tells the reader the action happened before now

a point of view in writing or storytelling where the narrator or speaker refers to themselves using 'I'

a sentence starter that tells the reader when something happens

Writing a recount about a school trip

English

Identifying the features of a recount on a school trip

Planning to write a recount about a school trip

In this unit, pupils have been writing in the first person and using their own viewpoint to share their personal experiences. In 'Florence Nightingale: Diary Writing', pupils will build on these skills by writing in the first person, but from another's point of view, in a diary entry. 

In 'School Trip Recount: Writing', pupils learned how to use 'and' as a co-ordinating conjunction to join their ideas in a recount. In this unit, pupils will build on this skill by extending the amount of co-ordinating conjunctions they can confidently use. 

In this unit, pupils write a recount in one paragraph about a school trip. Pupils use sequencing fronted adverbials with commas to order their recount chronologically and they focus on including expanded noun phrases - also punctuated with commas - to describe nouns.

School trip: recount writing

Put these fronted adverbials of time in the correct order.

A recount will be mostly written in which tense?

Which of these words is a past tense verb?

True or false? A recount should be written in the first person.

Which of these words which show that the writer is talking about themselves would you likely find in a recount?

Which of these is not a **fronted adverbial of time**?

Two adjectives listed to describe a noun is called...

Which of these is an expanded noun phrase?

What is missing from this expanded noun phrase? Tall gentle giraffe

An expanded noun phrase needs which of the following things?

Starter Quiz

Two adjectives listed to describe a noun is called...