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Yummy Muffin Pizzas RECIPE LESSON PLAN Age group: 5-6 years ENGLISH


Suggested text: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss but if you don’t have or can’t access a copy you will be able to apply the activity ideas to a text of your choice. Additional text: Pizza Kittens by Charlotte Voake is useful when talking about food choices and healthy eating. It is a story about three kittens who behave just like small children and will only sit down nicely at the table to eat pizza.


Reading – Comprehension


ENGLAND Develop pleasure in reading by • becoming familiar with key stories. • learning to appreciate rhymes and poems.


SCOTLAND To help students understand stories and other texts, they... link what they are learning with what they already know.


WALES Follow stories read to them and respond as appropriate; hear lively readings from a variety of sources.


NORTHERN IRELAND Explore and begin to understand how texts are structured in a range of genres.


• Before reading the story, tell the children that it is a story that works well alongside the recipe for Yummy Muffin Pizzas, which fits in the meat, fish, eggs and beans section of the eatwell healthy eating plate.


• Tell the children that the book is called Green Eggs and Ham and the recipe suggests putting ham on the pizza. Note that you may need to amend this recipe if you have children who do not eat pork for any reason. Share the text if you have it in print or online. In this book Sam is trying to get the other character to try green eggs and ham, but the character keeps refusing.


Reading – Word Reading


ENGLAND Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words. Read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught. Read common exception words.


SCOTLAND Explore and play with the patterns and sounds of language and use what they learn.


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WALES Experience a range of stimuli including simple rhymes; follow stories read to them and respond as appropriate.


NORTHERN IRELAND Recognise and talk about features of spoken language, showing phonological awareness.


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