Lesson Four – Flood Recount
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to plan and draft a recount from the viewpoint of a character describing what happened during a flooding event at the school’s location.
The class can explain and model how to structure recounts about a weather event using paragraphs to combine sentences on a theme about what happened during a flood.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and draft a recount from the viewpoint of a character describing what happened during a flooding event at the school’s location
Activities in this teaching pack include templates to structure and format a recount from the viewpoint of a character describing what happened during a flood at the school for core and extension ability levels and storyboard a recount from the viewpoint of a character about the flooding event for support ability levels.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to draft a recount from the viewpoint of a character describing 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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