This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise selecting and speaking lines of dialogue to represent some of the things that could happen in a family using a range of different voice expressions.

The class can suggest and model what they might say in response to different family situations and problems such as losing something special and holding a celebration.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and speaking lines of dialogue to represent some of the things that could happen in a family using a range of different voice expressions

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to express different emotions when talking to people in a family, a set of cards to practise speaking sentences using different voice emotions to show responses to a range of family situations and problems and a worksheet to select a mood or expression that can be used when speaking about different family events.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to speak lines of dialogue that could happen in a family using a range of different voice expressions.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to use voices clearly and expressively when interacting with others in different situations and scenarios. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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