Unit A – Nursery Rhymes

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate the use of patterned language and rhyming in traditional nursery rhymes and practise segmenting words into individual phonemes. The class can devise short plays to illustrate the sequence of events in nursery rhymes.

Investigate the use of patterned language and rhyming in traditional nursery rhymes and practise segmenting words into individual phonemes by reading and adapting poetry

Lesson One : Hickory Dickory Dock
Identify, describe and model the use of patterned language and vocabulary rhyming words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem

Lesson Two : This Old Man
Explore, record and perform the use of rhyming language and vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem about a special character

Lesson Three : Five Little Ducks
Identify, sequence and order each of the different events that occur in a traditional nursery rhyme and segment and blend cvc words used in the narrative

Lesson Four : Sing a Song of Sixpence
Investigate and change some of the different word rhymes and special vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme with a narrative story

Lesson Five : Story Telling
Practise using drama and role-play to retell and illustrate some of the different events that occur in a story based on a traditional nursery rhyme poem
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Family Stories
Explore and record the narrative sequence of events in stories with familiar settings about some of the special things that can happen in a family
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Growing
Identify, describe and record how people can grow and change in different ways during their lifetime as they progress from childhood to adulthood
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Garden Measurements
Practise using vocabulary words and non-standard measurements to find and compare the length of different things that can found in a garden
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Family Holiday
Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense