Unit D – Gingerbread Man

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and describe some of the different characters, settings and plot events that feature in a traditional story and identify final sounds in a range of cvc words. The class can select new characters to explore how they might change the story.

Investigate and describe some of the different characters, settings and plot events that feature in the traditional story of the Gingerbread Man

Lesson One : Story Dialogue

Suggest and record some of the dialogue that might have been spoken by different characters in the traditional story of the Gingerbread Man

Lesson Two : Story People

Identify and describe some of the other characters that could appear in the traditional story of the Gingerbread Man to match the structure and content of the narrative

Lesson Three : Story Changes

Identify and role-play some of the different changes to the plot and events that might happen in the traditional story of the Gingerbread Man

Lesson Four : Story Puppets

Model how to re-tell part of a traditional story by using puppets to support dialogue of the characters to create different scenes from the narrative sequence of events

Lesson Five : Story Telling

Select, change and perform different parts of the traditional story of the Gingerbread Man adding new characters to the narrative sequence of events

  • Vehicles

    Vehicles

    Identify, describe and compare some of the different journeys that can be made by bus, train or plane for a range of purposes by families

  • School Counting

    School Counting

    Explain and model how to count, order and compare the numbers of special tools and equipment that can be used when working in school lessons

  • Family Visits

    Family Visits

    Practise selecting different vocabulary words to use when completing and composing poems about family visits to different locations

  • Push and Pull

    Push and Pull

    Identify, describe and test some of the different pushing and pulling forces that can be used to move a range of objects