Recount Text

Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative

recount text

* retells events

* in time order

(chronological)

recount language features

* past tense

* named people, places, things

* first or third person

* time connective : for conjunctions

like when, while, as, after.

1.     Meanwhile…

2.    Within hours…

3.    Several weeks later…

4.    Then…

Example of recount text :

Impersonal recounts

1.     newspaper report

2.    magazine article

3.    non-fiction book

Audiences is general reader and some interest in the subject. The purpose is to inform and entertain.

Personal recounts

1.     biography

2.    letter

3.    diary or journal

4.    write-up of a trip or activity

Audience is known reader or self recorder. The purpose to record, reflect, entertain.

MY LIFE SO FAR

My name is Jessica Martin and I am six years old. I live in York with my mum and my little brother Baz. This is the story of my life so far.I was born at St Mary‛s Hospital on 19 good baby and I did not keep Mum awake at night. When I was 3, Baz was born. He was not a good baby! He cried all the time and kept us all awake.

Not long after Baz was born, I started at playgroup and met my best friend Hannah. We had lots of fun playing in the house and dressing up. At the age of 4, I had chicken pox. It made me very itchy and Mum dabbed my spots with pink medicine.

Soon after that, I started school. Hannah and I were in Mrs Robinson‛s class. It was fun because we played all day. Next we went into Mrs Bennett‛s class. That was when I learned to read and write. Mrs Bennett read us lots of stories.

Last September I moved up into Mr Long‛s class, and now I am

learning my times tables.


English skill : Reading