piggys wrote:
What is a 'recount' ?
Courtesy of the
BBC Bitesize website:
How to write a recount
▪ Write your recount in the first person because it happened to you! Eg "I felt excited."
▪ Use the past tense because it has already happened. Eg "It was the biggest fish I had ever seen!"
▪ Recounts are written in the order in which they happened. This is called chronological order.
▪ Use adverbs such as: firstly, next, then and finally.Using descriptive words will make it seem like your reader is there with you. Eg "The fish was shiny and slippery." Focus on the most exciting parts.
Our primary school did these regularly and always after trips, local visits (library, beach etc) and so on.
In fact, given how looked down on locally our primary school tended to be (may still be, for all I know), our DC seem to have done so much more there in terms of 'writing' than a lot of the DC whose parents post on here, so perhaps it wasn't so awful, after all.