Teach Year 3 SPaG with seven carefully sequenced Summer term lesson packs, fully aligned to the Year 3 grammar and punctuation National Curriculum objectives. Pupils learn to recognise word families, generate conjunctions to express time, place and cause, identify main and subordinate clauses, organise writing into paragraphs, use headings and sub-headings, and generate prepositions and adverbs to express time, place and cause.
Begin with the Year 3 Summer lesson plans and rationale for an overview of the teaching sequence. You’ll also find assessments, progression documents and a linked Year 3 Summer spelling strand covering the Year 3 spelling objectives, with weekly spelling lists, dictation tasks and supporting resources.
Explore the complete Year 3 SPaG scheme, including Autumn, Spring and Summer lesson packs, planning and progression.
Follow the seven small-step lessons below to teach the complete Year 3 Summer SPaG sequence, building pupils’ grammar and punctuation knowledge across the Summer term.
Use these supporting documents alongside the Year 3 Summer SPaG lessons to plan the term, establish pupils’ prior knowledge and review progress. The lesson plans and rationale explain the teaching sequence, while the end of term assessment, assessment tracker and long-term overview help you monitor curriculum coverage across the Year 3 grammar and punctuation National Curriculum objectives during the Summer term.
Alongside the grammar and punctuation lessons, our Year 3 Summer spelling resources continue to develop pupils’ spelling knowledge through weekly teaching, practice and assessment. The spelling sequence follows the Summer SPaG lessons, helping pupils recognise patterns, apply new rules and build confidence when spelling in their independent writing.
Across the Summer term, pupils explore word families, extend their understanding of prefixes and suffixes, revisit statutory spelling patterns and continue learning words from the Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling list. Weekly spelling lists, dictation activities, handwriting sheets, Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheets and our popular Spelling Rules PowerPoints make it easy to teach, practise and revisit each spelling focus throughout the term.
Year 3 Summer SPaG focuses on applying grammar knowledge across longer pieces of writing. Pupils explore word families, use conjunctions, prepositions and adverbs to express time, place and cause, identify main and subordinate clauses, organise writing into paragraphs and use headings and sub-headings to structure information texts.
The Summer term brings together the grammar and punctuation knowledge developed throughout Year 3, giving pupils regular opportunities to apply what they have learned in increasingly independent writing. The carefully sequenced lessons provide a strong foundation for the Year 4 National Curriculum.
Each lesson pack includes a PowerPoint, practical activity and differentiated worksheets, providing everything needed to teach the objective from start to finish. The Summer term also includes lesson plans and rationale, baseline and end of term assessments, an assessment tracker and progression documents to support planning and assessment.
Yes. Every lesson is mapped to the National Curriculum English Appendix 2 and follows a carefully sequenced progression that develops pupils’ grammar, punctuation and vocabulary knowledge across the Summer term.
Yes. The Year 3 Summer spelling strand complements the SPaG lessons with weekly spelling lists, Spelling Rules PowerPoints, dictation tasks, handwriting sheets and a term overview and rationale, making it easy to teach spelling alongside the grammar sequence.
Yes. As the worksheets are organised by grammar objective rather than year group, they’re well suited to mixed-age classes, intervention groups and pupils who would benefit from revisiting specific grammar and punctuation concepts.
