Unit of work: recount of a school trip or event

Comprehensive KS2 unit of work on recounts based around a school trip or school event but could easily be adapted for other recount subject matter. The planning uses Red Nose Day as a model and was originally written for Year 3, also suitable for Year 4.

The unit of 6 lessons follows the composition progression laid out in the National Curriculum - plan, draft and write, evaluate and edit, including proof-reading. Planning includes ideas for cutaway and pullback groups and EAL/SEN activities. All resources required to deliver the unit of work are included in this download. There are starter activities as pdfs, but if you would like to change any of these, or edit the success criteria to suit your class, there are also editable powerpoint slides for you to adapt. All editable resources are indicated below; if they do not include ‘editable’ they will be a pdf file.

There’s so much in here! Included in this unit:
- Recount unit of work planning document (editable)
- Session 1 presentation
- Session 1 presentation (editable version)
- Recount example (editable)
- Time connective word cards
- Recount writing prompt cards
- More able recount lesson planning activity template (editable)
- Photos of my recount skeleton framework and recount plan displayed in my classroom
- Recount planning writing frame (editable)
- Session 2 presentation (editable)
- Four starter activity slides as a pdf
- Session 3 presentation (editable)
-Sentence builder activity for SEN/EAL (editable)
- More able evaluation checklist (editable).