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

  • Family Stories

    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

  • Growing

    Growing

    Identify, describe and record how people can grow and change in different ways during their lifetime as they progress from childhood to adulthood

  • Garden Measurements

    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

  • Family Holiday

    Family Holiday

    Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense