Writing recounts

The Grade 4/5 students have been writing and reading recounts in the past week. 
In the coming week we will be editing and improving the recounts we have started. 
We will also be focusing on all the important elements of a writing recount. 

This week we will review the characteristics of a Recount

• Uses the past tense
• Uses a first person perspective
• Includes a setting, events, and a summary
• Progresses sequentially – tells the story in chronological order
• Uses active verbs
• Uses transitional words and phrases that relate to time
• Describes the feelings of the person recounting the event
• Uses adjectives to describe the events

We will also be brainstorming connecting words they are good to use in a recount. Such as ...

• Then
• Next
• First
• When
• Later
• The next day
• Finally