Starting Points: The Enormous Crocodile

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on the Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl, 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, you will find planning to support the following grammar objectives:

• Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives and the use of –ly in Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification.

• Subordination and co-ordination

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling.

• Identifying prepositions.

• Creating effective writing through the use of similes.

In this pack we have included the following resources:

• Planning ideas for The Enormous Crocodile

• Apostrophes for Omission Cards

• Find the Noun Phrase activity sheet

• Preposition cards

• Writing Similes activity sheet

• Suffix table with cards for sorting

• Contracted words word mat

• Y1 Common Exception Words cards

• Y2 Common Exception Words cards

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