Year 3
We've Got the Curriculum Covered
At TutorExel, our Year 3 NAPLAN English program builds a strong foundation in key skills. Lessons are tailored to your child’s pace and aligned with the Australian National Curriculum.
Tutoring is delivered through 1-on-1 or group online sessions, guided by expert tutors who focus on real progress.
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Topic
What We Cover
1
Identify text purpose and audience; distinguish fact and opinion; state and support opinions with reasons; use modal verbs and evaluative language; apply basic persuasive structure and paragraphing; locate literal information; identify main ideas; use simple and compound sentences with correct sentence punctuation and subject–verb agreement.
2
Identify characters, settings and events; make text-to-self connections; answer literal and simple inferential questions; write short narrative paragraphs; adapt settings or endings; use doing, saying and sensing verbs; apply correct past and present tense.
3
Compare imaginative, informative and persuasive texts; recognise text structures and paragraph roles; write informative paragraphs with topic sentences; group ideas logically; locate information; identify clauses; reinforce subject–verb agreement.
4
Build topic-specific, technical and evaluative vocabulary; expand noun groups; interpret word meaning in context; identify multiple-meaning and technical words; apply prefixes, suffixes and word families to spelling and meaning.
5
Use textual and visual clues to make inferences; explain answers using evidence; identify cause–effect relationships; write justified responses using because; use adverbs and adverbial phrases; maintain verb tense accuracy.
6
Interpret images and layout features to support meaning; identify visual cues such as gaze and positioning; navigate headings, subheadings and hyperlinks; create captions and short multimodal texts; use prepositions and commas in lists accurately.
7
Apply phonics-based spelling patterns including digraphs, blends and complex letter patterns; spell multisyllabic and high-frequency words; distinguish homophones; decode unfamiliar words; edit spelling in context using NAPLAN-style tasks.
8
Edit and revise writing for clarity, spelling and punctuation; produce persuasive and narrative responses; answer mixed reading comprehension questions; identify main ideas and cause–effect; apply apostrophes, capital letters, commas and sentence boundary punctuation in NAPLAN-style questions.