This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and record each of the initial phonemes used in different words as part of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme.

The class can identify and describe the sequence of events used in the narrative poem and suggest other matching events and characters to adapt and change the rhyme.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record each of the initial phonemes used in different words as part of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the content and structure of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme, a set of cards to practise building a range of different cvc words that begin with the same initial sound and a worksheet to play a game to identify and match different words beginning with the same initial sounds.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the initial phonemes used in words as part of a traditional story poem of a nursery rhyme.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the sequence of events and characters that feature in a range of different narrative poems with rhymes. 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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    Nursery Rhymes

    Identify and describe the sequence of events and characters that feature in a range of different narrative poems with rhymes

  • Mulberry Bush

    Mulberry Bush

    Perform actions and select vocabulary words to complete some of the different lines that feature in a traditional poem of a nursery rhyme

  • Old Macdonald’s Farm

    Old Macdonald’s Farm

    Identify and use a selection of vocabulary words in a nursery rhyme poem to describe some of the different animals that live on a farm

  • Jack and Jill

    Jack and Jill

    Identify and change some of the different sets of rhyming words that have been used in a traditional narrative poem of a nursery rhyme