This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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.

The class can suggest and record what might happen next following different scenes from the story to show how the narrative might change and develop with alternative characters and settings.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the structure and sequence of the narrative events in a traditional story, a set of cards to select and record alternative story events to show the development of the narrative in a traditional story and a worksheet to identify and match different pairs of words that end in the same final sounds.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and role-play changes to the plot and events that might happen in the traditional story of the Gingerbread Man,

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to investigate and describe some of the different characters, settings and plot events that feature in the traditional story of the Gingerbread Man. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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