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Recount Writing Structure

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Recount Writing Structure

Student writing a recount story

📚 Part 1: Understanding Recount Structure

1. What are the three main parts of a recount? Circle the correct answer.

Beginning, Middle, End

Orientation, Sequence of Events, Reorientation

Introduction, Body, Conclusion

Title, Story, Ending

2. Which language features are important in recounts? Tick all that apply.

Past tense verbs

Time connectives (first, then, after)

Action verbs

Future tense verbs

Descriptive details

3. What is the purpose of the Orientation in a recount?

To tell what happened at the end

To introduce who, what, when, where

To describe the main events

To give your opinion

4. Circle the best time connectives for linking events in a recount:

First, then, next, finally

However, although, but

After that, later, meanwhile

Because, therefore, so

✏️ Part 2: Planning Your Recount

5. Choose an event from your life to write about. Complete the planning frame below:

Orientation (Who, What, When, Where):

Sequence of Events (What happened? Use time connectives):

First: ________________________________

Then: ________________________________

After that: ____________________________

Finally: _______________________________

6. Reorientation (How did you feel? What did you learn?):

🎯 Part 3: Language Practice

7. Change these present tense verbs to past tense for your recount:

walk → _____________     see → _____________     go → _____________

eat → _____________     feel → _____________     have → _____________

8. Write three action verbs you could use in your recount:
9. Complete this recount opening using your plan from Part 2:

Last _____________ (when), I _____________ (what) with _____________ (who) at _____________ (where).

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