Literacy Teaching Resources
Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in literacy for the Foundation Stage covering reading, writing, spoken language and phonics and spelling
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Supermarkets
Read and produce labels to identify and describe items that can be sold in different shops and match initial sounds of words to the correct letters of the alphabet
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Holiday Outings
Practise devising story boards using word phrases and illustrations to recount some of the special events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday outing
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Fantasy Stories
Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings
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Family Stories
Explore and record the narrative sequence of events in stories with familiar settings about some of the special things that can happen in a family
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Family Holiday
Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Explore, role-play and change the sequence of narrative events that occur in a traditional story and select and match cvc words with the same final phoneme sounds
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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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Chameleons
Identify and record some of the different ways that authors can use descriptive vocabulary in stories and select and use initial sounds in words
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Animal Alphabet
Practise finding information in non-fiction books about some of the different animals that live around the world
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Crawling Caterpillars
Investigate examples of patterned language used to sequence events in a story about a caterpillar and learn the names and sounds for each letter of the alphabet
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Sentence Ordering
Identify and model how to build sentences on a range of different topics and themes by sequencing and ordering sets of matching vocabulary words
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School Events
Practise using storyboards to sequence some of the special events that might happen in a school by recording personal recounts