Starting Points: The Snail and the Whale UPDATED
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson 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 2.
In this set of Starting Points, we have planned for the following grammar learning:
Formation of nouns by compounding
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.
In this pack we have included the following resources:
Compound word cards
Emotion graph
Expanded Noun Phrase activity sheet
SNAP! Rhyming word cards
Speech bubbles
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
