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Introduction To Recount Writing

Recounts are stories that retell past events in chronological order. They are written in first person using past tense verbs. The key elements of a recount include placing the events in order using time connectives, focusing on how the writer felt through their experiences, and using descriptive language to help readers imagine what the experience was like. Recounts allow someone to share an experience they had for others to understand what it was like.

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Introduction To Recount Writing

Recounts are stories that retell past events in chronological order. They are written in first person using past tense verbs. The key elements of a recount include placing the events in order using time connectives, focusing on how the writer felt through their experiences, and using descriptive language to help readers imagine what the experience was like. Recounts allow someone to share an experience they had for others to understand what it was like.

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Introduction to Recount Writing

Recounts are a way of retelling an important event or describing an experience that you have had to others,
such as a school trip or a funny story.

First Person
When you write in the 1st person, you put yourself inside the writing by describing how you felt and what
you were doing.
If you were writing about your first day at a new school, you might put:
'As the door opened to my new classroom I felt sick to my stomach. I walked in and saw thirty children's
faces just staring at me. I wanted to run home'.

Writing in the 1st person is different to writing in the 3rd person because you are writing about yourself and
not about someone else, like a character that you have made up.

Past Tense
Recounts are written in the past tense because you are writing about something that has already happened.
Lots of verbs change when you write them in the past tense. Adding 'ed' to the end of many verbs makes
them past tense. In others, just a few vowels in the verb change.
For example:
'I placed the ball on the penalty spot and took a deep breath. As I walked back to edge of the box and turned
around, I could see that the goalkeeper looked nervous. I knew this was my last chance to score before the
final whistle blew.'

Chronological Order
Recounts are usually written in the order in which they happened. This is called chronological order.
To do this you will have to use time connectives such as:

Firstly

Next

Then

After that

Meanwhile

Eventually

Later

Finally

When you are planning your recount, think about the important and interesting parts of your experience.
Next you will need to think about when they happened, who else was involved, where you were and why
you felt like you did.
Now you can start to plan out your beginning, middle and end, deciding on the types of connectives, past
tense verbs and pronouns you are going to use.

Writing a Recount
Purpose: Recounts can really help people to imagine what an experience was like, so use lots of descriptive
words and phrases to make it seem like your reader is there with you.
Paragraphs: Break up your recount into paragraphs. This makes it easier to add in all of the best bits and to
put them into chronological order. Use time connectives to introduce each section.

Style: Recounts are written in the 1st person, the past tense and in chronological order, using pronouns such
as 'I' and 'we'. Try to help the reader to imagine how you felt by exaggerating your emotions and using
amazing adjectives.

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