Starting Points: Cave Baby

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Cave Baby written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Emily Gravett 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 KS1.

As well providing you with extensive links to reading, writing, spelling and phonics, this set of Starting Points covers the following grammar objectives:

• Suffixes that can be added to verbs where no change is needed in the spelling of root words

• How words can combine to make sentences

• Joining words and joining clauses using and

• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives

• Separation of words with spaces

• Introduction to capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences

• Capital letters for names.

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