Planning to write a recount about a school trip

English

Identifying the features of a recount on 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? A recount will involve you describing events and experiences in detail. 

To add detail to a recount, a writer will use lots of...

Here is an expanded noun phrase: large, brown dog. Which word is the noun? 

What separates adjectives in an expanded noun phrase?

If something has happened in the past, it means that it has... 

Talking or writing about past experiences is called what?

True or false? When we are recounting, the information we are sharing with someone is called a recount.

not in the order in which things happened. 

Starter Quiz

Which of these is in the past?