Writing Resource for RECOUNTS

1. How
may I
Name:_____________________ help you
today?

2. How are you informing
Personal Recount – How did
and entertaining your
you feel about something?
readers?
Recount What kind of
Factual Recount – recount is
What can you tell us this?
Is there enough about a trip or
information so that experience you had? Imaginative
the reader doesn’t e.g. High ropes trip Recount – You can
have to guess what’s make your story up
going on? Do you need AND include real
to use ALL these events.
words?
Have you got an
Who, what , when, where, why, how. interesting
introduction?
Are you too
specific? Could you
The sun’s rays beamed through the cars
leave some
bug-splattered windscreen, making it
information out? hard to spot Auckland airport from the
back seat. I was sure glad to be rid of my
Yesterday morning I got out of bed, walked down
annoying sister for two weeks. These
the corridor, put some toothpaste on my toothbrush,
and brushed my teeth. I put it back on the sink. school holidays at my Aunty Muriel’s
Then we travelled to Morere. place is going to be the bomb!

3. What ideas have you First Person – ‘I’
put in your story? So I followed my nose to the
delicious smell, and I saw it!
You could think into the What’s your Second Person – ‘You’
future. point of view First, you need to
for your make sure you have
story? your bags. Then…
How have you summed up Third person – ‘He or She’
your story? He was amazed at the dinosaur
(A conclusion) museum. He decided to go again.
I had so much fun on the How would you
high ropes. I wonder what introduce your
our class will get up to characters?
next term?
Yet another excruciatingly long school
holiday trip in the family car, heading to
Auckland with my rather annoying
brother, Eric, who has a tendency to drop
his chewing gum in my hair when he falls
asleep. Mum and Dad are fine, but it’s a
pinching war on the back seat!
Who, what , when, where, why, how.

4. Organised, sequenced Basic connectives: because, so
events. that, so I, to, later, then.
Better connectives –
Have you used such as, as a result,
connectives so beforehand,
In what order you can explain
have you written furthermore.
your events?
your story?
Have you tried to
paragraph your
I bought an ice-cream work?
then I walked to the The Basic Rule: Keep one
shop. I said hello to idea to one paragraph.
the shop-keeper and Below has been indented.
hooray to my mum.
The chicken wire was the
I think the order of worst of all. There was nothing to
events got a little hold on to except the rope that
mixed up here. kept us safe. Some of our
classmates were pretty scared. I
I shouted out to mum so she knew I tried to get through it as fast as
was off to the shop. “Hello,” I said I could.
to the shop-keeper. I really felt like (You can miss a line)
a chocolate ice-cream, so I bought Next stop, sandwich city!
one! I was sooo hungry! I …

5. Parts of the Check out the LR
English language. example pages for
more help on these.
Adverbs: usually
Have you used verbs,
come immediately Have you used
adverbs and
before or after prepositions?
adjectives?
Verbs – ‘doing’ words, like jump, paint, verbs and
climb, skate, walk. adjectives. The In, by, on, above, beside,
Adjectives – ‘describing’ words, like tell you how under, down…
pretty, shiny, wet, slippery, scary something was
done. Have you used
vocabulary related
You should be specific
He quickly walked to what you’re
with people, places writing about?
home.
and events.
High ropes – belaying, clips, wire,
He went on an inflatable tyre with caterpillar, rickety bridge,
and engine and got wet at a cool descend, safety helmet…
place.
Are your verbs in
Yikes! Talk about NOT past tense?
specific! See how we’ve made
this next part more specific.
Buy – bought, run – ran, hide – hid,
Raymond went on a bumper boat eat – ate, fling – flung.
and got wet at Splash Planet.

6. Talking properly.
Are you using your
prepositions correctly?
Is your writing easy or Correct: Cut it into small pieces.
difficult to Incorrect: Cut it up into small pieces.
understand?
I dided the walked to the shop to Are your subjects and verbs
gets an bread. correct? Check the LR example
pages for help.
I walked to the shop to buy the
bread. SINGULAR PLURAL
The bird DOES migrate – The birds DO migrate.
Do you got some money? The child sings - The children sing
Have you got some money? Present Tense – using words that
tell us something is happening
now.
Is your tense consistent?
I am buying the bread.
Past Tense – using words that tell
us something has already Future Tense – using words that
happened. tell us something will happen.
I bought the bread. I will buy the bread.

7. Full stops etc. What punctuation
could you use?
You should be putting
full stops at the end of
your sentences…
Our class went to the community
centre to brave the high ropes and ()
parentheses
then
-
…otherwise the reader
.
will get tired trying to
read your looooong dash
sentences.
we were broken up into groups but Full stop
I was the only boy in my group and
I had to go first on the practice
ropes as well as on the real ones it
was a little scary some people
weren’t scared and liked it I was a
little scared at the top of the roof
WHERE ARE THE FULL STOPS!!!

8. What do we do If the teacher or
in our class? friend is available…
If you are not sure how
to spell a word, Show them your attempt. They may be
UNDERLINE it. able to show you another way of spelling
I climed the tree, once I saw the those sounds you were not sure of.
inamees coming.
“Thruw – thr is correct, now the oo
sound looks like this – ough. It also has
You should use a some other sounds as well. So now you
spell-write to try can use these letters if you come across
and find simple a word that has an ‘oo’ sound.”
words.
Make sure you put it onto a new words
Or a dictionary chart in your homework book to practice
for slightly harder
until you know it.
words.
You can then show your parents
how your spelling is coming
Make sure you have along!
tried to spell the
word first.