Foundation Stage : Literacy : Term One Planning : School Stories : Lesson Four – School Cupboard


This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to read and respond to a story about starting in a new school and identify initial phonemes of different words. The children can play a game to identify the initial sounds that can be heard at the start of different cvc words.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and respond to a story about starting in a new school and identify initial phonemes of different words

Learning Objectives

Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments. Use phonic knowledge to decode regular words.

Learning Outcomes

I can match parts of a story to experiences to help understand what I have read. I can match letters of the alphabet to initial phonemes.

School Cupboard

Teaching sequence to help the children read and respond to a story about starting in a new school and identify initial phonemes of different words

What Sounds

Activity to get the children to play a game to match different letters of the alphabet to the corresponding initial phonemes of different cvc words

Alphabet Letters

Activity cards to help the children match each of the consonant letters of the alphabet to different objects with the same initial sounds

School Cupboard

Interactive activity to help the children read and respond to a story about starting in a new school and identify initial phonemes of different words

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and respond to a story about starting in a new school and identify initial phonemes of different words

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