The recount
book
Sue Palmer
The recount
book
Sue Palmer
recount text recount text
* retells events
* in time order
(chronological)
recount text recount text
(chronological) Blank version
r recount ecount
letter write-up of a trip or activity
encyclopaedia entry
non-fiction
biography
These texts are
often recounts…
ecount ecount
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
Recount organisation Recount organisation
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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