{"id":73333,"date":"2020-05-28T12:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73333"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:42:45","slug":"its-all-in-the-details","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-1-3\/generating-and-collecting-ideas\/its-all-in-the-details\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s All in the Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-73334\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/175818.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"196\" \/>Gathering and Collecting Ideas<\/h5>\n<p>Authors grab our attention with interesting ideas. They hold our attention with details.<\/p>\n<p>As writers gather and collect ideas, they also focus on details.<\/p>\n<h2>Families:<\/h2>\n<p>Invite your child to play this game with you that will help them to focus on the details of an idea or topic.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Brainstorm some topic ideas with your child about an experience (e.g., making dinner, going on a picnic, going to the park)<\/li>\n<li>Begin by asking a question\u2026\u201dWe\u2019re making dinner; what do we need?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Take turns coming up with a one or two word answer that begins with each letter of the alphabet (e.g., apple, broccoli, can opener).<\/li>\n<li>Encourage your child to add their top three words from this game to their \u201cidea collection\u201d, and list two or three details that they know about these items (e.g, apple &#8211; round, red, crunch; broccoli &#8211; green, bumpy, delicious)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your \u201cidea collection\u201d is growing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors grab our attention with interesting ideas. They hold our attention with details. As writers gather and collect ideas, they also focus on details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72594,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73333","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=73333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73333\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}