Recounts | Common and Proper Nouns

Objectives

To discuss writing in order to understand and learn from its structure, grammar and vocabulary.

Resources

Lined or blank paper | The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish (YouTube)

Today's Lesson

Spelling

Use Spelling Frame and choose Segment Cards to look at this week's words, or Spelling Tiles to practise this week's words. You can remove the words you are not learning, by clicking on them, then Show Me. You may wish to play some of the games, or explore the 'Printables' at the bottom of the Spelling Frame page.

PRACTISE - Spelling Frame

Main Activity

ntroduce The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish by telling your student that this story is a retelling of the old tale of an object that gets swapped from person to person, until the original owner needs it back.

WATCH - The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (YouTube)

Ask your student if they know what ‘swapping’ is. If they don’t, look it up in the dictionary. Next ask, have you swapped things with other people? Do you remember a time when someone swapped with you, then changed their mind? Or perhaps you were the one who changed their mind? Did it cause trouble?

Write 2 or 3 short recount sentences from what your student tells you on a sheet of paper. (For example, Once I swapped a Match Attax card with Jack and a week later he wanted it back! I was annoyed!)

Pause the story at 2 minutes and 19 seconds. Ask your student to predict what will happen next.

Play the rest of the story. Talk to your student about the story. What did they think? Did they like it? Would they ever do such a thing?

Explain that this book is a kind of recount. Explain that the two or three sentences you wrote above are also a recount. Ask them if they can tell you what a recount is from their understanding of the story and the few sentences you wrote. Ask them to write down what they think a recount is. If necessary you can prompt them: A recount is written to retell past events or experiences.

Citations

[1] www.youtube.com [2] spellingframe.co.uk