In Pictures and In Words [pb]
Teaching the Qualities of Good Writing Through Illustration Study
By Katie Wood Ray
Katie begins with a strong, classroom-based research foundation for this powerful, intuitive idea. She then suggests 50 ways you might use illustrations to help students internalize key aspects of craft through their love of picture books.
In Pictures and in Words is filled with sample student work that documents how children’s thinking deepens as they explore illustrations. Katie even includes full-color pages of published illustrations with examples of sticky-notes that show the kinds of links students can make between pictures and words.
Give children an engaging way to make the qualities of good writing part of everything they write, for life. 280 pages
Contents:
I. Illustration Study as a Foundation for Strong Writing
1. Why Illustration Study Matters to the Development of Young Writers
2. Building Stamina for Writing by Supporting Children’s Work as Illustrators
3. Writing and Illustrating as Parallel Composing Processes
4. Teaching an Essential Habit of Mind: Reading Like Writers in the Context of Illustration Study
5. Learning Qualities of Good Writing From Illustration Techniques
6. The Writing Workshop: Planning and Implementing a Unit of Study in Illustrations
II. 50 Illustration Techniques and the Qualities of Good Writing They Suggest: A Predictable Framework
7. Ideas and Content, In Pictures and In Words
8. Precision and Detail, In Pictures and In Words
9. Wholeness of Text, In Pictures and In Words
10. Tone, In Pictures and In Words
11. Layout and Design, In Pictures and In Words
May 27, 2010
