Starting Points: Memorial

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Memorial by Gary Crew and Shaun Tan 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 6.  

In this set of Starting Points, we have planned for the following grammar learning:

• synonyms and antonyms

• formal and informal speech patterns

• commas for clarity and to avoid ambiguity

• direct speech and how it can be used to create character

• the use of dashes

• hyphens to avoid ambiguity

• ellipses

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