From Picasso to Hemingway: Guiding Your Students From Visual to Written Text

DeJanae Sharp

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Teaching Narrative Writing (In My Classroom) - The Problem Students were able to clearly describe

chronological events Students struggled with showing rather than

telling

Connection to the Core Writing 3 - Write narratives to develop real or

imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences

Writing 5 - Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

From Text to Art … Have students study an example of effective

descriptive writing to model their own writing after.

After writing the passage, have students draw a picture of what is being described.

Quick Write

Why is the Mockingbird passage a good example of descriptive writing? What does the author do well?

Underwater Park, 2014

By Marc Henauer

From Photographs to Text…

Wrap Up Handout has a copy of the mentor text as well as

student work samples Door Prize!!!