Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual & Vivid: Grades 5 & Up: Lessons and Strategies for Helping Students Elaborate Using Imagery, Anecdotes, ... Techniques, Scenarios, and Sensory Detail - Softcover

Finkle, David Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545147816 ISBN 13: 9780545147811

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2010

Synopsis

It’s all about the pictures. When student writers rely primarily on vague statements, adjectives, and adverbs, their writing doesn’t score well on tests, and worse, sounds generic, voiceless, and dull. Creating vivid pictures is the key to good writing. 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 see, hear, 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. For use with Grades 5 & Up.

About this title

About the Author

David Lee Finkle is a National Board-Certified Teacher who has taught English in middle and high schools throughout Florida since 1990. He is the author of Writing Extraordinary Essays---Every Middle Schooler Can! (Scholastic, 2008). He has also written Making My Escape, a Young Adult novel, and co-authored with his son, Christopher, a spy-fi fantasy thriller called Portents. David's comic strip, "Mr. Fitz" runs five days a week in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545147816
• ISBN 13: 9780545147811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144