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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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 Visits

    Family Visits

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

  • Space Flight

    Space Flight

    Change and adapt the sequence of events in a narrative story about a journey that happens in a fantasy world

  • Farm Graphs

    Farm Graphs

    Identify and illustrate how to organise information related to different farm topics on a block graph using questions to query the presented data

  • Plants

    Plants

    Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants and investigate and test how to support plant growth

  • School Reports

    School Reports

    Explain and model how to use answers to key questions to compose non-chronological reports about some of the different things that might happen in a school