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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