Unit B – Billy Goats Gruff

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore the characters in a traditional story using reading and role-play to sequence and adapt the narrative and practise segmenting and blending phonemes in cvc words. The class can select new scenes and characters to suggest changes to the story.

Explore the characters in a traditional story using reading and role-play to sequence and adapt the narrative and practise segmenting and blending phonemes in cvc words

Lesson One : Story Events

Suggest and describe some alternative plot developments to complete the narrative in a traditional story

Lesson Two : Story Dialogue

Adapt and suggest dialogue that might have been spoken by each of the characters in a traditional story

Lesson Three : Story Endings

Select, describe and record narrative predictions and role-play alternative endings to a traditional story

Lesson Four : Story Drama

Explain and model how to use role-play and drama to adapt and edit a traditional story by adding some new story characters into the sequence of events

Lesson Five : Story Telling

Select and record an alternative version of a traditional story using words and illustrations in a storyboard showing how different characters might change the narrative

  • Winter Weather

    Winter Weather

    Explore how the weather changes during winter and its effect on the natural world including how water can freeze and turn to ice when the temperature falls below zero

  • Winter Snowflakes

    Winter Snowflakes

    Investigate, describe and record how the natural world can change during a snowstorm which might occur during the winter season

  • Winter Temperature

    Winter Temperature

    Explore, test and describe some of the changes that can happen to water resulting from cold weather during the winter season

  • Snow and Ice

    Snow and Ice

    Identify and describe some of the common weather patterns that can occur during the winter season and how snow and ice can form at this time of the year