Year 3 My Shadow

My Shadow is a Year 3 English poetry unit that combines hands-on learning with creative reading, writing and performance. Children explore Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic poem and simple shadow investigations while developing their confidence with rhythm, rhyme and imagery.

What’s Included:

• Exploring My Shadow – Discover how shadows change and use observations to talk about the poem’s ideas
• Rhythm and Rhyme – Play with sound patterns, clapping and echo reading to hear the beat of the poem
• Imagery and Personification – Build shadow and nature vocabulary and experiment with describing shadows as if they were alive
• My Shadow Character – Develop sentences using conjunctions and early relative clauses to add detail about a shadow character
• My Shadow Diary – Write short diary-style entries that use punctuation, including commas and brackets, to add extra information
• My Shadow Adventures – Plan simple shadow adventures that link real-life observations with imaginative ideas
• Publish and Perform – Create a neat final version of a poem or diary entry and perform it with expression for an audience

This cross-curricular unit links English with simple science work on light and shadows, offering a rich, multi-sensory learning experience that helps children read, think and write about the world around them.