Starting Points: This is Edinburgh

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on This is Edinburgh by Miroslav Šašek. 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 2

Grammar and Sentence learning covered in this pack includes:

• Revision of capital letters for proper nouns

• Use of the suffixes -er, -est in adjectives

• Subordination

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification

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

• Use of capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences

• Commas to separate items in a list

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing

• Prepositions to indicate direction and location.

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