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Direct linkMeagher, Sandy – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
This document contains some book suggestions to help introduce all the various parts of writing. Helping students understand figures of speech takes more than a book ? it takes a creative teacher and interested students. One book that teachers and students have had a great time with is Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards, (Kids Can Press, 2004,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Writing Instruction, Childrens Literature, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedTway, Eileen – Language Arts, 1980
Recommends that teachers look for and value the freshness, naivete, humor, and wisdom in children's writing. Samples of children's writing are provided to illustrate these traits. (AEA)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Creativity, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education
Stewig, John Warren – 1986
Visual literacy--seeing with insight--enables child viewers of pictures to examine elements such as color, line, shape, form, depth, and detail to see what relations exist both among these components and between what is in the picture and their previous visual experience. The viewer can extract meaning and respond to it, either by talking or…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Childrens Literature, Descriptive Writing
