This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings. The class can compare how fantasy stories are structured differently to some other narrative genres.

Story People

Explore how to role-play and suggest matching dialogue that might be spoken by different characters in a fantasy story about meeting a dragon inside a forest location

Story Places

Investigate how to identify and describe some of the different story characters that might live in a range of special locations as part of a fictional story with a fantasy setting

  • Halving Things

    Halving Things

    Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Identify and learn classroom routines and organisation by exploring and describing information and likes and dislikes for each of their classmates

  • Classroom

    Classroom

    Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely

  • Shape Patterns

    Shape Patterns

    Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns