This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise writing and publishing recounts of different events and experiences that could occur during a family summer holiday to somewhere special in the world.

The class can explain and model how to use adverbials to time to state when, how long or how often different things happened in their recount of a holiday event or experience.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise writing and publishing recounts of different events and experiences that could occur during a family summer holiday to somewhere special in the world

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of templates to select and record recounts to match different scenarios about some of the events and experiences that could happen on a summer holiday to show how a family might react to a problem that occurs during their trip.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to write recounts of different events that could occur during a family summer holiday.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in 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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