📚 Part 1: Understanding Recounts

1. What is a recount?

A made-up story about dragons

A true story about something that really happened

A list of instructions

2. Which words help us show the order of events in a recount? (Tick all that apply)

First

Purple

Then

After that

Finally

3. A good recount tells us:

Only what happened

Who, what, when, and where

Just the ending

✏️ Part 2: Planning Your Recount

4. Think about something fun you did recently. Fill in the planning boxes below:

Who was there?

What happened?

When did it happen?

Where did it happen?

5. Number the events in order (1, 2, 3) for your recount:

____ What happened first?

____ What happened next?

____ What happened last?

🖊️ Part 3: Writing Your Recount

6. Fix these sentences by adding capitals and full stops:

yesterday i went to the park with my sister ____

first we played on the swings ____

then we had lunch under a big tree ____

7. Now write your own recount using your plan from Part 2. Remember to:

• Start sentences with capital letters
• End sentences with full stops
• Use time words like 'first', 'then', 'after that', 'finally'
• Write events in order

8. Read your recount to a friend. What did they like about it?

Writing Recount Adventures

Writing Recount Adventures

📚 Part 1: Understanding Recounts

✏️ Part 2: Planning Your Recount

🖊️ Part 3: Writing Your Recount

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