Starting Points: On the Origin of Species

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Sabina Radeva 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 bumper pack of Starting Points we’ve included ideas for the following grammar objectives:

• Dashes and commas used to create parenthesis

• Relative clauses used to extend sentences and ensure specification

• Vocabulary for formality

• Passive voice

• Layout devices

• Dashes used to mark independent clauses

• Past perfect and past perfect progressive

• Modal verbs

• Adverbials

• Creation of cohesion through the use of different sentence structures

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