Mrs Bava's Writing Group

Lesson 16 Recount Publishing with Mrs Dodds

Remember to...

• Open your writing folder in Google Drive

• Click new Google Slide

• Name and date

• Link to the tracking sheet

You can add fancy font and a background but the words are the most important part of publishing so make sure they stand out and are easy to read!

Lesson 7: Now let's use our rich sentences in a creative way...

Learning intention:

• to create and describe a Fantasy Creature

• to plan my writing using key words and topic specific information, creating a picture of my fantasy creature as inspiration and motivation for writing

• to use rich descriptive language to describe your creature and paint a picture in the reader's mind

Lesson 5: Recount - Dead Ants Continue ...

Learning Intention: To complete your personal recount about playing Dead Ants outside on the field.

Success Criteria:

• Have you got a title and planning (who, what, where, when)

• Check you have correctly sequenced your events using paragraphs

• Use time connectives (first, next, after that, lastly)

• Include adjectives (describing words) and verbs (doing verbs) to paint a clear picture

• Write in the past tense

• Include senses (see, hear, smell, taste, touch)

You will need to...

• finish your draft writing

• Re-read your writing to check it makes sense

• Recraft your draft writing - remove 'boring' words, add rich words, have a variety of sentence starters.

• Edit your draft writing - correct spelling mistakes and punctuation.

Now your ready to publish!

Lesson 1: RECAP!

What is a recount?

The purpose of a recount is the retelling or recounting of an event or a experience.

Success Criteria - to write an informative and descriptive recount that paints a picture in the reader's mind. Writing must include planning, correct tense, use of punctuation and a variety of sentence starters.

• Record key information in a brainstorm; who, what, when, where.

• Title, Date, 1, 2, 3 Planning in Google Doc or Writing book.

• To include a variety of language features;

  1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Past tense

                    • Include senses (hear, feel, see, smell and taste)

                    • Descriptive (adjectives-describing words or verbs-doing words)

                    • Paragraphs

                    • Punctuation (full stops, capital letters, comma, speech marks, question mark)

                    • Simile (compare something to something else using like or as)

                    • Full sentences that make sense

                    • WOW or rich words

                    • Sizzling start and clever conclusion

                    • Facts

                    • Alliteration

                    • Onomatopoeia (sound)

                    • Adverbs (ly)

                    • Nouns (names)

                    • Spaces between our kupu