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Enhancing Writing through the Visual. One Informs the Other. Ideas Organization Voice. Word choice Sentence fluency Conventions Presentation. 6+1 Traits of Writing. Ideas. Heart of the message -- content or theme
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Enhancing Writing through the Visual One Informs the Other
Ideas Organization Voice Word choice Sentence fluency Conventions Presentation 6+1 Traits ofWriting
Ideas • Heart of the message -- content or theme • Details that enrich and develop that theme - are interesting, important and informative
Word Choice • Rich • Colorful • Precise language that communicates - It is functional, moves the reader to a higher level of awareness, enlightens • Clarifies • Expands ideas
Character Setting Time Plot - Sequence of events Answer the ?’s Who What Where When Why How Story Elements
Developing an Evidence Book • Visual record of observations • Verbal record of observations • Vocabulary development - both visual and verbal • Narrative development
Developing a Visual Vocabulary The Who
Other Possible Ideas • Family • Insects • Animals • Pets • Birds
Developing a Visual Vocabulary The How
Characters Moving - Verbs • Strong verbs that lend writing power • List of verbs that match the movement • What would march, shuffle, lunge, saunter look like?
Developing a Visual Vocabulary The Where
Word Choice - Adverbs • Illustrating an understanding of place
Environmental Changes • How would two drawings of the same place with different weather conditions alter a student’s version of a narrative? • What would they hear, feel, smell?
RED Maraschino Maroon Strawberry Cayenne BLUE Ice Aqua Blueberry Ocean Midnight Word Choice - Color
Sentence Expansion • The bug is crawling. • The plant is shading the bug which is crawling. • The plant is shading the bug which is crawling on the dirt. • The bug is being shaded by the plant, while the worm and the bug crawl closer.
David and Matt are looking into the terrarium box while the bug is being shaded by the plant, while the worm and the bug crawl closer.
Writing a Story • The drawing • List of vocabulary • Writing the story
Before - poem by a third-grade girl: Scissor Razor sharp, Cuts through paper as if it was rolling down a hill, Swiftly it finishes the paper, and the paper is in half.
After - poem by a third-grade girl: My Scissor The crocodile, eats it’s paper, It’s fangs bite, Like a werewolf. It’s sharp claws,chop through the paper. CUT! CUT! CHOP! CHOP! As the swords and knifes come together. The stork opens it’s beak And then smashes it closed, The alligator snaps for its food. That’s my Scissor.
Student’s art work - drawings, paintings, sculpture, prints, and crafts developed under the guidance of their art teacher
Your art teacher • Student prompts • Master art works