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Personal Recount Drafting

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Personal Recount Drafting

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📝 Wāhanga 1: Planning Your Personal Recount (Mahere Kōrero)

1. Use this story map to plan your personal recount. Fill in each section with key details about your experience.

Tūmomo (Orientation): Who was involved? When and where did it happen?

Wāhi (Setting): Describe the place and atmosphere in detail.

Pūrākau (Event Details): What happened? List the main events in order.

Mutunga (Conclusion): How did it end? What did you learn or feel?

2. Choose three time connectives you will use in your recount:

i tērā wā (at that time)

i muri iho (afterwards)

nā reira (therefore)

i te mutunga (in the end)

i te tīmatanga (at the beginning)

ā, nā (and then)

✍️ Wāhanga 2: Sentence Building and Drafting

3. Improve these basic sentences by adding time connectives and descriptive language:

Basic: I rere au ki Rotorua. (I travelled to Rotorua.)

Enhanced: ________________________________

Basic: I kite au i taku whānau. (I saw my family.)

Enhanced: ________________________________

4. Write your personal recount draft below. Use your story map and vocabulary from previous lessons.

Remember to include:

  • Clear orientation, sequence, and conclusion
  • Time connectives to show order of events
  • Descriptive language to engage your reader
  • Accurate Te reo Māori vocabulary and sentence structures

🔄 Wāhanga 3: Peer Feedback and Self-Reflection

5. Exchange drafts with a partner. Complete this feedback using the sentence stems:

I liked how you used: ________________________________

You could add more about: ________________________________

This part was very clear because: ________________________________

One suggestion for improvement: ________________________________

6. Self-reflection checklist - tick what you have included in your draft:

Clear orientation (tūmomo) with who, when, where

Logical sequence of events

At least three time connectives

Descriptive language to engage the reader

Satisfying conclusion (mutunga)

Accurate Te reo Māori vocabulary

7. Goal setting for revision:

One strength in my writing: ________________________________

One area I will improve in my next draft: ________________________________

My specific goal for the next lesson: ________________________________

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