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

  • Growing

    Growing

    Identify, describe and record how people can grow and change in different ways during their lifetime as they progress from childhood to adulthood

  • Garden Measurements

    Garden Measurements

    Practise using vocabulary words and non-standard measurements to find and compare the length of different things that can found in a garden

  • Family Holiday

    Family Holiday

    Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense

  • Holiday Shirts

    Holiday Shirts

    Produce items of clothing to wear on a holiday to a particular location by selecting and using shapes to represent different places