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
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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
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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
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Family Holidays
Practise writing personal recounts describing events and experiences that could happen on a family holiday to different locations around the world
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Family Adventures
Explain and model how to compose recounts using time adverbials to sequence the events in family visits to familiar and unfamiliar locations
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Family Visits
Plan and write personal recounts describing what might happen during family visits to special places
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty