Lesson Four – Expedition Recount
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and describe how to compose and present an example fictional recount describing what happened during an expedition to a dangerous location.
The class can identify the audience and purpose of a text and say how it has been written and structured to support writing a similar text when reading an example recount of an expedition.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe how to compose and present an example fictional recount describing what happened during an expedition to a dangerous location
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to structure and format a recount of an experience and a template to plan a fictional recount of an expedition to a dangerous location such as a rainforest or desert location.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to write a fictional recount of an expedition to a dangerous location around the world.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the text structures and content of explanations and recounts and plan and write matching texts, explore and use spellings of words with cious and tious word endings and use colons to mark the boundary between sentence clauses.. 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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