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.
teaching resource
Recount Writing Planning Templates
Updated: 07 May 2026
A template for students to use when planning a recount.
Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 3 Pages
Years: 1 - 2
Curriculum
AC9E1LA03
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
AC9E2LY06
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
VC2E2LY11
Create short narrative, informative and persuasive texts for familiar audiences using simple text structures, topic-specific vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate
VC2E2LY12
Re-read and edit texts for spelling, sentence boundary punctuation and text structure
VC2E3LY11
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
VC2E3LY12
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
VC2E4LY10
Create narrative, informative and persuasive texts, written and spoken, using relevant, linked ideas for a range of audiences and using multimodal elements as appropriate
VC2E4LY11
Re-read and edit texts for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
EN1-CWT-01
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
EN2-CWT-01
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Curriculum
AC9E1LA03
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
AC9E2LY06
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
VC2E2LY11
Create short narrative, informative and persuasive texts for familiar audiences using simple text structures, topic-specific vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate
VC2E2LY12
Re-read and edit texts for spelling, sentence boundary punctuation and text structure
VC2E3LY11
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
VC2E3LY12
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
VC2E4LY10
Create narrative, informative and persuasive texts, written and spoken, using relevant, linked ideas for a range of audiences and using multimodal elements as appropriate
VC2E4LY11
Re-read and edit texts for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
EN1-CWT-01
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
EN2-CWT-01
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
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