Starting Points: The Great Kapok Tree UPDATED

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Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry 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 3.  

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

Revision of expanded noun phrases (the great kapok tree, his spotted coat etc.)

  • Revision of the four sentence types (statement, question, command, exclamation)

  • Revision of subordination and co-ordination

  • Knowing whether to use ‘a’ or ‘an’

  • Word families based on common words

  • Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions, adverbs & prepositions

  • Introduction to paragraphs as a way to group related material

  • Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

  • Y3/ Y4 Statutory words

  • Word builder activity (word families)

  • ‘Somebody Wanted But So Then’ summarising sheet

  • Rainforest vocabulary cards

  • Rainforest vocabulary definitions

  • Four sentence types table

  • a or an cards

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

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Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry 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 3.  

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

Revision of expanded noun phrases (the great kapok tree, his spotted coat etc.)

  • Revision of the four sentence types (statement, question, command, exclamation)

  • Revision of subordination and co-ordination

  • Knowing whether to use ‘a’ or ‘an’

  • Word families based on common words

  • Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions, adverbs & prepositions

  • Introduction to paragraphs as a way to group related material

  • Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

  • Y3/ Y4 Statutory words

  • Word builder activity (word families)

  • ‘Somebody Wanted But So Then’ summarising sheet

  • Rainforest vocabulary cards

  • Rainforest vocabulary definitions

  • Four sentence types table

  • a or an cards

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

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Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry 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 3.  

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

Revision of expanded noun phrases (the great kapok tree, his spotted coat etc.)

  • Revision of the four sentence types (statement, question, command, exclamation)

  • Revision of subordination and co-ordination

  • Knowing whether to use ‘a’ or ‘an’

  • Word families based on common words

  • Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions, adverbs & prepositions

  • Introduction to paragraphs as a way to group related material

  • Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

In this pack, we have included the following resources:

  • Y3/ Y4 Statutory words

  • Word builder activity (word families)

  • ‘Somebody Wanted But So Then’ summarising sheet

  • Rainforest vocabulary cards

  • Rainforest vocabulary definitions

  • Four sentence types table

  • a or an cards

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

You can also download this resource as part of our Maya, South America, Amazon BUNDLE.

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