The bell’s gone, the roll needs marking, and you need something meaningful for your class to settle into, without another night of planning. Sound familiar?
Daily English Warm-Ups give you 10 weeks of ready-to-go morning work for Year 3. Print or project, and the first 20 minutes of your day are planned.
Every day has four short activities:
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Fix It! Students find and fix the mistakes in one sentence, then rewrite it correctly. The challenge changes every day.
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Word of the Day: Students find a new word in the day’s text, learn its meaning, then use it in a sentence of their own.
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Read It, Discuss It: The teacher reads the text aloud first, modelling fluency and expression. Partners then take turns reading it to each other and finish with an open-ended talk question.
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Free Writing: Ten uninterrupted minutes of writing, focused on ideas, not corrections.
Why it works:
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Themed weeks: each week follows one topic, building general knowledge across science, HASS and health.
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5 text types: the text changes each day (narrative, recount, persuasive, informative, descriptive), and the free writing matches it, so students read a model before they write.
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Oral language every day: partner reading builds fluency, and the talk questions get every student explaining their thinking.
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Free writing: builds stamina and confidence. Students are corrected so often that many stop taking risks. This is their space to just get their ideas down.
The 10 weekly themes:
Our Planet · Life Cycles · Healthy Bodies · Animal Groups · Habitats · Plants · Minibeasts · Materials · Where Food Comes From · Books and Writing
What’s included:
- 50 daily warm-ups, each with a warm-up page and a full free writing page
- A How to use guide explaining the purpose of each activity
- A Fix It! answer key
- 107 pages in A4 landscape, ready to print double-sided or project
This is for you if:
- You want a calm, consistent start to every school day
- You want your students reading, talking and writing every single day
- You’re a homeschool parent looking for a simple daily English routine
Curriculum links:
Supports the Australian Curriculum v9 English, including editing, vocabulary, reading fluency, oral language and writing across text types. Weekly themes draw on Year 3 Science and HASS topics.
I’ve done the planning so you can spend your mornings teaching.
