Lesson Two – Story People

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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.
The class can select and match different groups of cvc words that feature the same final sounds to use when describing characters from a story.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
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 template to select and record vocabulary words that can be used to describe different characters in a story and a set of cards to match different groups of words with the same final sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the other characters that could appear 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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