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Are your pupils performing a version of the Nativity or putting on a Christmas show this year?
This resource pack can support purposeful writing about the performance, with pupils writing a recount of the show that they performed. Planning sheets and time adverbial cards are provided to support pupils to organise and sequence their ideas for writing. This resource includes:
Show Time writing prompt Recount planning sheet Time adverbial cards Themed writing paper Teacher notes What is a recount?
A recount is written in the past tense about events that have happened. Examples of texts that are recounts include: diaries, an account of a school event or trip out, an historical account of events, letters and postcards, newspaper articles and retelling well-known stories. National Curriculum English programme of study links:
Y1 - To say out loud what they are going to write about - To compose a sentence orally before writing – To sequence sentences to form short narratives Y2 – To write about real events - To plan or say out loud what they are going to write about
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