Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore the content structure and rhyming vocabulary in a nursery rhyme, a set of word cards to play a game to match words with the same vowel digraphs and an activity to play a game of noughts and crosses to build words with the long vowel phonemes of ee and oo.

The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate the nursery rhyme of Sing a Song of Sixpence and the matching vocabulary rhyming words used in the poem and explore the spelling of words with the same vowel digraphs.

This lesson is part of a English scheme of work to get the children to explore the vocabulary and structure of a range of narrative and traditional poems, identify and spell words with the vowel digraphs ee and oo and match sets of rhyming words. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.