Starting Points: The Polar Express

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg 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.

• Revision of apostrophes used for contraction and possession

• Revision of the four sentence types

• Use of exclamation marks

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

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

• Noun phrases expanded by modifying adjectives, nouns and
  preposition phrases

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

• Relative clauses

• Linking ideas across paragraphs using tense choices (use of past & past perfect)
  Use of the passive voice

• Hyphens used to avoid ambiguity

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