Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to convey meaning. Use these mentor texts to teach writers how to write similes ...

All throughout September and October, the Bryant Library will be presenting lectures by Roseanne Baxter Frank on the elements of picture book writing. The meeting dates are Tuesdays, Sept. 12, 19 ...

The process, described in the textbook "Writing Pictures," uses art as a bridge to developing writing skills. Every student in the school, from kindergartners to fifth-graders, is asked to produce ...

If I were somehow 17 years old again and a photograph I took was selected a winner of the 2014 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and was painted giant-size onto the side of a building in ...

Perhaps the first thing to do is recognise the role of copy in the bigger picture (pun intended). Writing is great at functional, complex communication, www.gov.uk for example, and it can disarm ...