Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to play a game to match different letters of the alphabet to the corresponding initial phonemes of different cvc words and a set of cards to link each of the consonant letters of the alphabet to different objects with the same initial sounds.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore a story about starting in a new school and identify initial phonemes of different words.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.