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One sentence in each box, in the order they are printed. Joined up, they are the paragraph: an opening that says what it is about, three reasons with something specific attached to each, and a close that says it again differently.
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One sentence in each box, in this order. Joined up, they are the paragraph.
Each of the three middle boxes asks for a reason *and* a detail, on one line, and the detail is the half that goes missing. "Dogs are good pets because they are friendly" is a reason with nothing behind it; "because ours waits by the door at half past three" is the same reason with the thing that makes a reader believe it. Asking for both in one box means a missing detail is visible as a short line rather than invisible as a complete sentence.
It is scaffolding, and scaffolding is meant to come down. The frame is worth printing for two weeks and then worth withholding: a child who can fill it in can write the paragraph without it, and the way to find that out is to hand them a sheet of lined paper and ask for the same thing. If the paragraph falls apart, print the frame again for a week. If it does not, the sheet has done its job.
Every rule, every box and every cut line on the page above is drawn as ink rather than as a background color, which is why it comes out of the printer looking like it does on screen: browsers throw background paint away unless somebody has ticked Background graphics, and a page of cut guides that printed invisibly is a page somebody cuts freehand. The lengths are in inches for a plainer reason still — a card that says it is three and three quarter inches wide is going to be measured, and a die that is not square does not fold up. The number in the footer is the seed the sheet was built from, so the identical sheet can be had again next term.
This page is one sheet out of four families that between them print the forms, the week, the paper that gets cut up and the two things that are objects rather than pages. How many rows a chart has, how many cards there are to a page, how much room each answer gets, which verse is on it and whether a tag folds are all settings — so a chore chart with six rows, or a dated calendar for next March, is the same sheet with one control moved rather than a page somebody has to have written first.
The settings travel in the link rather than on a server, so a sheet you make can be bookmarked or sent to another family as it stands — and the Name: line, where a sheet has one, is printed blank, because there is nowhere in a shared link to put a child’s name. See what we don’t collect.
22 pages, each one a sheet like this one. Nothing is locked and nothing needs an account.
Headings to write under, and a record of what has been read.
The paperwork round a lesson, with none of the lesson supplied.
Seven columns, and something different to put in them each time.
Paper at a stated size, with the cut lines on every boundary.
The three that are objects rather than pages.
