Starting Points: Toby and The Great Fire of London UPDATED

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Toby and The Great Fire of London by Margaret Nash 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.

As well as ideas to support reading, spoken language and writing, in this set of Starting Points you’ll find ideas to support the following aspects of grammar teaching and learning:

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

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement, question, exclamation or command

• Use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to mark actions in progress

• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences

• Apostrophes to mark singular possession in nouns

Included in this pack:

• An emotion graph

• Role on the wall sheet

• Senses board

• Sentence type resource

• Suffixes -er and -est resource

• Story mountain

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

"I find the Starting Points resources brilliant. They are exactly that, a starting point for my planning. It helps me to ensure that many aspects of the Year 2 English curriculum can be taught from one book. The resource for Toby and the Great Fire of London will really help me to extend the children's English skills while also helping to teach them the history of this event through a story. I would highly recommend these resources."

Rachael Newark, Year 2 Teacher, St Margaret’s CE Primary School, Nuneaton.