Starting Points: Katie Morag Delivers the Mail

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Katie Morag Delivers the Mail by Mairi Hedderwick 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 KS1.

Grammar and sentence objectives covered in this planning include:

• Formation of nouns by compounding

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function (questions)

• Co-ordination and Subordination

• Expanded noun phrases

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

• Use of capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing

• Prepositions to indicate direction and location

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

• Apostrophes for omission cards

• Compound word cards

• Conjunctions cards

• Emotion graph

• Past tense versb activity

• Preposition pack

• Role on the Wall sheet

• Y2 Common Exception words

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