Starting Points: Lila and the Secret of Rain

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Lila and the Secret of Rain by David Conway and illustrated by Jude Daly, 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 1 and Year 2.

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

• Joining words and clauses with ‘and’

• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives

• Suffixes that can be added to verbs where no change is needed to the root word

• Capital letters for names and the personal pronoun ‘I’

• Use of the suffixes -er, -est in adjectives

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

• Apostrophes to indicate possession

The following resources are included in the pack:

• Book recommendation

• Compound words cards

• Compound Conundrums - mini pack 

• Homophones cards

• Overwriting resource

• Similes resource

• Story map

• Vocabulary cards

• Vocabulary definitions

• Y1 Common Exception Words cards

• Y2 Common Exception Words cards

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