Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual and Vivid

David Finkle

ISBN 10: 0545147816 / ISBN 13: 9780545147811

Published by Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2010

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual and Vivid
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545147816
• ISBN 13: 9780545147811
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.