📝 Part 1: Planning Your Personal Recount

1. Choose a recent event you want to write about (e.g., a weekend activity, school trip, family outing):

2. Fill in your planning organiser:

WHO was there?

WHERE did it happen?

WHAT happened? (List 2-3 main events)

HOW did you feel?

✏️ Part 2: Writing Your Recount Paragraph

3. Write your recount paragraph using your planning organiser. Remember to:

• Start with WHO and WHERE in your first sentence

• Use past tense verbs (went, saw, played, etc.)

• Use linking words (first, then, next, after, because)

• End with how you FELT

• Use capital letters and full stops correctly

4. Tick the boxes to check your recount paragraph includes:

WHO was there and WHERE it happened

WHAT happened (main events)

HOW I felt about the event

Past tense verbs (went, saw, did, etc.)

Linking words (first, then, next, after)

Capital letters and full stops

5. Circle the linking words you used in your paragraph:

first • then • next • after • because • finally • suddenly • later

6. What would you like to improve in your next recount?