Lesson Four – Fairy Tale Puppets

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select and role-play character dialogue to use with hand puppets to illustrate some of the events that happened in a fairy tale about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

The class can identify and match pairs of cvc words that end in the same final phoneme sounds with each of the middle vowel sounds.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and role-play character dialogue to use with hand puppets to illustrate some of the events that happened in a fairy tale about Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to role-play the sequence of events in the opening to the traditional story of Goldilocks and sets of cards to identify and sequence the main events in the traditional story of Goldilocks and Three Bears and match and groups pairs of cvc words that end in the same final phoneme sound.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore dialogue to use with puppets to illustrate some of the events that happened in a fairy tale.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Hansel and Gretel

    Investigate some of the different characters, settings and plot events used to tell a traditional story and identify letters that match initial sounds of words

  • Hansel and Gretel Story Scenes

    Hansel and Gretel Story Scenes

    Use drama and role-play to illustrate and record each of the main story events and dialogue that feature in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

  • Hansel and Gretel Story Sentences

    Hansel and Gretel Story Sentences

    Select and record different vocabulary words that can be used when compiling sentences to describe what happened in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

  • Hansel and Gretel Story Changes

    Hansel and Gretel Story Changes

    Identify and role-play a range of narrative predictions to illustrate the sequence of events that happen in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel