Recount writing

WALT: Writing an interesting recount. using descriptive language. 

I tried using these early in the year - the children were engaged and continued trying on their own afterwards on the classroom computers. Initially I had the children watch the short animation and then write what had happened. The next day we completed the interactive and re wrote with improved adjectives. We probably did 2-3 different examples, and each time I marked for describing words. Many children were able to double and triple the amount of adjectives used, and they thrived on learning a few new words we hadn't heard of in the options menus. 

We followed on to create adjective charts for our senses in class inline with descriptive writing - I could have probably done some verb and noun work too to increase the vocabulary even more. Next I would need to think about how to continue the more sophisticated vocabulary and describing through other genre.

Each of the links below progressively helps to to write more and more complex recounts. Start at the beginning and work your way through them. The first level is the picture. It has a reading age around 8yrs. But you could use the short animations on their own with younger children to promote writing a sentence for each part.


http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/pinobject?objectId=L1280&pin=TSNFWD&userid=3900

http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/pinobject?objectId=L1281&pin=IVXQGB&userid=3900

http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/pinobject?objectId=L6193&pin=SLXVUT&userid=3900

Thanks to digistore.tki.org.nz for these resources