Identifying the features of a recount on a school trip

English

Planning to write a recount about a school trip

Writing 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

True or false? When we talk about past events, we are recounting something that happened to us. 

True or false? A recount is a form of fiction writing.

True or false? When writing a recount about a trip you have been on, you should write in the first person.

What do we call it when something is written in the order of time?

True or false? A recount can be shared both verbally and in written form.

We say that things that have happened already are in the ...

Which of these verbs is describing something that has already happened?

True or false? A sentence will always start with a capital letter.

Which of these punctuation marks can **not** end a sentence?

Starter Quiz

We say that things that have happened already are in the ...