Activities in this teaching pack include a template to compose a written recount to use on a postcard describing a family holiday to a specific location and a vocabulary word bank to select and use adverbials of time to sequence holiday events and experiences in a recount.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a written recount to use on a postcard describing a family holiday to a specific location.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays, practise adding the suffix ed to word roots to indicate the past tense in sentences and investigate punctuation that can be used for statements and questions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.