Lesson Two – Autumn Colours
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify vocabulary and define words that have been used to describe the colour of different autumn leaves in a poem.
The class can describe and model effective ways of reading a poem about the autumn season aloud using exciting voice expressions, correct tones and intonation.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify vocabulary and define words that have been used to describe the colour of different autumn leaves in a poem
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary words used in a poem to describe how leaves change colour in the autumn, a set of cards to identify and match adjectives that can be used to describe different autumn materials and a template to complete sentences by adding matching names for different colours.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to identify vocabulary and define words used to describe the colour of different autumn leaves in a poem.
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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Owl and the Pussycat
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
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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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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
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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