School trip: writing a recount
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Why this why now
This unit applies all grammatical and sentence building work from previous units to a personal context. The unit also encourages pupils to discuss and apply grammatical skills for a range of purposes, such as using fronted adverbials of time and nouns in a list. Pupils will plan, orally rehearse and write a sequenced recount of a trip they have been on. This is the first unit where the pupils produce a plan, which will help to prepare them for the Year 2 writing curriculum.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding when reading and segmenting when spelling.
- Ability to read and write some common exception words.
- Join two simple clauses with the joining word 'and'.
- Use adverbials of time at the start of a sentence.
- Understand that an adjective describes a noun.
- Understand that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them.
- Understand that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them.
- Ability to write in the simple past tense.
- Ability to recall a past event in sequence.
- Ability to answer questions about a personal event.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit applies all grammatical and sentence building work from previous units to a personal context. The unit also encourages pupils to discuss and apply grammatical skills for a range of purposes, such as using fronted adverbials of time and nouns in a list. Pupils will plan, orally rehearse and write a sequenced recount of a trip they have been on. This is the first unit where the pupils produce a plan, which will help to prepare them for the Year 2 writing curriculum.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding when reading and segmenting when spelling.
- Ability to read and write some common exception words.
- Join two simple clauses with the joining word 'and'.
- Use adverbials of time at the start of a sentence.
- Understand that an adjective describes a noun.
- Understand that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them.
- Understand that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them.
- Ability to write in the simple past tense.
- Ability to recall a past event in sequence.
- Ability to answer questions about a personal event.
Reading, writing & oracy
School trip: writing a recount
In this unit, pupils will write a recount from a personal experience. This is an opportunity to apply all grammatical and sentence building covered over the year to a real life context. This unit is designed for the Summer term of Y1 and should be used around the time of a school trip.
5 lessons in unit
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