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Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual and Vivid: Lessons and Strategies for Helping Students Elaborate Using Imagery, Anecdotes, Dialogue, ... Techniques, Scenarios, and Sensory Detail
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Book Description
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 th... More
Book Information
PublisherScholastic, Inc.
BindingPaperback (2 editions)
Reading LevelAll Ages
# of Pages144
ISBN-100545147816
ISBN-13978-0545147811
Publication Date07/01/2010
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About David Lee Finkle (Author) : I have published three books, with a forth on the way! I have been teaching Language Arts in Volusia County, Florida (home of Daytona Beach, but I don't live near it) for 17 years. Since 2000, I have ... more
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