Starting Points: The Pebble in My Pocket UPDATED

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on the Pebble in My Pocket: A history of our Earth written by Meredith Hooper and illustrated by Chris Coady, you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. 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:

• Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions

• Use of the past perfect form of verbs

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

• The use of similes to create vivid descriptions.

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

• Adverbials sorting table

• Preposition pack

• Present perfect practice activity

• Rocks and soils vocabulary

• Rocks and soils word mat

• Tell Me sheet

• To be… Not to be sorting activity

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