Fairy Tales

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
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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
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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
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Fantasy Stories
Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings
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Class Portraits
Investigate and practise some of the different artwork techniques that can be used when composing and painting a portrait of a classmate