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Writing With Sensory Imagery

Genesee Valley Writing Project Dawnmarie Ezzo. Writing With Sensory Imagery. I spent the first few years of my teaching career giving my student helpful narrative feedback such as:. Show don’t Tell!. Add more description!. Make a movie in your mind!.

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Writing With Sensory Imagery

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  1. Genesee Valley Writing Project Dawnmarie Ezzo Writing With Sensory Imagery

  2. I spent the first few years of my teaching career giving my student helpful narrative feedback such as: Show don’t Tell! Add more description! Make a movie in your mind!

  3. Until one brave boy finally found the courage to ask me what the heck ‘Show don’t Tell’ and ‘Make a movie’ really meant.

  4. I experienced an intense bout of discomfort when I realized that I didn’t know what to tell him. I realized that I needed to take my own advice, and ‘Show not Tell’ my students how to improve their narrative writing.

  5. “Feelings are the source of writing, but you can’t just write the feelings onto paper. Instead of trying to tell the reading my feelings, I go back in my mind’s eye and locate the feeling in specific, concrete things that we see and hear. I get a picture in my mind and then re-create that picture so that the reader can feel what I felt.” -Georgia Heard

  6. “"Readers don't want to merely read about your characters and the world you've created. They want to smell it, touch it and taste it.“ -Janet Fitch “…draw the reader in by giving them lots of things to touch and feel and to smell and to hear and to see and that’s the way to draw a reading into your book.” -David Almond http://www.teachingbooks.net/slideshows/almond/Using_Senses.html

  7. Please open a web browser and visit the following website: http://tinyurl.com/64qpar

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