Recount Text or Narrative Text?

Recount Text or Narrative Text?

By Ms Muti

Open Ended

Do you still remember what recount text is?

Open Ended

What about narrative text? Do you still remember what narrative text is?

An imaginative story.

Narrative Text

A text talking about events which happened in the past.

​Recount Text

The Definition

Recount Text or Narrative Text?

Non-Fiction

Fiction

Multiple Select

Which of the followings is a recount text? (MORE than one answer)

• An experience

• A poem

• A biography

• A newspaper article

• A science fiction

Multiple Select

Which of the followings is a narrative text? (MORE than one answer)

• An experience

• A short story

• A biography

• A movie

• A science fiction

Multiple Choice

Which of the followings is the aim of recount text?

• To retell events that happened in the past.

• To entertain readers.

• To delight readers.

• To deliver moral values.

• To engage readers in an imaginative experience.

Multiple Choice

What are the generic structures of recount text?

• Orientation, complication, resolution, re-orientation.

• Orientation, series of events, re-orientation.

• Orientation, series of events, resolution.

• Orientation, series of events, resolution, re-orientation.

• Orientation, complication, resolution.

Multiple Choice

What are the generic structures of narrative text?

• Orientation, complication, resolution, re-orientation.

• Orientation, series of events, re-orientation.

• Orientation, series of events, resolution.

• Orientation, series of events, resolution, re-orientation.

• Orientation, complication, resolution.

Multiple Choice

What kind of text is this?

• Narrative Text

• Recount Text

Multiple Choice

What kind of text is this?

• Narrative Text

• Recount Text

Multiple Select

Which of the followings can be the title of a recount text? (MORE than one answer)

• The Legend of Toba Lake.

• Roro Jongrang.

• Lutung Kasarung.

• Albert Einstein.

• Vladimir Putin.

Open Ended

Now, what do you think is the most distinctive feature between recount and narrative?

Open Ended

What makes a recount text similar to a narrative text?

Open Ended

What do you find confusing about the difference between recount text and narrative text?