Lesson Five – Recount Editing

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to model how to edit and redraft a recount containing facts and opinions about what happened during a flooding event at the school’s location.

The class can identify and record where to add fronted adverbials to extend some of the sentences in their recounts about a weather event to show when, where or how things happened.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to model how to edit and redraft a recount containing facts and opinions about what happened during a flooding event at the school’s location

Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to edit and make corrections and improvements to their recount about what happened during a flood at the school to check that their writing matches the structure and format of recounts.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to edit and redraft a recount containing facts and opinions about what happened during a flood at the school.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to compose and edit an informal recount about a significant weather event that could happen at the school. 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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