Recount Writing Teaching Resources

Discover lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in literacy for the Foundation Stage to teach about writing recounts about different events and experiences

  • Family Trips

    Family Trips

    Sequence and record different events and experiences to describe a family visit to a selection of special places

  • Holiday Outings

    Holiday Outings

    Practise devising story boards using word phrases and illustrations to recount some of the special events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday outing

  • School Events

    School Events

    Practise using storyboards to sequence some of the special events that might happen in a school by recording personal recounts

  • Halving Things

    Halving Things

    Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Identify and learn classroom routines and organisation by exploring and describing information and likes and dislikes for each of their classmates

  • Classroom

    Classroom

    Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely

  • Shape Patterns

    Shape Patterns

    Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns