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

  • Maths Measurement Assessment

    Maths Measurement Assessment

    Assess abilities in estimating, measuring and comparing a range of different measurements for length, mass and capacity

  • Family Life

    Family Life

    Investigate and reflect on some of the special events and experiences that might happen in the life of a family

  • Final Sounds Word Guess

    Final Sounds Word Guess

    Practise playing some guessing and matching games to identify the spelling and meaning of words with different final sounds

  • Building Reports

    Building Reports

    Explore how to collect facts and information to work with when composing and presenting non-chronological reports about buildings that can be found in the local area