Year 1 School trip: writing a recount worksheet

“My Recount Story” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 English unit “School trip: writing a recount”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 33 to 34 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

My Recount Story

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can tell a true story about my day, in the right order.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which day comes after Monday? Circle it.
TuesdaySundayThursday
2.
Which little word joins two ideas? Circle it.
andthedog
3.
Which mark goes at the end of a question? Circle it.
full stop (.)question mark (?)exclamation mark (!)

B Watch me, then you5 min

Ola tells her teacher about her morning. Read her story, then do the next one.

A sunny kitchen table with a plate of toast and a cup of milk

Watch me

First I woke up.

Then I ate my toast.

After that I walked to school.

Now you

1.
Put these sentences in the right order. Write 1, 2 or 3 in each box.
1. Then I drew a bird from the window.
2. After that I ate my lunch.
3. First I got on the bus.

C Your turn8 min

Read each sentence. Think about yesterday. Then circle or write the answer.

1.
Today I walk to school. Yesterday I ___ to school. Circle the right word.
walkwalkedwalkingwalks
2.
Today I eat toast. Yesterday I ___ toast. Circle the right word.
eatateeatedeating
3.
Today I see a bird. Yesterday I ___ a bird. Circle the right word.
seeseedsawseeing
4.
Yesterday I walked from home to school. Write one sentence about the walk. Start with I. Use a word that shows it already happened.

Say it out loud: What changed from one row to the next? What did the word change to?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A sunny park with a path, trees and swings

Kit says: “Yesterday I go to the park.”

1.
Which word is right for yesterday? Circle it.
gowentgoesgoing

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Think of something you did yesterday. How did you feel about it? Write how you felt and why.

How did it feel?

Think about your story. Did it feel good to tell it in order?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

My Recount Story · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Tuesday

2. and

3. question mark (?)

B

1. 1 First I got on the bus. · 2 Then I drew a bird from the window. · 3 After that I ate my lunch. If your child puts the bird first, ask which word says first. Then ask what happened first on the day. Read the steps again in order.

C

1. walked If your child circles walk or walks, say: those words are for now. Yesterday needs a word that ends in -ed.

2. ate If your child circles eated, say that eat changes to ate for yesterday. Some words do not add -ed. Read the words aloud and listen.

3. saw If your child circles seed, say that seed is a small plant part. Yesterday needs saw, the past tense of see.

4. Look for: A sentence that starts with I and uses a past tense word such as walked, went, saw or ate.

D

1. went If your child circles go or going, say: those words are for now, not yesterday. Ask your child to say the sentence again with went.

E

1. Look for: A feeling word such as happy, excited or sad, with a reason about something the child did yesterday. Answers can differ.

Words to use

Say“Tell me the first thing you did, then the next thing. What happened after that?”

Instead of“Just write it down. The order does not matter.”

After the sheet

Draw three things you did today in a row, like breakfast, getting dressed and a snack. Tell the story together using first, then and after that.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Asking questions to plan(with a plan)
Putting Events in Order(with a plan)
Starting a school trip recount(with a plan)
Ending my school trip(with a plan)

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