Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to structure and format a recount of an experience and a worksheet to select and record vocabulary words that can used in a piece of writing to structure and sequence a recount of an experience.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different parts of a recount text that can support viewpoints about its content and structure.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the text structures and content of explanations and recounts and plan and write matching texts, explore and use spellings of words with cious and tious word endings and use colons to mark the boundary between sentence clauses.. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.