Foundation Stage : Literacy : Term One Planning : School Stories : Lesson Two – School Friends


This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to use a story with a familiar setting to identify initial phonemes of matching groups of words. The children can match letters of the alphabet that can be heard at the start of different cvc words and children’s names in a story.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use a story with a familiar setting to identify initial phonemes of matching groups of 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 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.

School Friends

Teaching sequence to help the children use a story with a familiar setting to identify initial phonemes of matching groups of words

Children’s Names

Activities to get the children identify initial phonemes for different names that can match the corresponding letters of the alphabet

What Sounds

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

School Friends

Interactive activity to help the children

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use a story with a familiar setting to identify initial phonemes of matching groups of words

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