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

  • School Events

    School Events

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

  • Family Trips

    Family Trips

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

  • Family Stories

    Family Stories

    Explore and record the narrative sequence of events in stories with familiar settings about some of the special things that can happen in a family

  • Growing

    Growing

    Identify, describe and record how people can grow and change in different ways during their lifetime as they progress from childhood to adulthood

  • 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