Starting Points: The Jolly Christmas Postman

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Jolly Christmas Snowman by Allan Ahlberg, 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 we have planned for the following grammar learning:

Year 1

• 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

• Joining words and joining clauses using and

• Capital letters for names and the personal pronoun I.

Year 2

• Subordination (using when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (using or, and, but)

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement, question, exclamation or command

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

• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences.

• Commas to separate items in a list

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns.

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