from context. They learn to infer feelings and causes, use headings, captions and pictures, and check true or false statements against the text. The final lesson covers test technique, including reading the question first and managing time.

Students can write one piece in the test, either a story or a persuasive text, so we teach both. Narrative lessons cover story structure, characters, problems and endings. Persuasive lessons cover taking a position, giving reasons and using persuasive language. Students can also work on sentence structure, spelling and paragraphing, and complete timed pieces within the 40-minute limit.

Year 3 students learn to spot spelling mistakes, including silent letters, doubled letters and plurals. Grammar covers subject-verb agreement, irregular past tense verbs, adjectives, pronouns and sentence types. Punctuation covers capital letters, commas in lists, speech marks and apostrophes in contractions at UExL Academy.

Year 3 students can build number fluency through place value, addition, subtraction, times tables, division and fractions. They then apply these skills to money, time, measurement, shapes, position, graphs and chance. Habits like checking a graph’s key and underlining comparison words help save marks.