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Recount

Genre Conventions - this sheet outlines the typical features of writing to recount

The sheets below are examples of recount writing. They are not intended to be definitive: they are not 'perfect' examples. They have simply been selected to show how the conventions have been applied in different ways. They are divided into four sets, one for each of the participating year groups.

P6

Sheep rescue

The one that got away

The final

Magellan

Anne Frank

P7

The Andes crash

A star of the World Cup

On to India

Everest

Pearl Harbour

S1

Bannockburn

Eagle has landed

The 'Rumble'

OK Corral

Culloden

S2

War on the prairie

Hiroshima

The green jacket

Liz McColgan

The General Strike