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I attended a fabulous workshop put on by them and I simply MUST share! Please visit the official Website for more resources, student samples and how to attend a workshop: [|Picturing Writing and Image-Making through the Writing Process]
 * __ [[image:Art_and_writing.jpg width="493" height="370" align="left"]]Picturing Writing __**

**Picturing Writing: Fostering Literacy Through Art** is an art-and-literature-based approach to writing that integrates visual modes of thinking at every stage of the writing process. Picturing Writing utilizes simple crayon resist art techniques and quality literature in a progression of mini-lessons that teach essential literacy skills to students with diverse learning styles. During Artists/Writers Workshop, students draft their ideas in images first. They learn how to create pictures that tell a story and write words that paint pictures. As students become fluent in two languages, they are able to approach writing from a position of strength according to their individual learning style. The key elements of story are taught through the dual languages of pictures and words. Special brainstorming sheets help students access rich descriptive language from "reading their pictures." This language-rich visual process supports the creation of descriptive passages, poetry, personal narrative, fiction, research-based stories, and descriptive report writing. Picturing Writing has been implemented in grades K-12 and is easily integrated into the science and social studies curriculum.

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On their website I found an excellent teacher resource guide!! Details below: //**The Power of Pictures: Creating Pathways to Literacy Through Art**// Beth Olshansky, founder and director of the Center for the Advancement of Art-Based Literacy at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, has just completed a new book and companion DVD: //The Power of Pictures: Creating Pathways to Literacy Through Art//. The book is available through Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley. **Call 800-956-7739 to order your copy.** In her book, Beth shares her experience of nearly two decades exploring the dynamic relationship between art and writing, the language of pictures and the language of words. Replete with powerful stories of students of all ages, learning styles, and backgrounds whose literacy learning has been transformed by the hands-on visual process she has developed, the book also includes empirical data. Two sizable quantitative research studies and seven years of reading and writing standardized test score data reveal the value of these alternative visual pathways into literacy learning for at-risk students. Sprinkled with the voices of young artists and writers, the book and companion DVD make clear the power of pictures to transform the literacy learning of //all students//, particularly those for whom words are not their preferred medium. The companion DVD takes viewers into a third-grade classroom to watch the process unfold with one group of diverse learners. Witness the power of pictures to level the playing field and create a truly democratic learning environment.

Please remember, I am not a Picturing Writing Instructor. I have not been trained by Picturing Writing.

Please find an article regarding Artist's Writer's Workshop by Picturing Writing's Creator Beth Olshansky entitled [|Artist Writers Workshop, Focusing in on the Art of Writing].