Starting Points for longer books: Beowulf UPDATED
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Beowulf: Retold by Rob Lloyd Jones and illustrated by Victor Tavares, 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, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:
Word families based on common words
Write dialogue with correctly punctuated direct speech
Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions (Year 3)
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjective, noun and preposition phrases
Fronted adverbials
Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme
Use of commas after fronted adverbials
The following resources are included in this pack:
Compound conundrums mini-pack
Prepositions pack
Patterns of direct speech resource
Descriptive techniques grid
Pronouns table with cards
Word building activity - war
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Beowulf: Retold by Rob Lloyd Jones and illustrated by Victor Tavares, 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, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:
Word families based on common words
Write dialogue with correctly punctuated direct speech
Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions (Year 3)
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjective, noun and preposition phrases
Fronted adverbials
Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme
Use of commas after fronted adverbials
The following resources are included in this pack:
Compound conundrums mini-pack
Prepositions pack
Patterns of direct speech resource
Descriptive techniques grid
Pronouns table with cards
Word building activity - war
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Beowulf: Retold by Rob Lloyd Jones and illustrated by Victor Tavares, 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, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:
Word families based on common words
Write dialogue with correctly punctuated direct speech
Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions (Year 3)
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjective, noun and preposition phrases
Fronted adverbials
Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme
Use of commas after fronted adverbials
The following resources are included in this pack:
Compound conundrums mini-pack
Prepositions pack
Patterns of direct speech resource
Descriptive techniques grid
Pronouns table with cards
Word building activity - war
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
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