Lesson Two – Seaside Postcards
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise completing written and pictorial postcards to describe some of the events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday to the seaside using the past tense.
The class can identify and match words that end in the same final sound as rhymes to use when writing captions for postcard illustrations.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise completing written and pictorial postcards to describe some of the events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday to the seaside using the past tense
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe different events and experiences that might happen on a visit to the seaside, a template to select and record a visit to the seaside using illustrations and simple sentences and a set of cards .to identify and group matching sets of cvc rhyming words that end in the same final phoneme sounds
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to complete postcards to describe events and experiences that might happen on a seaside holiday using the past tense.
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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