Starting Points: The Queen's Knickers

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on The Queen’s Knickers by Nicholas Allan 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 1 and Year 2.

In this set of Starting Points, you will find ideas to support the following grammar objectives:

Year 1

• How words can combine to make sentences

• Joining words and clauses with and

• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives

• Separation of words with spaces

• Capital letters for names and the pronoun I

• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences

• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives.

• Year 2

• Expanded noun phrases

• Subordination and co-ordination

• Correct and consistent use of present and past tense in writing

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling and to mark singular possession in nouns

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