Starting Points: The Chocolate Tree

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Chocolate Tree by Linda Lowery and Richard Keep 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 5.

Grammar and sentence objectives covered in this resource include:

• Noun phrases expanded for description and specificity

• Use of fronted adverbials

• Correct punctuation of fronted adverbials

• Indicating degrees of possibility with adverbs of possibility and modal verbs.

• Devices to build cohesion

• Use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity

• How words are related in meaning

This pack also includes:

• An adverbials table for completion

• A commas table for completion

• A book review

• A glossary

• Question stems

• Role on the wall sheet

• Story mountain sheet

• Vocabulary cards

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