Recounts ‘tell what happened’. The purpose of a factual recount is to document a series of events and evaluate their significance in some way. The purpose of the literary or story recount is to tell a sequence of events so that it entertains. So, its purpose is to inform or entertain by retelling past events or experience. The types of recount can be personal, factual and imaginative recount.
Structure
Recounts are organised to include:
- an orientation providing information about ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘when’;
- a record of events usually recounted in chronological order;
- personal comments and/or evaluative remarks, which are interspersed throughout the record of events;
- a reorientation, which ‘rounds off’ the sequence of events.
Common grammatical patterns of a recount include:
- use of nouns and pronouns to identify people, animals or things involved;
- use of action verbs to refer to events;
- use of past tense to locate events in relation to speaker’s or writer’s time;
- use of conjunctions and time connectives to sequence the events;
- use of adverbs and adverbial phrases to indicate place and time;
- use of adjectives to describe nouns
THE EXAMPLE OF RECOUNT
| Title
Orientation Record of events Reorientation |
OUR TRIP TO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
On Friday we went to the Blue Mountains. We stayed at David and Delia’s house. It has a big garden with lots of colourful flowers and a tennis court. On Saturday we saw the Three Sisters and went on the scenic railway. It was scary. Then Mummy and I went shopping with Delia. We went to some antique shops and I tried on some old hats. On Sunday we went on the Scenic Skyway and it rocked. We saw cockatoos having a shower. In the afternoon we went home. Taken from Board of Studies NSW, English K-6 Modules. NSW: 109 |
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