This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, describe and role-play some of the special characters that could feature in different traditional stories to illustrate how and why they are important to the narrative.

The class can practise playing a spelling game to match different words with the initial phoneme sounds for the letters c and k that can be used when describing a range of story characters.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and role-play some of the special characters that could feature in different traditional stories to illustrate how and why they are important to the narrative

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the special characters that could feature in different stories and a worksheet to play a spelling game to identify and match a range of words beginning with the letters c and k.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the special characters that could feature in different traditional stories and identify their importance to the narrative.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to role-play different traditional stories using drama and speaking and listening skills and match initial phonemes in cvc words to letters of the alphabet. 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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