Lesson Four – Sing a Song of Sixpence
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and change some of the different word rhymes and special vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme with a narrative story.
The class can record and match different pairs of cvc words that end in the same final phoneme sounds when building word lists.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and change some of the different word rhymes and special vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme with a narrative story
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the structure and composition of a nursery rhyme, worksheets to build a range of different words by adding letters of the alphabet to complete cvc words and a set of cards to select and record illustrations for words with the same final phoneme sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to change some of the different rhymes and words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme.
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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Owl and the Pussycat
Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds
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Story Sentences
Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat
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Story Map
Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative
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Story Journeys
Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale