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

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Investigate, describe and model some of the special ways of providing practical, spiritual and emotional support to other pupils in the school

  • School Pictograms

    School Pictograms

    Explore how to count and record the numbers of different pieces of school equipment that can be found in trays stored around the classroom

  • Listening Skills

    Listening Skills

    Develop and refine listening skills when practising how to follow commands and instructions when playing games and role-playing actions

  • Halving Things

    Halving Things

    Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school