Starting Points: The Day the Crayons Quit

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Day the Crayons Quit written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. 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 1 and Year 2.

In this set of Starting Points, you will find planning to support the following grammar objectives:

• Use of the suffix –ly to turn adjectives into adverbs

• Subordination and co-ordination

• Expanded noun phrases for description

• 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

• Commas to separate items in a list

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling

This includes the following resources:

• Adverbs -ly cards

• Apostrophes for omission cards

• Book recommendation

• Colour words bank

• Sentence types resource

• Questions and answers for use during reading

• Year 1 Common exception words

• Year 2 Common exception words

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