Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual & Vivid ─ Grades 5 & Up: Lessons and Strategies for Helping Students Elaborate Using Imagery, Anecdotes, Dialogue, Figurative Language, Cinematic Techniques, S

It's all about the Pictures! Creating vivid Pictures is a Key to good Writing. In this practicla resource, David Lee Finkle, a teacher, writer, and cartoonist, shows students how to create "word pictures" about people, places, events, and even abstract ideas so that their readers will see, hear, smell, touch, and taste their topics. David demonstrates ways to use figurative language, movie techniques, moment-by-moment narration, hypothetical scenarios, and dialogue to make any kind of writing come alive. He also provides lively, original, reproducible comic strips that use humor to make key points about writing. His classroom-tested lessons will help students produce powerful, engaging writing---and raise their test scores.

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.