Lesson One – Autumn Rain

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to read and respond to a poem about what can happen to the weather during the autumn and match the cvc rhymes that can be heard in different words.

The class can identify and practise matching and spelling different sets of cvc words that have the same matching final sounds.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and respond to a poem about what can happen to the weather during the autumn and match the cvc rhymes that can be heard in different words

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary words used in a poem to describe the weather in the autumn season and a set of cards to identify and match different sets of words with the same final phoneme.

The interactive presentation gets the children to read and respond to a poem about autumn weather and match cvc rhymes in different words

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to investigate structure and language used in a range of poems about the autumn and identify phonemes that comprise sounds in different cvc words. 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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