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

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

  • Nursery Rhymes

    Nursery Rhymes

    Identify and describe the sequence of events and characters that feature in a range of different narrative poems with rhymes

  • Mulberry Bush

    Mulberry Bush

    Perform actions and select vocabulary words to complete some of the different lines that feature in a traditional poem of a nursery rhyme

  • Old Macdonald’s Farm

    Old Macdonald’s Farm

    Identify and use a selection of vocabulary words in a nursery rhyme poem to describe some of the different animals that live on a farm

  • Jack and Jill

    Jack and Jill

    Identify and change some of the different sets of rhyming words that have been used in a traditional narrative poem of a nursery rhyme