{"id":544,"date":"2021-11-25T19:03:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T19:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/?p=544"},"modified":"2021-11-25T19:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T19:03:36","slug":"literacy-writing-our-book-blurb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/2021\/11\/25\/literacy-writing-our-book-blurb\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy &#8211; Writing our Book Blurb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This term, we have been creating our own imaginative novels on Book Creator. Today in our literacy lesson, we planned, researched and wrote our own blurbs for our stories.<\/p>\n<p>We learnt that blurbs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are short in length<\/li>\n<li>Introduce a main character, the story and the theme<\/li>\n<li>Use attention-grabbing words and phrases<\/li>\n<li>Use an ellipsis at the end to leave the reader asking questions&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Often have book reviews\/star ratings on them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-546\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190137\/IMG_1880-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190137\/IMG_1880-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190137\/IMG_1880-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-547\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190140\/IMG_1881-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190140\/IMG_1881-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190140\/IMG_1881-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, we are able to transfer our blurbs onto our digital book creator app. We can&#8217;t wait to share them soon!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-545\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190135\/IMG_1878-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190135\/IMG_1878-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/25190135\/IMG_1878-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This term, we have been creating our own imaginative novels on Book Creator. Today in our literacy lesson, we planned, researched and wrote our own blurbs for our stories. We learnt that blurbs: Are short in length Introduce a main character, the story and the theme Use attention-grabbing words and phrases Use an ellipsis at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/2021\/11\/25\/literacy-writing-our-book-blurb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Literacy &#8211; Writing our Book Blurb<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}