Starting Points: Town is by the Sea

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Town is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith 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 3 and Year 4.

In this set of Starting Points we have included ideas to support the following grammar objectives:

• Revision of commas to separate items in a list

• Revision of present and past tense

• Revision of progressive form of verbs

• Prepositions used to suggest time and place

• Fronted adverbials

• Commas used to mark fronted adverbials

• Noun phrases for description and specification

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