Book covering showing a girl looking out of a window.
Screenshots of the resources found in the Rose blanch resource pack.
Book covering showing a girl looking out of a window.
Screenshots of the resources found in the Rose blanch resource pack.

Starting Points: Rose Blanche

£2.85

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan Roberto Innocenti 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 Upper KS2.  

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

  • Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity

  • Creating cohesion with adverbials, through repetition and through adverbials

  • Use of the passive (including the agentless passive) to affect the presentation of information in a sentence

  • Conjunctions used to create subordination

  • The use of relative clauses

  • Past perfect forms of verbs

  • The use of prepositions

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

  • Active and passive voice resource sheet

  • Rose Blanche Starting Points planning ideas

  • Somebody, wanted, but, then, so - summarising resource sheet

  • Tier two word cards and definitions

  • When sentences resource sheet

  • Year 5 and year 6 statutory words

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

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan Roberto Innocenti 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 Upper KS2.  

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

  • Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity

  • Creating cohesion with adverbials, through repetition and through adverbials

  • Use of the passive (including the agentless passive) to affect the presentation of information in a sentence

  • Conjunctions used to create subordination

  • The use of relative clauses

  • Past perfect forms of verbs

  • The use of prepositions

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

  • Active and passive voice resource sheet

  • Rose Blanche Starting Points planning ideas

  • Somebody, wanted, but, then, so - summarising resource sheet

  • Tier two word cards and definitions

  • When sentences resource sheet

  • Year 5 and year 6 statutory words

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

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