Starting Points: Princess Smartypants

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole 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

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

Year 1

• Regular noun suffix -s and -es

• Adding suffixes -ed, -ing where no change to the root word is needed

• 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 and for the personal pronoun I

Year 2

• Formation of nouns by compounding

• Expanded noun phrases

• Subordination and co-ordination

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

• Use of capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences

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