Starting Points: The Snowman (Michael Morpurgo adaptation)

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Michael Morpurgo’s adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ classic picture book, The Snowman, 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 lower KS2.  

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

Year 3

• Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions, adverbs or prepositions

• Introduction to paragraphs as a way to group related material

• Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

Year 4

• Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases

• Fronted adverbials

• Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme

• Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition

• Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech

• Use of commas after fronted adverbials.

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