By the end of Year 3, children who are working at age related expectations should be able to:

Reading

• Comment on the way characters relate to one another.

• Know which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning.

• Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.

• Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning.

• Recognise inverted commas

• Recognise: plurals; pronouns and how used; collective nouns; adverbs

• Explain the difference that the precise choice of adjectives and verbs make.

Writing

• Use conjunctions (when, so, before, after, while, because).

• Use adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon).

• Use prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of).

• Experiment with adjectives to create impact.

• Correctly use verbs in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.

• Use perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause.

• Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

• Group ideas into basic paragraphs.

• Write under headings and sub-headings.

• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.

Mathematics

• Compare and order numbers up to 1000.

• Read and write all numbers to 1000 in digits and words.

• Find 10 or 100 more/less than a given number.

• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.

• Recall & use multiplication & division facts for 3, 4, 8 tables.

• Recognise place value of any 3-digit number.

• Add and subtract: 3-digit nos and ones; 3-digit nos and tens; 3-digit nos and hundreds

• Add and subtract: numbers with up to 3-digits using written columnar method.

• Estimate and use inverse to check.

• Multiply: 2-digit by 1-digit

• Count up/down in tenths.

• Compare and order fractions with same denominator.

• Add and subtract fractions with same denominator within 1 whole.

• Tell time using 12 and 24 hour clocks; and using Roman numerals.

• Tell time to nearest minute.

• Know number of days in each month and number of seconds in a minute