Year 3 Reading
Key Performance Indicators
- Reads accurately and at a speed that is sufficient to focus on understanding rather than on decoding words
- Reads about half of the common exception words for this phase
- Decodes most new words ouside the spoken vocabulary
- Uses first 2 letters to check the meaning of words in a dictionary
- Predicts what might happen from details stated and implied
- Retrieves and records information from non-fiction texts
- Draws inferences such as inferring characters' feelings and thoughts, and justifying views with evidence
- Recognises patterns in what they read, such as triumph of good over evil or the use of magical devices in fairy stories and folk tales
- Identifies structures and conventions in range of texts
- Develops positive attitudes by listening to, reading and discussing a wide range of fiction,poetry,plays, non-fiction and reference books
Other Performance Indicators
- Explores new vocabulary making links to known vocabulary
- Uses some of the grammar terms from Year 3 when discussing reading
- Uses contents pages and indexes to locate information
- Gives simple explanations of how and why texts are structured for different purposes
- Summarises and presents familiar stories in own words
- Responds to guidance about the kinds of explanations and questions that are expected from reading non-fiction
- Recites poems with appropriate intonation to show their understanding
- Listens attentively and discusses books and authors that they might not choose themselves
Year 3 Writing
Key Performance Indicators
- Spells around half of word list in Appendix 1 and the word patterns taught in the Year 3/4 programme of study (p59)
- Sometimes uses inverted commas correctly to punctuate speech: consistent use of apostrophe for contraction and possession
- Can use the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past e.g. 'He has gone out to play' in contrast to 'He went out to play'
- Uses the forms 'a' or 'an' accurately according to whether the next word begins with a consonant or a vowel
- Uses paragraphing to group related material
- Expresses time, place and cause using appropriate adverbial phrases
- In narratives, creates settings, characters and plot with some detail/development
- Uses headings and sub-headings to aid presentation of non-fiction genres
- Writes dictated sentences correctly that include spellings and punctuation taught
- Understands the difference between speech language and writing language
Other Performance Indicators
- Uses joined handwriting throughout independent writing
- Spells words as accurately as possible using phonic knowledge, morphology and etymology
- Understands and uses the Year 3 grammar terminology set out in Appendix 2 (p76), when discussing writing
- Monitors whether their own writing makes sense and makes revisions often without prompting
- Writes in different genres as part of their work across the curriculum using the main features
- Understands the skills and processes that are essential for effective writing: thinking aloud to collect ideas, editing to check meaning is clear and making corrections
Year 3 Mathematics
Key Performance Indicators
- Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
- Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
- Recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones)
- Solve number problems and practical problems involving these ideas
- Add and subtract numbers mentally - a three-digit number and ones
- Add and subtract numbers mentally - a three-digit number and tens
- Add and subtract numbers mentally - a three-digit number and hundreds
- Recalls and uses multiplication and division facts for the 3 x table
- Recalls and uses multiplication and division facts for the 4 x table
- Recalls and uses multiplication and division facts for the 8 x table
- Writes and calculates mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the x tables that are known including for 2 digit numbers x 1 digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods
- Counts up and down in tenths
- Recognises that tenths arise from dividing an object into ten equal parts and in dividing 1 digit numbers or quantities by ten.
- Recognises, finds and writes fractions of a discrete set of objects; unit fractions
- Recognises, finds and writes fractions of a discrete set of objects; non unit fractions with small denominators
- Recognises and shows, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominations.
- Measures, compares, adds and subtracts lengths
- Measures, compares, adds and subtracts mass
- Measures, compares, adds and subtracts volume and capacity
- Adds and subtracts amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts
- Tells and writes the time from an analogue clock and 12 hour and 24 hour clocks
- Identifies right angles, recognises that 2 right angles make a half turn, 3 make a three quarter turn and 4 a complete turn
- Identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle
- Interprets and presents data using bar charts, pictograms and tables
Other Performance Indicators
- Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction