Includes all stories An alternative version of the traditional fairytale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. This quite challenging text uses a range of alternative graphemes from Letters and Sounds Phase 5. The premise for this story is that our monster family would probably not have heard of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, a story with a bad wolf and a good child, but they may have a similar story which they tell their monster children, in which the monster is the good character and the villain is the child. Covering: Speaking and listening ● Help the children to draw a storyboard or story map to support a retelling of the story. ● Provide fabrics, blocks and smallworld resources to create a threedimensional story map. ● Use role play to tell the story from one point of view. To explore ideas for this, use drama techniques, such as ‘hot-seating’. ● Act out either the monster version of the story or the traditional version, using voices for the characters. Guided and shared reading: ● Use the story as a shared text. Support the children as they read words which contain alternative spellings for phonemes (see table, below). ● Compare and contrast this version with a traditional version of Red Riding Hood (see ‘Resources’, page 91). ● Traditional tales are some of the easiest texts to use when asking young children Assessment Focus 7 questions (Relate texts to social, cultural and historical contexts and literary traditions) as it is relatively easy to find simple retellings that the children can read independently. For example, you could ask: ● How did you know that the boy would do something bad? ● Did anything surprise you in this retelling of the story?

Taken from BUILDING BLOCKS. Building Blocks is a modular series of resources offering Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) practitioners a source of fresh, fun, adaptable activities linked to inspirational, child-centred themes, and providing comprehensive coverage of the different aspects of the Early Learning Goals. Topic: Why do boats float while stones sink? Includes: Activity ideas Activity sheet: Spot the boat Hints for home, Pupil profile sheets Progression towards Key Stage 1 Resources Topic coverage ■ Making observations and explaining why some things occur; ■ Carrying out simple experiments, using objects of different size, weight, shape and material; ■ Applying skills and knowledge to the world around them – what we can see on lakes, rivers and oceans, and what can be found in the sea Leave a review