Recount Writing Templates for the Win

Support young learners as they begin writing simple recounts with this Weekend Recount Writing Scaffold Pack. These templates guide students through thinking, writing and drawing about their weekend using clear sentence starters, picture prompts and visual supports. Perfect for Foundation and Year 1 students who are learning how to retell personal experiences in a structured, age‑appropriate way.

Students use sentence starters like “Over the weekend I…” and “I… with…” to build their recount, then draw a matching picture to complete their work. The included activity picture cards, people cards and emotion cards help students choose ideas, expand their sentences and communicate feelings, essential elements of early recount writing.

How This Scaffold Pack Builds Recount Writing Skills

Help students understand that recount writing is simply telling others about something that has already happened. These templates break the process into simple, child‑friendly steps that support oral language, sentence building and early writing confidence.

This scaffold supports recount structure (who, what, when) and helps students build complete, meaningful sentences.

Simple steps for modelling:

• Think — talk about what you did over the weekend.
• Choose picture cards — pick an activity, a person and a feeling.
• Write — use the scaffold to build a simple recount sentence.
• Draw — sketch a picture that matches the writing.
• Share — encourage students to read their recount to a partner.pport.

Download and Explore Recount Writing Today

Use the dropdown menu to choose between the printable PDF or digital version of this Weekend Recount Writing Scaffold Pack. With visual supports, simple sentence starters and child‑friendly prompts, this resource is an excellent way to build early recount writing skills in Foundation and Year 1 classrooms.

This resource was created by Jessie Madrigal, a teacher and a Teach Starter Collaborator.  

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