Starting Points: The Koala Who Could

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Koala Who Could written by Rachel Bright and illustrated by Jim Field 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 1 and Year 2.

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

• Joining words and clauses with ‘and’

• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives

• Coordination using ‘and’

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function

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

• Use of capital letters, full stops, questions marks and exclamation makes to demarcate sentences

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling

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