Unit D – Owl and the Pussycat

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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. The class can complete sentences to describe alternative settings in the same story.

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

Lesson One : Story Places
Identify, define and list special vocabulary words that can be used to describe some of the settings that feature in a traditional story

Lesson Two : Story Lists
Select and record lists of different objects that can match some of the narrative sequence of events that occurred in a traditional story

Lesson Three : Story Journeys
Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale

Lesson Four : Story Map
Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative

Lesson Five : Story Sentences
Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat
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Vehicles
Identify, describe and compare some of the different journeys that can be made by bus, train or plane for a range of purposes by families
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School Counting
Explain and model how to count, order and compare the numbers of special tools and equipment that can be used when working in school lessons
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Family Visits
Practise selecting different vocabulary words to use when completing and composing poems about family visits to different locations
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Push and Pull
Identify, describe and test some of the different pushing and pulling forces that can be used to move a range of objects