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Year 3 English Unit of Work based around the story ‘The Tear Thief’ by Carol-Ann Duffy. English planning objectives link to the Year 3 National Curriculum for Reading, Speaking and Listening, Grammar and Writing. This unit comes downloadable with lesson plans, worksheets, presentations and display posters.

**Unit Overview: **

In this English unit, children will start by engaging with a bag of jewel tears to spark their curiosity about whom they might belong to. They will be introduced to the book ‘The Tear Thief’ by Ann Duffy. Through shared reading sessions, the children will predict, summarise the text, analyse effective language use (such as similes), and draw inferences from character emotions and thoughts. Additionally, they will examine how grammar and punctuation are skilfully employed in the story. They will learn to recognise and utilise prepositional phrases, direct speech, possessive apostrophes and powerful verbs. Finally, the children will be guided on planning and drafting their own narrative based around a Tear Thief who gathers ‘happy’ tears to offer to the sun.

Documents Included:

Editable English Planning Document (Microsoft Word Document)

Making a prediction writing frame (PDF)

Summarise the main ideas (PDF)

Tear Similes Worksheet (PDF)

Tear Simile Writing frames (PDF)

Tear Thief Inference QUestion Cards (PDF)

Tear Thief Writing Frames (PDF)

Singular ad Plural Possessive Apostrophe Worksheets (PDF)

Powerful Verbs Worksheets (PDF)

Powerful Verbs Display Posters (PDF)

Planning Writing Worksheet (PDF)

Inverted Commas Presentation (PDF)

Direct Speech Worksheet (PDF)

Direct Speech Rules Classroom Poster (PDF)

Character Description with prepositional phrases worksheets (PDF)