This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe common characters, settings and themes used in traditional stories and suggest story changes using role-play and written composition. The class can record changes to the story of Goldilocks using alternative characters and settings.

Identify and describe common characters, settings and themes used in traditional stories and suggest story changes using role-play and written composition

Lesson One : Goldilocks

Identify and record some of the different characters, settings and themes that have been used in a traditional story

Lesson Two : Fairy Tale Sentences

Devise and complete a range of different sentences to identify the sequence of events in a fairy tale

Lesson Three : Fairy Tale Questions

Select and record some of the questions that can be used to explore different characters that feature in a fairy tale

Lesson Four : Fairy Tale Puppets

Select and role-play dialogue to use with puppets to illustrate some of the events that happened in a fairy tale

Lesson Five : Story Books

Design and produce pages for a story book describing some of the changes that could be made to a fairy tale

  • Owl and the Pussycat

    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

  • Story Sentences

    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

  • Story Map

    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

  • Story Journeys

    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