SOCIAL STUDIES
STRATEGIES
The Important Thing About…
This structure helps students focus on main ideas and works especially well with a
wide range of textual understandings. Students can use this to consider an entire
current or historical event, person or theme.
Writer ________________________ Date ______________
Topic
__________________________________________________
The important thing about ______________________________
is that ______________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
It is true that ________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
But the important things about __________________________
is that ______________________________________________
____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________.
Adapted from The Important Book, by Margaret Wise Brown.
Reflect, Revisit, Retell by Linda Hoyt.