Capitalize on your students' visual learning styles and create a classroom of exceptional readers and writers. Melissa Shields will demonstrate several successful image-based lessons that engage and challenge students, including those most at-risk. Those lessons include warm-up activities, journaling, response to literature, literature circles, life graphs, and other project-based lessons. Melissa will also demonstrate Harry Noden’s successful “Brush Stroke Writing” strategies, also known as “Image Grammar.” Using images to stimulate thinking and word choice, students learn how to layer their writing with varied word structure and deliberate uses of different parts of speech. Participants will receive hands-on training, as well as ready-to-use classroom presentations and lessons to begin implementation in their own 4th-9th grade language arts classrooms.
Introductory Activity
Journal Image Vocabulary (p. 4)
Harry Noden’s Brush Strokes, from his book Image Grammar (pp. 6-10)
Checklist for Basic Brush Strokes (p.11)
Sketch to Stretch (separate handout)
Life Graphs (p. 12)
Me Quilts and Rubric (pp. 13-14)
Lit Circle Illustrator (p. 15)
2021 Session PPT
2018 Session PPT Handout
2017 REALIZE Session Image Grammar PPT
Brush Stroke Overview
"Me" Quilt with Rubric
Sketch to Stretch PowerPoints:
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Resources:
Beech, Linda W. 240 Vocabulary Words 6th Grade Kids Need to Know. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2004.
Burke, Jim. The English Teacher’s Companion. New York: Heinemann, 2013.
Forney, Melissa. Razzle Dazzle Writing. Gainesville, Florida: Maupin House Publishing, Inc., 2001.
Noden, Harry R. Image Grammar. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 2011.
- “Real You” Picture Analysis
- Brainstreams/Sponges (pp.1-3)
Journal Image Vocabulary (p. 4)
Harry Noden’s Brush Strokes, from his book Image Grammar (pp. 6-10)
Checklist for Basic Brush Strokes (p.11)
Sketch to Stretch (separate handout)
Life Graphs (p. 12)
Me Quilts and Rubric (pp. 13-14)
Lit Circle Illustrator (p. 15)
2021 Session PPT
2018 Session PPT Handout
2017 REALIZE Session Image Grammar PPT
Brush Stroke Overview
"Me" Quilt with Rubric
Sketch to Stretch PowerPoints:
- The Butterfly (Patricia Polacco)
- Christmas Tapestry (Patricia Polacco)
- Vietnam Wall Sketch
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Resources:
Beech, Linda W. 240 Vocabulary Words 6th Grade Kids Need to Know. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2004.
Burke, Jim. The English Teacher’s Companion. New York: Heinemann, 2013.
Forney, Melissa. Razzle Dazzle Writing. Gainesville, Florida: Maupin House Publishing, Inc., 2001.
Noden, Harry R. Image Grammar. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 2011.