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


This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to discuss and describe some of the characters that can feature in favourite stories and identify words beginning with /k/. The class can build a set of different words with the initial sound for the letter k.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to discuss and describe some of the characters that can feature in favourite stories and identify words beginning with /k/

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 make a comment and answer a question about a story that I have heard. I can identify words that begin with the letter /k/.

Story Clues

Teaching sequence to help the children discuss and describe some of the characters that can feature in favourite stories and identify words beginning with /k/

Building Words

Activity cards to help the children identify and build a range of different cvc words that begin with the letter /k/

Letter Board

Activity to get the children to identify and record the letter /k/ in a group of different letters from the alphabet

Story Clues

Interactive activity to help the children discuss and describe some of the characters that can feature in favourite stories and identify words beginning with /k/

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to discuss and describe some of the characters that can feature in favourite stories and identify words beginning with /k/

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