Lesson Five – School Visitors

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select and role play events and experiences that might happen in a school and identify and record the initial sounds that can be heard in matching cvc words.
The class can identify and explain how to support classroom visitors based on their reading and understanding of a story with a familiar setting.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and role play events and experiences that might happen in a school and identify and record the initial sounds that can be heard in matching cvc words
Activities in this teaching pack include sets of cards to select different events and experiences to role-play to show what might happen in a school location and find and match pairs of cvc words that begin with the same initial sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore events and experiences that might happen in a school and identify initial sounds of matching cvc words.
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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