Starting Points: The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

In this set of Starting Points based on The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson 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 KS1.

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

• Formation of nouns by compounding

• Subordination and co-ordination

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement, question, exclamation or command

• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling.

In this pack we have included the following resources:

• Apostrophe’s for omission activity

• Compound words cards

• Conjunctions cards activity

• Emotion graph

• Factfile paper

• Turn up the Volume sheet

• Year 2 Common Exception Words cards

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