Starting Points for longer books: Shakespeare bundle

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this bundle you will find planning for the following titles written by Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross:

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Antony and Cleopatra

• Macbeth

• Romeo and Juliet

• The Tempest

For each title, you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. In this bundle planning is pitched at children in KS2.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:

• Expressing time, place and cause using prepositions

• Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech/ integrating dialogue to convey character and advance action

• Use of the perfect form of verbs to create cohesion and mark relationships of time and cause

• Linking ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time

• Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis

In Antony and Cleopatra, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:

• Use of fronted adverbials

• Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme

• Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences

• Write dialogue with correctly punctuated direct speech

• Use of commas after fronted adverbials

In Macbeth, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:

• Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech/ integrating dialogue to convey character and advance action

• Use of the perfect form of verbs to create cohesion and mark relationships of time and cause

• The use of subjunctive forms (If I were…)

• Use the passive to affect the presentation of information in a sentence

In Romeo and Juliet, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:

• Word families based on common words

• Expressing time, place and cause with prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs

• Write noun phrases expanded by modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases

• Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme

• Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences

• Use inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech

In The Tempest, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:

• Linking ideas across and between paragraphs with adverbials

• Use of fronted adverbials

• Use of commas after fronted adverbials

• Write dialogue with correctly punctuated direct speech

• Use of hyphens

• Use of past perfect and past perfect progressive forms of verbs

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