Starting Points: The Dragon Machine

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson 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.

National Curriculum objectives covered in this set of Starting Points include:

• Expanded noun phrases 

• Co-ordination (using and)

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function (commands)

• Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense through writing

• Use of capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences

This pack includes the following resources:

• Emotion graph

• Home-away-home planner

• Year 2 homophone cards

• Irregular verb task

• Vocabulary word cards

• Vocabulary definition cards

• Year 2 Common Exception Words

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