Starting Points: Rain Player UPDATED

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Rain Player by David Wisniewski 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.. 

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

• revision of direct speech taught in earlier years

• relative clauses

• adverbs of possibility and modal verbs

• linking ideas with adverbials

• perfect forms of verbs

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

• Y5 and Y6 statutory word cards

• Tell Me sheet

• Role on the Wall sheet

• Patterns of Direct Speech resource

• Adverbs of possibility and modal verbs sorting table

• Direct speech sheet

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