Starting Points: Dougal's Deep-Sea Diary

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary by Simon Bartram 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.

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

• Formation of nouns with -er

• Use of -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs

• Expanded noun phrases

• Subordination and co-ordination

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function

• Consistent use of present and past tense

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

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns

In this pack we have included the following resources:

• Adding -er activity sheet

• Apostrophes for omission word cards

• Contracted words word mat

• Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary word mat

• Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary word cards

• Expanded noun phrase activity sheet

• Role on the wall sheet

• Year 2 Common Exception Words flashcards

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