Fun While Showing, Not Telling: Crafting Vivid Detail in Writing

This teaching tip highlights three writing minilessons that help students construct vivid sensory detail (textual detail related to the five senses) in their fiction and creative nonfiction writing. Learning to show, not tell, is a difficult task for novice writers. The author explores reasons why t...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Reading teacher 2017-07, Vol.71 (1), p.83-87
1. Verfasser:	Del Nero, Jennifer Renner
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	2‐Childhood 3‐Early adolescence 4‐Adolescence 7‐Special needs Audience < Writing Beginning Writing Creative nonfiction Creative Writing Creativity Elementary School Students Fiction Figurative Language Genres < Writing Imagery Instructional Materials Instructional models < Strategies, methods, and materials Instructional strategies Instructional strategies methods and materials Kinesthetic Methods Learning Activities Metaphor Middle School Students Nonfiction Purpose < Writing Student writing Style < Writing Teaching Methods teaching strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials TEACHING TIP Visualization visualizing < Comprehension Writers Writing Writing Instruction Writing process < Writing Writing strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials
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Zusammenfassung:	This teaching tip highlights three writing minilessons that help students construct vivid sensory detail (textual detail related to the five senses) in their fiction and creative nonfiction writing. Learning to show, not tell, is a difficult task for novice writers. The author explores reasons why this is the case and provides directions for the implementation of three student‐centered writing minilessons. Lesson topics covered are analyzing song lyrics containing vivid detail, using a graphic organizer to help authors zero in on key moments, and a kinesthetic activity designed to help students devise similes and metaphors. These lessons are appropriate for middle and upper elementary students.
ISSN:	0034-0561 1936-2714
DOI:	10.1002/trtr.1575