Starting Points: The Secrets of Stonehenge

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Secrets of Stonehenge by Mick Manning and Brita Granström 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.

Year 3

• Word families based on common words

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

• Introduction to paragraphs as a way to group related material

• Headings and sub-headings to aid presentation

• Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech

Year 4

• Fronted adverbials

• Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme

• Appropriate choice of noun or pronoun to aid cohesion and avoid repetition

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

• Use of commas after fronted adverbials

Year 5

• Indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal verbs

• Devices to build cohesion within a paragraph

• Linking ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time

• Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity

Year 6

• Use of the passive to affect the presentation of information in a sentence

• Linking ideas across a text with a range of cohesive devices

• Layout devices (headings, sub-headings etc to structure the text)

• Use of colon to introduce a list

• How hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity

This pack contains the following resources:

• Book review

• Commas table

• Vocabulary cards

• Definitions cards

• What we already know/ What we have learned table

• Y3 and Y4 Statutory Spelling words

• Y5 and Y6 Statutory Spelling words

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