1. Recount Recount Recount Recount recount Recount

2. recount text
*retells events
*in time of order
(chronological)

3. write up of a trip or activity
These texts are often recounts….
write up of a trip or activity
newspaper report
diary or journal
letter
biography
recount
non-fiction
magazine article
encyclopaedia entry

4. recount organisation events in time order what happened in the end?
when?
where?
Conclusion
Introduction
why was it significant?
who?
neat last line
what?
When you have made your time-line skeleton, chop it into paragraphs.

5. recount language features
*past tense
*named people, places, things
*first or third person
*time connectives
Next…..
Then…..
Meanwhile…..
answer
truth
After a while……
Several weeks later…
trust
concern
Within hours…..
despair
Soon afterwards….
reason
Finally….
Look out also for conjunctions like when, while, as, after

6. Audience general reader with some interest in the subject
Impersonal recounts
Audience general reader with some interest in the subject
*newspaper report *magazine article *non-fiction book
*biography
Purpose to inform and entertain

7. Audience known reader or self (or posterity)
Personal recounts
*letter
*diary or journal
*write-up of a trip or activity
Audience known reader or self (or posterity)
Purpose to record, reflect, entertain

8. Lively recount writing Lively recount writing
*vary your
-sentence length sentence openings -sentence type (use occasional questions or exclamations)
*try to link your last line back to the introduction
Try using:
*powerful verbs
*quotations
Watch out for these and other techniques in the recounts you read

9. When writing with a partner
*Say each phrase or sentence aloud.
*Improve if possible.
REHEARSE
WRITE
One writes,
one helps.
RE-READ
Read back to check it makes sense.

10. Alternative ‘skeleton’ note-taking frameworks
*flow chart
*comic strip
*calendar grid
*clock face
*You could write events on post-its and stick in order……. or on cards on a washing line.
Mon
Tue
Wed