Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a recount of an event or experience, a vocabulary word bank to select adverbials of time to sequence events in a recount text, a template for support ability levels to compose and publish a recount of an ocean crossing and a worksheet to edit and correct the format and structure of a recount.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose and publish a fictional recount to describe a voyage sailing across an ocean.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to some different locations that can be found around the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.