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Mulberry Bush
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to perform actions and select vocabulary words to complete some of the different lines that feature in a traditional poem of a nursery rhyme.
The class can choose and model actions to illustrate the narrative content in the verses in the poem and suggest alternative vocabulary that can be used to complete poetry lines.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to perform actions and select vocabulary words to complete some of the different lines that feature in a traditional poem of a nursery rhyme
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the structure and vocabulary used in a traditional poem of a nursery rhyme and a template to select vocabulary to alter verses from a traditional poem of a nursery rhyme.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to perform different actions and select vocabulary words to complete lines in a traditional 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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