Starting Points: Dasher

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Dasher by Matt Tavares 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. Some of the grammar objectives included in this pack include:

• Apostrophes for possession and contraction

• Direct speech

• Embedded clauses

• Expanded noun phrases

• Fronted adverbials, including the use of commas after fronted
  adverbials

• Suffixes

• Tense

• Vocabulary

Resources included in this pack:

• Apostrophe for omission card

• Apostrophe for omission sheet

• Book recommendation sheet

• Direct speech activity sheet

• Find the noun phrase activity sheet

• Fronted adverbial sentence strips

• Patterns of direct speech poster

• Spelling wordsearch

• Tell Me sheet

• Verbs sheet

• Vocabulary flashcards and word mat

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