The recount

book

Sue Palmer

The recount

book

Sue Palmer

recount text recount text

* retells events

* in time order

(chronological)

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letter write-up of a trip or activity

encyclopaedia entry

non-fiction

biography

These texts are

often recounts…

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up of a trip or activity

newspaper report

diary orjournal

magazine article

encyclopaedia entry

recount organisation recount organisation events in time order

when? where?

who?

what?

why was it significant?

introduction

When you have made your time use another colour to chop it into paragraphs. Blank version

recount organisation recount organisation events in time order

conclusion

what happened in the end?

neat last line

When you have made your time-line skeleton, use another colour to chop it into paragraphs.

recount language features recount language features * past tense

* named people, places, things

* first or third person

* time connectives

Look out also for conjunctions like when, while, as, after.

recount language features recount language features

Meanwhile… Meanwhile…

Within hours… Within hours…

Several weeks later… Several weeks later…

Then… Then…

Impersonal recounts Impersonal recounts

* newspaper report

* magazine article

* non-fiction book

* biography

Impersonal recounts Impersonal recounts

Audience Audience general reader

with some interest in the subject

Purpose Purpose to inform and

entertain

* letter

* diary or journal

* write-up of a trip or activity

Personal recounts Personal recounts

Audience Audience known reader or

self (or posterity)

Purpose Purpose to record,

reflect, entertain

Personal recounts Personal recounts

Lively recount writing Lively recount writing Try using:

* powerful verbs

* quotations

Watch out for these and other recounts in the texts you read

Lively recount writing Lively recount writing

Watch out for these and other recounts in the texts you read

* vary your - sentence length - sentence openings - sentence type (use occasional questions or exclamations)

* try to link your last line back to the introduction.

When writing with a partner.. When writing with a partner..

REHEARSE REHEARSE

WRITE WRITE

RE RE- -READ READ

* *

When writing with a partner.. When writing with a partner.. Say each phrase or

sentence aloud Improve if possible

One writes, one helps.

Read back to check it makes sense

* *

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Alternative ‘skeleton‛ Alternative ‘skeleton‛ note note- -taking taking frameworks frameworks

Alternative ‘skeleton‛ Alternative ‘skeleton‛ taking taking

frameworks frameworks

Diary Diary strip strip

Clock face Clock face Clock face Clock face

Flow chart Flow chart Flow chart Flow chart

Cards on a washing line Cards on a washing line Cards on a washing line Cards on a washing line

Examples of Examples of

‘skeletons‛ ‘skeletons‛

in use in use

Taken from ‘How to teach Writing Across the Curriculum‛ (KS1/2) by Sue Palmer, with many thanks to

David Fulton Publishers

Examples of Examples of

‘skeletons‛ ‘skeletons‛

in use in use

Taken from ‘How to teach Writing Across the Curriculum‛ (KS1/2) by Sue Palmer, with many thanks to

David Fulton Publishers

MY LIFE SO FAR My name is Jessica Martin and I am six years old. I live in York with my mum and my little brother Baz. This is the story of my life so far.

I was born at St Mary‛s Hospital on 19 good baby and I did not keep Mum awake at night. When I was 3, Baz was born. He was not a good baby! He cried all the time and kept us all awake.

Not long after Baz was born, I started at playgroup and met my best friend Hannah. We had lots of fun playing in the house and dressing up. At the age of 4, I had chicken pox. It made me very itchy and Mum dabbed my spots with pink medicine.

Soon after that, I started school. Hannah and I were in Mrs Robinson‛s class. It was fun because we played all day. Next we went into Mrs Bennett‛s class. That was when I learned to read and write. Mrs Bennett read us lots of stories.

Last September I moved up into Mr Long‛s class, and now I am learning my times tables

MY LIFE SO FAR My name is Jessica Martin and I am six years old. I live in York with my mum and my little brother Baz. This is the story of my life

I was born at St Mary‛s Hospital on 19 th December, 1997. I was a good baby and I did not keep Mum awake at night. When I was 3, Baz was born. He was not a good baby! He cried all the time and

Not long after Baz was born, I started at playgroup and met my best friend Hannah. We had lots of fun playing in the house and dressing up. At the age of 4, I had chicken pox. It made me very itchy and Mum dabbed my spots with pink medicine.

Soon after that, I started school. Hannah and I were in Mrs Robinson‛s class. It was fun because we played all day. Next we went into Mrs Bennett‛s class. That was when I learned to read and write. Mrs Bennett read us lots of stories.

Last September I moved up into Mr Long‛s class, and now I am Skeleton

Recount organisation Recount organisation

age

where she was

family

introduction

name born

St Mary‛s Hospital

1 2

started playgroup – met Hannah

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3 4 5 6

Baz born

started playgroup met Hannah

chicken pox

started school – Mrs Robinson

Y1 – Mrs Bennett

Y2 – Mr Long

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(personal) A trip to the Eden Project

Last Friday, our class travelled in the school bus to visit the Eden project in Cornwall. It was a long ride to get there so we had to be at school an hour early, at eight o‛clock. We brought our breakfast to eat on the bus.

When we arrived at the Eden Project, we could tell it was a big attraction by the size of the car parks, which were carefully laid out and named after fruits in Plum Car Park. As we walked down, we could see the Eden Projects buildings enormous plastic domes, built in a dip in the ground.

Mrs Jeffries told us they were called ‘biomes‛ and the dip used to be a claypit, where men had dug out the clay to use for making pots. We spent our morning going round the biomes, looking at the plants. One is kept very warm inside and filled with tropical plants like rubber trees, bamboo, spices, coconuts and pineapples. There are also displays of buildings and gardens from tropical countries. The other biome is not so warm and among the plants there are oranges, lemons, grapes and olives.

We had our lunch in the exhibition centre, where we watched a video about ‘The making of Eden‛. The Eden Project was built to show how each other and it cost millions of pounds to build. Next we had a talk about the plants. A lady explained how you get cocoa beans and cocoa milk from a pod and use them to make chocolate.

We were allowed to look in the shop and spend two pounds. I bought some stickers and a postcard of a man building the biomes. Finally, it was time for the long ride home. We were back by half past three, just in time for the bell.

A trip to the Eden Project Last Friday, our class travelled in the school bus to visit the Eden project in Cornwall. It was a long ride to get there so we had to be at school an hour early, at eight o‛clock. We

When we arrived at the Eden Project, we could tell it was a big attraction by the size of the car parks, which were carefully laid out and named after fruits – we were in Plum Car Park. As we walked down, we could see the Eden Projects buildings – two enormous plastic domes, built in a dip in the ground.

Mrs Jeffries told us they were called ‘biomes‛ and the dip used to be a claypit, where men had dug out the clay to use for making pots. We spent our morning going round the biomes, looking at the plants. One is kept very warm inside and filled with tropical plants like rubber trees, bamboo, spices, coconuts and pineapples. There are also displays of buildings and gardens from tropical countries. The other biome is not so warm and among the plants there are oranges, lemons, grapes and olives.

We had our lunch in the exhibition centre, where we watched a video about ‘The making of Eden‛. The Eden Project was built to show how humans and plants depend upon each other and it cost millions of pounds to build. Next we had a talk about the plants. A lady explained how you get cocoa beans and cocoa milk from a pod and use them to make

We were allowed to look in the shop and spend two pounds. I bought some stickers and a postcard of a man building the biomes. Finally, it was time for the long ride home. We were back by half past three, just in time for the bell. Skeleton

who

when

where

intro

what

8.00am

School

arrive breakfast on journey

trip round

cooler biome

car park

see biomes

trip round

tropical biome

rubber, bamboo, spices, coconuts, pineapple

oranges, lemons, grapes, olives

(personal)

Exhibition centre

lunch

trip round

cooler biome

Video ‘Making of Eden‛

Talk - cocoa, chocolate

return journey

shop £2 3.30

home

rubber, bamboo, spices, coconuts,

oranges, lemons, grapes, olives

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(impersonal) A taste of Paradise

“All this way to see plants grow in a greenhouse!” After hours watching rain stream by the bus windows on the long road to Cornwall last Friday, Year 5 was feeling less than enthusiastic about visiting the Eden Project. Yet as the children made their way across the vast car parks, catching their first glimpse of two huge plastic ‘biomes‛ in a gigantic crater, they began to change their minds.

The Eden Project is the largest greenhouse in the world, big enough to hold the Tower of London and housing more than 135,000 plants. In the humid tropical biome, Year 5 found themselves wandering through a stifling heat beside a tropical waterfall. They saw plants they knew – bananas, pineapples, mangoes, cocoa, rice on supermarket shelves, but alive and growing. They saw plants they didn‛t know and hadn‛t dreamed of. They began to realise how much human beings depend on nature for all their basic needs – food, drink, shelter, clothing – and luxuries gear…

In the warm temperate biome, the heat was gentler and the air filled with the scent of lemons. Here they saw the plants of California and the Mediterranean: olives, vines, tobacco, cotton, cork and mouth-watering fruit and vegetables. Outside, on the slopes leading up to the exhibition hall, were the familiar plants of the cool temperate zone, and the familiar weather – still raining!

After lunch, there was a film about the building of Eden and a talk from the education department…and then the long drive home. But now as the rain beat down and the windows steamed up, Year 5 could close their eyes and remember Paradise. The scents of jasmine, ginger and pineapple; the sultry tropical heat; the rainbow colours of wild, exotic flowers. Some plants; some greenhouse!

A taste of Paradise “All this way to see plants grow in a greenhouse!” After hours watching rain stream by the bus windows on the long road to Cornwall last Friday, Year 5 was feeling less than enthusiastic about visiting the Eden Project. Yet as the children made their way across

glimpse of two huge plastic ‘biomes‛ in a gigantic

The Eden Project is the largest greenhouse in the world, big enough to hold the Tower of London and housing more than 135,000 plants. In the humid tropical biome, Year 5 found themselves wandering through a stifling heat beside a tropical waterfall. They

bananas, pineapples, mangoes, cocoa, rice – not picked and packed on supermarket shelves, but alive and growing. They saw plants they didn‛t know and hadn‛t dreamed of. They began to realise how much human beings depend on nature for all their

and luxuries – sweets, cosmetics, sports

In the warm temperate biome, the heat was gentler and the air filled with the scent of lemons. Here they saw the plants of California and the Mediterranean: olives,

watering fruit and vegetables. Outside, on the slopes leading up to the exhibition hall, were the familiar plants of the cool temperate

After lunch, there was a film about the building of Eden and a talk from the education department…and then the long drive home. But now as the rain beat down and the windows steamed up, Year 5 could close their eyes and remember Paradise. The scents of jasmine, ginger and pineapple; the sultry tropical heat; the rainbow colours of wild, exotic flowers. Some plants; some greenhouse! Skeleton

(impersonal)

Intro

Cornwall Y5

Last Friday

Eden Project

long bus

journey

arrive at Eden Project

tropical

biome

warm temperate

and outside

warm temperate

and outside

afternoon

activities

journey home

lunch

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