This year 3 Environment themed unit of work is based on Amazing Rivers by Julie Vosburgh Agnone. Amazing Rivers is a fact-filled, colourful celebration of Earth’s waterways. Discover religious celebrations, stunning waterfalls and weird wildlife, including hungry bears and giant salamanders.

The unit comprises 15 sessions of English planning and focuses on mastering key writing skills (grammar, vocabulary and punctuation) from the national curriculum. Opportunities to develop reading comprehension, writing composition and spoken language skills are also woven throughout the unit.

Mastery skills:

• Use ‘a’ or ‘an’ according to whether the next word begins with a vowel or consonant
• Use prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs to express time, place and cause
• Group related ideas into paragraphs
• Use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense

Short writing opportunities:

• Diary
• Explanation of water cycle
• Letter
• Leaflet
• Setting description
• Instructions

Resources: PowerPoints, lesson planning and abridged methodology.

The supporting texts for the units of work can be purchased at Peters Ltd at 30% off the RRP price of the books*

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*You will receive 30% discount off the RRP on the vast majority of books ordered for the Pathways to Read and Pathways to Write programmes. Items excluded from this offer: book packs, plus short discount items (a small number of academic titles, big books, and audio titles). This offer may not be used in conjunction with any other promotion.

This unit can be used individually or as part of a whole-school themed project with our other units on this theme.

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