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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Vehicles
Identify, describe and compare some of the different journeys that can be made by bus, train or plane for a range of purposes by families
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School Counting
Explain and model how to count, order and compare the numbers of special tools and equipment that can be used when working in school lessons
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Family Visits
Practise selecting different vocabulary words to use when completing and composing poems about family visits to different locations
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Push and Pull
Identify, describe and test some of the different pushing and pulling forces that can be used to move a range of objects