Activities and Resources

Language and Literacy: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening: Developing an Awareness of Sounds

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	Listening to and reading a well known nursery rhyme and identifying the missing rhymes.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening: - Listening and Responding:Children should have the opportunities to listen and respond to a wide range of stories, songs, poems including audio tapes and writing of other children. - Listening and Remembering: Children should have the opportunities to learn rhymes, number rhymes etc. - Developing an awareness of sounds: Children should have opportunities to develop an awareness of rhyming words. Key Stage 1: Reading - Engaging with a range of texts which include stories, poems, songs, nursery rhymes, plays, picture books, information materials, environmental print, audio and audio-visual materials and discussing them with teacher and others. - Reading and understanding a range of texts which can be read aloud, including those presented on CD-ROM, tape, radio or television, the internet and other sources.
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	Choosing the appropriate vowel to correctly spell simple CVC words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening - Developing an Awareness of Sounds: Children have opportunities to develop an awareness of sounds within words, and short vowel sounds. Key Stage 1: - Reading: Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled. - Writing: Experimenting with words e.g word games, riddles and rhymes; Spelling correctly a range of familiar, important and regularly occuring words.
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	Choosing the correct vowel(s) to correctly spell simple words which contain long vowel sounds.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening - Developing an Awareness of Sounds: Children have opportunities to develop an awareness of sounds within words, and short vowel sounds. Key Stage 1: - Reading: Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled. - Writing: Experimenting with words e.g word games, riddles and rhymes; Spelling correctly a range of familiar, important and regularly occuring words.
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	Recognising the difference between vowels and consonants in a fast paced game.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening - Developing an Awareness of Sounds: Children should have opportunities to begin to develop an awareness of sounds within words, and short vowel sounds. Key Stage 1: Reading - Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
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	Listening to and reading a well known nursery rhyme and identifying the missing rhymes.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening: - Listening & Responding:Children should have the opportunities to listen and respond to a wide range of stories, songs, poems including audio tapes and writing of other children. - Listening & Remembering: Children should have the opportunities to learn rhymes, number rhymes etc. - Developing an awareness of sounds: Children should have opportunities to develop an awareness of rhyming words. Key Stage 1: Reading - Engaging with a range of texts which include stories, poems, songs, nursery rhymes, plays, picture books, information materials, environmental print, audio and audio-visual materials and discussing them with teacher and others. - Reading and understanding a range of texts which can be read aloud, inlcuding those presented on CD-ROM, tape, radio or television, the internet and other sources.
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	Matching pictures of everyday objects with the initial letter for each object's name.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening - Developing an Awareness of Sounds: Children should have opportunities to begin to develop an awareness of sounds within words, and short vowel sounds. Key Stage 1: Reading - Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
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	Identifying, by reading and listening, the number of syllables (1, 2 or 3) in everyday words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening: Developing an Awareness of Sounds: - Become aware of the rhythm of words. - Begin to break down 2/3 syllable words. Key Stage 1: Reading - Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled. - Building up a sight vocabulary.
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	Recognising the number of syllables (1, 2 or 3) in everyday words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening: Developing an Awareness of Sounds: - Become aware of the rhythm of words. - Begin to break down 2/3 syllable words. Key Stage 1: Reading - Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled. - Building up a sight vocabulary.
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