Lesson Three – Changing Seasons

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to change and extend a poem about the summer and autumn seasons and identify final phonemes that can be heard in different cvc words.

The class can identify and make comparisons between events and experiences that can happen in the summer and autumn seasons of the year.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to change and extend a poem about the summer and autumn seasons and identify final phonemes that can be heard in different cvc words

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary words used in a poem to make comparisons between the summer and autumn seasons, worksheets to use a spinner to select letters of the alphabet that can be used to complete different cvc words and a template to select and record phrases to describe events and experiences to match the summer and autumn.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to change and extend a poem about the summer and autumn seasons and identify final phonemes in cvc words.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to investigate structure and language used in a range of poems about the autumn and identify phonemes that comprise sounds in different cvc words. 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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