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Imagine telling a friend, "I put on my shoes, and then I put on my socks!" They would laugh because the order is all mixed up.
When you tell or write about something that really happened, you are sharing a recount.
To help your reader understand what happened, we put events in time order using the words first, next, and last.
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How do we use these three words to plan a real story about a fun day?
Planning a Park Trip
Let's plan a recount about a trip to the park by putting three events in order from start to finish.
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Before you write, always ask yourself: What did I do first, what did I do next, and what was the very last thing?
Key takeaways
- A recount is a factual or personal text type that retells events that have already happened in the past (using past-tense verbs).
- Recounts are organized in chronological order (time order), moving systematically from beginning to middle to end.
- Planning a recount uses three core sequential anchors: 'First' (the beginning/orientation event), 'Next' / 'Then' (the middle action or development), and 'Last' / 'Finally' (the ending or concluding event).