This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and record each of the initial phonemes used in different words as part of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme.

The class can identify and describe the sequence of events used in the narrative poem and suggest other matching events and characters to adapt and change the rhyme.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record each of the initial phonemes used in different words as part of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the content and structure of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme, a set of cards to practise building a range of different cvc words that begin with the same initial sound and a worksheet to play a game to identify and match different words beginning with the same initial sounds.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the initial phonemes used in words as part of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the sequence of events and characters that feature in a range of different narrative poems with rhymes. 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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