Starting Points: Man on the Moon

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Man on the Moon 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 by compounding

• Use of -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs

• Coordination (or, and, but)

• Expanded noun phrases

• Consistent use of present and past tense

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

• Commas to separate items in a list

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling

• Revision of Year 1 objectives

• Joining words and clauses with and

• Capital letters for names

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

• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives

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