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Support your Year 1 students as they learn to plan and write simple recounts with this complete writing unit pack.

This resource teaches students that a recount tells the reader about something that has already happened. Students practise using the 5 Ws, writing an orientation, sequencing events in order, using time words and ending with a feeling or final comment.

The pack includes a 29-page unit plan PDF, a 17-slide teaching presentation, a 23-slide quiz, 9 worksheets and templates, a recount game and an assessment task.

What’s Included

• Unit plan PDF

• Recounts teaching presentation

• Writing Recounts quiz

• 9 worksheets and templates

• Recount planners

• Memory maps

• Holiday recount templates

• Roll & Share Recounts game

• Recount Writing assessment

Curriculum Alignment
Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9E1LA03 and AC9E1LY06

Year 1 English: text structure and organisation, recount purpose, and creating short written and/or multimodal texts including recounts of experiences.

Classroom Use
This resource is suitable for whole-class writing lessons, small groups, literacy rotations, recount writing practice, revision, homework and assessment.

Download and License Note
This is a digital teaching resource. A single teacher may use the purchased resource with their own class or students. Files may not be shared with other teachers, uploaded publicly, resold or distributed as editable files.