Foundation Stage : Literacy : Term One Planning : School Stories : Lesson One – New School


This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes of names of the characters. The class can match and list a range of different objects that begin with the same initial sounds.

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 with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes of names of the characters

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 make comments with the teacher and other children about a book that I have read. I can match letters of the alphabet to initial sounds in words.

New School

Teaching sequence to help the children read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes of names of the characters.

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Activity cards to get the children to identify and match each of the letters of the alphabet to different initial sounds

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Activity cards to help the children select and record a list of matching objects beginning with different letters of the alphabet

New School

Interactive activity to help the children read and respond to a story with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes of names of the characters.

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 with a familiar setting and identify initial phonemes of names of the characters

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