Starting Points: The Way Back Home

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers 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.

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

• 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

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