Personal Recount
A Personal Recount can retell personal experience or record details of an event at which the writer was present. When writing a recount it is important to get things in the order in which they happened (chronological order ).
Here is an example of a recount. Notice the words used to link the ideas of the time when things happened.
My Fantail Friend.
We have a lot of native trees around our place and lots of birds. I was sick in bed for a long time last winter and got to know some of the birds well.
Everyday a fantail used to perch on a frame under the eaves outside my window and chatter to me. I know it was not my imagination that this chepping would get more and more insistent until I spoke to him. One day he brought another fantail to meet me. They both took my mind of how i was feeling unwell and I laughed at their cheeky antics.
In the fourth term I went back to school and did not see so much of the fantails although I would sometimes sit on the back step after school and they flittered around the ponga trees beside me. Mum “said they went back at school”. We went away for most for the summer and came back a week before school started. I didn't see fantails the first day back.
The next day, the same thing happened. I rang a friend of ours who belongs to the Forest and Bird Society and asked what I could do for the fantail. She said it might have lost it’s mate and if it hadn't settled in another couple days, to ring the SPCA. They have the contact number for Bird Rescue.
