Year 3 & 4 Meerkat Mail - Recounts - Planning & Resources

*Lesson plan (11 lessons) Day 2 was split over 2 lessons.
*Main teaching SMART Notebook presentation (40 slides)
*Accompanying worksheets and activities, plus a writing checklist, Letter WAGOLL and writing planning sheet

Learning objectives covered/activities:

*Increase familiarity with a wide range of books.

• Draw inferences - Observe/Wonder/Infer
  *Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence - Use the text to create a FACT FILE for a character
  *Inference - ‘What it says/what it means’ sheet
  *Use varying and technical vocabulary to write a post card
  *Use conjunctions to extend sentences (when, if, because and although)
  Y3 – when, before, after, because
  *To identify how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning in a text - TEXT DETECTIVE
  *Identify feelings and how they change throughout the story - thought shower and use to write a ‘perfect’ paragraph
• Proof-reading activity
• Plan and write a letter (recount)
• Develop editing techniques using editing cards/stations

*PLEASE NOTE - EDITING STATIONS POWERPOINT WAS SOURCED FREE ON TES AND ADAPTED TO SUIT THIS TASK.