This document provides information about recounts and their structure. It explains that recounts retell past events in time order and may be about historical events, people, or experiences. Personal recounts entertain by recounting a special event or experience. They include a title, personal comment on feelings, and sequenced events with orientation details like who, when, where, and why. Language features to order events and describe feelings help tell the story. The document encourages writing a whole class recount by putting the elements together.