Starting Points for longer books: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Shakespeare Story by Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross, you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 5 and Year 6.
In this set of Starting Points, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:
Expressing time, place and cause using prepositions
Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech/ integrating dialogue to convey character and advance action
Use of the perfect form of verbs to create cohesion and mark relationships of time and cause
Linking ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time
Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
You can also download this resource as part of our Shakespeare bundle.
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