Unit E – Jack and the Beanstalk

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore, role-play and change the sequence of events that occur in a traditional story and match cvc words with the same final phoneme sounds. The class can suggest how the story might change with alternative settings and characters.

Explore, role-play and change the sequence of narrative events that occur in a traditional story and select and match cvc words with the same final phoneme sounds

Lesson One : Story Events

Investigate how to match and list some different cvc words that end in the same final phoneme to use when describing narrative events that happened in a traditional story

Lesson Two : Story People

Explore how to suggest and role-play dialogue that might have been said by the characters about some of the special events that happened in a traditional story

Lesson Three : Story Places

Practise selecting and describing some of the different settings and places that could feature in the traditional story of Jack and the Beanstalk

Lesson Four : Story Endings

Investigate and make narrative predictions about some of the alternative endings that could happen in the traditional story of Jack and the beanstalk

Lesson Five : Story Plays

Investigate and model how to use role-play suggesting some of the dialogue that can be used to retell the plot of the traditional story of Jack and the Beanstalk

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    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