{"id":72534,"date":"2020-05-22T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=72534"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:54:24","slug":"drafting-a-pourquoi-story","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\/drafting-a-pourquoi-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Drafting a Pourquoi Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-71455\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of person writing &quot;I am a writer.&quot;\" width=\"350\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920-165x100.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920-1140x693.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920-945x574.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/writer-605764_1920-750x456.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Connecting Reading and Writing: Traditional Stories<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a pourquoi story<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday, you created an outline for your pourquoi story.<\/p>\n<p>Today, expand your ideas to write the full story.<\/p>\n<p>To make your story interesting to read, give the animals characters in your story human characteristics. (In pourquoi tales animals usually talk and act like humans.)<\/p>\n<p>As you write, think of the three parts of the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A special beginning: describe what your animal was like before the change you want to explain.<\/li>\n<li>A problem and solution: take your time explaining the problem that will lead to the change in your animal.<\/li>\n<li>An ending that is fair: explain the change that happens to your animal. Sometimes there is also a lesson learned along the way!<\/li>\n<li>Usually the last sentence of a pourquoi tale begins with \u201cAnd that is why, to this day, \u2026 \u201c<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you are happy with your story, share it with a family member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, you created an outline for your pourquoi story. Today, expand your ideas to write the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72695,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72534","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72534","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=72534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72534\/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=72534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}