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Personal Recount Planning Template
A template for students to use when planning a personal recount.
Use this teaching resource to help your students plan their recount writing.
Students draw a picture or attach a photograph of a special event they have experienced recently.
Using the template, students can brainstorm language (action verbs, descriptive words, emotive words) and events to include in a personal recount.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.4
With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)

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