Foundation Stage : Literacy : Term One Planning : School Stories : Lesson Three – School Words


This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to use a story to identify and practise writing initial sounds for some of the objects that can be found in a school. The class can join letters to build different cvc words that begin with a range of initial sounds.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use a story to identify and practise writing initial sounds for some of the objects that can be found in a school

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 identify cvc words that begin with the same initial phoneme.

School Words

Teaching sequence to help the children use a story to identify and practise writing initial sounds for some of the objects that can be found in a school

Caterpillar Words

Activity cards to help the children identify and build a selection of cvc words that begin with the same initial phonemes

What Letters

Activities to help the children play a game with a partner to match objects to different letters of the alphabet to their correct graphemes

School Words

Interactive activity to help the children use a story to identify and practise writing initial sounds for some of the objects that can be found in a school

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use a story to identify and practise writing initial sounds for some of the objects that can be found in a school

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