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

  • Winter Weather

    Winter Weather

    Explore how the weather changes during winter and its effect on the natural world including how water can freeze and turn to ice when the temperature falls below zero

  • Winter Snowflakes

    Winter Snowflakes

    Investigate, describe and record how the natural world can change during a snowstorm which might occur during the winter season

  • Winter Temperature

    Winter Temperature

    Explore, test and describe some of the changes that can happen to water resulting from cold weather during the winter season

  • Snow and Ice

    Snow and Ice

    Identify and describe some of the common weather patterns that can occur during the winter season and how snow and ice can form at this time of the year