Starting Points: Lights on Cotton Rock

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Lights on Cotton Rock by David Litchfield, 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 your own beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 2.

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

Revisit Year 1

• Capital letters for names and for the personal pronoun I

Year 2

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement, question, exclamation or command

• Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense throughout writing

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

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling.

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

This pack was requested by a Primary English customer. If you’d like us to collate planning ideas for a book you’d like to use, please drop us a line.