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

  • Garden Measurements

    Garden Measurements

    Practise using vocabulary words and non-standard measurements to find and compare the length of different things that can found in a garden

  • Family Holiday

    Family Holiday

    Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense

  • Money Shopping

    Money Shopping

    Investigate and model some of the number skills that need to be used when working with money on a shopping trip

  • Supporting Others

    Supporting Others

    Explore how to build strong and positive relationships with other pupils at school and family members at home through different situations and scenarios