Starting Points for longer books: The Tempest

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Tempest: A Shakespeare Story by Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross, 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 5 and Year 6.

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

• Linking ideas across and between paragraphs with adverbials

• Use of fronted adverbials

• Use of commas after fronted adverbials

• Write dialogue with correctly punctuated direct speech

• Use of hyphens

• Use of past perfect and past perfect progressive forms of verbs

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