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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Time Calendar
Select and use special vocabulary words to describe different periods of time including days of the week and months of the year to match family events and experiences
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Word Halves
Identify and complete the halves of letters for different cvc words beginning with the initial phoneme sounds for matching alphabet letters
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School Safari
Identify and compare some of the different animals that live in the school grounds and make comparisons between animals that live in other habitats
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Four Sided Shapes
Name, model and classify some example four sided shapes with matching numbers of corners and sides that can be seen and used in different locations