Starting Points: The Pebble in My Pocket
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on the Pebble in My Pocket: A history of our Earth written by Meredith Hooper and illustrated by Chris Coady, you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 3 and Year 4.
In this set of Starting Points, you will find planning to support the following grammar objectives:
Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions
Use of the past perfect form of verbs
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases
The use of similes to create vivid descriptions.
In this pack, we have included the following resources:
Adverbials sorting table
Preposition pack
Present perfect practice activity
Rocks and soils vocabulary
Rocks and soils word mat
Tell Me sheet
To be… Not to be sorting activity
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on the Pebble in My Pocket: A history of our Earth written by Meredith Hooper and illustrated by Chris Coady, you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 3 and Year 4.
In this set of Starting Points, you will find planning to support the following grammar objectives:
Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions
Use of the past perfect form of verbs
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases
The use of similes to create vivid descriptions.
In this pack, we have included the following resources:
Adverbials sorting table
Preposition pack
Present perfect practice activity
Rocks and soils vocabulary
Rocks and soils word mat
Tell Me sheet
To be… Not to be sorting activity
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on the Pebble in My Pocket: A history of our Earth written by Meredith Hooper and illustrated by Chris Coady, you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 3 and Year 4.
In this set of Starting Points, you will find planning to support the following grammar objectives:
Expressing time, place and cause using adverbs and prepositions
Use of the past perfect form of verbs
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases
The use of similes to create vivid descriptions.
In this pack, we have included the following resources:
Adverbials sorting table
Preposition pack
Present perfect practice activity
Rocks and soils vocabulary
Rocks and soils word mat
Tell Me sheet
To be… Not to be sorting activity
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
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