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

  • 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 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 Visits

    Family Visits

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

  • Match Visit

    Match Visit

    Select and use special vocabulary including conjunctions and time adverbials to plan and write a recount of a family visit to a football match as part of a tournament competition

  • 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

  • Sports Diary

    Sports Diary

    Select matching vocabulary words and sentence structures to use when composing diary entries describing how to participate in different sport competitions at the Olympic games

  • 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

  • Fraction Numbers

    Fraction Numbers

    Investigate how to use concrete equipment, diagrams and calculations to identify and record the matching fractions of different numbers

  • Family Holiday Lists

    Family Holiday Lists

    Explore how to compile sentences punctuated using commas to list some of the special things that families can use, complete and experience on a holiday

  • Design Constructions

    Design Constructions

    Explore how to design and create a range of different constructions using special materials to match selected success criteria

  • Money Coin Sums

    Money Coin Sums

    Practise identifying, combining and recording sets of coins that can make matching sums that can be used when shopping for different products