Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual and Vivid Lessons and Strategies for Helping Students Elaborate Using Imagery, Anecdotes, Dialogue, Figurative Language, Cinematic Techniques, Scenarios, and Sensory Detail
Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual and Vivid Lessons and Strategies for Helping Students Elaborate Using Imagery, Anecdotes, Dialogue, Figurative Language, Cinematic Techniques, Scenarios, and Sensory Detail
- ISBN 13:
9780545147811
- ISBN 10:
0545147816
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 07/01/2010
- Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)
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Summary
In this book, a teacher/writer/cartoonist provides tools for helping students write about people, places, events, and even abstractions so that their readers can hear, see smell, touch, and taste their topics. The author demonstrates ways to use figurative language, movie techniques, moment-by-moment narration, hypothetical scenarios, and dialogue to make any kind of writing come alive on the page.Author's lively, original, reproducible middle-school-based comic strips make key points about writing through humour.Classroom-tested idea produce powerful, engaging writing and raise test scores.Writing exercises included here inspire even reluctant readers to use vivid imagery.