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Recount Writing Planner

Use the prompts to organise a recount of an event. A recount tells about something that has already happened, in the order it happened.

Plan your recount

Choose an experience to write about. Recall an event from your own experience, or imagine an event.

1.Choose an event you remember clearly or imagine clearly. What happened, and why did it stand out to you?

2.For your recount, note who was involved, what happened, when it took place and where it happened.

3.Write three or four important moments from your event in the order they happened. Begin each moment with a time word or phrase.

4.How did your event finish? Describe how you felt at the end.

Language for recounts

Use these activities to check how time connectives and past-tense verbs work.

5.Which set contains only time connectives that could help order events in a recount?

Before long, afterwards, finally
Bright, carefully, enormous
Because, although, unless
Table, window, notebook

6.Which sentence uses past-tense verbs throughout?

Mele checks the screen and writes a note.
Mele checked the screen and wrote a note.
Mele will check the screen and write a note.
Mele is checking the screen and writing a note.

7.Rewrite this sentence in the past tense: “Losa watches the instrument and records a reading.”

8.Put these events in the order they happened: (A) Mei shared what she had learnt. (B) The group arrived at the observatory. (C) They watched a guide demonstrate a monitoring tool.

Write and review

Use your plan to draft a complete recount. Give it a beginning, ordered events and an ending.

9.Write your recount. Introduce who was involved, what happened, when and where. Put the events in order using time connectives, use past-tense verbs, and finish by describing the outcome or your response.

10.Review your draft. Have you used past-tense verbs and time connectives? Write one change you made, or one change you still plan to make.