Mountain Expedition

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to plan and write a personal recount to describe a visit to a mountain landscape as part of a family holiday using time adverbials to sequence events.
The class can collect notes that can answer key questions about a visit to a mountain to use when structuring their recount writing to show what happened during the expedition.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and write a personal recount to describe a visit to a mountain landscape as part of a family holiday using time adverbials to sequence events
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain a how to structure and format a recount of a visit to a mountain landscape, a worksheet to record information to answer key questions about the recounted events, a vocabulary word bank to select time adverbials to use when sequencing events in a recount and a template to structure and format a recount about a visit to a mountain as part of a family holiday.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a recount to describe a visit to a mountain landscape as part of a family holiday,
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to compose recounts using time adverbials to sequence the events in family visits to familiar and unfamiliar locations. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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