Education expert James Clements runs through everything you need to keep your child’s reading skills developing during the school lockdown.
Learning at home: Learning to read
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Blog posts for: Year 3
Comprehension
Find out how reading comprehension is taught throughout primary school, and take a look at our books, advice, and free activities to help at home.
Grammar and literacy glossary: A to C
A guide to grammar and literacy terms used in schools, with definitions, how-to videos, and practice activities. From adverbials to conjunctions.
Fractions in Year 3 (age 7–8)
In Year 3, your child will learn about tenths, unit fractions, and non-unit fractions, and will begin to understand equivalent fractions.
Multiplication & division in Year 3 (age 7–8)
In Year 3, your child will learn to multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number. Help your child learn at home with our advice and activities.
Addition & subtraction in Year 3 (age 7–8)
In Year 3, your child will use a mental and written strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems. Find out how to help your child learn at home.
Oxford Levels: How to support your 7–11-year-old’s reading development
Find out how Oxford Levels and levelled readers can support and develop your child’s reading skills even after they’ve learned how to read.
Grammar and literacy glossary: J to Q
A guide to grammar and literacy terms used in schools, with definitions, how-to videos, and practice activities. From modal verbs to pure sounds.
Help with times tables
Learning times tables can be fun! Help your child learn their times tables with our free top tips, videos, quizzes and worksheets.
Learning at home: Reading to learn
Education expert James Clements talks about how children who are already confident readers can get the most out of their reading.
Geometry & shapes in Year 3 (age 7–8)
In Year 3, your child will continue to learn the properties of shapes, will investigate right angles, and will understand perpendicular and parallel lines.
Looking forward to the summer term: tips to help boost your child’s learning
What can we do to help our children to make progress over the term ahead? James Clements shares his tips to help boost skills and knowledge.
The curriculum for maths in Year 3 (age 7–8)
Find out what your child will learn in maths in Year 3, and how you can help them at home.
How to help your child with mental arithmetic
Building confidence in maths early on will pay back many times over. Get tips for developing your child’s mental arithmetic skills.
Fun maths games and activities
Have fun practising your maths skills with these games, activity sheets, and videos.
Science at primary school
Science at primary school is practical and exciting. Children love the chance to learn through being totally hands-on and finding things out for themselves — the perfect way to understand the world around them.
Get number confident on National Numeracy Day
Get involved with National Numeracy Day 2021 and help your child’s confidence grow, with our top tips and free maths activities.
Learning at home: The tricky business of screen time
Keeping your child’s screen time manageable can be tricky, especially at the moment. Education expert James Clements gives us his top tips.
Learning at home: What can we learn from teachers?
Education expert James Clements talks about the lessons we can learn from teachers about helping your child to learn at home.
Measurement in Year 3 (age 7–8)
In Year 3, your child will add and subtract measurements, will calculate with money, and will be able to very accurately talk about and tell the time.
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Flummoxed by fractions? Dismayed by decimals? Perplexed by percentages? Get tips for exploring these tricky concepts at home.
Statistics in Year 3 (age 7–8)
In Year 3, your child will learn to interpret and create lots of types of graphs. They will solve two-step problems involving tables and charts.
How reading programmes can help junior readers
Once your child has mastered decoding, it can be liberating to choose whatever books they like – but there are still benefits to structured reading schemes.
Developing empathy through reading
Children’s author Anne Booth, creator of the Lucy series, discusses how reading builds up emotional literacy, empathy, and relationship skills.
Maths: Age 7–8 (Year 3)
In Year 3, your child will learn more about fractions, shapes, angles and charts. Get tips and activities to help your 7- or 8-year-old at home.
The curriculum for English in Year 3 (age 7–8)
Find out what children will learn in spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing at school in Year 3.
Working with school (in strange times)
James Clements shares his advice on how we can work together with teachers to help our children be happy and confident at school, and gives his tips on getting the most out of parents’ evening.
What to expect in Year 3 (age 7–8)
Find out what your child will learn in Year 3 as they enter Key Stage 2, and how you can support their learning at home.
Developing reading skills as your child gets older
Once your child has mastered phonics and word-reading, where do they go next? Here are our ideas to keep your 7–11-year-old’s reading skills developing.
Learning at home: What would they be learning at school?
Education expert and writer James Clements explains what your child would be learning at school, and how we can use (or not use) the curriculum at home.
Money, money, money
Money isn’t everything, but being ‘good with money’ is undoubtedly a useful life skill. Read Fiona Lazenby’s top tips for practising using money with your child.
Number & place value in Year 3 (age 7–8)
In Year 3, your child will start to work with bigger numbers, all the way up to 1000. Find out how to help at home with our advice and activities.
Time flies: helping your child learn to tell the time
Learning to tell the time using both analogue and digital clocks is still an important skill, but it’s something that children can find tricky to master. Louise Pennington shares ideas to support your child’s growing understanding of time.
Learning at home: How to prioritise sharing a book
Education expert and writer James Clements talks about the importance of reading to your child to boost their educational success in all sorts of ways.
Writing a thank you letter
Practise handwriting by writing a thank you letter to someone who has helped you during lockdown – like a teacher, a family member, or a healthcare worker.
Times tables: Practice makes perfect
Maths teacher and education expert Louise Pennington shares her favourite activities and games to help your child learn their times tables.
Learning at home: Things to get ready for next week
Education expert and writer James Clements suggests 6 practical things you get get ready over the weekend for next week’s learning at home.
Maths is everywhere!
Maths expert Louise Pennington shares her advice for developing your child’s maths skills during school closures by exploring maths in the real world.
Learning at home: Making a start
Educational expert and writer James Clements gives his 3 top tips of how to get started with teaching your child at home.
Common reading issues
Tackle common reading problems with our expert advice on supporting struggling readers, engaging reluctant readers, and encouraging boys to pick up a book.
Learning at home: Buying yourself some time
Education expert James Clements shares his ideas for keeping the children busy – in a constructive way – when you need to be getting on with something.
Five ways to improve maths home-learning
Maths expert Andrew Jeffrey shares five easy-to-implement strategies that can make a positive difference to our children’s maths learning at home.
Teaching maths at home
Mathemagician Andrew Jeffrey suggests ways you can support your child’s maths development at home without needing to be an expert.
Year 3 at primary school
Find out what to expect in Year 3 at primary school (age 7–8), with information about the curriculum for English and maths, and tips for helping at home.
Nelson Handwriting: Forming double letters
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Trace and write a pattern, letters and words, forming double letters correctly.
Nelson Grammar: Sentences
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Practise using main and subordinate clauses.
Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary activity sheets.
Good writing: Standard and non-standard English
Practise identifying Standard and Non-Standard English.
Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary: Answer sheet
Answers to the Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary activity sheets.
Nelson Handwriting: Descenders
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Trace and write a pattern, letters, words and a sentence, forming descenders accurately.
Nelson Handwriting: Exclamation mark
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Learn to use the exclamation mark.
Nelson Grammar: Answers
Answers to the activity sheets from Nelson Grammar.
Nelson Comprehension: Understanding characters’ feelings
Year 3 | Age 7–8. Read three texts and analyse how they show characters’ feelings.
Phonics: Which spelling? (Super challenge)
Choose the correct letter or letter groups to complete these common words (/j/and /m/sounds).
Nelson Comprehension: Answers
Answers to the activity sheets from Nelson Comprehension.
Printable Numicon shapes
Don’t have Numicon shapes at home? Download, print, and cut out these free Numicon shapes.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 10 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 10 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 15 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 15 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
2, 5 and 10 times tables quiz: 25 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 25 questions about the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
At Home with Grammar (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise using pronouns, verbs, and the past tense.
At Home with Punctuation (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise writing sentences, asking questions, and using apostrophes.
At Home with French (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise French greetings, animals, family, and parts of the body.
At Home with Verbal Reasoning Skills (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise your verbal reasoning skills.
At Home with Spanish (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise Spanish greetings, animals, family, and parts of the body.
At Home with Maths (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise addition and subtraction, using money, and solving word problems.
At Home with English (age 7–9)
Build up English skills at the level of words, sentences, and whole texts with these four activity sheets.
MyMaths: Unit and Non-unit fractions
Practise finding fractions of shapes (age 7–8).
At Home with Non-verbal Reasoning Skills (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise non-verbal reasoning by working out patterns and finding connections.
At Home with Mental Maths (age 7–9)
Four activity sheets to practise counting, calculating up to 20, fractions, and the 9 and 11 times tables.
MyMaths: Week 10 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 10 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 5 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 5 activity sheets.
Times Tables Flashcards
These Bond Times Tables Flashcards provide rapid recall practice in all the times tables from 1 to 12, helping children to meet the curriculum expectations for Key Stage 2 maths and the Year 4 multiplication tables check. With questions on one side and the sum on the reverse, the flashcards can be used independently or with a parent, tutor or another child to quickly test knowledge.
MyMaths: Week 12 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 12 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 11 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 11 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 4 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 4 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 9 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 9 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 3 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 3 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 7 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 7 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 1 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 1 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 6 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 6 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 2 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 2 activity sheets.
MyMaths: Week 8 answer sheet
Find answers to all the MyMaths Week 8 activity sheets.
Phonics: How many sounds? (Super challenge)
Label the pictures and identify how many phonic sounds make up these words.
Phonics: Long vowel sounds
Sort words to show which long vowel sound they include (/ai/, /ee/, /igh/, and /oa/ sounds).
Phonics: long vowel sounds (Super challenge)
Identify the pictures and sort the word with long vowel sounds (/ai/, /ee/, /igh/, and /oa/ sounds).
Phonics: Matching sounds
Identify words that start with the same phonic sounds.
Phonics: Rhyming games (Super challenge)
Find and spell rhyming words then create your own poem.
Phonics: Matching sounds (Super challenge)
Identify words that have the same phonic sounds in the middle.
Phonics: Rhyming games
Identify words that end with the same phonic sounds to create fun rhymes.
Phonics: Which spelling?
Choose the correct letter or letter groups to complete these common words (/s/and /f/sounds).
Phonics: What am I? (Super challenge)
Decipher the phonic clues to work out which animal is being described.
Phonics: Grouping words by sound (Super challenge)
Sort words into the correct boxes to show where the /k/ sound appears in the word.
Phonics: How many sounds?
Identify how many phonic sounds make up these common words.
7, 9 and 11 times tables quiz: 10 questions
Practise your times tables knowledge with this quick quiz. Answer 10 questions about the 7, 9 and 11 times tables.
Phonics: Grouping words by sound
Sort and group words together that have the same phonic sound (/s/, /n/, and /k/ sounds).
Phonics: Alternative spellings (Super challenge)
Practise spelling using the correct letter groups for the /ur/ phonic sound.
Phonics: Alternative spellings
Choose the correct letters to complete these common words containing the long /oo/ phonic sound.
Phonics: Word games (Super challenge)
Use the picture clues to complete this crossword and identify the long vowel phonic sound.
Phonics: Word games
Find the words that have the /ai/ phonic sound in this wordsearch.
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