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Click the to the left to view 'The Most Magnificent Thing' by Ashley Spires. When we summarise or retell a story we look for the key points. A scaffold to help us do this is a SWBST chart - somebody, wanted, but, so then. Task - Press - Page 1, question prompts for the retell - SWBST - Page 2, write and/or draw your retelling of the story in the SWBST template - Press to share your work Australian Curriculum Achievement Standard - Students understand how similar texts share characteristics by identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events, or to communicate factual information.