This literacy scheme of work for Foundation Stage gets the children to role-play different traditional stories using drama and speaking and listening skills and match initial phonemes in cvc words to letters of the alphabet. The class can make puppets to retell versions of a traditional story to show the sequence of narrative events.

Role-play different traditional stories using drama and speaking and listening skills and match initial phonemes in cvc words to letters of the alphabet

Lesson One : Story Clues

Discuss and describe some of the characters that can feature in favourite stories and identify words beginning with /k/

Lesson Two : Story People

Identify, describe and role-play some of the special characters that could feature in different stories

Lesson Three : Story Scenes

Discuss and role-play some of the events that can happen in traditional stories and suggest matching character dialogue

Lesson Four : Story Sentences

Complete a selection of simple sentences to describe a range of different objects used in favourite stories

Lesson Five : Story Plays

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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