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Introduction to Recount Writing

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Introduction to Recount Writing

Introduction to Recount Writing

Children writing stories

📖 Part 1: Understanding Recounts

1. What is a recount? Circle the best answer:

A story about made-up characters

A text that tells about something that really happened

A poem with rhyming words

Instructions on how to do something

2. Why do people write recounts? Check all that apply:

To share experiences with others

To remember special events

To tell others what happened

To create fantasy stories

🏗️ Part 2: The Three Parts of a Recount

3. Match each part of a recount with its description:
1. Orientation
2. Sequence of Events
3. Conclusion
A. How the recount ends
B. Who, what, where, when
C. What happened in order
4. Fill in the blanks about recount structure:

The ____________ tells us who was there, what happened, where it took place, and when it happened.

The ____________ of ____________ tells us what happened step by step in the right order.

The ____________ tells us how the recount finishes and what the writer thought about it.

📝 Part 3: Story Map Planning

5. Think about your morning at school today. Fill in this story map:

Orientation (Who, What, Where, When)

Sequence of Events (What happened in order)

First:

Then:

Next:

Conclusion (How it ended)

🎨 Part 4: Draw and Reflect

6. Draw a picture of one event from your morning story map:
7. Circle the time words that help show the order of events in a recount:

First

Purple

Then

Next

Elephant

Finally

After that

Beautiful

8. What did you learn about recounts today?

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