{"id":73338,"date":"2020-05-28T12:41:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73338"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:59:18","slug":"preparing-for-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/connecting-reading-and-writing\/historical-heroes\/preparing-for-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Writing"},"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=\"300\" height=\"182\" 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: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Connecting Reading and Writing: Historical Heroes<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Organize your research jot notes to get ready for writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/whats-new\/gathering-information\/\">you used online encyclopedias to look for information about your Historical Hero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, take some time organizing the information you have gathered.<\/p>\n<p>First, read your notes from yesterday. Look for ideas that belong together. (e.g. they are about the same topic or idea). Highlight or label these ideas to show they belong together<\/p>\n<p>Next, think about the order in which you want to share your information. What will you share first? What comes next? What is the last idea or fact you want to share?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, decide if you need more information to fill in some missing parts of your research. Use the databases from yesterday, or ask your family for help, to look for more information on your hero.<\/p>\n<p>Keep any questions you cannot find an answer to in a category called \u201cMy Unanswered Questions\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, take some time organizing the information you have gathered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":73809,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73338","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=73338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73338\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}