Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and list words that can be used when writing a recount of a family visit to a specific location and a vocabulary word bank to choose different adverbials of time that can be used to sequence events in a recount of a visit.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to list words that can be used when writing a recount of a family visit to a specific location.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write recounts of a family visit to a special location that also includes weather information, practise spelling different words using the suffix ing and write a range of sentences that are either statements or questions to explore places. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.