This document provides guidance on how to write an effective recount by using first or third person pronouns, past tense verbs, time and location words, descriptive adjectives, feeling words, and sequencing events in chronological order. It recommends including an introduction with context, writing each event in the order it occurred, using connecting words, describing feelings, and concluding with how things ended and potential future resolutions.

1. The Purpose is to retell events from Your Own Experience How to write excellent Recounts

4. Mum Dad Sister Brother Teacher Friend Aunty Uncle Cousin Policeman Fireman Next door neighbour

5. Yesterday Last week Last night An hour ago Last year At 2.30 pm…

6. Home School Playground Supermarket Rainbows End The Town Centre The school field

7. Birthday Special day or event Wedding Holiday Christmas Easter Ceremonies

8. What was happening?

12. Use awesome adjectives to help create a picture The dog ran after me. The ferocious dog ran after me.

13. The dog ran after me. The ferocious dog ran after me. Pleasant Delicious Tender Lovely Gentle Special Sweet Cute Kind Fine Excellent Brilliant Outstanding Tremendous Okay Terrific Dazzling Marvellous Amazing Incredible Great Awful Terrible Dreadful Shocking Ghastly Horrific Unpleasant Poor Frightening Horrifying Horrible Great Wonderful Awesome Fantastic Brilliant Depressing Miserable Unhappy Dejected Gloomy

18. Self Assessment I have written in first person by using words like I, me, we, you, she, he, I have written in third person by using words like them, they, him, their, she, her, his I have written mainly in the past tense using words was, were, saw or words that end in ‘ed’ I have written an introduction that has told the reader ‘who, when, why and where” I have written all the events in order of time that they happened in I have used interesting adjectives to create a picture for the reader I have used strong verbs to describe what happened in the story like scream, plead, shout etc I have described the feelings of the person telling the story I have written a conclusion that says how the writer feels, how things went and have mentioned something that might happen later