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This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to plan and compose a personal recount of a family visit to the circus using a storyboard for sentences and illustrations. The class can add words to complete sentences describing activities to match the visited location.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to plan and compose a personal recount of a family visit to the circus using a storyboard for sentences and illustrations

Learning Objectives

Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences. Complete simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others.

Learning Outcomes

I can explain how and why something happened in a recount text. I can write words to complete sentences about an activity.

Circus Show

Shared reading text to help the children explain how to structure and format a recount of a family visit to the circus

Circus Show Storyboard

Template to help the children select vocabulary and add illustrations to complete a recount of a family visit to the circus

Circus Show Vocabulary

Vocabulary word bank to help the children complete sentences when writing a recount of a family visit to the circus

Circus Show

Interactive activity to help the children plan and compose a personal recount of a family visit to the circus using a storyboard for sentences and illustrations

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to plan and compose a personal recount of a family visit to the circus using a storyboard for sentences and illustrations

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