Image Grammar Use Grammatical Structures to Teach

The Writer as Artist Basic Strokes
Writing as Seeing
"When an author lacks a visual eye, his or her writing has no heart and soul: images lie lifeless cadavers in a morgue.For example, compare the following two images, the first written by a high school student, the second by well-known novelist Brian Jacques, Jaques writes with an artist's eye, using details and color to tease the reader's visual appetite; the high school student writes like a house painter, ignoring details and using color to simply cover the surface" p.2
A writer or author must see something in order to begin the visualiztion of the piece of writing in to start writing. The writer must able to see the whole picture and just see the point to enjoy what do and continue with that.
Painting with Five Basic Brush Strokes
Painting with Participles
"Five basic brush strokes 1.the particple 2. the absolute 3. the appostive 4. adjectives shifted out of order 5. action verbs
"For example, picture in your mind's eye, a nest of snakes curling around some prey. This image captures a little of what might be happening, but watch the effect when the writer adds a few participles(ing verbs) to the beginnig of the sentence: Hissing,slithering,and coiling, the diamond scaled snakes attracked their prey."
Describing the steps of the sounds it makes and continues the snake structure.
Painting with Absolutes
"Pause for a moment and ask students to visualize this one sentence description: The mountain climber edged along the cliff."
"Next, expalin that you are going to add a brush stroke, defined simply as noun combined with ing participle. Read the sentence: The mountain climber edged along the cliff, hands shaking, feet trembling."
By adding the noun make more complete and direct with the idea.
Painting with Appostives
" to add more details, writers frequently expand the appostive to an appostive phrase with added details such as "The racoon, a midnight scavenger who roams lake shorelines in search of food, enjoys turtle eggs."
by adding this step this the reader more detail of the writer's mind.
Painting with Adjective Shifted Out of Order
"Adjectives out of order, used more often by authors of fiction, amplify the details of an image. We have all seen students overload their descriptions with too many adjectives in sentences like "The large, red eyed, angry bull moose charged the intruder ."
By placeing adjectives in different order. This places the writer to be more creative and show the flexible of they writing.
Combining Strokes
"Once students have developed control of the five basic brush, they begin to combine them spontaneously in longer works. Eighth grader Adam Porter, for example, bleneded several techniques in this scene from his horror story, inspired by the close-up image of tarantula:
Then it crawled in. A spider, a repulsive, hairy creature, no bigger than a tarantula.
follwing the same path as the first
Hands trembling, sweat dripping from his face
trying to kill the spiders
Studnets will learn to write creative and be responsive right away and have feelings of accomphishment rather disappointment.