Recounts Year 1

Support Year 1 students as they learn to plan and write simple recounts with this ready-to-use English unit.

Students explore recounts as texts about events that have already happened. They use the 5 Ws to plan ideas, organise events in sequence, use time words, write an orientation, add details and finish with a feeling or final comment.

What’s Included

• 29-page unit plan PDF
• 17-slide Recounts teaching presentation
• 23-slide Writing Recounts quiz
• Nine worksheet sets covering writing a recount, the 5 Ws, memory maps, topic ideas, planners, recount structure, weekend snapshots and holiday recount templates
• Roll & Share Recounts game and additional recount game materials
• Classroom displays and word-wall prompts for recount structure and the 5 Ws
• Recount writing assessment
• Answer key

Learning Focus

• Understand the purpose and structure of a recount
• Use who, when, where, what, why and feelings to plan ideas
• Write an orientation
• Order past events with time words such as first, next, then and finally
• Add details and finish with a feeling or final comment
• Plan, write and check simple recounts

Classroom Use

Suitable for Year 1 whole-class writing lessons, literacy rotations, small groups, modelled writing, independent writing, revision, homework and assessment.

Curriculum Alignment

Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9E1LA03, AC9E1LY06

Answer information: Answers are included.

Format: Digital download supplied in PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint formats. The complete resource contains 69 pages/slides across the included files. No physical item will be shipped.