Recount Writing

What is a recount?

• A prediction

• A person

• An imaginative story

• A retell of events in a story in chronological order

Select some features of a recount.

• Writing in paragraphs

• Past tense

• Using time conjunctions

• Writing in chronological order

• Using who, what, where. when and why

Recount writing is always written in which tense?

• Future Tense

• Present Tense

• Simple Tense

• Past Tense

Complete this sentence for a recount. 'Yesterday, I _____ in the pool'.

• Jumping

• Jumped

• Jumps

• Will jump

When writing a recount, I always write in _____.

• Pencil

• Disorder

• Chronological order

• Highlighter

What does 'chronological' mean?

• Recounts events in the order they happened

• The sequence of events

• It is the title of a song

• Tell the story so that it makes sense

When writing a recount about my day, I will follow this order.

• After school

  Before school

  At school

• After school

  After school

  When school ends

• Before school

  At school

  After school

• In school

  At school

  During school

When I start my recount, I start with...

• Paragraph 1

• An orientation/ introduction

• A conclusion

• Paragraph 3

Who is the main subject of a recount that I' am writing?

• The boy

• The hero

• Me

• The villain

Select the three main components of a recount.

• Orientation/

  Introduction

• Sequence of events

• Conclusion/

  Personal comment

• Second introduction