Literacy Term One Planning
Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in literacy for Reception aged children in the Foundation Stage covering stories with familiar settings, traditional tales and poems, producing labels and lists for different topics and recount writing
(A) School Stories
Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod
(B) Once Upon A Time
Role-play different traditional stories using drama and speaking and listening skills and match initial phonemes in cvc words to letters of the alphabet
(C) Hansel and Gretel
Investigate some of the different characters, settings and plot events used to tell a traditional story and identify letters that match initial sounds of words
(D) Owl and the Pussycat
Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds
Unit Five : Chicken Licken
Identify and change the sequence of events that happen in a traditional story and match a range of different words that rhyme using the same final phoneme
Unit Six : Fairy Tales
Identify and describe common characters, settings and themes used in traditional stories and suggest story changes using role-play and written composition
Unit Seven : Autumn
Investigate structure and language used in a range of poems about the autumn and identify phonemes that comprise sounds in different cvc words
Unit Eleven : North Pole
Investigate structure and language used in a range of poems about the autumn and identify phonemes that comprise sounds in different cvc words
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Time Calendar
Select and use special vocabulary words to describe different periods of time including days of the week and months of the year to match family events and experiences
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Word Halves
Identify and complete the halves of letters for different cvc words beginning with the initial phoneme sounds for matching alphabet letters
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School Safari
Identify and compare some of the different animals that live in the school grounds and make comparisons between animals that live in other habitats
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Four Sided Shapes
Name, model and classify some example four sided shapes with matching numbers of corners and sides that can be seen and used in different locations