This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to research and record some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year to use when composing a recount of an event.

The class can model how to use time adverbials to sequence events in their recount writing to illustrate what has happened in the school such as an autumn fayre or a school trip.

Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to research and record some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year to use when composing a recount of an event

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year, a shared reading text to explore how to structure and format a recount of a school event and a template to record one of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to research and record some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year when composing a recount.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to compose and publish recounts to describe and illustrate some of the special things that can happen in a school. 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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