RECOUNT TEXT

WHAT IS RECOUNT TEXT ?

Tells about something that happened in the

past
EXAMPLES
 Biographies and autobiographies
 Newspapers or the television news
 Letters and postcards
 Diaries
GENERIC STRUCTURE
 Orientation
~> introduces the topic or event
 Sequence of events
~> the recount is told in chronological order
(first, second, then, next, finally, etc)
 Re-orientation
~> the writes can give personal opinion
about the topic or event
LANGUAGE FEATURE

 Using the past form like Simple Past Tense

and Past Continuous Tense

 Uses the sequence of event like: first,

second, next, etc.
EXAMPLE OF RECOUNT TEXT
Dear Grandpa and Grandma,

Yesterday at my school we had an International Day. We

had performances, food stalls, displays, raffle ticket
draw, and some of us were dressed in costumes. Orientation
We started our day off with performances but the one I
liked best was the one from fourth grade. We played
games. The performance I was in was Labamba.
Straight after our performances we had our lunch. There Sequence of
were food stalls. They came from Australia, Asia, Arab, events
and Greece.
There was also a Trash and Treasure stall where they
sold toys. The school got these things by asking the
children to bring them in. Re-
Although I didn’t win anything, International Day was Orientation
still fun