This is a fun game to use when introducing recount writing following a weekend, holiday, important event or a language experience. It will help get ideas flowing for writing as it encourages students to verbally express their ideas while discussing the 5 W’s used in a recount.
Print off multiple copies for pairs or small groups to use as a speaking and listening task to generate ideas prior to planning a recount.
Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Create and participate in shared editing of short written texts to record and report ideas and events using some learnt vocabulary, basic sentence boundary punctuation and spelling some consonant–vowel–consonant words correctly
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Some students may require adult assistance to help prompt their thinking.