Stone Age to Iron Age bundle

A bundle of book-based resources on the topic of Iron Age to Stone Age. Included in this pack are three sets of Starting Points notes for Stone Age Boy, the Secrets of Stonehenge, and The First Drawing and a set of Guided Reading planning for The Stone Age published by Usborne books. Each of these is available separately on the Primary English website, but can be downloaded here as a value-for-money bundle.

Stone Age Boy: Starting Points

In this set of Starting Points based on Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura 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 lower KS2.

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

• revision of commas to separate items in a list (taught in earlier years)

• revision of exclamation marks and exclamative sentences (taught in earlier years)

• expressing time, cause and place using conjunctions

• using headings and subheadings

• direct speech

The Secrets of Stonehenge: Starting Points

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

The First Drawing: Starting Points

In this set based on The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein 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.

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

• Revision of commas to separate items in a list

• Prepositions used to suggest time and place

• Fronted adverbials

• Commas used to mark fronted adverbials

• Adverbials used to link ideas within and across paragraphs

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

• Noun phrases for description and specification

• Use of single dashes to add further information and pairs of dashes for parenthesis

• Use of hyphens

The Stone Age: Guided Reading Pack

This teaching sequence focuses on the retrieval of information and using non-fiction book features (contents and index). The planning is pitched at children reading at Year 2 and Year 3 levels but will be of interest to teachers from Year 2 to Year 6.

This teaching sequence includes:

1. A guided reading lesson plan in an editable word document format

2. A Non-fiction Features resource

3. All About The Stone Age resource (with answers)

4. An All About The Stone Age blank poster template

5. A photocopiable set of comprehension questions for independent or teacher/ TA supported work

6. A wordsearch suitable for independent work