This week in 5D, we have begun our recount writing learning journey, following our trip to the Warner Brothers Studio Tour (photos coming soon!).
As a class, we created a detailed list of criteria required for each of the three components of a recount: introduction, main body and conclusion; and paired these criteria with successful examples from some supplementary literature.
This week for home learning, we would like to you to collect different types of recounts to bring to school. Throughout the week, beginning on Monday, we will be comparing these recount types to our recount features criteria and selecting successful examples to add to our supplementary literature bank. These will be very helpful to us, when we are writing.
Types of recounts to look for:
- a write-up of a trip or activity
- an account of something that happened in history
- a newspaper article about something that happened
- a letter to tell someone about an event
- a diary or a blog
- an encyclopedia entry
- a biography or autobiography
- an account of a science experiment
We would like recount types to start arriving in school on Monday but are happy for them to continue arriving until Wednesday. It is important that everyone brings at least one as we will be using them all week. Please try to be creative with the examples that you bring to school. We would like to have a broad and varied sample of supplementary literature.
Please also remember that daily reading and using Mathletics at least three times a week is an expectation of year 5.
Enjoy your weekend.
Miss Snowdon and Miss Sheppard
