Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a recount to describe some of the things that could happen in the school, a vocabulary word bank to select time adverbials to use when sequencing events in a recount text and a template to structure and format a recount to list things that could happen on the first day of a new school year.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a recount to describe some of the things that could happen on the first day of a new 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.