This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore, record and perform the use of rhyming language and vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem about a special character.

The class can play a game to identify and match different cvc words that end in the same final phoneme sounds that can be used to describe characters in a story poem.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore, record and perform the use of rhyming language and vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem about a special character

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the structure and composition of a nursery rhyme, worksheets to identify and record matching rhymes and play a game to identify different cvc words that end in the same final phoneme sounds.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the use of rhyming language that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem.

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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