This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to research and record some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year by composing and presenting a personal recount.

The class can explain and model how to use time adverbials to suggest the sequence and timing of some of the different events that might happen in the school over the course of one year.

Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to research and record some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year by composing and presenting a personal recount

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year, a shared reading text to investigate a recount of a visit to a school by some circus performers and a template to record some of the special memorable things that have happened at the school in the past year.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to research and record some of the special things that have happened in the class over the past school year.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to 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. 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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