Starting Points: The Queen's Handbag

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Queen’s Handbag by Steve Antony 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

Grammar and Sentence learning covered in this pack includes:

• Suffixes that can be added to verbs where no change is needed in the spelling of root words

• 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

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

• 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

• Apostrophes to mark singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name]

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