SPaG: Verb Tenses – Present, Past and Progressive

English Year 3
This unit is part of Year 1/2 Mixed Age English Planning Children Around the World

You Will Need

Hamilton Group Reader
The Animals’ Outing by Ruth Mertens

Group Readers

The Animal's Outing
This gives a simple account of an outing on which all the animals happily set out. They have a lovely day but, unhappily, not all the animals return. Why is Mr Fox looking so fat and happy at the end? Children rapidly engage with the recount and find the text easy to decode.