Reading Lists: Year 2 into Year 3 Reads

Inventing Characters Read! Journal Word Notebook

Choosing Titles The Fab Four Golden Rules Generating Ideas Stealing Ideas From an Idea to a Plan Planning from a Picture Stories Based on a Passage Stories Based on a Sentence An Example of Good Planning

Describing a Location Longer descriptions Describing a character's appearance Dialogue Distinctive Voices Show, Don't Tell Characterisation: Shown Feelings More Characterisation Techniques Playing with Sentences Playscripts Action Suspense

What is story structure? 1 Exciting opening line 2 Set the scene 3 Talking and describing character 4 Characterisation 5 Suspense 6 Action 7 Cliffhanger Standing Out: How can you stand out from the crowd? Clever Clogs: Non-Linear Clever-clogs: Two perspectives Clever-clogs: Narrative voice Practice 11+ exam titles

Checking your story in an exam Redrafting = improving your story What if I run out of time in an exam? The Grumpy Examiner's Pet Hates

Year 2 into 3 Lemony Snicket After Harry Potter Must-Read Authors Spy Novels Horror Stories Classics Animal Stories Adventure Historical Fiction Myths & Legends Fantasy Family Stories & Comedies

Bald Worm’s Must Read: How to Speak Dragonese by Cressida Cowell
The hilarious adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III mustn’t be missed!

Girls in the first term of Year 3 will love Bill’s New Frock, How to Write Really Badly and The Diary of a Killer Cat - all by Anne Fine

The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Woof! by Allan Ahlberg
The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer
Harry the Poisonous Centipede by Lynne Reid Banks
The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
Teacher’s Pet by Morris Glitzman
Alfonso Bonzo by Andrew DaviesVarjak Paw by SF Said
Barnaby Grimes by Paul Stewart
Awful End by Philip Ardagh

The end of Year Two and into Year Three is a brilliant time to encourage your daughter to read Roald Dahl’s classics:
George’s Marvellous Medicine,The Twists, The Witches, The BFG and Matilda.

When they’ve finished, encourage them to try Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Danny the Champion of the World.

Then it’s time to move onto the big ones...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by little-known, starving author Joanne Rowling
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Last updated on August 12, 2007