What is a recount?

English

In this unit, pupils added descriptions to describe their personal feelings, the journey and the activities from a school trip. In 'Ada Twist Scientist', pupils will build on this by writing a detailed character description of themselves.

In 'Jack and the Beanstalk', pupils wrote a fictional narrative with a beginning, middle and end. In this unit, pupils will write a non-fiction recount in chronological order, building on their sequencing skills and writing to a structure.

School trip: writing a recount 

retells events that have happened in our own lives.

is a type of punctuation mark used to separate sentences.

Identify the past tense form of the verb ‘go’.

Identify the past tense verb in the following sentence: 'I walked home.'

Match the words to the correct word class.

Identify the sentence that is grammatically correct.

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

The tense describes the noun in the sentence.

The tense tells the reader when the action happens.

The tense tells the reader what is going to happen next.

Which word in a sentence helps you know which tense the sentence is written in?

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