Foundation Stage : Literacy : Term One Planning : Once Upon A Time : Lesson Five – Story Plays


This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to use a range of puppet characters to sequence and retell some of the events that can happen in different traditional stories. The class can build different cvc words by combining sets of alphabet letters to match picture clues.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use a range of puppet characters to sequence and retell some of the events that can happen in different traditional stories

Learning Objectives

Listen with enjoyment to stories and respond with relevant comments, questions or actions. Link sounds to letters, naming and sound the letters of the alphabet.

Learning Outcomes

I can identify and sequence the events in a story. I can identify and spell words that begin with same initial sounds.

Story Plays

Teaching sequence to help the children use a range of puppet characters to sequence and retell some of the events that can happen in different traditional stories

Word Cards

Activity cards to help the children identify and spell a selection of different words beginning with the letters c and k

Story Plays

Interactive activity to help the children use a range of puppet characters to sequence and retell some of the events that can happen in different traditional stories

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use a range of puppet characters to sequence and retell some of the events that can happen in different traditional stories

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