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Recount Writing Basics
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Recount Writing Basics
Read each question carefully. For the writing tasks, use recount features such as past-tense verbs and time connectives.
Recount Features
1.What is the main job of a recount?
- To tell about an event that happened, in the order it happened
- To give instructions for making something
- To invent a story about an imaginary character
2.Which verb tense is most often used when recounting an event that has already happened?
- Present tense
- Past tense
- Future tense
3.Choose all the time connectives that could help a reader follow the order of events.
- Afterwards
- Because
- At first
- Lastly
4.Match each recount part to what it usually tells the reader.
- Orientation
- Events
- Conclusion
- Says how the experience ended or how someone felt
- Introduces who was involved, where and when
- Tells what happened in sequence
Put It Together
5.Arrange these sentences to make a recount of Ana and Hemi's bakery visit. Write 1 beside the sentence that comes first, then number the rest in order.
___ They chose a warm cheese scone to share.
___ At last, they waved goodbye and headed home.
___ On Saturday morning, Ana and Hemi visited the bakery on their street.
___ Next, they watched the baker slide a fresh tray of bread into the oven.
6.Write two opening sentences for a recount about Levi visiting a bakery. Include who was there, where they went and when the visit happened.
7.Rewrite this sentence so its action verbs are in the past tense: “I enter the bakery and choose a loaf of bread.”
8.Draw one event from a recent experience. Then write a sentence about it using a time connective and past-tense verbs.
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