Award-winning allegory about resilience in a patterned text.
For all age groups
English level: beginner level (about 50 new words) in a patterned phrase, for example
"On Thursday, the square was shattered so it made itself into a bridge."
Themes: Geometry, Resilience, Allegory.
Teaching Strategies: Book-After-a-Book because students can rewrite with another shape, such as the perfect triangle, circle, heart...
Total Physical Response because it contains actionable verbs,
Substitution because the text has seven sentences in the same pattern. Students can switch the days of the week, the shape, the action verbs, the objects made. For example from "On Thursday (Monday), the square (heart) was shattered (broken) so it made itself into a bridge (flower)."
English Focus: Days of the week, (Monday...)
Action words in past tense (shattered, torn, shredded, ripped, cut, poked, clapped, bubbled, giggled... )
Nouns (square, fountain, mountain, bridge, garden, park, river, window)
Compound sentences.
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