Page 31 - Year 3 SOW (2020)

Primary Year 3 SK Scheme of Work
PRE-LESSON TASK 5: SIT DOWN, STAND UP
AIM: To revise topic vocabulary
MATERIALS: True and false sentences about the topic

1. Prepare some simple True/False sentences about the topic to check pupils’ knowledge or to prepare them for the content of the lesson.
2. Read a sentence out, for example, if the topic is pets, ‘Cats are bigger than mice’, ‘Fish live in water’ etc).
3. If it is True, pupils stay sitting at their desks. If it is False, pupils stand up. Invite pupils to correct any false sentences. You could change the action to suit the
topic of the lesson or to review other vocabulary, especially verbs.
4. If there is time, pairs of pupils can create their own True/False sentences to use with other pairs or with the whole class.

PRE-LESSON TASK 6: FINGER-WRITING
AIM: To practise spelling of topic vocabulary
MATERIALS: Board

1. Choose some words that pupils will need for the lesson. These should be words pupils already know, so are reviewing.
2. Divide pupils into pairs.
3. Tell one pupil in the pair to look at the board, and the other pupil to cover their eyes or put their head down on the desk so that they can’t see the board.
4. Write a topic word on the board, give pupils about 5 seconds to remember it, and then rub the word off the board. You could use a picture if pupils may benefit
from using a visual aid.
5. Tell pupils who did not see the board to stand with their back to their partner while the partner writes the word on their back by using their finger.
6. Each pupil works out what word their partner is writing.
7. Reverse the roles so that each pupil gets the chance to write.
8. Repeat for other topic words.

Note: When pupils know this activity, they can choose their own words.
PRE-LESSON TASK 7: BEAT THE TEACHER
AIM: To create interest in the lesson and to review and practise spelling of topic vocabulary
MATERIALS: Board

1. Choose a key topic word from the lesson.
2. Write lines to correspond to each letter on the board with a space in between as in the example below _ _ _ _ _ _ (planet).
3. Draw a circle/oval on the board. It is a head without the parts (eyes, nose, ears, mouth, hair).
4. Explain that the aim of the game is to guess the word before the face is completed.
5. Tell pupils to put up their hands if they want to guess a letter.
6. If they guess correctly, write the letter into the correct letter space. If they guess incorrectly, draw one part of the head (e.g. the mouth or the hair). Write the
incorrect letter on the side of the board to remind pupils it has already been used.
7. If pupils guess the word before the face is completed, they have beaten the teacher. If not, the teacher has won!

Note: You can change the picture you build for this, perhaps using a topic-related picture, as long as it has a good number of parts (e.g. 6 or 7).

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