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Day 28 — Write a short recountYear 1 English · T1 W5–6 · Day 28 lesson

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Year 1 / English / Term 1 / Weeks 05 06

Part of the full two-week lesson sequence. Check the pack guide and taught point before teaching.

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Goal: make a simple sentence about a story event and reread to edit. Codes: AC9E1LY06, AC9E1LA06, AC9E1LA10, AC9E1LY04. Prepare: Day 28 choice, blank writing strip.

  1. Retrieve · 3 min. Put the Week 6 three frames in order. Ask child which event is missing if the middle is removed.
  2. Model · 5 min. Adult writes “Neri found the picture.” about the heard story, speaking each word and showing capital, spaces and full stop. Rich text is adult model, not child-decodable assignment; child may choose different vocabulary.
  3. Guide · 7 min. Read a selected Day 28 controlled line together and show two sentence boundaries. With a partner, orally form one complete idea about a fictional scene or story frame. Ask what evidence supports it.
  4. Child try · 7 min. Child independently reads chosen line, writes/types/dictates a one-idea recount, then rereads to check actor/action, capital, spaces and full stop. If scribed, preserve child's words and log adult spelling help.
  5. Exit · 3 min. Focus child identifies one change made during reread. If no complete idea appears, use who/did-what tiles and invite a revised sentence; retain first attempt as evidence.

Access/home/extension: Keyboard, stamps, braille, AAC or child-directed scribe are legitimate composition routes; no handwriting inference. Home may use the invented art story. Extension adds a second sentence for the next event, with its own boundary.