Rocks and Soils bundle

A bundle of book-based resources on the topic of Rocks and Soils. Included in this pack are two sets of Starting Points notes for The Pebble in My Pocket, and Stone Girl, Bone Girl, Each of these is available separately on the Primary English website, but can be downloaded here as a value-for-money bundle.

Stone Girl Bone Girl: Starting Points

In this set of Starting Points based on Stone Girl Bone, Girl by Laurence Anholt 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 lower KS2.

In this set of Starting Points, we have planned for the following grammar learning:

• Word families based on common nouns

• Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions

• Use of the past perfect form of verbs

• The use of direct speech

• Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases

• Fronted adverbials

• Appropriate choice of noun and pronoun

• Use of commas after fronted adverbials.

The Pebble in My Pocket: Starting Points

In this set based on The Pebble in My Pocket by Meredith Hooper by 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 KS2.

• Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions

• Use of the present perfect form of verbs

• Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases

• The use of similes to create vivid descriptions.