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Primary Year 3 SK Scheme of Work
SCHEME OF WORK: NON-TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (Unit 10)

LESSON: 149 (Language Arts 28) MAIN SKILL(S) FOCUS: Language Arts THEME: World of Knowledge
WEEK: TOPIC: The world around us CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENT: Entrepreneurship LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Comparative adjectives, animal

vocabulary

CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES
In this lesson, pupils will write and share puzzle sentences about animals for their
Main Skill Main Skill classmates to solve. Five pairs of sentences Differentiate
Language Arts Language Arts which describe an animal: learning according
5.3 5.3.1 Pre-lesson 1. They live in the sea. to the needs of your
Express an Respond 1. Choose an appropriate pre-lesson activity from the list in the introduction that suits They’re bigger than pupils and class.
imaginative imaginatively and your pupils’ needs and interests and that reviews animals and adjectives. dolphins. Please see the
response to intelligibly through Lesson delivery 2. They’ve got four legs. seven differentiation
literary texts creating simple 2. Read out the first pair of your five pairs of animal description sentences. Ask pupils They’re faster than dogs. strategies listed in
action songs on in groups to suggest possible animals, and elicit their suggestions. Sometimes more 3. They like cheese. They the introduction.
familiar topics. than one answer is possible. Accept different answers. are smaller than rats.
Other imaginative 3. Repeat step 2 for your other four pairs of animal sentences. 4. They are black and
responses as 4. Elicit from pupils that the first sentence is a fact about the animal, and the second white. They are bigger
appropriate. sentence compares it with another animal. Pupils may not use the word ‘compare’ than rats.
Complementary but may find other ways to convey its meaning. 5. They are grey. They are
fatter than cats.
Complementary Skill 5. Choose an animal, and ask the whole class to suggest two possible sentences for it
(e.g. if pupils choose a cat, possible sentences might be: It likes milk. It’s shorter
Skill Writing 4.2.4 than a giraffe.). Ask pupils to sing their sentences and mime. Possible answers include
Writing 4.2 Describe people 6. Divide pupils into pairs. Ask them to choose two different animals and to write pairs 1. Blue whales
Communicate and objects using of sentences following the pattern identified. Write the patterns on the board to help 2. Lions, tigers, cheetahs
basic information suitable words pupils if necessary. 3. Mice
intelligibly for a and phrases 4. Zebras
range of purposes Post-lesson 5. Hippos
in print and digital 7. Put pupils into larger groups of 6 or 8. Ask them to read out their sentences for their
media classmates to guess.
8. If there is time, ask a few pairs to read out their sentences for the whole class to
guess.

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