Starting Points: Stone Girl Bone Girl UPDATED

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Stone Girl Bone Girl written by Laurence Anholt and illustrated by Sheila Moxley, 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 3 and Year 4.

In this set of Starting Points, you will find planning to support the following grammar objectives:

• Word families based on common nouns

• Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions

• Use of the past perfect form of verbs

• The use of direct speech

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

• Fronted adverbials

• Appropriate choice of noun and pronoun

• Use of commas after fronted adverbials.

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

Book review

• Direct speech practice activity

• Patterns of Direct Speech

• Editing passage - nouns and pronouns

• Past perfect activity

• Word Builder - collect

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