Year 3 Whole Class Reading Units
Lists of Reading Domains and skills covered can be obtained by clicking below:
| Yr3 Whole Class Reading Leon and the Place Between by Grahame Baker-Smith |
| Wanting to prove to his brothers and sister that magic really exists, Leon volunteers
to be in Abdul Kazam's magic show and he gets transported to a mysterious world. |
| Yr3 Whole Class Reading Traction Man by Mini Grey weeks 1 and 2 |
| Follow Traction man and his pet scrubbing brush on their adventures around
the house in this comic style picture book. |
| Yr3 Whole Class Reading Traction Man by Mini Grey weeks 3 and 4 |
| Follow Traction man and his pet scrubbing brush on their adventures around
the house in this comic style picture book. |
| Yr3 Whole Class Reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes weeks 1 and 2 |
| Read this classic text to your Year Three pupils - an Iron Man befriending a small
boy and defending the world from a dragon from outer space. |
| Yr3 Whole Class Reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes weeks 3 and 4 |
| Read this classic text to your Year Three pupils - an Iron Man befriending a small
Boy and defending the world from a dragon from outer space. |
| Yr3 Whole Class Reading The Rainforest Grew All Around - Non-Fiction
by Susan K Mitchell |
| The jungle comes alive as children learn all about the rainforest in this beautiful
book. |
| Yr3 Whole Class Reading The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine |
| Tuffy is no ordinary cat – he is a killer cat! Humour and a cat’s view of the world
make this story a firm favourite. |
| Yr3 Whole Class Reading Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl |
| The farmers have hatched a plan to shoot Mr. Fox dead, but just when they
think Mr. Fox can't possibly escape, he makes a FANTASTIC plan of his own. |
| Y3 Whole Class Reading The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg |
| Late on Christmas Eve, a boy boards a mysterious train bound for the North Pole. |
| Y3 Whole Class Reading The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein |
| A story set in the Stone Age that looks at how the first drawing could have been made in a cave. |
| Y3 Whole Class Reading The Woolly Mammoth |
| A non-chronological report based on the Woolly Mammoth and its comparison to the elephant. A great resource for a Stone Age topic! |
| Y3 Whole Class Reading A Swan Warrior (The Dragon’s Hoard) by Lori Don |
| This amazing story about a Viking battle is one of a selection of eleven sagas in this text, where the tales are brought to life with vivid illustrations and details. |
| Y3 Whole Class Reading Romans on the Rampage by Jeremy Strong |
| Perilus is a Roman boy who is crazy about chariot racing. He loves to practise in his own homemade chariot and dreams of riding in the Circus Maximus himself one day. |
| Y3 Whole Class Reading Roman Diary by Richard Platt |
| The story of Iliona, an educated Greek girl, who has been orphaned and sold as a slave in Rome. |
| Y3 Whole Class Reading Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman |
| The story of a little girl visiting her great-grandfather. They explore his collection of matchboxes making up his diary when he was a boy, containing objects she can hold in her hand, each one evoking a memory. |
| Lower Key Stage Two Whole Class Reading Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers |
| Discover the delights of the planet Earth with this thought-provoking picture book. A non-fiction unit. |
