Year 3 Tennis

Overview

Can make it difficult for their opponent to score a point.  Begun to choose specific tactics. Transferred net/wall skills. Improved agility and coordination and use in a game.

To identify and describe some rules of tennis. Serve to begin a game and explore forehand hitting.

  1. to use the ready position to return a ball.
  2. to hit the ball to different parts of the court using a forehand hit.
  3. to perform an underarm serve to start a rally.
  4. to move towards a ball to return it over the net.
  5. to play cooperatively with a partner to keep the ball moving over the net.
  6. to perform forehand hits to score points in a competition.
  1. What is the role of an umpire?
  2. What skills/techniques have you been using to score points against your opponent?
  3. How did you try to improve your performance when playing different players?

Tennis racquets, nets, sponge balls, tennis balls, cones, hoops.

Hit, return, court, forehand, backhand, bounce, points, score, net, tactics, underarm, overarm.

  • Play rules where if the ball is hit out of the playing area, the point is awarded to the other player.
  • If the ball bounces more than once on your side, the opponent gets the point (you can adapt this to two bounces if necessary).

Head – Keep Count/score of a game.

Hand – Show tennis-ready position.

Heart – Play against an opponent.

    Knowledge Organiser

    Prior Learning

Can make it difficult for their opponent to score a point.  Begun to choose specific tactics. Transferred net/wall skills. Improved agility and coordination and use in a game.

    Unit Focus

To identify and describe some rules of tennis. Serve to begin a game and explore forehand hitting.

    We are learning...
  1. to use the ready position to return a ball.
  2. to hit the ball to different parts of the court using a forehand hit.
  3. to perform an underarm serve to start a rally.
  4. to move towards a ball to return it over the net.
  5. to play cooperatively with a partner to keep the ball moving over the net.
  6. to perform forehand hits to score points in a competition.
    Key Questions
  1. What is the role of an umpire?
  2. What skills/techniques have you been using to score points against your opponent?
  3. How did you try to improve your performance when playing different players?
    Equipment

Tennis racquets, nets, sponge balls, tennis balls, cones, hoops.

    Vocabulary

Hit, return, court, forehand, backhand, bounce, points, score, net, tactics, underarm, overarm.

    Rules
  • Play rules where if the ball is hit out of the playing area, the point is awarded to the other player.
  • If the ball bounces more than once on your side, the opponent gets the point (you can adapt this to two bounces if necessary).
    Assessment Overview

Head – Keep Count/score of a game.

Hand – Show tennis-ready position.

Heart – Play against an opponent.

Lesson Overview

Lesson 1

  1. Play in a game against an opponent
  2. Throw or hit a ball over a bench to score points
  3. Get in the ready position to catch or return a ball before it bounces twice

We are learning: to use the ready position to return a ball
Activity: Assessment for Learning Task

Lesson 2

  1. Recognise the types of hitting needed for different areas of the court
  2. Throw/hit to targets on a court
  3. Use long high throws/hits for far targets and short low throws/hits for closer targets

We are learning: to hit the ball to different parts of the court using a forehand hit
Activity: Target game over bench or net

Lesson 3

  1. Demonstrate an underarm serve (over cones or benches)
  2. Explain when a service is used
  3. Serve with some accuracy to targets

We are learning: to perform an underarm serve to start a rally

Activity: Underarm serving and serving rallies

Lesson 4

  1. Move towards a ball to return (hand or racquet)
  2. Perform a forehand shot on a moving ball

We are learning: to move towards a ball to return it over the net
Activity: Moving into zones to return

Lesson 5

  1. Perform in a rally with a partner
  2. Keep track of the score and aim to beat the previous score during a rally
  3. Describe the skills needed to keep a rally going

We are learning: to play cooperatively with a partner to keep the ball moving over the net
Activity:Conditioned games

Lesson 6

  1. Play in games against other children
  2. Use forehand hitting skills to score points
  3. Move towards the ball to return to the other side

We are learning: to perform forehand hits to score points in a competition
Activity: Competition

Downloadable Resources

Tennis Backhand Grip

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Tennis Basic Grip

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Tennis Forehand Position

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Mini Tennis Red Court Markings

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Tennis Rules

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Tennis Glossary

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Year 3 Tennis Knowledge Organiser

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Year 3 Tennis Knowledge Card

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Tennis Ready Position

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Tennis – Approaching the ball

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Tennis – Feeding Balls

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Tennis – Forehand Shot

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Tennis – Hitting with Hand

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Tennis – One Handed Backhand

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Tennis – Overarm Serve

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Tennis – Overhead Shot

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Tennis – Ready Position

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Tennis – Return a Moving Ball

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Tennis – Two Handed Backhand

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Tennis – Underarm Serve

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