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This is a free download from the site, Teachers Pay Teachers. I use this story as a springboard for teaching patterning in writing. This story frame can be challenging but worth it as the students dig deep within their connections and reasoning as to why __is important. This can be applied in any subject area. For example: The Important thing about 'The Water Cycle' is....__ __'The Important thing about Agriculture' is_____ . Here is a sample of using this writing frame within a Science topic.
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This template is what I use to help the students organize their brainstorm response of, "what is a memory" after we enjoy the story," Wilfred Gordan McDonald Partridge". This template then becomes the springboard for the Writing experience and the expectations match the requirements at the grade level for each curriculum. The students could extend this to match an Arts.Ed outcome and create a project that represents them through the creation of a Memory Box in which each item connects to the story. I always create my own sample as well. This is a writing experience I have done with grades 1-10 now. Danielle Jamieson