Writing Recounts - Lesson 4 - Creating Cohesion!

This engaging and purposeful lesson is the fourth in a series of lessons that enable children to gradually build towards composing an effective, well-structured recount. This lesson focuses on helping children to create cohesion in their writing. Whilst this series guides children towards writing a recount about an imaginary safari, the resources could be reasonably adapted to suit your own chosen topic.

The eye-catching and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (19 slides) guides teachers and children along the following learning journey:
-Knowledge recall - revisiting what children already know about recounts;
-SPAG starter: Time connectives;
-Understanding other features that contribute to cohesion in written texts;
-Identifying good and bad examples of cohesion in texts;
-Following a model example to develop cohesion within the remainder of their written compositions;
-Reflecting on their learning from across the lesson.

These lessons were originally created for children in lower Key Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4).