PURPOSE

A personal recount is where the author is recounting an experience that they were involved in directly.

A factual recount can be used to retell a particular incident or event, such as an accident or newspaper report.

An imaginative recount is the retell of an imaginary event through the eyes of a fiction character, such as, the day in the life of Shrek.

STRUCTURE

Setting

1. •Who?
   

2. •Where?
   

3. •When?
   

4. •Why?
   

Events in the Time order (first to last)

1. •1
   

2. •2
   

3. •3
   

4. •etc...
   

Concluding statement or ending