Writing the recount section of a journalistic report
I can write the recount section of a journalistic report.
Writing the recount section of a journalistic report
I can write the recount section of a journalistic report.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- The recount section of a journalistic report provides specific details about a news event in chronological order.
- The use of notes from a plan support in the writing process.
- Formal journalistic language and subject-specific vocabulary is crucial for creating an objective and serious tone.
- The use of fronted adverbials of time supports in communicating the timeline of events to the reader.
- The use of adverbial and relative complex sentences supports in providing greater detail and facts for the reader.
Keywords
Journalistic language - words and phraseology used in a journalistic report
Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject
Fronted adverbial of time - a sentence start that tells the reader when something happens/happened
Adverbial complex sentence - a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause.
Relative complex sentence - a sentence formed of a main clause and a relative subordinate clause
Common misconception
Some students might think that the use of a fronted adverbial phrase forms a complex sentence.
Model examples and non examples to demonstrate that a phrase doesn't contain a verb but a clause does.
Licence
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
sentence starter telling the reader when something happened
sentence formed of main clause&adverbial subordinate clause
sentence formed of main clause & relative subordinate clause
At approximately 3pm,
As the police arrived,
, who were concerned by the screams,