Lesson Four – Story Map

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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.
The class can select and use special vocabulary words to describe settings that might feature in a narrative story related to tale of the Owl and the Pussycat.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the sequence of events and describe characters and settings in a traditional story and sets of cards to select labels for a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story and record different objects and words that begin with the same initial sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get 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. 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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City Counting
Practise counting and recording matching sets of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to illustrate and record some of the special things that can be seen around a city
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House Windows
Count, match and record different numbers of windows that could be seen on houses that have been built in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty
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Flat Block
Match and record different numbers of objects that could be seen in flats that have been built in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty
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Road Traffic
Count, match and record different numbers of vehicles that could be seen travelling on a road in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty