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Roll and Share Recounts

Roll and Share Recounts
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Description

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.
 

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Relief Teachers
  • Parents
Lesson Structure
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

ENe-2A old

Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message

ENe-3A old

Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts

EN1-7B old

Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter

ENE-CWT-01 new

Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences

ENE-SPELL-01 new

Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts

ENE-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts

ENE-HANDW-01 new

Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts

ENE-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature read to them

EN1-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions

EN1-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

AC9EFLY06 9

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

AC9E1LA03 9

Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain

ACELY1652 8.4

Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops

ACELY1654 8.4

Construct texts using software including word processing programs

ACELY1651 8.4

Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

ACELA1447 8.4

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

VCELY161

Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops

VCELY160

Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

VCELY163

Construct texts using software including word processing programs

VCELA176

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

Differentiation

Modifications

Some students may require adult assistance to help prompt their thinking.
 

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