Starting Points: Night of the Gargoyles

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting and David Wiesner 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 5 and Year 6.  

In this set of Starting Points, our suggestions for grammar learning include:

• the perfect form of verbs

• hyphens to avoid ambiguity

• commas for clarity and to avoid ambiguity

• creating cohesion

• expanding sentences with prepositional phrases

• relative clauses

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