Lesson Five – Hungry Caterpillar

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise selecting and sequencing some alternative events that could happen in a story with patterned language about different foods that could be eaten by a caterpillar.
The class can play a game to match words that begin with the same letters of the alphabet to indicate their matching initial sounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and sequencing some alternative events that could happen in a story with patterned language about different foods that could be eaten by a caterpillar
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to record and sequence alternative events that could happen in a story about foods eaten by a caterpillar and a worksheet to play a game to match initial sounds found in different cvc words to the correct letters of the alphabet.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and sequence alternative events that could happen in a story about foods eaten by a caterpillar.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to investigate examples of patterned language used to sequence events in a story about a caterpillar and learn the names and sounds for each letter of the alphabet. 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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