Lesson Planning
Non-fiction
English Year 1/2 Spring Recounts
Children Around the World
Enjoy reading This is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe, The Animals’ Outing by Ruth Merttens and On the Way Home by Jill Murphy. Understand the features of a recount, explore the progressive form of past tense and write a recount about an event they experienced.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Introduction to Text, Features of Recounts, Diary Entries
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
This is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe
Selection of non-fiction and fiction texts
Unit 2 SPaG: Verb Tenses – Present, Past and Progressive
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Hamilton Group Reader
The Animals’ Outing by Ruth Mertens
Group Readers
The Animal's Outing
This gives a simple account of an outing on which all the animals happily set out. They have a lovely day but, unhappily, not all the animals return. Why is Mr Fox looking so fat and happy at the end? Children rapidly engage with the recount and find the text easy to decode.
Unit 3 SPaG: Using Capital Letters
(suggested as 2 days)
Unit 4 Composition: Write a Recount of Daily Life in the UK
(suggested as 5 days)
