Starting Points: The First Drawing

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein 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.  

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

• Revision of commas to separate items in a list

• Prepositions used to suggest time and place

• Fronted adverbials

• Commas used to mark fronted adverbials

• Adverbials used to link ideas within and across paragraphs

• Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech

• Noun phrases for description and specification

• Use of single dashes to add further information and pairs of dashes for parenthesis

• Use of hyphens

This pack includes the following resources:

• Direct speech activity

• Patterns of direct speech support resource

• Preposition pack

• Sentence strips for fronted adverbials

• Tell Me resource to support talk about the text

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