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Teaching Literacy Foundation Stage
These planning units match the range for Foundation Stage in the New Literacy Framework For Teaching.
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The Big Bear Package
This unit contains resources and plans for 4-6 weeks of work based around bears. The resources include the traditional story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, non-fiction text about bears, sequencing pictures, numeracy resources, letter homework sheets, display materials and much more.
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Text: This is the Bear and the Scary Night
This rhyming text describes bear's adventures when he gets left in the park all night.
It is one of a number of This is the Bear books.

Author: Sarah Hayes
illustrated: Helen Craig
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
ISBN 0-7445-3147-0

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Text: Bravest Bear Ever
This amusing book contains a number of stories, which consist of little more than "Once upon a time", a character and "The End"! So bear decides to write his own story. A wonderful book for demonstrating the elements needed in a narrative to make it an effective story.

Author: Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator: Paul Howard
Walker Books Ltd
ISBN: 0-7445-6181-7

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Text: We're Going on a Bear Hunt
This well loved book has been chosen as a text to support Unit 2 in Developing Early Writing (NLS). The family go on a bear hunt, overcoming many obstacles in their way. But when they finally find the bear they run home and decide not to go on a bear hunt again!
Retold by Michael Rosen
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Walker Books Ltd
ISBN: 0-7445-2323-0

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Text: This is Bear
The dog pushes the bear in the bin, which is where bear's unusual adventure begins! A delightful, well illustrated book with rhyming text.

Written by Sarah Hughes
Illustrated by Helen Craig
Walker Books Ltd
ISBN: 0-7445-0969-6

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Text: Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?
Similar to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see; this book makes a good model for writing a class book. It is available in big book format.

Author: Bill Martin Jr.
Illustrator: Eric Carle
ISBN: 0-582-36288-1

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Word Folder Units

Robot/Truck Word Folder Units
A fun way to teach early sight words. This unit allows you to make attractive Robot or Truck Word Folders. Also included are sight word cards and onset and rime word lists for spelling. Each unit contains, Word Folder, Spelling Machine and Words and Word Lists for both. (1.1mb Download) Single User PC Version.
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Three Billy Goats Gruff E book Single User (PC)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff traditional tale, presented as an electronic book, for use with an interactive whiteboard, computer or multimedia projector, with colourful illustrations and the option to edit your own text and save and load text. (5mb Download) Single User PC Version
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Three Billy Goats Gruff E book with speech Single User (PC)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff traditional tale, presented as an electronic book, for use with an interactive whiteboard, computer or multimedia projector, with colourful illustrations and sound on the speaking parts. (9.6mb Download) Single User PC Version
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