Lesson Three – School Words
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise using a story with a familiar setting to identify and model writing initial sounds for some of the different objects that can be found in a school location.
The class can record how to join sets of letters to build different cvc words that begin with a range of initial sounds for each matched group of words.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using a story with a familiar setting to identify and model writing initial sounds for some of the different objects that can be found in a school location
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to identify and build a selection of cvc words that begin with the same initial phonemes and a worksheet to play a game with a partner to match objects to different letters of the alphabet to their correct graphemes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use a story to identify and practise writing initial sounds for some of the objects that can be found in a school.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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Summer Picnic
Select, identify and prepare different types of foods for a picnic including sandwiches and fruit juice drinks by compiling shopping lists for a class outing
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Time Calendar
Select and use special vocabulary words to describe different periods of time including days of the week and months of the year to match family events and experiences
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Word Halves
Identify and complete the halves of letters for different cvc words beginning with the initial phoneme sounds for matching alphabet letters
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School Safari
Identify and compare some of the different animals that live in the school grounds and make comparisons between animals that live in other habitats