A template for students to use when planning a recount.
Use this teaching resource when studying recount writing with your students.
Encourage them to use the planning template to record their ideas before writing.
Updated: 24 May 2023
A template for students to use when planning a recount.
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 2 - 4
Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic- specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic- specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetic
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
Create short narrative, informative and persuasive texts for familiar audiences using simple text structures, topic-specific vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate
Re-read and edit texts for spelling, sentence boundary punctuation and text structure
Create narrative, informative and persuasive texts, written and spoken, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, using topic-specific and precise vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
Create narrative, informative and persuasive texts, written and spoken, using relevant, linked ideas for a range of audiences and using multimodal elements as appropriate
Re-read and edit texts for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension


A template for students to use when planning a recount.
Use this teaching resource when studying recount writing with your students.
Encourage them to use the planning template to record their ideas before writing.
Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic- specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic- specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetic
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
Create short narrative, informative and persuasive texts for familiar audiences using simple text structures, topic-specific vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate
Re-read and edit texts for spelling, sentence boundary punctuation and text structure
Create narrative, informative and persuasive texts, written and spoken, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, using topic-specific and precise vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
Create narrative, informative and persuasive texts, written and spoken, using relevant, linked ideas for a range of audiences and using multimodal elements as appropriate
Re-read and edit texts for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

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