jujsky Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 The kids made the pictures from the MTM Monet unit, and then we covered similes and they wrote poems. http://jujsky.blogspot.com/2012/09/combining-picturing-writing-with-meet.html They really liked this project. I don't think these are their strongest poems, but they were so pleased and excited about doing them :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandaceC Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Those are wonderful!! I have never heard of that program, so I clicked over and looked. What all Do you need to get started? Do you have to have the expensive DVDs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujsky Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 Beth Olshansky has a book on Amazon called The Power of Pictures: Creating Pathways to Literacy Through Art (it's cheap -- about $20 -- and comes with a short video that models the process) that gives a pretty clear overview of Picturing Writing and she also talks about Image-Making Within the Writing Process. I talk about Image-Making in a bit more detail here (skip down to the 3rd paragraph). I did order her Image-Making Within the Writing Process book from her website (that cost me $90 with shipping -- I'll be doing a review when I'm done to let people interested know whether or not I think it's worth it) and I'm about a quarter of the way through that. The Creating Pathways book didn't give me enough of a feel for how to do that process. It's enough to get you started on Picturing Writing though -- especially if you don't mind adapting and tweaking things. I am going to a workshop she's doing on Picturing Writing in November and February so I'll be blogging about that and hopefully it will give me whatever extra insight I need that I didn't get from the book. I'll be writing and posting about this process all year. The results I've been seeing from my kids since we started are very, very encouraging :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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