Blast off into confident writing with Space Explorers — a 24-page, SEN-friendly writing workbook designed especially for Year 3 explorers (ages 7–8). Building on Year 2 foundations, this edition moves into longer spelling patterns, prefixes and suffixes, joining words, and punctuation — all wrapped in a calm, predictable space-mission theme with generous white space, supportive word banks, and a "no rush, one page at a time" approach that's ideal for children who need extra structure and encouragement with their writing.
From spelling patterns and word building all the way through to independent story writing, this workbook builds skills step by step — and finishes with a personalised certificate every child will be proud of.
What's included (24 pages):
Getting started
- A personalised cover page with a "This workbook belongs to" name box
- A "For Grown-Ups" tips page with SEN-friendly guidance on pacing, using the word banks, and celebrating effort
- A full table of contents ("mission map")
Handwriting foundations
- Getting Ready to Write — pencil grip and posture guide, plus warm-up tracing (straight and wavy lines)
- Trace the Lines & Shapes — straight, wavy, and zigzag lines, plus big loops
Spelling and word-building skills
- Spelling Patterns – Part 1 — tracing and writing word endings ture, sure, tion, sion, ssion, cian, ous
- Spelling Patterns – Part 2 — tracing and writing prefixes un-, re-, dis-, mis-, over-, sub-, pre-
- Tricky Word Writing – Part 1 — trace and write common exception words: different, favourite, important, special
- Tricky Word Writing – Part 2 — trace and write common exception words: surprise, natural, history, although
- Building Words: Suffixes — adding -ful and -less to build new words (care→careful, hope→hopeful/hopeless, help→helpless)
- Building Words: Prefixes — adding un- and re- to build new words (happy→unhappy, kind→unkind, play→replay, write→rewrite)
- Describing Words — matching ambitious describing words (blazing, ancient, cosy, shimmering) to pictures
Sentence building
- Finish the Sentence — joining sentences using when, before, after, although
- Put the Words in Order — unscrambling words to build correct sentences
- Commas & Apostrophes — fixing sentences with missing commas in a list and missing apostrophes for possession
Personal and creative writing
- Writing About My Day — draw-and-write page with sentence starters and a feelings word bank
- Writing About My Family — draw-and-write page with sentence starters and a describing-words bank
- My Favourite Animal — draw-and-write page with a describing-words bank
- Story in 3 Parts: The Rocket Trip — guided beginning/middle/end story writing following astronauts on a mission to a mysterious new planet
- Creative Writing: My Superhero — draw-and-write page imagining an original superhero, with a word bank (courageous, powerful, mysterious, invisible)
- Journal Page: Today I Feel... — an emotions check-in (happy, excited, nervous, curious, proud, amazed) with free-writing lines
Wrap-up
- Writing Mission Review — a mixed recap combining tracing, sentence-fixing, and independent writing
- Certificate of Completion — a personalised "Certified Space Writer — Year 3" award to fill in and celebrate
- Notes for Grown-Ups — marking guidance plus a full answer key for every fixed-answer page (suffixes, prefixes, sentence joining, word order, and commas & apostrophes)
Why families and teachers love it
- SEN-friendly pacing: no timers, no pressure — just steady, encouraging progress
- Word banks throughout support children stepping up to longer words and more complex sentences
- Space theme keeps motivation high from cover to certificate
- Built-in answer key makes marking quick and easy for parents and teachers
- Instant digital download — print at home or in the classroom as many times as needed
