This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read and write a personal recount describing some of the different things that could happen during a family visit to a seaside as part of a summer holiday.

The class can select and use time adverbials to sequence narrative events in their recount of events and experiences that could be completed when on holiday at the seaside.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to read and write a personal recount describing some of the different things that could happen during a family visit to a seaside as part of a summer holiday

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format a recount of a family visit to a seaside as part of a summer holiday, a vocabulary word bank to select special words to use when composing a recount and a template to write a recount about a family visit to the seaside during the summer.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a recount describing a family visit to a seaside as part of a summer holiday.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise writing personal recounts describing events and experiences that could happen on a family holiday to different locations around the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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