{"id":72252,"date":"2020-05-20T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=72252"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:55:14","slug":"developing-ideas-for-writing-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/connecting-reading-and-writing\/traditional-stories\/developing-ideas-for-writing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Ideas for Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-72188\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/question-mark-3490199_1920-e1589898051493.png\" alt=\"a stylized question mark made from the words who, what, where, when, why and how\" width=\"300\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/question-mark-3490199_1920-e1589898051493.png 1080w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/question-mark-3490199_1920-e1589898051493-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/question-mark-3490199_1920-e1589898051493-768x996.png 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/question-mark-3490199_1920-e1589898051493-789x1024.png 789w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/question-mark-3490199_1920-e1589898051493-165x214.png 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/question-mark-3490199_1920-e1589898051493-945x1226.png 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/question-mark-3490199_1920-e1589898051493-750x973.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Connecting Reading and Writing: Traditional Stories<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Generate possible ideas for writing a pourquoi story<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, you will generate ideas for writing your own pourquoi story. Your goal is to jot down as many different ideas as you can.<\/p>\n<p>Pourquoi stories are stories told to entertain and to explain part of the natural world. Try writing your own pourquoi tale about an animal you choose. You could write a story that explains why the animal looks the way it does, or why it acts a certain way.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for ideas? Try watching some of these <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/videos\/amazing-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazing Animal videos<\/a> for interesting facts about animals.<\/p>\n<p>Jot down three or four animals and their most interesting characteristics. Your pourquoi story might explain one of these!<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elephant &#8211; a long trunk for a nose, they make trumpeting sounds<\/li>\n<li>Cobra &#8211; cobras make a \u2018hood\u2019 when angry<\/li>\n<li>Racoon &#8211; have a \u2018mask\u2019 on their face, have rings on their tails, wash their food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Record your ideas on paper, or on your computer. We will use your ideas to write a pourquoi story tomorrow!<\/p>\n<h3>Other Opportunities:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can also learn more about animals on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/kids\/articles\/topics\/animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the CBC Kids &#8211; Animals website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, you will generate ideas for writing your own pourquoi story. Your goal is to jot down as many different ideas as you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72695,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72252\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}