Lesson Four – Tongue Twisters

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise composing and performing some different tongue twisters about special family holidays using matching initial sounds for each set of words in the poems.
The class can explain and model how to match words with the same initial sounds to use in some example tongue twisters about a family visit to the seaside.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise composing and performing some different tongue twisters about special family holidays using matching initial sounds for each set of words in the poems
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify initial sounds in different words used as part of a tongue twister poem and a set of cards to select and group some different sets of matching cvc words with the same initial sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose and perform different tongue twisters about family holidays using initial sounds in words.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense. 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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