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
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Food and Drink Colours
Identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals
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Calendar Days
Identify and record the sequence of the seven days of the week using the correct vocabulary words to describe units of time on a calendar
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Fantasy Stories
Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings
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Class Portraits
Investigate and practise some of the different artwork techniques that can be used when composing and painting a portrait of a classmate