Starting Points: Meerkat Mail UPDATED

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Meerkat Mail 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 Year 2.

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

• Subordination and co-ordination

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification

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

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

• Apostrophes to mark singular possession in nouns

This pack includes the following resources:

• Adverbs of time cards

• Content vocabulary cards

• Emotion graph

• Real life images linked to the story

• Senses grid

• Y2 Common Exception Words

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