Recount Writing Teaching Resources

Discover lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Key Stage One to teach about writing recounts of experiences

  • School Events

    School Events

    Explain and model how to compose a range of different recounts to illustrate some of the special events that might happen during the school year

  • Work Diaries

    Work Diaries

    Select and compose fictional and factual recounts describing some of the things that can happen when completing jobs at home in some other locations

  • Family Holidays

    Family Holidays

    Practise writing personal recounts describing events and experiences that could happen on a family holiday to different locations around the world

  • Family Adventures

    Family Adventures

    Explain and model how to compose recounts using time adverbials to sequence the events in family visits to familiar and unfamiliar locations

  • Family Visits

    Family Visits

    Plan and write personal recounts describing what might happen during family visits to special places

  • Money Coins

    Money Coins

    Practise identifying, naming and comparing groups of notes and coins that can be used when shopping for different products

  • Word Play Poems

    Word Play Poems

    Investigate poems about different animals that play with language written as tongue twisters, riddles and rhymes

  • Food Numbers

    Food Numbers

    Practise using pictograms to present and organise data and information about the counted numbers of different types of food

  • Dance Journeys

    Dance Journeys

    Select, refine and perform sequences of dance steps to reflect some of the movements that might be made by vehicles on a range of different journeys