Starting Points for longer books: Beowulf UPDATED

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Beowulf: Retold by Rob Lloyd Jones and illustrated by Victor Tavares, 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 3 and Year 4.

In this set of Starting Points, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:

• Word families based on common words

• Write dialogue with correctly punctuated direct speech

• Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions (Year 3)

• Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjective, noun and preposition phrases

• Fronted adverbials

• Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme

• Use of commas after fronted adverbials

The following resources are included in this pack:

• Compound conundrums mini-pack

• Prepositions pack

• Patterns of direct speech resource

• Descriptive techniques grid

• Pronouns table with cards

• Word building activity - war

Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.