Composition
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Year 3 Writing Practice Statement trackers
A simple tracker for your class. Practice Statements down the left, ten student-name spaces across the top, and blank cells to use your way.
Choose a strand below. Write in the names, then add your own ticks, dates, codes or notes. For a class of 25, print three copies of the tracker.
Choose a tracker by strand
Each preview shows the first page of that PDF. Longer strands continue over several pages, with space for the same ten names on every page.
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In Composition, Transcription Skills and Writing processes, each curriculum subcategory starts on a new page within its strand PDF. Longer subcategories continue under the same heading.
Practice Statements included
These trackers cover all 28 stored Year 3 Writing Practice Statements, organised into their curriculum strands and skill groups.
Composition
Audience, purpose, and language choice
- Identifying the audience and purpose for a text, then planning and writing for the intended audience and purpose
- Choosing an appropriate language register (e.g. formal or informal language)
- Selecting and using adjectives, adverbs, vocabulary, and phrases that are increasingly precise in expressing the intended meaning
- Using a range of language features to enhance writing and describe how they can communicate meaning figuratively
Sentence structures, grammar, and punctuation
- Combining two simple sentences orally, using a subordinating conjunction, to form a complex sentence
- Using complex sentences with subordinating conjunctions in writing
- Using capital letters, full stops, question marks, and exclamation marks correctly
- Using commas for lists
Writing to entertain
- Writing a narrative in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, including details to describe setting, actions, thoughts, and feelings, and providing a sense of closure
Writing to inform
- Writing a paragraph about a topic that includes a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence
Writing to persuade
- Writing a paragraph that states an opinion about a topic, gives some supporting reasons for their opinion, and provides a concluding statement
Transcription Skills
Handwriting
- Printing all letters and numerals correctly and legibly, attending to size, placement, spacing, and slope with ease and automaticity
- Consistently practising good posture and a functional grip when writing across the curriculum
Spelling
- Orally segmenting multi-syllable words into syllables, then segmenting syllables into phonemes for spelling
- Spelling words with the vowel patterns: <a_e>, <ai>, and <ay> representing /long a/; <e_e> representing /long e/; <i_e> representing /long i/; <o_e> representing /long o/; <u_e> representing /long u/; <ou> and <ow> representing /ow/; <oo> as in 'good'; <oy> and <oi> as in 'coin' and 'toy'; <ee> and <ea> representing /long e/; <oa> and <ow> representing /long o/
- Spelling words with r-controlled vowels represented by <ar>, <or>, <er>, <ir>, and <ur>
- Spelling the most commonly used irregular words containing less typical phoneme–grapheme correspondences
- Adding less-common suffixes (–er, –ly) and applying simple spelling conventions
- Spelling easier contractions for two-word phrases
Writing processes
Drafting
- Writing single-paragraph texts that follow from their planning
- Beginning at the margin and leaving appropriately sized spaces between words
Planning
- Using simple organisers to plan single-paragraph texts
- Using notes to record key ideas during planning
- Identifying and working towards a specific writing goal based on revisions and edits made to previous writing
Revising and editing
- Rereading to check each sentence and making corrections when something does not make sense or is ungrammatical
- Adding, deleting, or substituting words to clarify meaning
- Improving sentence construction by separating run-on sentences and/or combining consecutive sentences
- Making simple edits to draft sentences using known spelling patterns and punctuation
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