RECOUNT Learning Sequence

Purpose of the Text To retell past events and experiences in sequence. Oral telling of events in time order.

Weekly journal writing individual and class journal. Focus on taking a single event and adding detail and interesting vocabulary. Oral recount using prompt cards: who when where what Turn oral recount into orientation. Discuss use of past tense because events have already happened. Examine sequence of events using picture books containing recount theme. Brainstorm main events and sequence using pictures and text. Alexs Outing Q Pootle 5 Nick Butterworth Listen for use of adjectives and personal opinion that makes text more interesting for audience. Compare to First..Then..NextFinally.. short sentences In small groups unjumble cut up recount based on Q Pootle 5. Use recount structure to sequence

Identify sequence of events in known text deconstruct recount for structure

talk about a shared experience jointly construct a recount using adjectives and opinion read a model recount

Discuss the Schoolyard Safari (Link to Science). In pairs identify a sequence of events. As a class construct a recount of the safari that is interesting to the reader. Analysis The big fish. Write a recount based on a special memory with grandparents or other family member. Compare two versions of a recount The football competition Which was is more interesting to the reader. Why? Identify words that tell who/where/when Adjectives cloze procedure *link to Grammar Rules ed endings, nouns for people and places, use of capital letters and full stops A day in the life of 2H: timeline into recount

cloze exercises focussing on grammatical features Independent construction of recounts

Assessment

Generic Structure Title Orientation (who? what? when? where? why? how?) Series of events related to the topic Coda or personal reflection (optional)

Cohesion Temporal conjunctions: (time reference words) eg then, next, last, at last, soon, later, finally, after, before,

Grammar Written in past tense Participants: words to indicate who or what (participants) Processes: words to indicate actions (processes) Attributes: may include

Vocabulary/ Punctuation Focus on participants (people eg 2H, I, the class, everyone, and places eg Drummoyne,school etc) Some simple topic words Use of ed as verb word ending Related to generic structure- one or two sentence each for orientation, series of events and coda

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some describing words (attributes)

Use of capital letters and full stops

POETRY learning Sequence

Purpose of the Text -link to handwriting