📚 Part 1: Understanding Recounts

1. What is a recount?

A made-up story about dragons and fairies

A true story about something that really happened

A list of instructions for making something

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

First

Purple

Then

After that

Finally

3. A good recount should tell us:

Only what happened

Who was there, what happened, when, and where

Just the names of people

4. Fill in the missing punctuation marks in this sentence:

yesterday i went to the park with my friend sarah

✏️ Part 2: Planning Your Recount

5. 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?

6. Put these events in the correct order by writing 1, 2, 3, 4 in the boxes:

We packed up our things and went home

We arrived at the beach and found a good spot

We built sandcastles and played in the water

We got in the car and drove to the beach

🖋️ Part 3: Writing Your Recount

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

• Start each sentence with a capital letter

• End each sentence with a full stop

• Use time connectives like 'first', 'then', 'after that', 'finally'

• Write about events in the order they happened

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

Writing Recount Worksheets

Writing Recount Worksheets

📚 Part 1: Understanding Recounts

✏️ Part 2: Planning Your Recount

🖋️ Part 3: Writing Your Recount

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