Lesson One – New School

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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.
The class can match and list a range of different objects that might be found in a school that begin with the same initial sounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include sets of cards to identify and match each of the letters of the alphabet to different initial sounds and select and record a list of matching objects that can be found in the school beginning with different letters of the alphabet.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes of names of the characters..
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.
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