Unit C – Hansel and Gretel

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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. The class can sequence and complete sentences to show the narrative events in the story.

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

Lesson One : Story People

Select and use a range of special descriptive vocabulary words to describe a range of different characters in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

Lesson Two : Story Events

Identify and suggest predictions about different ways that some of the characters might have acted in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

Lesson Three : Story Changes

Identify and role-play a range of narrative predictions to illustrate the sequence of events that happen in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

Lesson Four : Story Sentences

Select and record different vocabulary words that can be used when compiling sentences to describe what happened in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

Lesson Five : Story Scenes

Use drama and role-play to illustrate and record each of the main story events and dialogue that feature in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Investigate, describe and model some of the special ways of providing practical, spiritual and emotional support to other pupils in the school

  • School Pictograms

    School Pictograms

    Explore how to count and record the numbers of different pieces of school equipment that can be found in trays stored around the classroom

  • Listening Skills

    Listening Skills

    Develop and refine listening skills when practising how to follow commands and instructions when playing games and role-playing actions

  • Halving Things

    Halving Things

    Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school