Lesson video

Hello, I'm Ms. Corbert and welcome to today's lesson, Writing the Middle and the End of a Recount.

As it's a writing lesson, you need to have something to write with and something to write on.

It would be great if your paper could have lines.

It would also be great if you could have the success criteria nearby.

Maybe you need to pause the video to go and get those things ready.

Pause the video now.

Great.

As well as that, I need you to have your thinking brains, your looking eyes, and your listening ears.

It would also be great if you could have someone to talk to.

Let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is I can write a recount.

And we will be writing the middle and end of the recount.

Here are the key words that will help us to get there.

Are you ready to repeat them after me? Middle.

End.

Because we will be writing the middle and the end of the recount.

Fronted adverbial of time.

Opinion.

An opinion is how you feel about something.

Opinion.

Fact.

And a fact is a statement of truth.

Let's start with the first part of our lesson, preparing to write, which will help us to write the middle and end of our recount.

You are going to write the middle and end of your recount today, and we know that when we write, we always try to use capital letters at the start of sentences and either a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark at the end of each sentence.

We try to write our letters neatly on the line.

We use phonics to sound out and spell words.

And we remember the spellings of some common exception words, the words that we can't use phonics for.

When we've written each sentence and got to the end of our writing, we try to read back our writing to make sure it makes sense.

As well as that, here is the success criteria for today's lesson.

Use fronted adverbials of time to sequence events.

Join two sentences together using and.

Give your opinion, and use capital letters at the start of sentences, and end with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark.

Using all that to help you, I wonder if you can try and spot the mistakes in this sentence.

Then, we arrived at the leafy, green park.

I can see some great things about this sentence.

I can see a fronted adverbial of time with a comma, then, and I can see an expanded noun phrase, leafy, comma, green park, but there is something missing.

I wonder if you could pause the video now and explain what you think is missing.

Off you go.

Did you spot it? This sentence is missing a capital letter to start my sentence, then, and it was missing a full stop.

Then, we arrived at the leafy, green park.

That is one complete idea, including a verb, arrived, so it is a sentence.

So we need a capital letter and a full stop.

Well done if you spotted that.

I will now use my plan that I have to retell the middle and end of my recount.

So here is my plan, and then I have got the beginning, but today I'm focusing on the middle and the end.

Are you listening carefully? After that, I had a tasty lunch of crisps, sandwiches and yoghourts.

Finally, we went to the playground and we went back to school.

My favourite part was seeing the sprinklers.

It was fun.

Did you know that flowers attract bees? Writing about what happened on a trip can come in the middle and the end of my recount.

So explaining all of the things that you did during the trip.

Recounts express facts, there's our key word because they are about real things.

A fact is something that is known to be true or can be proved.

I ate a wrap, some crackers and an apple for lunch.

That sounds like a fact.

It sounds like something that's true.

I ate dragon eggs and rainbow drops for lunch.

Hmm, I don't think that sounds like a fact.

I don't think that sounds true.

Which one do you think is the fact? I ate a wrap, some crackers and an apple for lunch, or I ate dragon eggs and rainbow drops for lunch.

Hmm, I think I ate a wrap, some crackers, and an apple for lunch is the fact.

Dragon eggs and rainbow drops is a very imaginative lunch, but I don't think it's a fact.

I am going to tell you three things that I ate on my school trip for my lunch.

I am then going to use an adjective to describe the noun, lunch.

I had a delicious, there's my adjective for lunch, of crisps, sandwiches and yoghourts.

And you can see that I have added three things, which means I have listed three nouns.

So because of that, I need a comma.

I had a delicious lunch of crisps, comma, sandwiches and yoghourts.

When I'm listing nouns, I need my comma.

So I've got my adjective delicious and then my comma to separate my nouns in the list.

Now, I want you to tell me three things that you ate on your school trip and use an adjective to describe the noun, lunch.

I had a mmm lunch of mmm, comma, mmm and mmm.

I would like you to pause the video and tell me now.

Off you go.

Oh my goodness, your lunch sounds delicious and it's making my tummy grumble.

It's making me so hungry.

Well done for describing your lunch with an adjective like delicious, scrumptious, yummy, tasty, and well done for listing three things that you ate and separating them with a comma and and.

Identify two adjectives that you could use to describe lunch.

I've got yummy, sad, scary or tasty.

Which two adjectives could you use to describe the lunch? Pause the video now.

Fantastic, well done if you spotted yummy and tasty.

Now, when we practised then, we only chose one adjective, delicious lunch.

If you want, you could turn that into an expanded noun phrase.

I had a yummy, comma, tasty lunch to make your writing even more amazing.

At the end of my school trip, we went to the playground and then we went back to school on the bus.

What did you do at the end of your school trip? So say the final thing that you did and how you travelled home.

I went to the mmm and I went back to school on the mmm.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic.

A fronted adverbial of time describes when this action happened.

Because this is the final thing that we've done, we can use words such as finally, lastly, at the end of the day.

So think about that sentence that you've just planned and try and add a fronted adverbial of time to it.

So finally, we went to the exciting playground and we went back to school on the bus.

Lastly, we went to the fun playground and we travelled back on the bus.

At the end of the day, we went to the fun-filled playground and we travelled home on the noisy bus.

Do you think now you could add a fronted adverbial to your sentence and including the things that you did and how you travelled home? Pause the video now.

What amazing sentences.

That sounds like a really great ending to your recount.

Rehearsing a sentence out loud before writing helps us to remember it.

Planning, we are going to plan the middle and end of that recount, describing what you had for lunch and what you did.

So after that I had a mmm lunch of mmm, mmm and mmm.

Finally, we mmm.

Where did you go? What did you do? And we went back to school on the mmm.

I wonder whether you could plan those sentences now.

Pause the video.

Great job, let's see what your sentences included.

Here's an example.

After that, I had a delicious lunch of crisps, sandwiches and yoghourts.

Finally, we went to the playground and we went back to school on the bus.

Let's see.

If you had sentences like this, you had a capital letter at the start and your fronted adverbial of time after that.

You had an adjective to describe your lunch.

Delicious, yummy, scrumptious, tasty, or maybe you challenged yourself to choose two adjectives.

You separated three nouns by making a list.

Crisps, comma, sandwiches and yoghourts.

We had another capital letter to start a sentence and a fronted adverbial of time, finally, and we joined two ideas together using and.

Finally, we went back to the playground and we went back to school on the bus.

Well done.

Let's move on to the very end of our recount.

Recounts often express an opinion, how you felt about something.

An opinion is a personal view about something.

My favourite part was a butterfly landing on my hand.

My favourite part was going down the slide.

One person's opinion might be different to another person's opinion, even if you went to the same place and did the same things.

What was your favourite part of the trip? Remember, my favourite part of this trip was seeing the sprinklers soaking the flowers.

What was your favourite part of the trip? My favourite part of the trip was, full stop.

It was fun, funny, exciting.

Off you go.

Pause the video.

Great, I loved hearing about your favourite parts and seeing that happy face as well.

Adding a question at the end of a recount can show the reader what you learnt.

Questions that start with, "Did you know," are facts.

Here are some things that I learned on my school trip and I put them as 'did you know' questions.

Did you know that flowers attract bees? Because I'm asking a question, I'm raising my voice.

Did you know that plants need sunlight to grow? Question mark.

Did you know that squirrels bury nuts to eat in the winter? Question mark.

All of these questions end with a question mark.

Something else that's special is in the word know.

Have a look at it.

Did you know? Know is the knowledge that we have and can you see there is a silent letter, a letter K at the end of that word, because it's spelled K-N-O-W? Don't forget, that's sneaking letter K when you are writing your 'did you know' fact.

Can you point to the question mark because we will need it in our writing.

Can you point to it now? I'll give you five seconds.

Five, four, three, two and one.

Well done if you are pointing to the question mark.

We've got an exclamation mark to show a strong emotional feeling, and we've got a comma that might come after our fronted adverbials, it might separate our two adjectives in an expanded noun phrase, or it might separate our nouns in our list.

You are going to give your opinion by sharing your favourite part of the trip and then finish your recount by asking a 'did you know' question.

You might need a bit more time on this thinking about what you learned on the trip and putting it into a question.

My favourite part was, full stop.

It was, exclamation mark to show that you loved it.

Did you know, question mark.

Pause the video now and plan those three questions.

Off you go.

Here's an example that I have done.

My favourite part was seeing the sprinklers, full stop.

It was fun watching the flowers get soaked, exclamation mark.

Did you know that flowers attract bees? Question mark.

So I have got a capital letter to start my sentence, My.

I've shown my opinion by starting, My favourite part.

I've got an exclamation mark after my second sentence.

It was fun watching the flowers get soaked! I've got a question starting with a capital letter.

Did you know, don't forget that sneaky K, that flowers attract bees? Question mark, because I'm asking whether they know that too.

You are now going to rehearse all of your sentences out loud.

You are going to do each step with all of your sentences, but I'm just going to show you some examples.

First, say the sentence out loud.

After that, I had a tasty lunch of crisps, sandwiches and yoghourts.

Then I'm going to say another sentence in a silly voice.

I'm going to try a low voice.

Finally, we went to the playground and we went back to school.

Then I'm going to say my sentences again with my capital letters, commas, full stops, question marks, even exclamation marks.

Let me think which sentence I'm going to choose.

I'm going to choose my sentence that has quite a lot of punctuation because it's listing nouns.

Capital letter, After that, comma, I had a tasty lunch of crisps, comma, sandwiches and yoghourts, full stop.

Then I'm going to tell somebody else my sentences, once I've practised once.

My favourite part was seeing the sprinklers.

Then I'm going to whisper my sentence to my pencils.

Did you know that flowers attract bees? Fantastic, thank you for listening to mine.

You are now going to rehearse your recount out loud using your timeline and all of those steps.

Don't forget to try and include all of your punctuation.

You can use this to help you as well, as that will remind you to include that punctuation.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic, did you manage to rehearse your recount aloud, including your fronted adverbials of time, your punctuation, and all of your sentences? I think you are ready to write.

Well done.

Let's move on to the final part of our lesson, writing the middle and end of a recount.

Have a look again at our success criteria for today's writing.

We will read some sentences to check if they meet it.

Use fronted adverbials of time to sequence events.

Join two sentences using and.

Give your opinion and use capital letters at the start of sentences and end with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark.

Let's have a look at the first sentence.

After that, I had a delicious lunch of a pitta bread, a banana, and some crackers.

That's a great sentence, listing those nouns with a comma perfectly.

I can see a fronted adverbial of time, can you? After that.

This sentence hasn't joined two sentences together using and, and that's okay, we don't need all of our sentences to do that.

Has it expressed an opinion? It hasn't said my favourite part, but it has said that the lunch was delicious, but not quite.

But I have used a capital letter at the start of my sentence and I've used a full stop at the end.

Let's have a look at another sentence.

Finally, we went to the playground and we went back to school on the bus.

I've got my fronted adverbial of time, finally.

I have joined two sentences.

I've explained the final thing that we did on the trip and that we travelled home.

I have not given my opinion yet, but I have used a capital letter and a full stop.

I have one more sentence.

My favourite part was seeing the sprinklers.

Have I used my opinion? Yes, I've said what my favourite part was, my personal view, and I've used the capital letter and a full stop at the end.

I think you are ready to help me write my recount now.

Do you think you can help me? Off we go.

I'm ready to write the middle and end of my recount, which is so exciting to get to the end.

To help me, I have got my success criteria stuck in on lined paper and I've got my plan with me to help me.

Let's remind ourselves of our success criteria.

Use fronted adverbials of time to sequence events, like after that and finally.

Join two sentences together using and.

Give your opinion, so how I felt about something.

Use capital letters at the start of sentences and end with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark and we are going to try and use all three in this piece of writing.

I have already started my recount.

After that, comma, I had a lunch of crisps, comma, sandwiches and yoghourts.

I've used a comma because I've listed three nouns, crisps, comma, sandwiches and yoghourts.

Noun, comma, noun and noun, full stop.

Finally, we went on the playground and we went back to school, full stop.

I'm happy with that so far, but I would quite like to add an adjective to describe my lunch and to describe the playground.

I had a tasty lunch.

I'm going to add in a tasty to make my writing even better.

T-A, it's just an A on its own for tasty.

S-T-ee, and I know the adjectives if they end in the ee sound, it's with the Y.

After that, I had a tasty lunch of crisp, sandwiches and yoghourts.

That sounds better.

Finally, we went on the mmm playground and we went back to school.

Maybe I could use the word fun, so I'm going to add in fun.

The mmm playground, the fun.

You can sound that out with me quite easily.

F-U-N, fun playground and we went back to school.

Now I'm ready to write the rest of my recount and I've got my plan with me to help me.

I'm going to say my favourite part, which is where I give my opinion.

Okay, capital letter.

My favourite part was seeing the sprinklers.

Okay, capital letter.

My favourite.

That's a word that I've written down to help me.

F-A-V-O-U-R-I-T-E.

My favourite part.

You could stand that out with me.

P-A-R-T, part.

My favourite part was, W-A-S, seeing, oh, I haven't quite gotten enough room, so I'm gonna start a new line.

Seeing, S-E-E-I-N-G, seeing.

My favourite part was seeing the, T-H-E sprinklers.

Okay, I'm going to do sprink, could you sound it out with me? S-P-R-I-N-K, sprink.

Lers, l-er, which er is it that likes to be at the end? Sprinkler, E-R likes to be at the end.

Sprinkler, because there's more than one, S.

My favourite part was seeing the sprinklers.

I finished my idea, so I need a full stop.

Now I need to share my opinion.

It was fun, exclamation mark.

Capital letter.

It was, again that same word, W-A-S fun, and we've already spelt that already, F-U-N, and because I'm showing a strong emotion of excitement, I'm going to use my exclamation mark.

Can you do it with me? Exclamation mark.

It was fun! Now, for my favourite part, sharing my fact as a question.

Did you know that flowers attract bees? Question mark.

Did, we can sound that out together.

Capital letter D-I-D, did.

You, Y-O-U.

Did you know, can you remember about that know word which sneaky letter was at the front but not making a sound? Okay, well done.

Did you know, my O-W likes to be at the end.

Did you know that, T-H-A-T, flowers.

Hmm, sound it out with me, please.

F-L-OW, O-W, ER is at the end, flowers.

Flowers.

Did you know that flowers attract.

Oh, okay.

A, from reading, I know it's a double T.

Attract.

Attract bees.

B-E-E-S, bees.

Did you know that flowers attract bees? (gasps) I think I finished.

Let's read it back to check.

After that, comma, I had a tasty lunch of crisps, comma, sandwiches and yoghourts, full stop.

Finally, comma, we went back on, we went on the fun playground and we went back to school, full stop.

My favourite part was seeing the sprinklers, full stop.

It was fun, exclamation mark.

Did you know that flowers attract bees? (gasps) I've asked a question.

What do I need? A question mark.

(gasps) Thank you so much for helping me.

I'm just going to double-check my success criteria.

Use fronted adverbials of time to sequence events.

After that.

Finally.

Yes.

Join two sentences together using and.

Finally, we went on the fun playground and we went back to school, full stop.

Give your opinion.

I've said my favourite part and said that it was fun.

And I've managed to use capital letters at the start of every sentence and I've used full stops and I've been very excited to use an exclamation mark and a question mark in the right place.

Thank you so much for helping me with my writing and I can't wait to see yours.

Now you have helped me with my writing, it is now your turn to write the middle and the end of your recount explaining what you did, what your favourite part was, and what you learned.

Don't forget to check your success criteria.

Pause the video now.

Amazing job.

Let's check the success criteria for this one.

After that, I had a delicious lunch of crisps, sandwiches and a yoghourt.

Finally, we went to the playground and then we went back to school on the bus.

My favourite part was seeing the sprinklers.

It was fun watching the flowers get soaked.

Did you know that flowers attract bees? I have my fronted adverbials.

I have got finally and after that.

I have joined two sentences together using and.

Can you spot it? Finally, we went to the playground and we went back to school on the bus.

I've given my opinion by saying my favourite part and saying it was fun and I've used capital letters at the start of all my sentences and for some of them I've used a full stop.

For one of them I've used an exclamation mark to show a strong opinion and for one of them I've used a question mark because I've asked a 'did you know' question.

I would like you to double-check your writing and your success criteria just like you have done with me.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

What an amazing lesson.

We know that writing about what's happened on a trip can come at the middle and the end of a recount.

Using fronted adverbials of time help to structure the events in a chronological order.

Expressing an opinion about the event can come at the end of the recount and adding a 'did you know' question at the end of a recount shows the reader what you have learned on your trip.

Thank you so much for learning with me today and I hope you are really proud of the recount that you've produced.

It's making me want to go where you went.

Thank you so much and I'll see you next time, bye.