Lesson One – Hickory Dickory Dock

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, describe and model the use of patterned language and vocabulary rhyming words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem.
The class can practise building and recording lists of cvc words using different combinations of vowels and consonants that end in the same final phonemes that could be read in a nursery rhyme.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and model the use of patterned language and vocabulary rhyming words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the structure and composition of a nursery rhyme, a worksheet to select vowels and consonants to spell different cvc words that end in the same final phonemes and a set of cards to group sets of matching cvc rhymes that end in the same final phonemes..
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the use of patterned language and rhyming in the traditional nursery rhyme of the Hickory Dickory Dock.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to investigate the use of patterned language and rhyming in traditional nursery rhymes and practise segmenting words into individual phonemes by reading and adapting poetry. 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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