Year 3 English Skills () « All Years

Australian & NZ curriculum aligned. Master each skill by earning 10 stars across 3 difficulty levels.

Warm up

  1. Working with sentence structure

    1. Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation?
    2. Identify the complete subject
    3. Identify the complete predicate
    4. Identify the simple subject or predicate
    5. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
    6. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
    7. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
    8. Identify the simple or compound sentence.

  2. Nouns

    1. Which word is a noun?
    2. Identify nouns in a sentence
    3. Identify concrete and abstract nouns
    4. Identify common and proper nouns
    5. Forming regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
    6. Using regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
    7. Is the noun singular or plural?
    8. Form and use irregular plurals
    9. Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
    10. Form the singular or plural possessive
    11. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

  3. Pronouns

    1. Use a personal pronoun in place of a noun
    2. Select personal pronouns in the sentence
    3. Choosing between subject and object personal pronouns
    4. Using pronouns I and me with compound subjects and objects
    5. Select the possessive pronoun
    6. Using possessive pronouns
    7. Using suitable personal and reflexive pronoun in the sentence
    8. Using reflexive pronouns

  4. Verbs

    1. Identify action verbs
    2. Use action verbs
    3. Select between main and helping verbs
    4. Is the highlighted subject singular or plural?
    5. Use the correct subject or verb
    6. Pronoun-verb agreement
    7. Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
    8. Identify verbs in the regular past tense
    9. Form and use the regular past tense
    10. Use the irregular past tense in a sentence
    11. Change the sentence to future tense
    12. Use the correct form of "to be"
    13. Use the correct form of "to have"
    14. Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?

Speed up

  1. Articles

    1. How to use articles a and an in sentences
    2. Find articles in the sentence
    3. Using articles: a, an an the

  2. Adjectives and adverbs

    1. Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
    2. Find adjectives in the sentence
    3. Identify the adjective that describes the noun
    4. Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
    5. Identify adverbs
    6. Is the word an adjective or adverb?
    7. Choose between adjectives and adverbs
    8. Use adjectives to compare
    9. Spell adjectives that compare
    10. Use adverbs to compare

  3. Prepositions

    1. Identify prepositions
    2. Identify prepositions and their objects
    3. Identify prepositional phrases
    4. Prepositions, prepositions and their objects

  4. Conjunctions

    1. Using coordinating conjunctions
    2. Identifying coordinating conjunctions
    3. Using subordinating conjunctions
    4. Identifying subordinating conjunctions

Sprint

  1. Contractions

    1. Contractions with pronouns and verbs
    2. Contractions with "not"

  2. Punctuation, capitalisation and formatting

    1. Commas with direct addresses and introductory words
    2. Capitalising the names and titles of respect
    3. Capitalise days and months
    4. Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
    5. Greetings and closings of letters
    6. Capitalising titles
    7. Formatting titles
    8. Formatting and capitalising titles

  3. Affixes

    1. Understanding the words with -ly or -ness suffixes
    2. Understanding the words with -able or -ment suffixes
    3. Understanding the words with suffixes

Finish it off

  1. Greek and Latin roots

    1. Using Greek and Latin roots context clues to understand the meaning of a word
    2. Greek and Latin root meanings
    3. Greek and Latin root word meanings

  2. Reference skills

    1. Order alphabetically based on the first letter
    2. Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
    3. Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
    4. Alphabetical order
    5. Use guide words
    6. Use dictionary entries
    7. Using dictionary definitions

  3. Word relationships

    1. Choose the synonym
    2. Choose the antonym
    3. Form compound words
    4. Use compound words in sentences
    5. Identify homophones
    6. Use the correct homophone
    7. Positive and negative connotation
    8. Select the definition that matches the sentence
    9. Select the sentence that matches the definition

  4. Figurative language

    1. Decide the meanings of similes

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