Lesson Five – Story Plays

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and model how to use role-play suggesting some of the dialogue that can be used to retell the plot of the traditional story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
The class can practise making masks using different materials for characters to wear when role-playing scenes and events from the narrative story.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and model how to use role-play suggesting some of the dialogue that can be used to retell the plot of the traditional story of Jack and the Beanstalk
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to design and create a mask to represent a character in a story to use when role-playing the narrative events and a set of cards to select and record illustrations to indicate sets of words that end in the same final sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use role-play to suggest some of the dialogue that can be used to retell the plot of a traditional story.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to explore, role-play and change the sequence of narrative events that occur in a traditional story and select and match cvc words with the same final phoneme sounds. 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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