This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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.

The class can record how to join sets of letters to build different cvc words that begin with a range of initial sounds for each matched group of words.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to identify and build a selection of cvc words that begin with the same initial phonemes and a worksheet to play a game with a partner to match objects to different letters of the alphabet to their correct graphemes.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use a story to identify and practise writing initial sounds for some of the objects that can be found in a school.

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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