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

  • Food and Drink Colours

    Food and Drink Colours

    Identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals

  • Calendar Days

    Calendar Days

    Identify and record the sequence of the seven days of the week using the correct vocabulary words to describe units of time on a calendar

  • Fantasy Stories

    Fantasy Stories

    Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings

  • Class Portraits

    Class Portraits

    Investigate and practise some of the different artwork techniques that can be used when composing and painting a portrait of a classmate