Shopping Trips
This literacy topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explain and model how to use initial capital letters in simple sentences to describe some of the items that be bought in different shops.
The class can identify how to complete different sections of the alphabet by converting each of the missing lowercase letters into the correct capitals.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to use initial capital letters in simple sentences to describe some of the items that be bought in different shops
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to compose and present a simple sentence about going shopping using initial capital letters and a set of cards to complete sets of alphabet capital letter strings when converting each letter from their lowercase examples.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore words that should be written with an initial capital letter at the beginning of a sentence.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to select and compose simple sentences with initial capital letters to describe some of the special trips that can be made by a family. 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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