This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to plan and write a personal recount describing what might happen during a family visit to a circus.

The class can identify and explain how to use time adverbials to sequence events in a recount about what happened during a visit to the circus to describe each of the acts such as clowns and acrobats.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to plan and write a personal recount describing what might happen during a family visit to a circus

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 circus, a vocabulary word bank to support writing a recount using time adverbials to show the sequence of events and a template to sequence and order a recount of a family visit to a circus.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to plan and write a recount describing what might happen during a family visit to a circus.

This lesson can support development in learning how to structure and format a recount of an experience. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.

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