his English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to plan and write a recount describing what might happen during a visit to a castle as part of a family day out.

The class can identify and explain how to use time adverbials to sequence events in their recount about what happened during their visit to the castle to describe special events and experiences.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to plan and write a recount describing what might happen during a visit to a castle as part of a family day out

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format a recount of a family visit to a castle, a vocabulary word bank to support writing a recount using time adverbials to show the sequence of events and a template to sequence and order a recount of a family visit to a castle.

The interactive presentation gets the children to plan and write a recount describing what might happen during a visit to a castle as part of a family day out

This lesson can support development in learning how to structure and format a recount of an experience. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.

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