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The Snapshot Writing Tool: Help Students Create Visual Imagery Within Their Writing

The Snapshot Writing Tool: Help Students Create Visual Imagery Within Their Writing | 6-Traits Resources | Scoop.it

From Kevin's fabulous Edgalaxy Blog:

The Snapshot Writing Tool is designed to put students in a specific moment in time using a visual prompt such as a photo or video and then write about what you see? What you hear? What you smell? What you taste? and what you feel? Drawing upon all 5 senses.

The snapshot writing tool will really encourage your students create visual imagery within their writing, and they have a great deal of fun putting themselves in the perspective of the picture.

Students can either use a photo of their own anlongside the tool or alternately you can access my collection of 150 Amazing writing prompts here.


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I'm always interested in a good prompt!

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An Interview With Creative Nonfiction Writer Phillip Lopate | Poets and Writers

An Interview With Creative Nonfiction Writer Phillip Lopate | Poets and Writers | 6-Traits Resources | Scoop.it

Phillip Lopate is considered by many to be one of the most important essayists of our time, a writer and editor at the fulcrum of memoir's resurgence who has contributed significantly to discourse on creative nonfiction. The anthology Lopate edited in 1994, The Art of the Personal Essay (Doubleday), helped contextualize the genre as part of a global tradition dating back to the classical period.

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10 Examples of Literary Nonfiction That Make Facts Compelling |

10 Examples of Literary Nonfiction That Make Facts Compelling | | 6-Traits Resources | Scoop.it
Here is a rundown of some of the best literary journalism you’ll find. Not only is there great storytelling in these books and longform articles, but there is also rigorous and revelatory investigation that keeps the facts straight. This is literary journalism at its best – proving that you don’t have to make up your facts to tell a meaningful and important story.
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Literary Non-Fiction in the Classroom: Opening New Worlds for Students

• Opportunities for students to delve more deeply into more varied texts, especially literary non-fiction • Addresses student engagement with many sources: e...
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