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Recount Planners

These planners can be adapted to the level of your children and the amount of scaffolding they need. The clearly distinguished sections help students become familiar with the text features of recounts, and to organise their writing into paragraphs. Choose or adapt one to meet your student's needs and stage of writing. They can be used for planning notes or drawings before students write in their own draft writing books. For children new to recount writing, still needing support with the structure of a recount, they can draft write directly onto the planner. When children need less support a planner can be displayed as a model of the recount structure while they write with more freedom in their own draft writing books. 

Recount Planner 1

Recount Planner 	
Name_______________________ 	

Title 	
Introduction Who? What? Where? When? Why? 	
Description What happened?
First	
Then	
Next	
After that	
Later	
Finally	

  	
  	
Conclusion How did you feel? 	
Recount Planner 2 
Recount Planner 	
Name_______________________ 	

Title 	
Introduction / Orientation 	
Description Events in order 	
Conclusion / Reorientation 	

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