Unit A – School Stories

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod. The class can role-play how to support visitors to the classroom.

Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes in different words based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod

Lesson One : New School

Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting about school events and identify and record the initial phonemes of names of the characters in the narrative story

Lesson Two : School Friends

Practise using a story with a familiar setting that takes place in a school location to identify the initial phonemes that can be used to spell matching groups of words

Lesson Three : School Words

Practise using a story with a familiar setting to identify and model writing initial sounds for some of the different objects that can be found in a school location

Lesson Four : School Cupboard

Read and respond to a story with a familiar setting about starting in a new school and identify the initial phonemes that comprise different words

Lesson Five : School Visitors

Select and role play events and experiences that might happen in a school and identify and record the initial sounds that can be heard in matching cvc words

  • Owl and the Pussycat

    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

  • Story Sentences

    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

  • Story Map

    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

  • Story Journeys

    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