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

  • 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

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Identify and learn classroom routines and organisation by exploring and describing information and likes and dislikes for each of their classmates

  • Classroom

    Classroom

    Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely

  • Shape Patterns

    Shape Patterns

    Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns