Recount Text

What is Recount Text ????

Recount text is a text that retells a story about past events or experiences in the order they happened. Its purpose is to inform/retell past event to the audience.

A recount text has three elements :

1.      Orientation : tells who is involved in the story, when, where, and why the story happened

2.      Series of events : tells what happened in the story

3.      Re-orentation : (optional) tells the conclusion of the story.

Language Feature of Recount

·         Introducing personal participant : I, my group, etc

·         Using chronological connection : then, first, etc

·         Using linking verb : was, were, saw, heard, etc

·         Using action verb : look, go, change, etc

·         Using simple past tense

Example of Recount Text :