Hi, Beth! Thanks for asking. As you know, mentor texts can be incredibly powerful tools to help students see the beauty in our language—and studying mentor texts at the sentence level can help students see what happens when we craft together the best words in… Read More
All posts tagged “visual literacy”
Light and Composition: Photography and its Visual Grammar
Presented at Tredyffrin-Easttown School District Language Arts Standing Committee, May 2015
A Visual Syllabus
One of the first documents I revisit at the start of any school year is the syllabus. After all, it’s the first thing I hand out to students. The syllabus provides students with their first overview of what they’ll be learning in the upcoming year. It’s the “first… Read More
#MyVisualYear
I have drawn a map. It’s one of the first things I did. – J. K. Rowling One of my new (school) year resolutions is to try to tap into the power of visual art. As a hobbyist photographer, I know first-hand the power of… Read More
Writing with an Artist’s Eye
Three years ago, I took a course called “Visualizing Words and Worlds” through the PA Writing & Literature Project (PAWLP) and this past July, I had an opportunity to co-teach the class for the second time at the James Michener Museum in Doylestown (a fantastic museum, by… Read More
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