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.

1. What Are Recounts?
Recounts retell events that have happened in the past.You might
write a recount about:
a historical
event
a famous
person
a special
celebration
a recipe or
experiment

2. Recounts – Purpose
Personal recounts retell a special event or experience in an
entertaining way.You might write a personal recount about:
a sports match a snowy day a day at school
What else could you write a personal recount about?

3. Structure
Title
Title of recount
Personal Comment
Write how you felt about the experience.
Series of Events inTime Order
Sequence of events in order.
First, then, next, last
Orientation
Who, when, what, where, why

4. Language Features - Orientation
What
What did you did?
ran, played, slept,
drove, skipped,
painted, swam
Who
Who was there with you?
Who did you go with?
I, they, my family,
mum, dad, them
Where
Where were you?
home, school, park, my
friends house, art room
When
When was it?
When did it happen?
Yesterday, days of the
week, this morning
Why
Why did you go there or
do it?
Birthday, see friends,
holiday, to learn

5. Language Features - Events
Time Connectives
These words help to order events.
Firstly, next, then, afterwards, finally

6. Language Features – Personal Comment
EmotiveWords
These words describe how people feel.
happy, scared, tired, angry, excited

7. Whole Class Recount
Let’s put it together!

8. Whole Class Recount
Let’s put it together!