Holiday Recount

Purpose: to tell what happened from the author's perspective

A writer or speaker uses a recount to tell us about a story or an event. 

                   Recounts can be:

• factual, such as a news story

• procedural, such as telling someone how you built something

• personal, such as a family holiday or your opinion on a subject.

WALT : I am learning to write a recount by describing an event 

Success Criteria

• I can use an orientation / story board to plan my writing

• I can include a hook which captures audience interest levels

• I can write in the correct tense

• I can use the correct punctuation

• I can sequence my ideas clearly and logically

• I can use a range of language features which enhances my writing

• I can write in paragraphs

• I have: recounted only the important events in chronological order

Introduction...

Tells the audience what I am writing about

 How I felt

Where it was

Who I was with

Why I was there

Middle…

Describes what happened in detail

My ideas are in time order

I use interesting words so the audience knows what I mean

The audience knows it already happened.

Conclusion…

My last sentence tells the audience

• What I felt

• What I thought

• What could happen next

A recount describes an event, that you have been part of. Recounts are part of our every day lives. Newspaper stories are recounts, Magazine Stories from That's Life are recounts / events that people have experienced and have chosen to write about. A recount is a piece of sequenced writing, which has a hook which captures audience interest levels.